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The registration and inpatient expenditure claims data by admission of all hospitalized subjects of the target population were examined and the concomitant International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnosis codes were evaluated and classified into seven major categories of fracture.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>A total of 5,244 incident cases of pathologic fracture were identified from the 2008 hospitalized patient claims data. The incidence of pathologic fracture of the humerus, distal radius\/ulna, vertebrae, femoral neck, other part of the femur, and tibia\/fibula was 0.67, 0.08, 10.58, 1.11, 0.56, and 0.11 per 100,000 people, respectively, and patients with those fractures were hospitalized for 43.9 \u00b1 42.9, 31.1 \u00b1 32.9, 29. 4 \u00b1 34.4, 43.3 \u00b1 41.2, 42.4 \u00b1 38.1, and 42.0 \u00b1 32.8 days, respectively, incurring an average medical cost of US$11,049 \u00b1 12,730, US$9,181 \u00b1 12,115, US$6,250 \u00b1 8,021, US$9,619 \u00b1 8,906, US$10,646 \u00b1 11,024, and US$9,403 \u00b1 9,882, respectively. The percentage of patients undergoing bone surgery for pathologic fracture of the humerus, radius\/ulna, vertebrae, femoral neck, other part of the femur, and tibia\/fibula was 31.2%, 44.4%, 11.3%, 46.5%, 48.4%, and 52.5% respectively.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Comparing Taiwan to other countries, this study observed for Taiwan higher medical utilization and less-aggressive surgical intervention for patients hospitalized with pathologic fractures.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1472-6963-11-230","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,9,22]],"date-time":"2011-09-22T18:20:36Z","timestamp":1316715636000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Treatment incidence of and medical utilization for hospitalized subjects with pathologic fractures in Taiwan-Survey of the 2008 National Health Insurance data"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Yi-Hui","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuan-Nian","family":"Hsu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"I-Liang","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dinh-Van","family":"Phan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pesus","family":"Chou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chien-Lung","family":"Chan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nan-Ping","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,9,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"1760_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1776","DOI":"10.1002\/cncr.20202","volume":"100","author":"GR Varadhachary","year":"2004","unstructured":"Varadhachary GR, Abbruzzese JL, Lenzi R: Diagnostic Strategies for Unknown Primary Cancer. 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