Background We used a large United States population-based database to analyze the reasons for hospitalization of psoriasis patients. Methods International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) code was used to identify hospitalizations in National Inpatient Sample (NIS) 2017 with a principal or secondary diagnosis of psoriasis. The reasons for hospitalization were divided into 19 categories based on their principal discharge ICD-10 diagnosis code.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study aims to compare the outcomes of psoriasis hospitalizations with and without joint involvement. The primary outcome was inpatient mortality, while secondary outcomes were hospital length of stay (LOS) and total hospital charges.
Methods: Data were abstracted from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) 2016 and 2017 databases.