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BMI: Body mass index; CAM: Complementary and Alternative Medicine; CI: Confidence Interval; DoD: Department of Defense; ICD-9-CM: International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification; OR: Odds Ratio; SIDR: Standard Inpatient Data Record; SF-36V: Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36-Item Health Survey for Veterans.
The working group reviewed the rank-ordered scores by domain, with a score from 0 1 signaling a candidate for deletion or modification; revisions were also made to improve items with scores less than 2. The group incorporated the panel's face-validity ratings, comments, suggestions, and proposed revisions into this process.
For this report, a malaria case-patient was defined as a person hospitalized with a diagnosis of malaria (code 084 in International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification) or reported as having a case of malaria through a military notifiable medical event reporting system.
Comorbid conditions were defined by primary or secondary International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes during or within 12 months prior to the hospital encounter.
We also used a claim based definition to identify patients with left bundle branch block within 365 days before the index date (ICD-9 (international classification of diseases, ninth revision, clinical modification), 426.2x or 426.3x).
Analysis of hospitalized cases was based on patients with a principal diagnosis code for Campylobacter enteritis (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification, code 008.43, or International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, code A04.5).
Primary brain cancer cases were patients from the eligible population with an ICDA-8 (International Classification of Diseases, Adapted, 8th Revision) or ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification) discharge diagnosis of 191 (malignant neoplasm of the brain).
Patients were identified based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes for PM or DM [ 10].
Breast procedures were identified by International Classification of Diseases 9th Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) or Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) procedure codes (Appendix 1).
