Identification of In-Hospital Complications From Claims Data
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TL;DR
The CSP has validity as a screen for most surgical complications but only for 1 medical complication and the addition of an indicator to the Medicare claim to capture the timing of secondary diagnoses would improve the validity of the CSP for identifying both surgical and medical in-hospital events.
Abstract
The CSP has validity as a screen for most surgical complications but only for 1 medical complication. The CSP does not have validity as a "stand-alone" tool to identify more than a few in-hospital surgery-related events. The addition of an indicator to the Medicare claim to capture the timing of secondary diagnoses would improve the validity of the CSP for identifying both surgical and medical in-hospital events.