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dx_fractureRefreshed Date
2026-06
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#### This concept set is intended to be used with the Fractures, Procedure concept set to identify patients that have diagnosed fracture severe enough to be treated with ORIF surgery.
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This concept set was developed for the Rapid Research project "Rising Rates and Severity of Pediatric Electric Micromobility Injuries in US Children’s Hospitals." A previous version, accessible below, was developed for for the "Developing a Class of MSMs to Estimate the Effect of Time-Varying Treatments on Different Types of Recurrent Time-to-Event Outcomes" study to identify patients with a general skeletal fracture.
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Includes: fracture of skull/face (S02), ribs/sternum/thoracic spine (S22), lumbar spine/pelvis (S32), shoulder/upper arm (S42), forearm (S52), wrist/hand (S62), femur (S72), lower leg (S82), and foot (S92), occurring with an open reduction/internal fixation or external fixation procedure — internal fixation including plate, screw, and intramedullary devices, external fixation including monoplanar, ring, and hybrid frames, and combined internal-and-external fixation. Excludes: fracture managed without operative fixation; closed reduction without fixation; casting, splinting, and traction; hardware removal and revision-only procedures.
Should be used with ORIF procedure codes.
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