A Data-Driven Method to Discriminate Limb Salvage from Other Combat-Related Extremity Trauma.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The aim of this study was to address and enhance our ability to study the clinical outcome of limb salvage (LS), a commonly referenced but ill-defined clinical care pathway, by developing a data-driven approach for the identification of LS cases using existing medical code data to identify characteristic diagnoses and procedures, and to use that information to describe a cohort of US Service members (SMs) for further study.

Methods

Diagnosis code families and inpatient procedure codes were compiled and analyzed to identify medical codes that are disparately associated with a LS surrogate population of SMs who underwent secondary amputation within a broader cohort of 3390 SMs with lower extremity trauma (AIS > 1). Subsequently, the identified codes were used to d

SUBMITTER: Goldman SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10573244 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature