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icd 10 code for arf
1RW Johnson Medical School MEB304, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
(Spon. by David H. Carver, M.D.)
Introduction: Formal guidelines to alteration alarmingly ill accouchement (pts) to PTCs accept been proposed. Critics affirmation such guidelines are accidental and that an breezy arrangement of barometer finer transfers pts to PTCs. To actuate the ability of this breezy arrangement we compared the cardinal of deaths in PTCs against non-PTCs for arch trauma(HT) and/or respiratory abortion (ARF). We affected that accouchement who died were alarmingly ill. We accepted that if the breezy arrangement is activity efficiently, again few accouchement (<10%) would die in non-PTCs.
Methods: Using the NJ Dept. of Health's UB82 database for 1993 and adapted ICD-9 codes, we acquired abstracts for all in-patient pediatric mortalities accepted to NJ hospitals for HT and/or ARF. Patients who asleep in an emergency administration were afar from the analysis. Hospitals were classified as PTCs or non-PTCs based on afresh appear guidelines.
Results: 82 hospitals cared for accouchement with HT and/or ARF. 7 hospitals met belief as PTCs. 170 pts died. An assay of bloodshed follows: Table
Conclusion: 63 pts (35%) died in non-PTCs admitting no aberration in age, breadth of stay, race, hospital charge, or arch agony as the antecedent diagnosis. Therefore, the breezy barometer arrangement does not assure alteration of a cogent cardinal of such pts to PTCs.
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