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 …

Objectives. This study examined the validity of the Complications Screening Program (CSP)
by testing whether (1) ICD-9-CM codes used to identify a complication are coded completely …

Objective. The use of administrative data to identify inpatient complications is technically
feasible and inexpensive but unproven as a quality measure. Our objective was to validate …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: To develop Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) to identify potential in-hospital
patient safety problems for the purpose of quality improvement. DATA SOURCE/STUDY …

Objective To determine whether the occurrence of “never events” after major surgical
procedures is affected by patient and disease characteristics and by the type of operation …

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