All-cause and CVD mortality were independently adjudicated using information from the clinic report, hospital records, National Death Index, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services death notification forms, and Social Security records, as previously described (10).
SSIs were adjudicated using medical charts and categorized using a modified version of the CDC/National Healthcare Safety Network definitions, as organ/space SSIs are grouped together with deep incisional SSIs and termed deep SSI (Horan et al. 2008).
The primary outcome measure is the composite rate of definite and probable stent thrombosis at 3 years, centrally adjudicated using Academic Research Consortium definitions.
Cardiovascular death was examined as a secondary end point defined as death due to atherosclerotic coronary heart disease, heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, or cerebrovascular disease, with cases adjudicated using hospital discharge summaries, diagnostic test records, and consultation reports (28).
"If you have a highlighted situation of a veteran out of control out there in the community," he said, "it becomes more difficult to adjudicate using an alternative method to conventional prosecution".
Sensitivity and specificity of the number of positive quadrants predictive of the EVLW index >10 ml/kg were adjudicated by using the receiver operative characteristic (ROC) curve.
Table 1 shows the outcome of the expert annotation, with 23 alerts adjudicated correctly using the low-dimensional projections without the need for chart review, only 5 requiring chart review, and 10 alerts on which the expert clinicians disagreed.
Then these experts adjudicated the same alerts using the available chart time series.
Slides were read by cytoscreeners, with abnormal findings adjudicated by pathologists and reported using the Bethesda 2001 system.
