Why the study?
Can Medicare claims accurately estimate anesthesia and surgical procedure times compared to chart abstraction?
Population
15,914 patients undergoing hip, knee, colon, and thoracotomy procedures across 47 hospitals in New York…
Comparison
Anesthesia time estimated from Medicare claims vs Anesthesia time derived from chart abstraction
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Medicare claims may accurately estimate procedure times at scale; extends large-database research but requires prospective validation before clinical use.
Can Medicare claims accurately estimate anesthesia and surgical procedure times compared to chart abstraction?
Medicare anesthesia claims provide a highly correlated and accurate source for estimating surgery time on a large scale compared to manual chart abstraction.
Silber et al. (2011) studied this question.
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