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Variation in the reporting of elective surgeries and its influence on patient safety indicators

2021-06-01

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<h4>Background</h4> US hospital safety is routinely measured via patient safety indicators (PSIs). Receiving a score for most PSIs requires a minimum number of qualifying cases, which are partly determined by whether the associated diagnosis-related group (DRG) was surgical and whether the surgery was elective. While these criteria can exempt hospitals from PSIs, it remains to be seen whether exemption is driven b...

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Literature Corpus work: 73b55c5c-1ef9-5e1b-ae24-f64a2f4f164e
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.29.21257635

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