Rates of injury (US)

[richinma2005]

Rates of injury
Posted: May 1, 2008 9:35 AM Reply


I found a website http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/

You can track rates of diagnosis (767.6=OBPI) and (953.4=TBPI).

They use inpatient coding versus the outpatient coding. Accuracy is only as reliable as the reporting, but hospitals are looking to make money and coding is how they are able to bill (I think)

. The number of TBPI has been fairly consistent-about ~1900 new injuries every year between 1997-2005

The other thing to note is in three of the years, I could break down the TBPI to separate for injuries at 0-17 age group and others

age 0-17 other
1997 237 1860

2000 210 1850

2003 240 1781


For OBPI I took the raw data and calculated the table for an injury rate.

The rate has decreased as the number of c-sections has increased debunking the bullshit that the rate has remained unchanged.

I always wondered why they said that, how could it be? Well in fact based on this data anyway, it isn't true. The rate has slowly decreased.

while the rate of c-section went up 50% (comparing 1997-199 vs 2003-2005) the rate of injury decreased 26.4 %(comparing 1997-199 vs 2003-2005)!!!

We all know sections are done for myriad of reasons, but it does stand to reason that some OBPI are spared and this proves it--

Year births/yr c-sec/yr C-sec.rate OBPI Vag births OBPI/1000 vag births
1997 3882000 730459 0.188165636 6750 3151541 2.141809356
1998 3941553 726227 0.18424895 7226 3215326 2.247361543
1999 3959417 781796 0.197452302 7459 3177621 2.34735357
2000 4058814 876142 0.215861579 6571 3182672 2.064617403
2001 4025933 928199 0.230555004 6143 3097734 1.983062458
2002 4021726 1031457 0.256471227 6828 2990269 2.28340661
2003 4089950 1099047 0.268718933 5620 2990903 1.879031182
2004 4112052 1189048 0.289161713 5306 2923004 1.815255812
2005 4138349 1224925 0.295993644 4856 2913424 1.66676735
total 4025532.667 954144.4444 0.23629211 6306.556 3071388.222 2.047629476


rich