The morbidity of urethral stricture disease among male medicare beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To date, the morbidity of urethral stricture disease among American men has not been analyzed using national datasets. We sought to analyze the morbidity of urethral stricture disease by measuring the rates of urinary tract infections and urinary incontinence among men with a diagnosis of urethral stricture.

Methods

We analyzed Medicare claims data for 1992, 1995, 1998, and 2001 to estimate the rate of dual diagnoses of urethral stricture with urinary tract infection and with urinary incontinence occurring in the same year among a 5% sample of beneficiaries. Male Medicare beneficiaries receiving co-incident ICD-9 codes indicating diagnoses of urethral stricture and either urinary tract infection or urinary incontinence within the same year were counted.

Results

SUBMITTER: Anger JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2837655 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature