Detecting postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma from administrative data: The performance of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1117-1125

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT SAFETY INDICATOR 9; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PILOT STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SAFETY; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886093766     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.04.062     Document Type: Article

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