Variation in outcomes in Veterans Affairs intensive care units with a computerized severity measure*
Critical Care MedicinePublished 1 May 2005
Marta L. Render, H. Myra Kim, James A. Deddens, Siva Sivaganesin, Deborah E. Welsh, Karen Bickel
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Intensive care units whose indicators for mortality and length of stay differ substantially are identified using a conservative statistical approach with a severity adjustment model based on data available in computerized clinical databases.
Abstract
We identified intensive care units whose indicators for mortality and length of stay differ substantially using a conservative statistical approach with a severity adjustment model based on data available in computerized clinical databases. Computerized risk adjustment employing routinely available data may facilitate research on the utility of intensive care unit profiling and analysis of natural experiments to understand process and outcome links and quality efforts.
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