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Multiple diagnoses and procedures during hysterectomy
Author(s) -
Ranney B.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(90)90519-q
Subject(s) - medicine , hysterectomy , medical diagnosis , abdominal hysterectomy , chart , obstetrics , gynecologic cancer , general surgery , gynecology , surgery , radiology , ovarian cancer , cancer , statistics , mathematics
Seldom does a gynecologic patient, who needs a hysterectomy, have a single diagnosis. Among 2892 gynecologic patients who needed a hysterectomy, only 127 had a single diagnosis. The rest had two to ten separate diagnoses. Therefore, 96.4% also needed other gynecologic procedures at the time of hysterectomy — 4842 other operative procedures during 1925 abdominal hysterectomies, and 2356 associated operative procedures during 864 vaginal hysterectomies. Prior to the time of hysterectomy, 15.07% of these patients had had major gynecologic operations, but after hysterectomy (+ +) only 2.9% needed any subsequent gynecologic operations. We conclude that among gynecologic patients, chart reviews or coding systems which are based only on a single diagnosis, or computer systems which are limited to 2, 3, or 4 diagnoses, will usually be incomplete, inaccurate, and misleading.