This article offers national estimates of the proportions of hospital inpatient cases and cost for adult, nonmaternal patients who have multiple chronic conditions. The authors employ a refined classification of chronic versus acute conditions, collapsed to no more than one condition per distinct category of condition. The number of different chronic conditions provides a simple measure of comp...

About 30% of the population of the United States suffers from acute or chronic pain, often of unknown cause. Among this group might be included patients with symptoms claimed to be caused by a poorly defined condition called "chronic Lyme disease" in which chronic pain is a major contributor. Since there is no evidence to indicate that chronic Lyme disease is due to a persistent infection and t...

Objective.—To identify and categorize children with chronic health conditions using administrative data. Methods.—The Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs) system is used to classify children, aged 0–18 years, in a mid-sized health plan into mutually exclusive categories and severity groups. Enrollees are categorized into 9 health status groups— healthy, significant acute, and 7 chronic conditions—and ar...

Fever and thrombocytopenia mostly associated with dengue hemorrhagic fever. But on certain condition of fever thrombocytopenia, we still seek another etiology such as chronic liver disease. How to clarify between in

Abstract Background: Opium-dependence having different effects on the nervous system is a common problem, especially in the Middle East and Iran. The aim of this study is evaluating the effects of opium-dependence on visual evoked potential (VEP) in men. Methods: Thirty subjects with both chronic cigarette smoking and opium-dependence (group 1) and 30 subjects with only chronic ciga...

OBJECTIVE To identify and categorize children with chronic health conditions using administrative data. METHODS The Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs) system is used to classify children, aged 0-18 years, in a mid-sized health plan into mutually exclusive categories and severity groups. Enrollees are categorized into 9 health status groups--healthy, significant acute, and 7 chronic conditions--and a...