Hunter N B Moseley, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Reza M Salek, Masanori Arita, Emma L Schymanski
InChI isotopologue and isotopomer specifications
Journal of cheminformatics
data describe specific reasons inpatient hardware removal pediatric population study designed understand conditions necessitating inpatient removal following fracture surgery cost data analyzed understand financial implications procedures kids inpatient database kid evaluated year 2012 patients undergoing open reduction internal fixation following upper lower extremity fractures well undergoing hardware removal due hardware complications identified using icd9 cm diagnosis procedure codes univariable multivariable logistic regression used determine predictors surgical removal due complications controlling patient demographics comorbidities common indication removal infection 1141 patients 32 followed mechanical dysfunction 923 254 pain 472 13 logistic regression analysis showed femur fractures 827 95 ci 763896 tibiafibula fractures 124 95 ci 117135 independent predictors infectionrelated hardware removal p 0001 patients underwent removal due infection likely asthma 187 95 ci 162207 smoke tobacco 112 95 ci 105123 suffer developmental delays 132 95 ci 119154 p 0001 average hospital charges costs 36349 11792 respectively commonly performed outpatient procedure inpatient hardware removal occurs relative frequency often performed infection mechanical failure pain risk factors infectionrelated removal identified provide basis investigation