The Strengths and Limitations of Linking Medicare Claims Data Across Clinical Settings to Study Patients with Pressure Injuries
The Strengths and Limitations of Linking Medicare Claims Data Across Clinical Settings to Study Patients with Pressure Injuries
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1、UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIALos AngelesThe Strengths and Limitations of Linking Medicare Claims DataAcross Clinical Settings to Study Patients with Pressure InjuriesA dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of therequirements for the degree Doctor of Phil
3、sbyLee Sook Hee SquitieriDoctor of Philosophy in Health Policy and ManagementUniversity of California, Los Angeles 2017Professor Carol Mangione, ChairPressure injuries represent a major public health problem among older adults in theUnited States. Over the p
4、ast decade, numerous policies and payment reforms have focused onreducing the incidence of pressure injuries and improving their quality of care. Pressure injuriestypically occur in medically complex patients that receive treatment from multiple differentpro
5、viders over short periods of time, and the quality of care delivered in one setting may impactmeasured quality, patient outcomes, and cost/utilization in another. Despite the recent nationalfocus on pressure injury quality of care, there is a paucity of nati
6、onal research evaluating patientswith this condition across different clinical encounters and settings of care.In this dissertation, we explored three distinct research aims using linked Medicareclaims data to study pressure injury coding and population char
7、acteristics on a national level.The first aim studied consistency of pressure injury documentation across interfacility transferiiencounters. The second aim compared hospital-reported present-on-admission status for pressureinjuries to diagnostic history in
8、claims data, and the third aim used linked claims data to studythe overall pressure injury population across different settings of care.Our results demonstrated that pressure injury coding was n