Table VII.
The ICD-10 diagnostic codes 7 for all patients who were re-admitted within 30 days of their primary procedure during the 2019 and 2020 periods (16 June to 31 October).
| Procedure type | ICD-10 codes | Description | 2019 (total = 127) |
2020 (total = 50) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical | M798 | Other specified soft-tissue disorders | 31 (24%) | 6 (12%) |
| M796, M255 | Pain in limb/joint | 21 (16%) | 7 (14%) | |
| T845, T814, M009 | Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal joint prosthesis or infection following procedure. Pyogenic arthritis | 8 (6%) | 5 (10%) | |
| I802 | Phlebitis and thrombophlebitis of other deep vessels of lower limbs | 9 (7%) | 1 (2%) | |
| L031 | Cellulitis of other parts of limb | 5 (3%) | 4 (8%) | |
| T810, M250 | Haemorrhage and haematoma complicating a procedure, not elsewhere classified, haemarthrosis | 4 (3%) | 1 (2%) | |
| I828, I269 | Embolism and thrombosis of other specified veins | 2 (1%) | 1 (2%) | |
| T858, T848, T840, I870 | All other surgical | 7 (5%) | 2 (4%) | |
| Medical | J181, R060, J22X | Lobar pneumonia, unspecified, dyspnoea | 5 (3%) | 2 (4%) |
| A415 & A 419 | Sepsis | 1 (7%) | 0 | |
| I635 | Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of cerebral arteries | 2 (1%) | 0 | |
| R33X, N390 | Retention of urine, UTI | 3 (2%) | 2 (4%) | |
| I200, R073 | Unstable angina/chest pain | 2 (1%) | 2 (4%) | |
| All other medical | 20 (15%) | 4 (8%) | ||
| Unrelated | All other unrelated | 7 (58%) | 13 (26%) |
ICD, International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization; UTI, urinary tract infection.