Observational study to determine the utility of hospital administrative data to support case finding of English patients at higher risk of severe healthcare-related harm

ObjectivesTo identify ways of using routine hospital data to improve the efficiency of retrospective reviews of case records for identifying avoidable severe harmDesignDevelopment and testing of thresholds and criteria for two indirect indicators of healthcare-related harm (long length of stay (LOS)...

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Main Authors: Jan van der Meulen, Helen Hogan, Nora Cooke-O’Dowd, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Christopher Sherlaw-Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2019-06-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/6/e025372.full