Using Billing Codes to Create a Pediatric Functional Status e-Score for Children Receiving Inpatient Rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Provide proof-of-concept for development of a Pediatric Functional Status eScore (PFSeS). Demonstrate that expert clinicians rank billing codes as relevant to patient functional status and identify the domains that codes inform in a way that reliably matches analytical modeling.

Design

Retrospective chart review, modified Delphi, and nominal group techniques.

Setting

Large, urban, quaternary care children's hospital in the Midwestern United States.

Participants

Data from 1955 unique patients and 2029 hospital admissions (2000-2020); 12 expert consultants representing the continuum of rehabilitation care reviewed 2893 codes (procedural, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, durable medical equipment).

Main outcome measures

Consensus voting to determine wh

SUBMITTER: Lundine JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10579455 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature