Impact of the present-on-admission indicator on hospital quality measurement: Experience with the agency for healthcare research and quality (AHRQ) inpatient quality indicators

Medical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 112-119

  Glance, Laurent G ^a,e   Osler, Turner M ^b   Mukamel, Dana B ^c   Dick, Andrew W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Benchmarking; Outcome assessment; Quality; Report card; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; CALIFORNIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OUTLIERS, DRG; PATIENT ADMISSION; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY;

EID: 38549156755     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318158aed6     Document Type: Article

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