Designing an abstraction instrument: lessons from efforts to validate the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators.

Garth H Utter; Ann Borzecki; Amy K Rosen; Patricia A Zrelak; Banafsheh Sadeghi; Ruth Baron; Joanne Cuny; Haytham M A Kaafarani; Jeffrey J Geppert; Patrick S Romano

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Designing an abstraction instrument: lessons from efforts to validate the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators.

January 12, 2011

Utter GH, Borzecki A, Rosen AK, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37(1):20-8.

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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.

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