Reliability of Medicare hospital discharge records
Subtitle: final report
By: Institute of Medicine
Series: Publication IOM -- 77-05; IOM publication -- 77-05.
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Patient Discharge; Medicare; Hospitals; Utilization; Medical Records
Description: This report presents the findings of an assessment of the reliability of information describing hospital utilization by Medicare beneficiaries and obtained as a by-product of the Medicare administrative record keeping system. The information is generated primarily from claims submitted by hospitals to fiscal intermediaries for reimbursement purposes. The study was a logical extension of an earlier examination of the reliability of hospital utilization data compiled by private abstracting services and based on abstracts of medical records.
Notes: Title from caption (viewed June 11, 2001).

"November 1977."

Includes bibliographical references.

Mode of access: Internet.