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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Emerg Med. 2018 Nov 2;74(1):45–49. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.09.019

Table 3:

Most common dental ICD-9 codes for which antibiotics were prescribed in the ED, 2010–2015

Diagnosis ICD-9
Code		 Raw number
of visits with
diagnosis
and
antibiotics
prescribed		 Weighted
number (95%
CI) of visits in
which
antibiotics were
prescribed
(average annual)		 Proportion (95%
CI) of
antibiotics
prescribed for
specific dental
conditions
(overall)		 Proportion
(95% CI) of
visits for this
condition for
which
antibiotics
were
prescribed
Unspecified disorder of the teeth and supporting structures 525.9 611 622,300 (514,353– 730,246) 44% (41–48%) 66% (61–71%)
Periapical abscess without sinus 522.5 284 302,183 (240,564– 363,802) 21% (18–25%) 84% (78–88%)
Dental caries 521.0 259 257,611 (195,786–319,436) 18% (15–22%) 75% (66–82%)
Other *** 164 157,736 (116,880– 198,591) 11% (9–14%) 50% (42–59%)
***

Includes ICD-9 diagnoses with fewer than 30 visits. These include: jaw pain (784.92), acute apical periodontitis of pulpal origin (522.4), other and unspecified diseases of the oral soft tissues (528.9), chronic gingivitis (523.1), cellulitis and abscess of oral soft tissues (528.3) and acute gingivitis (523.0).