Context: Although patient safety is a major problem, most health care organizations rely on
spontaneous reporting, which detects only a small minority of adverse events. As a result …

Outcome measurement—a central concept of quality of care—has both conceptual appeal
and limitations as a practical assessment tool. The degree to which outcomes can be directly …

Abstract Objectives: To Introduce the Western Australian Health Services Research Linked
Database as infrastructure to support aetlologic, utilisation and outcomes research. To …

Background and Purpose: There are limited data from Taiwan about the accuracy of
National Health Insurance (NHI) claims data. This study assessed the accuracy of NHI …

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 determine whether optimism predicts lower rates of rehospitalization after
coronary artery bypass graft surgery for the 6 months after surgery. Methods A prospective …

This monograph presents studies from the Rand Health Insurance Experiment (HIE)
concerning the effect of cost-sharing on the use of outpatient medical care for specific …

School of Medicine, Davis, California, f From the Department of Family Medicine, Medical
College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Presented in part at the Association for Health …

In this article the organization and accuracy of the population registry and administrative
data base in Manitoba, Canada are discussed. The overall data management strategy and a …

Objectives. This study examined the reliability of Department of Veterans Affairs' health
information databases concerning patient demographics, use of care, and diagnoses …