BACKGROUND Determining the age-specific hospitalization burden associated with seasonal influenza and the (H1N1) 2009 pandemic is important for the development of effective vaccine strategies and clinical management. The aim of this study was to investigate age-specific differences in hospitalization rates during the pandemic and seasonal periods. METHODS Using the Taiwan National Health Insu...

Present-on-admission modifiers for International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnosis codes are rapidly becoming a standard coding requirement. Inaccurate coding of these modifiers can distort analyses of risk-adjusted outcomes and determinations of hospital reimbursement. A set of 12 screens for the plausibility of present-on-admission designat...

OBJECTIVES Implementation of the International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10) coding system presents challenges for using administrative data. Recognizing this, we conducted a multistep process to develop ICD-10 coding algorithms to define Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidities in administrative data and assess the performance of the res...

combination of myocardial, skin, hair, and enamel abnormalities. J Invest Dermatol 2010;130:968–978. 33. Kamisago M, Sharma SD, DePalma SR, Solomon S, Sharma P, McDonough B, Smoot L, Mullen MP, Woolf PK, Wigle ED, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Mutations in sarcomere protein genes as a cause of dilated cardiomyopathy. N Engl J Med 2000;343:1688–1696. 34. Li D, Morales A, Gonzalez-Quintana J, Norton N,...

Four intragenic suppressors of a mitochondrial mutation in the 21S rRNA gene have been characterized in S. cerevisiae. The determination of the nature of the nucleotide changes in the suppressor strains showed that a T at position 1696 in the large rRNA gene is essential for correct function of the mitoribosome. The importance of this specific nucleotide and the fact that this mitochondrial mut...

Copyright © 2010 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0039-2499. Online Stroke is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 72514 DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.580308 2010;41;1690-1696; originally published online Jul 8, 2010; Stroke Wanke Isabel Goericke, Vasilis Panagiotopoulos, Michael Forsting, Daniel A. Ruefenacht and Zsolt Kulcsár...