Does obesity identified by discharge ICD-9 codes underestimate the true prevalence of obesity in hospitalized children?
Inpatient obesity diagnoses underestimate inpatient utilization and misidentify patterns of care for obese children. Extreme caution is warranted when using obesity diagnoses to study healthcare utilization by obese children.
For patients with stage III colon cancer, the addition of ED to FU-based therapy had no statistically significant effect on OS.