Epidemiology of Hospitalized Traumatic Pelvic Fractures and Their Combined Injuries in Taiwan: 2000–2011 National Health Insurance Data Surveillance

Table 1

Definitions of 20 categories of injuries combined with pelvic fractures*.

Group	ICD9-CM codes	Description
1	800–804; 850–854	Fracture of skull (intracranial injury)
2	805–809**	Fracture of spine and trunk
3	810–819	Fracture of upper limb
4	820–829	Fracture of lower limb
5	830–839	Dislocation
6	840–848	Sprains and strains of joints and adjacent muscles
7	860–862	Internal injury of chest
8	863–869	Internal injury of abdomen and pelvis
9	870–879	Open wound of head, neck, and trunk
10	880–887	Open wound of upper limb
11	890–897	Open wound of lower limb
12	900–904	Injury to blood vessels
13	905–909	Late effects of injuries and other external causes
14	910–919	Superficial injury
15	920–924	Contusion with intact skin surface
16	925–929	Crush injuries
17	930–939	Effects of foreign body entering through orifice
18	940–949	Burns
19	950–957	Injury to nerves and spinal cord
20	958-959	Certain traumatic complications and unspecified injuries

∗Pelvic fracture series (ICD9-CM coded as 808.X).
∗∗Group 2 associated injuries excluded pelvic fracture series.