We used the Health Services Commission data from Manitoba, Canada to identify
complications resulting from hysterectomy, cholecystectomy, and prostatectomy which led to …

Data maintained by medical insurance plans can be used to evaluate the incidence of death
and nonfatal complications following medical care, to test hypotheses about the outcomes of …

We examined computerized hospital discharge ab stract data from 372,680 major surgery
patients admit ted to 404 California acute care hospitals in 1988 to identify potential …

Advances in medicine that have led to more sophisticated methods of diagnosing, treating
and monitoring patients take an ever increasing toll in iatrogenic complications. It may be …

The extent of unnecessary surgery has been the object of considerable speculation and
occasional wild accusation in recent years. Most evidence of the existence of unnecessary …

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

From 1982 to 1986 inclusive work of one surgical firm was audited with a microcomputer.
Data were recorded on 4336 patients having 3355 operations, who were under the care of …

With the growing reliance on large health care data bases, the need to verify data quality
increases as well. Because of the considerable costs involved in checks using primary data …

OBJECTIVE: First, to compare the distribution of complications and comorbidities associated
with 17 common surgical procedures. We then describe the effect of augmenting an ICD-9 …

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