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- Title
Measuring quality of care in syncope: case definition affects reported electrocardiogram use but does not bias reporting.
- Authors
Schuur, Jeremiah D; Justice, Amy
- Abstract
The objective was to calculate agreement between syncope as a reason for visiting (RFV) an emergency department (ED) and as a discharge diagnosis (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification [ICD-9]), to determine whether syncope case definition biases reported electrocardiogram (ECG) usage, a national quality measure.
- Publication
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
1553-2712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00303.x