Study of Cardiovascular Health Outcomes in the Era of Claims Data: The Cardiovascular Health Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasingly, the diagnostic codes from administrative claims data are being used as clinical outcomes.

Methods and results

Data from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) were used to compare event rates and risk factor associations between adjudicated hospitalized cardiovascular events and claims-based methods of defining events. The outcomes of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and heart failure were defined in 3 ways: the CHS adjudicated event (CHS[adj]), selected International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition diagnostic codes only in the primary position for Medicare claims data from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS[1st]), and the same selected diagnostic codes in any position (CMS[any]). Conventional claims-based methods of definin

SUBMITTER: Psaty BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4814341 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature