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Diagnosis concept

Laceration of hand

One diagnosis code, shared across patients.

Provenance
Code
284549007
  • 333 patients
  • 2.9% of all patients
  • top 13% across all diagnoses, by patients
  • 338 recorded episodes

Coding

System
SNOMED-CT

What treats it

procedure concept Suture open wound
336 procedures
procedure concept Injection of tetanus antitoxin
60 procedures

Counted over the prescriptions and procedures that recorded this diagnosis as their reason.

What else these patients have

diagnosis concept Laceration - injury
100% of these patients· 13% of all patients
diagnosis concept Transformed migraine
2% of these patients· 1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Inflammatory conditions of jaws
3% of these patients· 1% of all patients

Of the 333 patients with this diagnosis, the share who also carry each one, against how common it is across all patients.

Age at first diagnosis

Laceration of hand: median 37 across all diagnoses: median 35

Age at first diagnosis Bar chart. Age at first diagnosis. 333 patients in all; the largest group is 50 to 59 with 53; Laceration of hand: median 37 years; across all diagnoses: median 35 years. 0 20 40 0 to 9: 42 patients 10 to 19: 45 patients 20 to 29: 45 patients 30 to 39: 45 patients 40 to 49: 46 patients 50 to 59: 53 patients 60 to 69: 28 patients 70 to 79: 17 patients 80 to 89: 6 patients 90 and over: 6 patients 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 years
Half of these patients were 37 or older. Across all diagnoses, half were 35 or older. The 50 to 59 hold the most, 53 patients. A few first diagnoses are back-dated into infancy, and some conditions are handed an age by the decade, which draws a spike rather than a spread.

How long it stays on the record

How long it stays on the record Bar chart. How long it stays on the record. 7 categories; the largest is up to a month with 337 episodes. no end recorded: 1 episode no end recorded 1 a week or less: 0 episodes a week or less 0 up to a month: 337 episodes up to a month 337 up to three months: 0 episodes up to three months 0 up to a year: 0 episodes up to a year 0 one to five years: 0 episodes one to five years 0 over five years: 0 episodes over five years 0
up to a month, more than any other. 338 episodes in all. “No end recorded” is an episode the generator never closed, not one known to be ongoing.