Overall, 30% were admitted for traumas, 21% for non-traumatic orthopaedic disorders, 33% for acute surgical conditions, and 16% for miscellaneous other illnesses, including eye, ear, nose, throat, skin, or dental disorders.
Among the controls, 27% were admitted for traumas, 22% for other orthopaedic disorders, 29% for acute surgical conditions, and 23% for miscellaneous other illnesses, including eye, nose, ear, skin or dental disorders.
Twenty-seven per cent of the controls were admitted for traumas, 22% for other orthopaedic disorders, 29% for acute surgical conditions and 23% for miscellaneous other illnesses, including eye, ear, nose and throat, skin or dental disorders.
Among controls, 32% had nontraumatic orthopaedic disorders, 21% traumas, 17% surgical conditions and 29% miscellaneous other illnesses, such as eye, ear and dental disorders.
Controls were patients hospitalized for a wide spectrum of acute non-neoplastic conditions (overall, 23% had nonalcohol-related traumas, mostly fractures and sprains, 26% nontraumatic orthopedic disorders, 30% acute surgical conditions and 21% miscellaneous other illnesses such as eye, ear or skin diseases).
The major categories and their proportions were: pain 32.3%, injury 26.6%, infection 15%, psychiatric 8.1%, miscellaneous 6.1%, nurse only visit 5.5%, eye 4.3% and rash 2.2%.
EENT = Eye, ear, nose, and throat conditions * Miscellaneous CAM therapies include: multivitamins, shoe orthoses, electrodermal screening, and aromatherapy.
The identified subheadings were: Nervous System; Skin; Skeleton; Renal/Ureter/Bladder; Fertility/Pregnancy; Miscellaneous (this included such codes as oncology related therapies); Eyes; Ears; Respiratory; Cardiac; Gastrointestinal; Pelvic/Sphincter/Urethral; Lymphatics; Breast; Psychiatric and Male Specific Codes.
A doctor, unseen except for a glimpse of his gloved hand, examines miscellaneous body parts: an arm, a leg, feet, teeth and gums, and an eye stretched wide open in a frightening image reminiscent of "A Clockwork Orange".
In the July data set, 493 CCs were placed into 8 categories which captured 96.3% of CCs: pain 32.3%, injury 26.6%, infection 15%, psychiatric 8.1%, miscellaneous 6.1% (those with a frequency of ≤ 2%), nurse only visit 5.5%, eye 4.3% and rash 2.2%.
