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Annals of Family Medicine 4:410-416 (2006)
© 2006 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
doi: 10.1370/afm.553
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Excess Mortality Caused by Medical Injury

Linda N. Meurer, MD, MPH1,2, Hongyan Yang, MS1, Clare E. Guse, MS1,2, Carla Russo, MD1, Karen J. Brasel, MD, MPH2,3 and Peter M. Layde, MD, MSc1,2

1 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc
2 Injury Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc
3 Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc


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  		Figure 1. Injury and mortality rates by comorbidity index.

 

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  		Figure 2. Rates of mortality and drug- and procedure-related injury codes according to number of diagnostic fields used in each record

*Note: Diagnosis field #10 is exclusively an E code (cause of injury) though E codes can also appear in other diagnosis fields. For this field, the average number of E codes for drug injuries is 46.2, exceeding the limits of this graph.

 

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  		Figure 3. Interrelationships among illness severity, medical care, injury, and death.

 




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