Linking Provider Specialty and Outpatient Diagnoses in Medicare Claims Data: Data Quality Implications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With increasing use of real world data in observational health care research, data quality assessment of these data is equally gaining in importance. Electronic health record (EHR) or claims datasets can differ significantly in the spectrum of care covered by the data.

Objective

In our study, we link provider specialty with diagnoses (encoded in International Classification of Diseases) with a motivation to characterize data completeness.

Methods

We develop a set of measures that determine diagnostic span of a specialty (how many distinct diagnosis codes are generated by a specialty) and specialty span of a diagnosis (how many specialties diagnose a given condition). We also analyze ranked lists for both measures. As use case, we apply these measures to out

SUBMITTER: Huser V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8354353 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature