Table 3 ICD-9-CM classification of the reasons for medical healthcare resource use
From: Medical healthcare use in Parkinson's disease: survey in a cohort of ambulatory patients in Italy
| Â | Hospital admissions | ER admissions | Specialist visits | GP visits | Total | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
factors influencing health status and contact with health services (V01–V83) | rehabilitation (4) | = | rehabilitation (5); problems of eye (7), heart (3), diabetes (2), urogenital (2), skin (1); Rx of hip (1) | general control (8); urinary cathether substitution (1) | 34 | 19.3 |
symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions (780–799) | chest pain (2); sleep disturbance (1); epistaxis (1); abdominal pain (1) | abdominal pain (2); dyskinesia (1); epistaxis (1); dysphagia (1) | abdominal pain (6); hallucination (1); headache (1) | abdominal pain (2); hallucination (1); cough (1); nausea, vomiting (1); urinary incontinence (1) | 24 | 13.7 |
injury (800–959) | fracture of femur (1), femur plus humerus (1) | injuries due to falls (11); fractures: ribs (2), wrist (1), upper limb (1), foot (1), unspecified (2); open wound (1) | = | fracture unspecified (1); open wound (1) | 23 | 13.1 |
diseases of musculo-skeletal system and connective tissue (710–739) | osteoarthrosis (1) | pain in joint (1); lumbago (1) | intervertebral discopathy (3); lumbago (3); pain in joint (2); osteoarthrosis (2); spondilosis (1); osteomyelitis (1) | pain in joint (4); lumbago (2); rheumatism (1) | 22 | 12.5 |
diseases of the circulatory system (390–459) | acute hypotension (2); cerebral ischemia (1); aortic aneurysm (1) | = | hypertension (3); ischemic heart disease (2); atrial fibrillation (1); myocardial degeneration (1); aortic aneurysm (1); varicous veins (1) | hypotension (2); hypertenson (1) | 16 | 9.1 |
diseases of the nervous system and sense organs (320–389) | cataract (3) | hearing loss (1) | tinnitus (1); presbyopia (1); cataract (1); hearing loss (2); glaucoma (1); impacted cerumen (1) | conjunctivitis (2); vertiginous syndrome (1) | 14 | 7.9 |
diseases of the digestive system (520–527) | abdominal hernia (2); gastric ulcer (1); constipation (1); cholelithiasis (1) | pulp disease (1); teeth extraction (1) | avulsions of teeth (2); periodontal disease (1) | constipation (2); intestinal obstruction (1); cholelithiasis (1) | 14 | 7.9 |
diseases of respiratory system (460–519) | pneumonia (1) | pneumonia (1) | asthma (1) | influenza (5); acute laringytis (1) | 9 | 5.1 |
other* | 4 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 20 | 11.4 |
Total | 29 | 31 | 74 | 42 | 176 | 100.0 |