Reliability and validity of utilization review criteria: Appropriateness evaluation protocol, standardized med review instrument, and intensity-severity-discharge criteria

Medical Care

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 95-111

  Strumwasser, Ira ^a   Paranjpe, Nitin V ^a   Ronis, David L ^b   Share, David ^c   Sell, Larry J ^c  

^a Michigan Health Care Education and Research Foundation ^*  (United States)

^b Veterans Administration   (United States)

^c Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute care; Appropriateness; Appropriateness evaluation protocol (AEP); Criteria set; Hospitalization; Intensity severity discharge (ISD); Reliability; Standardized medreview instrument (SMI); Utilization review; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMAN; JUDGMENT; MEDICAL RECORDS; MICHIGAN; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROBABILITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0025378365     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199002000-00001     Document Type: Article

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