BACKGROUND Leads used for low-voltage and high-voltage therapy delivered by implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) differ from low-voltage pacemaker (PM) leads in their diameter and complexity of structure. Although there are reports showing that the extraction of ICD leads may be hazardous, due to firm adhesions to the vascular and chamber walls of high-voltage therapy coils, clinical e...

Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators (S-ICD) are safe and effective for the prevention of sudden cardiac death. To compare safety efficacy S-ICD with transvenous (TV) ICD. Database search was performed all RCTs and/or propensity score-matched (PSM) studies comparing against TV-ICD. The primary outcome lead-related complications. Secondary outcomes included device-related complic...

The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) was adopted in the United States on October 1, 2015. Replacing the outdated ICD, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) coding system was long overdue, and the updated classifications were needed to accurately collect data and improve patient care. However, the complexity of ICD-10 may present substantial challenges ...

On April 17, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a rule proposing postponement of the implementation date for the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis codes (ICD-10-CM) and procedure codes (ICD-10-PCS) by one year to October 1, 2014. An article in Health Affairs titled "There Are Important Reasons For Delaying the Implementation Of The N...

Clinical trials have established the superiority of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) over antiarrhythmic drug therapy in survivors of sudden cardiac death and in high-risk patients with coronary artery disease. The ICD has evolved to overcome the limitation of earlier devices that required thoracotomy for implantation and were fraught with inappropriate shock delivery. Current I...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The ICD-9-CM adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity score has been a valuable resource for health services researchers. With the transition into ICD-10 coding worldwide, an ICD-10 version of the Deyo adaptation was developed and validated using population-based hospital data from Victoria, Australia. METHODS The algorithm was translated from ICD-9-CM into ICD-10-AM (A...

BACKGROUND South Africa (SA)'s planned National Health Insurance reforms require the use of International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for hospitals to purchase services from the proposed National Health Authority. However, compliance with coding at public hospitals in the Western Cape Province has been challenging. A computer application was developed to aid clinicians in...

In the beta phase of the 11 revision of International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), the World Health Organization (WHO) exposes ICD-11 content through a collection of web services. The emerging Common Terminology Services 2 (CTS2) standard provides a common model and semantics for representation, interchange, and federation of terminological resources. We hypothesize that the CTS2 standa...