Using Electronic Health Records to Identify the Daily Primary Provider During Hospitalization.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Providers vary in their impact on clinical outcomes, but this is rarely accounted for in healthcare research. By failing to identify the provider responsible for a patient's care, investigators miss an opportunity to account for nonrandom variation in outcomes. Prior methods of identifying responsible providers have relied on manual chart review, which is time-consuming and expensive, or analysis of claims data, which has been demonstrated to be inaccurate. To address these gaps, we sought to develop an algorithm using electronic health record (EHR) data to identify the responsible provider for each day of a patient's hospitalization.

Design

A multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Midwest healthcare system.

Patients

Hospitalized patients an

SUBMITTER: Ingraham NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11661743 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature