The discharge diagnosis on her chart was depression.

His discharge diagnosis: fever of unknown origin.

All hospitalizations with a primary discharge diagnosis for poisonings were extracted from SAF.

Only the primary discharge diagnosis was used to ensure these were active diagnoses, ie, to exclude diagnoses with "history of poisonings."

Of these, 428 recipients were hospitalized with a primary discharge diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis with 760 total hospitalizations.

Of the study population, 170 recipients were hospitalized with a primary discharge diagnosis of poisonings during the study period, with 188 total hospitalizations.

During the time of the study period, 123 patients were hospitalized for a primary discharge diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, with an incidence density of 12.5/1000 person years.

Both Forbs' and Ullhof's discharge diagnoses were pedestrian: Forbs was released because of chronic back problems while Ullhof had been discharged because of nonspecific, chronic prostatitis.

The most common secondary discharge diagnosis for both diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome was kidney replaced by transplant, and secondary diagnoses did not reveal a preponderance of conditions suggesting an underlying condition leading to hospitalization.

The diagnosis given as the reason why the patient was admitted to the hospital; it may differ from the actual problem or from the discharge diagnoses, which are the diagnoses recorded when the patient is discharged from the hospital.

The end points of coronary heart disease we evaluated were mortality (underlying cause of death on the death certificate coded as 410-414 according to ICD ninth revision) and admission to hospital (first admission with discharge diagnoses coded 410-414).

Suicide was not listed as an eventual primary cause of death among patients hospitalized for poisonings, nor was attempted suicide (E956, "Suicide and self-inflicted injuries by cutting and piercing instrument," or E958.9 "unspecified cause of suicide") listed as a secondary or tertiary discharge diagnosis among these patients.