Assessment of Strategies for Managing Expansion of Diagnosis Coding Using Risk-Adjustment Methods for Medicare Data

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 179, Issue 9, 2019, Pages 1287-1290

  Tsugawa, Yusuke ^a   Figueroa, Jose F ^b,c   Papanicolas, Irene ^b,d   Orav, E John ^b,c   Jha, Ashish K ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^e VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85068221595     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1005     Document Type: Letter

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