Background: Administrative claims are a rich source of information for epidemiological and health services research; however, the ability to accurately capture specific diseases or complications using ...

Biosimilar filgrastim treatment patterns and relative dose intensity (RDI) maintenance in patients receiving chemotherapy (CT) for the treatment of solid tumor (ST) or lymphoid malignancies (LM): A ...

Physicians may soon have a new way to help predict cancer at earlier stages. Interestingly, it may hinge on sodium levels. In a recent study, hyponatremia was associated with the subsequent diagnosis ...

Hyponatremia is a condition that happens when you don’t have enough sodium in your blood. We often try to limit how much salt (sodium) is in the foods we eat, but it’s important to remember that our ...

Although exercise-associated hyponatremia has been reported in several studies, the effect of participation in long-distance triathlon races on plasma sodium levels is unknown. Prior studies have ...

Patients with ACTH/cortisol deficiency and hyponatremia have inappropriately elevated AVP levels as well as direct renal impairment of urinary dilution. In addition, glucocorticoid replacement ...

We examined the validity of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for the identification of hyponatremia in an outpatient managed care population using data from the IHCIS National Managed Care Benchmark Database.