Adding Clinical Data Elements to Administrative Data for

Barbara A. Rudolph, Denise Love
National Association of Health Data Organizations
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
February 2007

This synthesis provides a brief summary of a new study evaluating how the addition of a “Present on Admission” indicator for secondary diagnoses and a limited number of electronic laboratory values can enhance the capacity of administrative data for public reporting on mortality and other hospitalization-related complications.

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