DRG-Blog

Hude Quan, Bing Li, Chantal M. Couris, Kiyohide Fushimi, Patrick Graham, Phil Hider, Jean-Marie Januel and Vijaya Sundararajan:
Updating and Validating the Charlson Comorbidity Index and Score for Risk Adjustment in Hospital Discharge Abstracts Using Data From 6 Countries
Am. J. Epidemiol. (2011) 173(6): 676-682 first published online February 17, 2011, Oxford University Press

[DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq433]

Mihrshahi S, Brand C, Ibrahim JE, Evans S, Jolley D, Cameron P:
Validity of the indicator ‘death in low-mortality diagnosis-related groups’ for measuring patient safety and healthcare quality in hospitals
Intern Med J. 2010 Apr;40(4):250-7, John Wiley & Sons

[DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2009.02161.x]

Christine G. Gourin MD, Arlene A. Forastiere MD, Giuseppe Sanguineti MD, Wayne M. Koch MD, Shanthi Marur MD, MBBS, Robert E. Bristow MD:
Impact of surgeon and hospital volume on short-term outcomes and cost of laryngeal cancer surgical care
The Laryngoscope, Volume 121, Issue 1, pages 85–90, January 2011, Article first published online: 22 DEC 2010, John Wiley & Sons

[DOI: 10.1002/lary.21348]

Robert R. German, Aliza K. Fink, Melonie Heron, Sherri L. Stewart, Chris J. Johnson, Jack L. Finch, Daixin Yin and the Accuracy of Cancer Mortality Study Group:
The accuracy of cancer mortality statistics based on death certificates in the United States
Cancer Epidemiology, Article in Press, Available online 16 October 2010, Elsevier

[DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.09.005]

Askar S. Chukmaitov, David W. Harless, Nir Menachemi, Charles Saunders and Robert G. Brooks:
How well does diagnosis-based risk-adjustment work for comparing ambulatory clinical outcomes?
Health Care Management Science, Volume 12, Number 4 / Dezember 2009, P. 420-433, Springer Netherlands

[DOI: 10.1007/s10729-009-9101-3]

Dr Seema Mihrshahi, Research Fellow, Associate Professor Caroline Brand, Associate Professor, Professor Joseph E Ibrahim, Associate Director, Dr Sue Evans, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director, Associate Professor Damien Jolley, Senior Biostatistician, Professor Peter Cameron, Director:
Literature review: Validity of the indicator ‘death in low mortality diagnosis related groups’ for measuring patient safety and health care quality in hospitals
Internal Medicine Journal, Published Online: 4 Jan 2010, John Wiley & Sons

[DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2010.02161.x]

S. J. Klug, D. Bardehle, M. Ressing, I. Schmidtmann, M.:
Vergleich von ICD-Kodierungen zwischen Mortalitätsstatistik und studieninterner retrospektiver Nachkodierung – Comparison of ICD Coding between Mortality Statistics and Study-Intern Retrospective Re-Coding
Gesundheitswesen, Publikationsdatum: 16. Februar 2009, Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

[DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1102929]

Figueras J, Codina-Barreras A, López-Ben S, Falgueras L, González HD, Albiol M, Soriano J, Figa M, Pardina B, González-Huix F, Maroto A, Codina-Cazador A:
Resultados de la cirugía hepatobiliopancreática en un servicio de cirugía de un hospital de segundo nivel según los GRD durante el bienio 2005-2006 – Results of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery according to DRG in a level 2 hospital surgery department during the years 2005-2006
Cir Esp. 2008;84(3):146-53, Elsevier Doyma

[Cirugia Espanola]

Jian WY, Cui T, Wang HY, Hu M, Huang YM, Zhang XM, Guo Y:
Using diagnosis relative groups mortality risk classification to assess medical quality
Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao 2007 Apr 18; 39(2):145-8

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