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Diagnosis concept

Fracture of forearm

One diagnosis code, shared across patients.

Provenance
Code
65966004
  • 333 patients
  • 2.9% of all patients
  • top 13% across all diagnoses, by patients
  • 344 recorded episodes

Coding

System
SNOMED-CT

What treats it

procedure concept Bone immobilization
339 procedures
procedure concept Bone density scan
92 procedures

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

What else these patients have

diagnosis concept Osteoporotic fracture of bone
17% of these patients· 1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Leukoplakia and other disturbances of oral epithelium, including tongue
2% of these patients· <1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Fracture of bone
100% of these patients· 13% of all patients
diagnosis concept Leukemia, disease
2% of these patients· <1% of all patients
diagnosis concept History of autologous bone marrow transplant
2% 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

Fracture of forearm: median 40 across all diagnoses: median 35

Age at first diagnosis Bar chart. Age at first diagnosis. 333 patients in all; the largest group is 10 to 19 with 60; Fracture of forearm: median 40 years; across all diagnoses: median 35 years. 0 20 40 60 0 to 9: 54 patients 10 to 19: 60 patients 20 to 29: 29 patients 30 to 39: 23 patients 40 to 49: 24 patients 50 to 59: 21 patients 60 to 69: 34 patients 70 to 79: 50 patients 80 to 89: 19 patients 90 and over: 19 patients 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 years
Half of these patients were 40 or older. Across all diagnoses, half were 35 or older. The 10 to 19 hold the most, 60 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 three months with 213 episodes. no end recorded: 8 episodes no end recorded 8 a week or less: 0 episodes a week or less 0 up to a month: 2 episodes up to a month 2 up to three months: 213 episodes up to three months 213 up to a year: 121 episodes up to a year 121 one to five years: 0 episodes one to five years 0 over five years: 0 episodes over five years 0
up to three months, more than any other. 344 episodes in all. “No end recorded” is an episode the generator never closed, not one known to be ongoing.