[Clinical validation of 2 morbidity groups in the primary care setting].

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Adjusted Morbidity Groups (GMAs) and the Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs) are population morbidity based stratification tools which classify patients into mutually exclusive categories.

Objetive

To compare the stratification provided by the GMAs, CRGs and that carried out by the evaluators according to the levels of complexity.

Design

Random sample stratified by morbidity risk.

Location

Catalonia.

Participants

Forty paired general practitioners in the primary care, matched pairs.

Interventions

Each pair of evaluators had to review 25 clinical records.

Main outputs

The concordance by evaluators, and between the evaluators and the results obtained by the 2 morbidity tools were evaluated according to the kappa index, sensitivity, speci

SUBMITTER: Cleries M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7025994 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature