THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF ICD-10 DIAGNOSTIC CODING USED TO ASSESS CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX CONDITIONS IN THE POPULATION-BASED DANISH NATIONAL REGISTRY OF PATIENTS

Abstract Background The Charlson comorbidity index is often used to control for confounding in research based on medical databases.There are few studies of the accuracy of the codes obtained from these databases.We examined the positive predictive value (PPV) of the ICD-10 diagnostic coding in the Danish National Registry of Patients (NRP) for the

Understanding how human-altered landscapes affect population connectivity is valuable for conservation planning.Natural connectivity among wetlands, which is maintained by floods, is disappearing owing to farmland expansion.Using genetic data, we assessed historical changes in the population connectivity of the ninespine stickleback within a human-

The article describes the architecture of the tomb of Horhotep, an a&d ej-123 official at the court of Senwosret I, which is situated at the necropolis of North Asasif in Western Thebes.The structure was built in the row of sepulchral complexes, which belonged to high-ranking officials from the times of the reign of Mentuhotep II.The tomb belongs t

IntroductionMycobacterium abscessus is a pathogen recently associated with patients with chronic lung conditions such as bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis.M.abscessus is an environmental bacterium but recent evidence suggests that the pathogen is also transmitted from host-to-host.Because M.abscessus bang xxl switch duo is known to form biofilms o

The metabolic profiles of selected tissues were analyzed in hatchlings of the Amazonian freshwater turtles Podocnemis expansa, P.unifilis and P.sextuberculata.Metabolic design in these species was judged based on the key enzymes of energy metabolism, with special emphasis on carbohydrate, lipid, amino acid and ketone body metabolism.All species sho