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Table 3 Location of 352 Surgeries with an “Other” Indication, as determined by gold standard review

From: Validation of an electronic coding algorithm to identify the primary indication of orthopedic surgeries from administrative data

Surgery Location

Number of Procedures (%)

Ankle/Foot

17 (5%)

Arm/Hand

32 (9%)

Cervical Spine

71 (20%)

Femur

38 (11%)

Hip

50 (14%)

Knee

70 (20%)

Lumbar Spinea

52 (15%)

Thoracic Spine

22 (6%)

  1. aThese represented cases where neither lumbar spinal stenosis or herniated disc were an indication for the spinal surgery