The sensitivity of adverse event cost estimates to diagnostic coding error

Health Services Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 1, 2012, Pages 984-1007

  Wardle, Gavin ^a   Wodchis, Walter P ^a,b,c   Laporte, Audrey ^c   Anderson, Geoffrey M ^a,c   Ross Baker, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

hospital costs; Medical errors; patient safety; propensity matching

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC CODING ERROR; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL INFECTION; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METABOLIC DISORDER; PATIENT SAFETY; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHOCK; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL CODING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONTARIO; PROPENSITY SCORE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84861183164     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01340.x     Document Type: Article

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