Open AccessUse of Statewide Administrative Data to Assess Clinical Outcomes
Author(s) -
Garth H. Utter,
Tejveer S. Dhillon,
Beate Danielsen,
Edgardo S. Salcedo,
Daniel J. Shouldice,
Misty D. Humphries,
Richard White
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001347
Subject(s) - medicine , medical record , odds ratio , confidence interval , pulmonary embolism , retrospective cohort study , medical diagnosis , emergency medicine , deep vein , emergency department , record linkage , thrombosis , population , environmental health , pathology , psychiatry
Single-center comparative effectiveness studies evaluating outcomes that can occur posthospitalization may become biased if outcomes diagnosed at other facilities are not ascertained. Administrative datasets that link patients' records across facilities may improve outcome ascertainment.