The most common reason for non-adjudication was inability to locate a medical record for the patient, most commonly because these were older records that had not been retained (n = 11).
Other reasons for non-adjudication included inability to identify a care provider in the Medicaid files (n = 2), inability to obtain records from providers that relocated or were no longer practicing (n = 2), and refusal of the provider to participate (n = 3).
The primary reason for non-adjudication also was inability to locate the patient's medical record (n = 45); other reasons included inability to identify a care provider in the Medicaid files (n = 20), inability to obtain records from providers that relocated or were no longer practicing (n = 11), provider refusal (n = 4), and insufficient information for case adjudication (n = 3).
While this study provides some support for the efficacy of soap solution, its findings are limited by relatively small sample size, lack of generalizability to other centers or countries, unconvincingly concealed randomization, and unblinded non-independent adjudication of the primary outcome.
For non-adjudicated discharge codes, 10% of MIs and 22% of strokes were not verified after adjudication.
Relying solely on non-adjudicated hospital discharge coding will lead to similar inaccuracies as using self-reported data because some events will be missed and some events will be included that would not be verified by adjudication.
The use of outcomes subject to ascertainment bias, particularly in unblinded studies or non-blinded outcome adjudication and the use of surrogate outcome measure significantly question the validity of these conclusions [ 7].
(2) Policing of behavior to identify likely instances of deviant behavior; more anonymous societies may require more institutionalized policing; (3) Definitive adjudication of non-conformity to social norms; again, when society is no longer face-to-face, such adjudication may be necessary to trigger sanctions.
Now clearly the descriptive story about the non-legal reasons is not going to be part of a non-mentalistic naturalization of the theory of adjudication: a causal explanation of decisions in terms of reasons (even non-legal reasons) does require taking the normative force of the reasons qua reasons seriously.
Under this bandit allocation framework, we consider stationary and non-stationary models and propose seven new document adjudication methods (five stationary methods and two non-stationary variants).
It must be reconceived as only one of a set of linked policies and provision – including reform of substantive law, methods of adjudication, the provision of non-legal assistance.
