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Rights & Permissions Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Medicare:A Strategy for Quality Assurance, Volume I Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series Other Related Titles Reliability of Medicare Hospital Discharge Records: Report of a Study (1977) Institute of Medicine (IOM) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix J Comparison of the Reliability of HCFA Medicare Records and Private Abstract Service Medicare Abstracts for Selected Diagnoses Common to both Studies." Reliability of Medicare Hospital Discharge Records: Report of a Study. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1977. Please select a format: Page 127   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 127 Front Matter (R1-R6) Table of Contents (R7-R8) Foreword (R9-R10) Introduction (1-4) Study Methods (5-22) Analysis (23-60) Summary and Recommendations (61-70) Appendix A Bibliography (71-72) Appendix B Sample Letter to Hospital Administrators (73-74) Appendix C Diagnostic Codes Included as Components of the Sample of Medicare Records (75-84) Appendix D IOM Re-abstracting Form, General Instructions for Field Team, and Specific Instructions for IOM Re-abstracting Form (85-104) Appendix E Informal Checklist (105-106) Appendix F Reliability of Field Work (107-114) Appendix G Percent of Abstracts with no Discrepancy for each Diagnosis Included as a Component of the Sample of Medicare Records (115-120) Appendix H Net and Gross Difference Rates in Designation of Principal Diagnosis (Based on Four-Digit Comparisons of Specific Diagnosis) (121-124) Appendix I General Comparison of Assessment of the Reliability of Medicare Records Maintained by the Health Care Financing Administration and Hospital Discharge Abstracts Compiled by Private Abstract Services (125-126) Appendix J Comparison of the Reliability of HCFA Medicare Records and Private Abstract Service Medicare Abstracts for Selected Diagnoses Common to both Studies (127-128) Appendix K Standard Errors and Confidence Intervals for Statistics Based on Medicare Data (129-131) Appendix L Standard Errors and Confidence Intervals for Statistics Based on Data from Private Abstracting Services (132-133) Appendix M Selected Examples of Principal Procedures not Listed in CPT, as Determined by the IOM Field Team Members (134-134)

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Append ix J COMPARISON OF THE RELIABILITY OF HCFA MEDICARE RECORDS AND PRIVATE ABSTRACT SERVICE MEDICARE ABSTRACTS FOR SELECTED DIAGNOSES COMMON TO BOTH STUDIES (SOURCE: IOM FIELD DATA) l Weighted percent Percent of of all abstracts abstracts with that each diag- no discrepancy nosis represents Private Private HCFA's service HCFA's service Medicare Medicare Medicare Medicare Diagnosis- ICDA-codes* records records records records . Chronic ischemic 412 . 0; 412 .9 36 . 8 27 . 9 9 . 8 8 . 6 ~ . . heart disease Cerebrovascular 430 . 0-430 .9 58 .5 79 .8 6.9 10.1 diseases Fracture, neck of femur 820.0-820.9 ( 820. 0-820 . 5; 820. 9) 70.5 81.0 2.0 3.7 Cataract 374.0-374.9 97.3 94.3 3.0 7.5 (374.0;374.1; 374.8;374.9) Acute myocardial 410.0-410.9 67.3 67.7 2.4 5.3 infarction (410. 0;410. 1; 410. 9) Inguinal hernia 550 96 . 7 87 . 9 1 . 3 2 .1 without mention of obstruction Diabetes mel1itus 250 . 0-250 . 9 49 . 7 60 . 5 2. 5 2 . 9 (250.0;250.9) Cholelithiasis/ 574.0-574.9; 62.8 74.8 2.0 3.5 cholecystitits 575 *Where diagnostic codes for sampling private abstract service records differed from those in the study of Medicare records, they are in parentheses. 127

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