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Breaking ICD Codes: Identifying Ambiguous Respiratory Infection Codes via Regional Diagnosis Heterogeneity [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE We aimed to analyze regional variations in the assignment of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes to acute respiratory infections, seeking to identify notable anomalies that suggest diverse diagnoses of the same condition.

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World’s Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos

Physician's Weekly

Nearly 2 million Americans are diagnosed with malignancies every year. Since 2013 he’s flown to the East Coast scores of times to participate in five clinical trials at the cancer wing of NIH’s Clinical Center. . “We use the word ‘drone attack’ now regularly,” one worker said of grant terminations.