Atwell Computer Medical Innovations, Inc.
ACMI
U.S. Patent No. 7,433,880
Creation of This Run
- DATABASE
- MedParIn_db = Medicare sample inpatient database
- 2008 = 2008 FY
- INCLUDE
- DiagnosisInc = Incidence of diagnoses (the diagnosis code in any diagnosis field)
- USER = The user specifies the diagnosis codes to include
- 250 = Diagnosis code group 250 includes all diabetic patients in the report
- CLASSIFY
- Diagnosis1 = Principal diagnosis
- TOP = Sort in descending order
- 10 = The number of principal diagnoses to print in the report
- DEPENDENT
- LengthOfStay = Bed days
- >-1 = Include all records, even those with zero bed days
- 3 = Sort on TOTAL LengthOfStay.
Click here on Diagnosis Input section to go to the MoreSpecialFeatures tab for more explanation of diagnosis codes.
Using This Run
The Principal diagnosis for diabetic patients is generally not a diabetic code. The ACMI program looks for a diabetic code anywhere in the record (incidence) to select all diabetic patients.
In the 500000 sample Medicare inpatient records, there are 121171 patients with a diabetic code ('25000' through '25093') in one of their diagnosis fields. There is no diabetic principal diagnosis in the top 10 principal diagnoses with the most bed days.
There are 34145 patients in the top 10 diagnosis codes with the most bed days out of 121171 diabetic patients.