And it waits anxiously, because the change represents a looming disruption. Yet, no matter the trouble, the transition is necessary, because the current coding system can’t take healthcare into the future. Today’s data needs are dramatically different than they were 30 years ago when ICD-9 was introduced. ICD-10 will advance healthcare in many ways, with benefits accruing across five major cate...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the risk of suicide, unnatural death and all-cause death in university students compared with non-students, taking previous educational attainment into account. DESIGN Open cohort study of all residents aged 18-39 and living in Sweden at any time between 1 January 1993 and 31 December 2011. SETTING We linked data from national registers and calculated person-years ...

PURPOSE This study tested the effects of a theory-based, middle-school human immunodeficiency virus, STI, and pregnancy prevention program, It's Your Game: Keep it Real (IYG), in delaying sexual behavior. We hypothesized that the IYG intervention would decrease the number of adolescents who initiated sexual activity by the ninth grade compared with those in the comparison schools. METHODS The...

The move from ICD-9 to ICD-10 promises longterm benefits in efficiency and accuracy, but it also poses a staggeringly complex remediation challenge. This new version of the International Classification of Diseases involves a four-fold leap in the diagnostic codes and a 22-fold leap in the procedure codes used in every part of the clinical and business value chain. While this will eventually hel...

Editorial of the fourth issue ninth volume International Journal Serious Games

THIRTY-NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CEMENT MICROSCOPY