There was substantial to high agreement for the identification of admission (K = 0.87, 0.77 0.96) and readmission (K = 0.76, 0.62 0.87) to hospital, and referral to another hospital (K = 0.78, 0.58 1.00).
The data set permits identification of admission day as a weekend or weekday.
Six-month retrospective review of hospital registers and 4-week cross-sectional study with prospective identification of postpartum admissions.
To ensure identification of all admissions for serious infection, the outcome was measured through three complementary strategies.
Available records permitted the identification of hospital admissions for acute respiratory disease in 6 of the 9 companies with an A/New Jersey case.
First, accuracy of identifying ICU use might differ; in our data we have validated the identification of ICU admission [ 20].
The project aims to produce a validated tool for prospectively assessing the preventability of individual admissions, enabling identification of chronic PPH admissions which are considered preventable and the underlying modifiable factors contributing to them, at the time of admission.
Similarly, after each hospital discharge, Quebec hospitals submit a discharge summary that includes the patient's identification, dates of admission and discharge, attending physicians, main reason for admission and up to 16 ICD-9 diagnoses.
The data contained information on gender, date of birth, encrypted patient identification numbers, dates of admission and discharge, International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes of discharge diagnoses (up to 5), operative procedures (up to 5), and discharge costs (i.e., expenditures) by admission.
