Using administrative data to assess health care outcomes

Using administrative data to assess health care outcomes.

community practice were not significantly different 1 year after PTCA or CABG surgery, consistent with a meta-analysis that summarized eight randomized trials comparing these procedures. However, of the three largest randomized trials in the meta-analysis, only the Randomised Intervention Treatment of Angina (RITA) trial enrolled a population that appeared clinically comparable to the observati...

Monitoring Health Care Using National Administrative Data Collections

Using patient care quality measures to assess educational outcomes.

OBJECTIVES To report the results of a project designed to develop and implement a prototype methodology for identifying candidate patient care quality measures for potential use in assessing the outcomes and effectiveness of graduate medical education in emergency medicine. METHODS A workgroup composed of experts in emergency medicine residency education and patient care quality measurement w...

Using an asthma control questionnaire and administrative data to predict health-care utilization.

OBJECTIVE To examine the merits of the Asthma Therapy Assessment Questionnaire (ATAQ) control index together with prior asthma health-care utilization from administrative data in predicting future acute asthma health-care utilization. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. POPULATION A total of 4,788 adult asthma patients aged 17 to 93 years who completed a baseline evaluation and had at least 6 ...

Identifying paediatric nursing-sensitive outcomes in linked administrative health data

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in the contribution of the quality of nursing care to patient outcomes. Due to different casemix and risk profiles, algorithms for administrative health data that identify nursing-sensitive outcomes in adult hospitalised patients may not be applicable to paediatric patients. The study purpose was to test adult algorithms in a paediatric hospital populatio...