To peck someone…again! Luckily in this case, the world of medical coding has us covered with the (hopefully) rare yet precise ICD code W61.32XD “Struck by a chicken, subsequent encounter.”
Although this rare event has a diagnosis code, not all diseases do, and ICD codes cannot always be used to select patients in epidemiological research. This is particularly true for rare diseases. But by combining the Nordics’ comprehensive ICD coding from other comorbid conditions with information such as prescribed drugs, these patients can be identified and much needed research can be carried out.
Check out one of our publications in collaboration with Pfizer using registry data from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden using this approach – Here
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