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revision total hip arthroplastytotal joint replacementBackground ICD-10 was adopted by the United States on October 1st, 2015 and expanded coding from 3,800 codes with ICD-9-PCS to 73,000. The increase in number of codes was designed to create more accurate representations of procedures like ...
Trajectories of pain and function after pri‑ mary hip and knee arthroplasty: The ADAPT cohort study. PLoS ONE. 2016;11(2):e0149306. 6. Schug SA, Lavand'homme P, Barke A, Korwisi B, Rief W, Treede R-D. The IASP Taskforce for the Classification of Chronic Pain: The IASP ...
Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) has been identified as a procedure with substantial variations in inpatient and postacute care costs [3,10,28,33,39]. Consequently, several private and public payers have been testing alternative payment models in an effort to reduce costs, improve value, and empha...
arthroplastycodingsensitivityAlthough morbidly obese patients are likely to be easily identified as obese using codes, these patients may not be receiving a specific code. Researchers and clinicians should be aware that coding errors are prevalent even among higher grades of obesity in patients ...
in 2015. Proponents of the ICD-10-PCS have stated that its granularity allows for a more accurate representation of the types of procedures performed by including laterality, joint designation, and more detailed procedural data. However, other researchers have expressed concern that the increased ...
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According to the literature, registries tend to underrate PJI in total hip and knee arthroplasty [22]. In most registries, diagnosis of PJI is established before or directly after surgery; however, in some cases, microbiological results become positive days after surgery, when the diagnosis has ...