The number of hospital discharges with a retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment (secondary diagnosis) among surgical and medical patients ages 17 years and younger. Excludes normal newborns, newborns with birth weight less than 500 grams, cases with principal diagnosis of retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment, cases with a secondary diagnosis of retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment present on admission, and obstetric cases.
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Surgical and medical discharges, for patients ages 17 years and under, with any secondary ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment. Surgical and medical discharges are defined by specific MS-DRG codes.
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