Does adding clinical data to administrative data improve agreement among hospital quality measures?

Data-Driven Approaches to Improve the Quality of Clinical Processes: A Systematic Review

Background: Considering the emergence of electronic health records and their related technologies, an increasing attention is paid to data driven approaches like machine learning, data mining, and process mining. The aim of this paper was to identify and classify these approaches to enhance the quality of clinical processes. Methods: In order to determine the knowledge related to the research ...

The hospital mortality project: a tool for using administrative data for continuous clinical quality assurance.

The increasing demand for greater clinical accountability requires development of convenient tools to measure healthcare safety and quality, which are able to provide information contemporaneously. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of the Hospital Mortality Project, a quality assurance initiative designed to encourage and facilitate clinical accountability for hospital mo...

Does Adding Dexamethasone to Clomiphene Citrate Improve Ovulation in PCOS Patients? A Triple - Blind Randomized Clinical Trial Study

Comorbidity measures for use with administrative data.

OBJECTIVES This study attempts to develop a comprehensive set of comorbidity measures for use with large administrative inpatient datasets. METHODS The study involved clinical and empirical review of comorbidity measures, development of a framework that attempts to segregate comorbidities from other aspects of the patient's condition, development of a comorbidity algorithm, and testing on het...

Hospital factors associated with clinical data quality.

OBJECTIVES As chronic conditions affect the evaluation, treatment, and possible clinical outcomes of patients, accurate reporting of chronic diseases into the patient record is expected. In some countries, the reported magnitude of comorbidity inaccuracy and incompleteness is compelling. Beyond incentives provided in payment systems, the role and significance of other factors that contribute to...