Whole-patient measure of safety: using administrative data to assess the probability of highly undesirable events during hospitalization.

Rocco J Perla; Samuel Hohmann; Karen Annis

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Whole-patient measure of safety: using administrative data to assess the probability of highly undesirable events during hospitalization.

November 20, 2013

Perla RJ, Hohmann S, Annis K. J Healthc Qual. 2013;35(5):20-31.

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This study used screening of administrative data to determine the overall probability of an individual patient experiencing an adverse event during hospitalization.

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