Improving risk adjustment above current centers for disease control and prevention methodology using electronically available comorbid conditions

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1173-1178

  Jackson, Sarah S ^a   Leekha, Surbhi ^a   Pineles, Lisa ^a   Magder, Laurence S ^a   Thom, Kerri A ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a   Harris, Anthony D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGED; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONER; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MARYLAND; MEDICAL RECORD; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; BALTIMORE; BODY MASS INDEX; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONERS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84988847913     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.140     Document Type: Article

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