Research on surgery described by D.E. Fry and colleagues

A new study, 'Combining administrative and clinical data to stratify surgical risk,' is now available. In this recent report, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To evaluate whether administrative claims data (ADM) from hospital discharges can be transformed by present-on-admission (POA) codes and readily available clinical data into a refined database that can support valid risk stratification (RS) of surgical outcomes. ADM from hospital discharges have been used for RS of medical and surgical outcomes, but results generally have been viewed with skepticism because of limited clinical information and questionable predictive accuracy."

"We used logistic...

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