The demand for bone substitutes is more than 2.5 million units in this category of indications alone.
Mean cost, length of stay, and costs per day were compared between categories of indication for admission.
For example, the internists' number who participated in the study was not enough to reach statistical significance when comparing the categories of indication.
A cohort of 202,995 cancer-related admissions was grouped into four categories of indication for admission: chemotherapy (N=77,791, 38%), to undergo a procedure (N=30,858, 15%), treatment for infection (N=30,380, 15%), or treatment for other toxicities (N=43,408, 21.4%).
When comparing the results of diagnostic appropriateness of colonoscopy by type of professional for each of the three categories of indication (diagnostic suspicion, screening and follow-up), the internists achieved the highest percentage in the diagnostic suspicion (92 %), followed by GP (80.8 %).
The major design features and estimate of costs for 17 devices are described under 3 major categories of indications for use: destination therapy, bridge to transplant, and bridge to recovery.
* The categories of indications were set down according to the Practice Guidelines for Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Shanghai [ 21] and the opinions of the expert team on this project.
Unfortunately, the authors fail to delineate the type of patients who fit in the category of "imperative indications".
A limitation of the method is that only 56 categories of drug indications are analyzed, which may be improved with the expansion of the drug indication data.
In the first part, the prenatal care, there are three categories of referral indications named A, B and C. A woman with one of the indications in category A should be referred for further investigations while one with indication in category B, should be referred for delivery.
