poa/infarction

OBJECTIVE To evaluate how the accuracy of present-on-admission (POA) reporting affects hospital 30-day acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality assessments. METHODS A total of 2005 California patient discharge data (PDD) and vital statistics death files. METHODS We compared hospital performance

The availability of techniques such as surgical reperfusion, angioplasty, and thrombolysis for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has revived interest in seeking an early detectable biochemical marker diagnostic for AMI. Therefore, we investigated whether an unidentified oxidase that

BACKGROUND Administrative data are often hampered by coding errors, absent data, and the difficulty of distinguishing pre-existing conditions from perioperative complications. We evaluated whether the introduction of the present on admission (POA) indicator improved outcome analysis of carotid

OBJECTIVE To test the accuracy of reporting present-on-admission (POA) and to assess whether POA reporting accuracy differs by hospital characteristics. METHODS We performed an audit of POA reporting of secondary diagnoses in 1,059 medical records from 48 California hospitals. METHODS We used

Importance: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services's (CMS's) 30-day risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) and risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) models do not adjust for do-not-resuscitate (DNR) status of hospitalized