Definition of Indicators - Diabetes Profile

Morbidity/PAS (Hospitalization and ER Indicators)

Diabetes in pregnancy

Births to women with prepregnancy diabetes

A resident live birth for which a maternal medical risk factor indicated diabetes (prepregnancy) on the birth certificate. The mother may or may not use insulin for symptom control.

Births to women with gestational diabetes

resident live birth for which a maternal medical risk factor indicated diabetes (gestational) on the birth certificate.The mother may or may not use insulin for symptom control.

Emergency room visits for persons with diabetes

Diabetes as the principal diagnosis

Resident ER visits for which the principal diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of emergency department records was diabetes or a diabetes-related problem.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) codes: Diabetes as the principal diagnosis ICD List.

Average charges

The average amount that the hospital charges for emergency room discharges for residents of the area (state, region, county) who were discharged with diabetes as a principal diagnosis. The charges do not necessarily represent the cost to the hospital of providing the care nor do they represent the amount actually collected by the hospital for providing the care.

Diabetes as the principal or a secondary diagnosis

Resident ER visits for which any diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of emergency department records was diabetes or a diabetes-related problem.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) codes: Diabetes as the secondary diagnosis ICD List.

Hospitalizations for persons with diabetes

Diabetes as the principal diagnosis

Resident hospitalizations for which the principal diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of inpatient records was diabetes or a diabetes-related problem.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) codes: Diabetes as the principal diagnosis ICD List.

Average charges

The average amount that the hospital charges for emergency room discharges for residents of the area (state, region, county) who were discharged with diabetes as a principal diagnosis. The charges do not necessarily represent the cost to the hospital of providing the care nor do they represent the amount actually collected by the hospital for providing the care.

Average length of stay

The average days of care (length of stay) in the hospital for residents of the area (state, region, county) who were discharged with a diagnosis of diabetes as a principal diagnosis.

Diabetes as the principal or a secondary diagnosis

Resident hospitalizations for which any diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of inpatient records was diabetes or a diabetes-related problem.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) codes: Diabetes as the secondary diagnosis ICD List.

Average charges

The average amount that the hospital charges for emergency room discharges for residents of the area (state, region, county) who were discharged with diabetes as a principal or secondary diagnosis. The charges do not necessarily represent the cost to the hospital of providing the care nor do they represent the amount actually collected by the hospital for providing the care.

Average length of stay

The average days of care (length of stay) in the hospital for residents of the area (state, county) who were discharged with a diagnosis of diabetes as a principal or secondary diagnosis.

Heart disease as the principal diagnosis

Resident hospitalizations for which the principal diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of inpatient records was heart disease.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) codes: Heart Disease as the primary diagnosis ICD List.

Ischemic heart disease as the principal diagnosis

Resident hospitalizations for which the principal diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of inpatient records was ischemic heart disease.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) codes: I00-I09.9, I11-I11.9, I13-I13.9, and I20-I51.9.

Lower extremity condition as the principal diagnosis

Resident hospitalizations for which the principal diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of inpatient records was lower extremity condition.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) codes: I83.

Lower extremity amputation

Resident hospitalizations for which the principal procedure given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of inpatient records was lower extremity amputation.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) code: S78, S88, S98.

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)

Resident hospitalizations for which the principal diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of inpatient records was acute myocardial infarction.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) code: I21, I22.

Acute cerebrovascular disease

Resident hospitalizations for which the principal diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of inpatient records was cerebrovascular disease.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) codes: I60-I69.

Chronic renal failure

Resident hospitalizations for which the principal diagnosis given on the Patient Abstract System (PAS) of inpatient records was chronic renal failure.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM) codes: I12, I13, N18, R88.

Mortality

Diabetes as underlying cause

Resident deaths during the eleven-year period specified for which the underlying cause of death was given on the death certificate as diabetes.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) codes: E10-E14.9.

Diabetes as underlying or contributing cause

Resident deaths for which diabetes was listed on the death certificate as having played any role in causing the death. This includes deaths for which diabetes was the underlying cause (the indicator above), those for which diabetes resulted from the underlying cause, and those for which diabetes was a significant condition contributing to the death but not resulting from the underlying cause.

Any International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code E10-E14.9 mentioned either as the underlying or as any contributing cause.