Comparing the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program With the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database.
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PACIFIC COAST SURGICALASSOCIATION Comparing theNational Surgical Quality Improvement ProgramWith theNationwide Inpatient Sample Database Bothrawandrisk-adjustedoutcomesareincreasinglybeingmade publiclyavailable.1-3TheAmericanCollegeofSurgeonsNational Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) is heralded as themost robust database to examine surgical outcomes.However,enrollmentintheNSQIPisexpensive,andtheuseofadministrative databasesmay bemore cost-effective.2-4 Inour study,wecompare the receiver operating characteristiccurvesof theNationwideInpatientSample (NIS)withthose oftheNSQIPtodeterminewhichissuperioratperforminganalyses of risk-adjusted outcomes for several operations.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- JAMA surgery
دوره 150 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015