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Table 2 ICD9 Inclusion and Exclusion Codes for the Registry/Observational Cohort

From: Study protocol: The back pain outcomes using longitudinal data (BOLD) registry

Inclusion Diagnoses

Exclusion Diagnoses

ICD9 Code

Description

ICD9 Code

Description

307.89

Psychogenic backache

V66.7

Encounter for palliative care

721.3

Lumbosacral spondylosis w/o myelopathy

042, 079.53

HIV within the last five years

  

140-239.9 (except 173, 210–229)

Cancer other than non-melanoma skin cancer within the last 5 years and benign neoplasms

721.5

Kissing spine (Baastrup Disease)

290.0–290.4

Dementia

721.6

Ankylosing vertebral hyperostosis

324.1

Intraspinal abscess

721.7

Traumatic spondylopathy

331.0

Alzheimer’s disease

721.8

Other allied disorders of spine

630–676

Pregnancy-related diagnoses

721.9

Spondylosis of unspecified site w/o myelopathy

720.0–720.9

Inflammatory spondyloarthropathies

721.90

Spondylosis of unspecified site w/o myelopathy

730–730.99

Osteomyelitis

722.1

Displacement of thoracic or lumbar disc w/o myelopathy

737.30–737.39 737.40–737.43

Developmental spine deformities

722.10

Displacement of lumbar disc w/o myelopathy

733.8, 733.81–733.8InternalRef>)

Non-union/mal-union of fracture

722.11

Displacement of thoracic disc w/o myelopathy

805–806.9

Fractures of spinal column

722.2

Degeneration of intervertebral disc, site unspecified

839–839.59

All vertebral dislocations

722.3

Schmorl’s nodes

E800-E849.9

Vehicular accidents

722.31

Schmorl’s nodes- thoracic region

03.09; 80.50

Prior lumbar surgery:

722.32

Schmorl’s nodes- lumbar region

80.51; 80.52;

·Laminectomy

722.5

Degeneration of thoracic or lumbar intervertebral disc

80.59; 81.00;

·Discectomy

722.51

Degeneration of thoracic or thoracolumbar intervertebral disc

81.06–81.09;

·Fusion

722.52

Degeneration of lumbar or lumbosacral intervertebral disc

03.02; 03.6;

·Other

722.6

Degeneration of intervertebral disc, site unspecified

78.69

 

722.9

Other and unspecified disc disorder

  

722.90

Other and unspecified disc disorder of unspecified region

  

722.92

Other and unspecified disc disorder of thoracic region

  

722.93

Other and unspecified of lumbar region

  

724

Other and unspecified disorders of back

  

724.0

Spinal stenosis, not cervical

  

724.00

Spinal stenosis of unspecified region

  

724.01

Spinal stenosis- thoracic

  

724.02

Spinal stenosis- lumbar

  

724.03

Spinal stenosis- lumbar with neurogenic claudication

  

724.09

Spinal stenosis- other region

  

724.1

Pain in thoracic spine

  

724.2

Lumbago

  

724.3

Sciatica

  

724.4

Back pain w/radiation, unspec

  

724.5

Backache, unspecified

  

724.6

Disorders of sacrum (including Lumbosacral junction)

  

733.1

Pathologic fractures:

  

733.10,

·unspecified site,

733.13

·vertebrae

733.95

Stress fracture of other bone

  

738.4

Acquired spondylolisthesis

  

738.5

Other acquired deformity of back or spine

  

739.2

Nonallopathic lesions- thoracic, not elsewhere classified

  

739.3

Nonallopathic lesions, lumbar, not elsewhere classified

  

739.4

Nonallopathic lesions, sacral, not elsewhere classified

  

756.11

Spondylolysis

  

756.12

Spondylolisthesis

  

846.0

Lumbosacral sprain

  

846.1

Sacroiliac (ligament) sprain

  

846.2

Sacrospinatus (ligament) sprain

  

846.3

Sacrotuberous (ligament) sprain

  

846.8

Other specified sites of sacroiliac region sprain

  

846.9

Unspecified site of sacroiliac region sprain

  

847.1

Thoracic sprain

  

847.2

Lumbar sprain

  

847.3

Sacral sprain

  

847.9

Sprain- unspecified site of back

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