Population
81,622 colectomy discharges from a national inpatient database (2010-2011), 44% emergent and 56% elective.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30-day
Authors
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Moderate correlation supports HARM score validity in colorectal surgery; leaves open its use for quality benchmarking pending prospective studies.
The HARM score is an easy, reliable, and valid tool for assessing quality and outlier performance in colorectal surgery using routine administrative data.
Keller et al. (2013) studied this question.
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