The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) surprised the coding world last year when it changed its 22-year-old reimbursement system to the severity-adjusted MS-DRG system. HIM departments anticipated the system would have a significant impact on operations-increasing demands for accurate ...
Introducing an interaction term between race and an exposure into a statistical model is commonly used in the epidemiologic literature to assess racial health disparities and the potential viability of a targeted health intervention. However, researchers may attribute too much authority to the interaction...
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