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Improving The Diagnostic Accuracy Of Failure-To-Rescue, Amelia Marie Joseph
Improving The Diagnostic Accuracy Of Failure-To-Rescue, Amelia Marie Joseph
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The ability to successfully rescue patients from complications has been shown to be a good measure of quality care processes in hospitals. Failure-to-rescue (FTR) has been defined using secondary International Classification of Disease (ICD-9 CM) codes. Studies of FTR using these codes have demonstrated satisfactory accuracy when compared to clinical events documented in the medical record. However, a subset of the original codes for FTR, thought to be sensitive to nursing care, have failed to show the same level of accuracy. This study examined the possibility of using clinica lpredictors to identify failure-to-rescue.
Secondary analysis of a previous dataset was …