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Table 2 Top five primary diagnoses of patients admitted with secondary or no diagnosis of JDM

From: Inpatient burden of juvenile dermatomyositis among children in the United States

Rank

ICD-9-CM Code

Primary diagnosis

Weighted Frequency

Prevalence

[95% CI]

Secondary diagnosis of JDM

 1

6826

Cellulitis of Leg

101.62064

4.38%[3.46–5.30]

 2

6823

Cellulitis of Arm

97.86453

4.22%[3.31–5.12]

 3

486

Pneumonia

84.98956

3.66%[2.81–4.51]

 4

V5789

Rehabilitation procedure NEC

84.56049

3.64%[2.77–4.51]

 5

88

Other arthropod-borne disease

52.25267

2.25%[1.58–2.93]

No diagnosis of dermatomyositis

 1

486

Pneumonia

1,206,317

5.24%[5.23–5.25]

 2

46,611

Acute Bronchiolitis Due to RSV

768,637

3.34%[3.33–3.35]

 3

49,392

Asthma, unspecified, with exacerbation

700,180

3.04%[3.03–3.05]

 4

46,619

Acute Bronchiolitis Due to Other Infectious Organism

561,443

2.44%[2.43–2.45]

 5

5409

Acute appendicitis w/o mention of peritonitis

550,923

2.39%[2.39–2.40]

  1. ICD-9-CM International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification; 95% CI 95% confidence interval; RSV respiratory syncytial virus; NEC Not Elsewhere Classifiable