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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 . "Table of Contents." Reliability of Medicare Hospital Discharge Records: Report of a Study. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1977. Please select a format: Page VII   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page VII 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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CONTENTS FOREW ORD INTRODUCT ION STUDY METHODS ANALYS IS SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDAT IONS APPENDICES 1X 1 5 23 61 A. Bib 1 iography 71 B. Sample Letter to Hospital Administrators 73 C. Diagnostic Codes Included as Components of the Sample of Medicare Records 75 D. IOM Re-abstracting Form, General Instructions for F ie id Team, and Spec i f ic Ins true t ions f or IOM Re - ab s t r ac t ing Form 85 E. Informal Checklist 105 F. Reliability of Field Work 107 G. Percent of Abstracts with no Discrepancy for each Diagnosis Included as a Component of the Sample of Med ic are Records 115 H. Net and Gross Difference Rates in Designation 0 f Pr inc i pal D iagno s i s ~ Ba s ed on Four-Dig i t Comparisons of Specific Diagnoses) 121 General Comparison of Assessments of the Reliability of Medicare Records Maintained by the Health Care Financing Administration and Hospital Discharge Abstracts Compiled by Private Abstract Serv ices @ . V11 125

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J. Comparison of the Reliability of HCFA Medicare Records and Private Abstract Service Medicare Ab s t r ac t s to r Se 1 ec ted Di agno se s Common to ho th Stud ies 127 K. Standard Errors and Confidence Interval s for Statistics Based on Medicare Data 129 Standard Errors and Confidence Interval s for Statistics Based on Data from Private Abstracting Services 132 M. Selected Examples of Principal Procedures not Li sted in CPT, as Determined by the IOM Field Team Members 134 · . . vale