Background: Among the various methods used, administrative data collected for claims and billing purposes, such as diagnosis codes and present-on-admission (POA) indicators, can easily be employed to assess patient safety status. However, it is crucial that administrative data be accurate to ...
Using all ICD-9-CM injury diagnosis codes (800-999) and the present-on-admission indicator, we identified incident inpatient injuries among non-delivery hospital discharges. A clinical expert panel was asked to identify injuries unlikely to have occurred during the hospitalization; these were ...
PresentonAdmission 系统标签: admissionpresentpoainpatientcathetermrsa Volume5,Issue5,May2009378TheJournalforNursePractitioners-JNPJNPDECODINGCODESJanDiSantostefanoShort-term,acutecarehospitalsbeganreportingthePOAcodeoninpatientclaimswithdischargesbeginningOctober1,2007.POAdatawillbeusedtotracethedevelopmentofinfectionsand...
Identifying Potentially Preventable Complications Using a Present on Admission Indicator Hughes JS, Averill RF, Goldfield NI, Gay JC, Muldoon J, McCullough E, Xiang J: Identifying Potentially Preventable Complications Using a Present on Admission Indicator. Health Care Financ Rev 2006, 27:63-82......
present‐on‐admission indicatorOBJECTIVES: To evaluate national present-on-admission (POA) reporting for hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) and examine the impact of quality measure exclusion criteria on HAPU rates. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Medicare inpatient, outpatient, and nursing facility ...
Present On Admission Indicator Is Essential to Evaluate Symptom Status and Stroke Rate After CAS and CEA Using Administrative DataMasked hypertensionblood pressureambulatory blood pressurecardiovascular riskFailure to show benefit in some cardiovascular and renal outcome trials may be a consequence of masked...
Purpose: Comorbidities of a principal diagnosis have varying impacts on disease and require different management depending on the onset timing. This study investigated the usefulness of present-on-admission (POA), specifically focusing on decubitus ulcers, delirium, and hypokalemia, as ...
Diagnostic value and reliability of the present-on-admission indicator in different diagnosis groups: pilot study at a Swiss tertiary care centerCoding the POA indicator identified diagnoses which were pre-existent with insufficient reliability on individual patient's level. The overall fair to ...
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The use of a 'Present on Admission' (or POA) indicator to distinguish pre-existing or co-morbid conditions from those arising during the episode of care has been advocated in the US for many years as a tool to support quality assurance activities and improve the accuracy of risk adjustment ...