This article describes the development of Potentially Preventable Complications (PPCs), a
new method that uses a present on admission (POA) indicator to identify in-hospital …

California and Maryland hospital data are used to estimate the incremental cost associated
with 64 categories of hospital acquired complications. The reason for admission, severity of …

Background Hospital inpatient complications are one of a number of adverse health care
outcomes. Reducing complications has been identified as an approach to improving care …

The Complications Screening Program (CSP) is a method using standard hospital discharge
abstract data to identify 27 potentially preventable in-hospital complications, such as post …

Objective. To compare cases identified through the Complications Screening Program
(CSP) as complications with cases using the same ICD-9 secondary diagnosis codes, where …

The measurement of inpatient complications has received substantial attention in recent
years because mortality rates and other outcome measures often appear unable to …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Data fields that capture whether diagnoses are present on
admission (POA)—distinguishing comorbidities from potential in-hospital complications …

An adverse event or complication of medical care is any new condition that is an unintended
or undesirable result of the provision of health care for a given patient. While it is understood …

Objective: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed 20 patient
safety indicators (PSIs) to identify potentially preventable complications of acute inpatient …

The objective was to investigate the effect of admission health status on hospital adverse
events and added costs. Secondary data were from merged administrative and clinical …