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| Patricia KipnisSummaryAffiliation: Kaiser Permanente Country: USA Publications
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Effect of choice of estimation method on inter-hospital mortality rate comparisonsPatricia Kipnis
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Management, Information and Analysis, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Med Care 48:458-65. 2010..To evaluate and compare the use of 6 different methods for calculating expected mortality rates and standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) when performing interhospital mortality rate comparisons...
Risk-adjusting hospital inpatient mortality using automated inpatient, outpatient, and laboratory databasesGabriel J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Systems Research Initiative and Perinatal Research Unit, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Med Care 46:232-9. 2008..To develop a risk-adjustment methodology that maximizes the use of automated physiology and diagnosis data from the time period preceding hospitalization...
An electronic Simplified Acute Physiology Score-based risk adjustment score for critical illness in an integrated healthcare systemVincent Liu
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and Systems Research Initiative, Oakland, CA, USA
Crit Care Med 41:41-8. 2013..We sought to create an automated ICU risk adjustment score, based on the Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3, using only data available within the electronic medical record (Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect)...
Intra-hospital transfers to a higher level of care: contribution to total hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) mortality and length of stay (LOS)Gabriel J Escobar
Hospital Operations Research, Division of Research, Oakland, California, USA
J Hosp Med 6:74-80. 2011..However, these findings have been based on single-center studies or studies that employ ICU admissions as the denominator...
The association between sepsis and potential medical injury among hospitalized patientsVincent Liu
Division of Research and Systems Research Initiative, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA
Chest 142:606-13. 2012..Patient safety remains a national priority, but the role of disease-specific characteristics in safety is not well characterized...
Early detection of impending physiologic deterioration among patients who are not in intensive care: development of predictive models using data from an automated electronic medical recordGabriel J Escobar
Hospital Operations Research, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94612, USA
J Hosp Med 7:388-95. 2012..Ward patients who experience unplanned transfer to intensive care units have excess morbidity and mortality...
Risk adjusting community-acquired pneumonia hospital outcomes using automated databasesGabriel J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 2000 Broadway, 2nd Fl, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Manag Care 14:158-66. 2008....
Recurrent wheezing in the third year of life among children born at 32 weeks' gestation or later: relationship to laboratory-confirmed, medically attended infection with respiratory syncytial virus during the first year of lifeGabriel J Escobar
Division of Research, Systems Research Initiative and Perinatal Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:915-22. 2010..To quantify the relationship between recurrent wheezing (RW) in the third year of life and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, prematurity, and neonatal oxygen exposure...
