Validity of the AHRQ patient safety indicator for postoperative physiologic and metabolic derangement based on a national sample of medical records

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 806-811

  Zrelak, Patricia A ^a   Romano, Patrick S ^b   Tancredi, Daniel J ^a   Geppert, Jeffrey J ^c   Utter, Garth H ^b  

^a Center for Healthcare Policy and Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Criterion validity; Diabetic complications; Patient Safety Indicator; Postoperative physiologic and metabolic derangement

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NONKETOTIC DIABETIC COMA; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SAFETY INDICATOR 10; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY;

EID: 84883242653     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31829c8b91     Document Type: Article

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