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To develop and evaluate a standardized 28-rule algorithm that reconstructs cohesive, continuous hospital admission and outpatient care episodes from contact-level registry data.

August 22, 2016International Journal of Medical InformaticsOpen Access

The development and use of a new methodology to reconstruct courses of admission and ambulatory care based on the Danish National Patient Registry

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To develop and evaluate a standardized 28-rule algorithm that reconstructs cohesive, continuous hospital admission and outpatient care episodes from contact-level registry data.
Constructed an algorithm incorporating 28 specific rules to handle department transfers, inter-hospital transfers, overlapping records, time gaps, and missing timestamps.
Applied the methodology to clinical and administrative hospital records spanning 1 January 2010 through 31 December 2014 from the Danish National Patient Registry.
Identified an average of 1,149,616 admission courses annually, representing a rate of 205 hospitalizations per 1,000 inhabitants per year.
Observed a decline in median length of stay from 1.58 days in 2010 to 1.29 days in 2014.
Recorded an increase in intra-hospital department transfers from 111,576 to 176,134 alongside a decline in inter-hospital transfers from 68,522 to 61,203 between 2010 and 2014.

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SGSophie GubbelsStatens Serum Institut KNKenn Schultz NielsenDanish Business Authority JSJakob Lynge SandegaardDanish Business Authority

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Registry study reveals shortening hospital admissions and shifting transfer patterns among hospitalized individuals, highlighting changes toward centralized secondary care.

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Gubbels et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7fa37d125bc40038b8e5e2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2016.08.003

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Registry study reveals shortening hospital admissions and shifting transfer patterns among hospitalized individuals, highlighting changes toward centralized secondary care.

The development and use of a new methodology to reconstruct courses of admission and ambulatory care based on the Danish National Patient Registry

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The development and use of a new methodology to reconstruct courses of admission and ambulatory care based on the Danish National Patient Registry

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