Abstract:
:We determined if infection indicators were sufficiently consistent across health plans to allow comparison of hospitals' risks of infection after coronary artery bypass surgery. Three managed care organizations accounted for 90% of managed care in eastern Massachusetts, from October 1996 through March 1999. We searched their automated inpatient and outpatient claims and outpatient pharmacy dispensing files for indicator codes suggestive of postoperative surgical site infection. We reviewed full text medical records of patients with indicator codes to confirm infection status. We compared the hospital-specific proportions of cases with an indicator code, adjusting for health plan, age, sex, and chronic disease score. A total of 536 (27%) of 1,953 patients had infection indicators. Infection was confirmed in 79 (53%) of 149 reviewed records with adequate documentation. The proportion of patients with an indicator of infection varied significantly (p < 0.001) between hospitals (19% to 36%) and health plans (22% to 33%). The difference between hospitals persisted after adjustment for health plan and patients' age and sex. Similar relationships were observed when postoperative antibiotic information was ignored. Automated claims and pharmacy data from different health plans can be used together to allow inexpensive, routine monitoring of indicators of postoperative infection, with the goal of identifying institutions that can be further evaluated to determine if risks for infection can be reduced.
journal_name
Emerg Infect Disjournal_title
Emerging infectious diseasesauthors
Platt R,Kleinman K,Thompson K,Dokholyan RS,Livingston JM,Bergman A,Mason JH,Horan TC,Gaynes RP,Solomon SL,Sands KEdoi
10.3201/eid0812.020039subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-12-01 00:00:00pages
1433-41issue
12eissn
1080-6040issn
1080-6059journal_volume
8pub_type
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