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Developing algorithms for healthcare insurers to systematically monitor surgical site infection rates

BACKGROUND: Claims data provide rapid indicators of SSIs for coronary artery bypass surgery and have been shown to successfully rank hospitals by SSI rates. We now operationalize this method for use by payers without transfer of protected health information, or any insurer data, to external analytic...

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Autores principales: Huang, Susan S, Livingston, James M, Rawson, Nigel SB, Schmaltz, Steven, Platt, Richard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1896175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17553168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-7-20