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Development of a validation algorithm for 'present on admission' flagging

BACKGROUND: The use of routine hospital data for understanding patterns of adverse outcomes has been limited in the past by the fact that pre-existing and post-admission conditions have been indistinguishable. The use of a 'Present on Admission' (or POA) indicator to distinguish pre-existi...

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Autores principales: Jackson, Terri J, Michel, Jude L, Roberts, Rosemary, Shepheard, Jennie, Cheng, Diana, Rust, Julie, Perry, Catherine
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19951430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-9-48