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1 to 1 of 1 Research Studies DisplayedVenkatesh AK, Mei H, Kocher KE
Identification of emergency department visits in Medicare administrative claims: approaches and implications.
The researchers sought to construct an operational definition for ED visitation using a comprehensive Medicare data set and to compare this definition to existing operational definitions used by researchers and policymakers. They concluded that current operational definitions of ED visitation using administrative claims produce different estimates of ED visitation based on the underlying assumptions applied to billing data and data set availability.
AHRQ-funded; HS024160.
Citation: Venkatesh AK, Mei H, Kocher KE .
Identification of emergency department visits in Medicare administrative claims: approaches and implications.
Acad Emerg Med 2017 Apr;24(4):422-31. doi: 10.1111/acem.13140.
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Keywords: Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Medicare, Policy, Elderly, Hospitalization