Benchmarking Inpatient Antimicrobial Use: Is Risk-Adjustment Possible?

How Sweet Is It? The Use of Benchmarking to Optimize Inpatient Glycemic Control

Inpatient hyperglycemia is a very common condition, affecting 32–38% of patients in the non–intensive care unit (non-ICU) setting. Observational and randomized, controlled studies suggest that improved glycemic control results in lower rates of hospital complications in general medical and surgical patients.1 Hypoglycemic adverse drug events are also common in the hospital setting, and approxim...

Principal Inpatient Diagnostic Cost Group Model for Medicare Risk Adjustment

The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 required HCFA to implement health-status-based risk adjustment for Medicare capitation payments for managed care plans by January 1, 2000. In support of this mandate, HCFA has been collecting inpatient encounter data from health plans since 1997. These data include diagnoses and other information that can be used to identify chronic medical problems that co...

Benchmarking Automatic Bundle Adjustment Results

In classical photogrammetry, point observations are manually determined by an operator for performing the bundle adjustment of a sequence of images. In such cases, a comparison of different estimates is usually carried out with respect to the estimated 3D object points. Today, a broad range of automatic methods are available for extracting and matching point features across images, even in the ...

What Is Optimal Risk Adjustment ?

Benchmarking Antimicrobial Use in Emergency Departments among Community Hospitals in the Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network