The goals of this study were to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of 15 screening criteria
for adverse events, preventable adverse events, and severe adverse events in medical …

Claims-based indices of comorbidity and severity, as well as other measures derived from
routinely collected administrative data, are developed and tested. The extent to which risk …

OBJECTIVE: Canadian administrative hospital discharge data contain a diagnosis-type
indicator for each coded diagnosis that allows researchers to distinguish complications from …

Background. This study was undertaken to compare the incidence of adverse postoperative
outcomes recorded in a prospective general surgery database with that identified through …

Background. Several quality assessment systems use administrative data to identify
postoperative complications, with uncertain validity. Objectives. To determine how …

Objectives: To compare the recording of 30-day postoperative complications between a
national clinical registry and Medicare inpatient claims data and to determine whether the …

Objectives To determine the incidence and nature of complications on a general surgery
service and to compare these results with pre-existing institutional recording and reporting …

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

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

The purpose of this study is to assess whether postoperative complications can be
ascertained using administrative data. We randomly sampled 991 adults who underwent …