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YR Yannick Rau
AS Arndt-Peter Schulz
RT Roland Thietje
LM Ludwig Matrisch
JF Jasper Frese
SH Sven Hirschfeld
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Data were retrieved from the German Federal Bureau of Statistics (Statistisches Bundesamt), Department of the Interior. The Federal Bureau of Statistics collects the ICD-10 GM and OPS Codes of all patients admitted to a German hospital every year and is therefore able to provide detailed information on how many patients were treated as a result of distinct illnesses or injuries [10].

Datasets from 2013 to 2020 of all patients released from hospitals with an S-code diagnosis, corresponding to the WHO group XIX (Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes) were provided and specific injury types were identified [11]. In particular, injuries to the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal cord were identified and extracted.

The ICD-10 GM codes S14.10 to .13 for cervical injuries, S24.10 to .12 for thoracic injuries and S34.10 to.11 and S34.18 for lumbar injuries were identified as targets of interest.

S14.11, S24.11 and S34.10 are complete or AIS type A lesions. S14.10, S24.10 and S35.18 are considered to be SCI of interest but are not considered to be potentially complete (ASIA Impairment Scale type A) lesions.

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