Cost-effective enhancement of claims data to improve comparisons of patient safety.

Harmon S Jordan; Michael Pine; Anne Elixhauser; David C Hoaglin; Donald E Fry; Kevin Coleman; Deborah Deitz; David Warner; Junius Gonzales; Zachary Friedman

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Cost-effective enhancement of claims data to improve comparisons of patient safety.

June 27, 2007

Jordan HS, Pine M, Elixhauser A, et al. J Patient Saf. 2008;3(2).

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The authors explored the cost-effectiveness of enhancing hospital administrative claims data with clinical information to better predict adverse-event outcome rates.

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