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Title
International comparability of patient safety indicators in 15 OECD member countries: a methodological approach of adjustment by secondary diagnoses.
Authors
Drösler, Saskia E; Romano, Patrick S; Tancredi, Daniel J; Klazinga, Niek S
Abstract
To improve the international comparability of patient safety indicators based on administrative hospital data, adjustment of country-specific rates by a proxy measure of diagnostic coding intensity was tested.