Constructing episodes of inpatient care: How to define hospital transfer in hospital administrative health data?
ABSTRACT Objectives Hospital administrative data creates a separate record for each hospital stay of patients. Treating a hospital transfer as a readmission could lead to biased results in health service research, resource planning, and quality of patient care. This study is to identify the optim...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2017-04-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
| Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/182 |