“…Furthermore, risk-adjustment statistics can be manipulated, with more attention on coding comorbidities, to make patient care seem to be improving when it has, in fact, remained stagnant. 11 Tang et al 1 noted another coding challenge in the primary outcome when the NTDB transitioned from International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 to ICD-10 that left many of the tICH subtypes unclearly delineated and difficult to parse.…”