Identifying comorbidities in home health care patients: Does the outcome and assessment information set have incremental value to medicare claims data?

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Koroukian, Siran M ^a   Scharpf, Tanya ^a   Bakaki, Paul M ^a   Madigan, Elizabeth ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Comorbid conditions; Home health care; Outcome and assessment information set

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; GOVERNMENT; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; NURSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951567775     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621424.2011.545726     Document Type: Article

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