How Pooling Fragmented Healthcare Encounter Data Affects Hospital Profiling
Incomplete records of patient history can bias hospital profiling. Completing health records for Medicare-covered patients in VA hospitals resulted in modest changes in hospital performance.
Relevance of Current Guidelines for Organizing an Anticoagulation Clinic
Anticoagulation clinics in an integrated healthcare system differed widely in their organization and management, but these differences were not consistently related to their performance.