A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control assessed whether specific secondary ICD-9-CM infection codes could act as predictors of surgical site infections, according to the ...

Dallas, TX - Physicians treating people with pacemakers or other implanted cardiac devices who also develop Staphylococcus aureus infections should be keenly suspicious that the device will become ...

Background and goal: The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system standardizes diagnostic codes globally, enabling accurate comparisons of health data. This study investigated regional ...

A New Jersey oral surgeon has been linked to 15 cases of bacterial endocarditis, a heart infection, including one patient who subsequently died. While an investigation by state health officials found ...