920-52 Are Provider Profiles Affected by Risk-adjustment Methodology? Results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project

Risk adjustment and risk-adjusted provider profiles

Provider profiles are an important component of efforts to improve both healthcare productivity and quality. Risk adjustment is the attempt to account for differences in the risk for specific outcomes of cases in different groups in order to facilitate more meaningful comparisons. The value of provider profiles, whether used internally or released to the public, depends both on adequate risk ad...

Risk and predictors of stroke after myocardial infarction among the elderly: results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project.

BACKGROUND Stroke is an important outcome after acute myocardial infarction. Studies that have examined this relationship have largely excluded older patients, even though half of stroke admissions occur among patients 75 years of age and older. METHODS AND RESULTS Among 111 023 medicare patients discharged with a principal diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction during an 8-month period in ...

Benefit-risk methodology project

The Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the C-reactive Protein Gene: are they Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Risk?

Recent pre-clinical and clinical studies have revealed the C-reactive protein gene (CRP) is related to the degree of acute rise in plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. Moreover, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the CRP gene could associate with increased risk of cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, obstructive pulmonary disease,...

CCRS Quality Indicators Risk Adjustment Methodology

To lead the development and maintenance of comprehensive and integrated health information that enables sound policy and effective health system management that improve health and health care. Introduction This document provides a technical description of the risk adjustment methodology for the Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS) quality indicators (QIs) implemented by the Canadian Institut...