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Measuring quality outcomes across hospital systems: Using a claims data model for risk adjustment of mortality rates.
This article describes and evaluates the validity of risk-adjustment methods applied to service claims data to accurately determine SMRs across hospital systems. While service claims data may have limitations regarding case risk adjustment, it is important that we do not lose the important opportunity to use claims data as a reliable proxy to comment on the quality of care within healthcare systems. This methodology is robust in its demonstration of variation of performance on mortality outcomes across hospital systems. For the measurement period January 2014 - December 2016, the average risk-adjusted SMRs across hospital ...
Source: South African Medical Journal - May 29, 2019 Category: African Health Tags: S Afr Med J Source Type: research

Safe implementation of robotic-assisted minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass: application of learning curves and cumulative sum analysis
CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that integration of RA-MIDCAB in the surgical landscape can be safely achieved and complication rates can quickly be reduced below those expected in traditional CABG. Collective experience plays a key role in overcoming the learning curve when more complex procedures and cases are introduced.PMID:34422354 | PMC:PMC8339757 | DOI:10.21037/jtd-21-775
Source: Journal of Thoracic Disease - August 23, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Jef Van den Eynde Hannah Vaesen Bentein Tom Decaluw é Herbert De Praetere MaryAnn C Wertan Francis P Sutter Husam H Balkhy Wouter Oosterlinck Source Type: research