Are Mortality Differences Detected by Administrative Data Reliable and Actionable?

Authors :: John P. A. Ioannidis
Source :: JAMA. 309:1410
Publication Year :: 2013
Publisher :: American Medical Association (AMA), 2013.
Abstract: Administrative data offer impressive amounts of information that can be readily analyzed. However, how credible are the results derived from these behemoth data sets? Moreover, how prudent is it to translate those results into policy actions, and, if this is done, what should that translation path involve?

Subjects :: Heart Failure
Male
Information retrieval
Critical Care
business.industry
Hospitals, Rural
Myocardial Infarction
Pneumonia
General Medicine
Medicare
Behemoth
Path (graph theory)
Humans
Medicine
Female
business

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