Designing an abstraction instrument: lessons from efforts to validate the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators.
Utter GH, Borzecki A, Rosen AK, et al. Designing an abstraction instrument: lessons from efforts to validate the AHRQ patient safety indicators. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37(1):20-8.
This commentary describes the challenges faced in creating a medical record abstraction process, and aims to validate investigators' use of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators as a mechanism for administrative data-based quality measurement.