Identifying Medicare Beneficiaries With Delirium.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Each year, thousands of older adults develop delirium, a serious, preventable condition. At present, there is no well-validated method to identify patients with delirium when using Medicare claims data or other large datasets. We developed and assessed the performance of classification algorithms based on longitudinal Medicare administrative data that included International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnostic codes.

Methods

Using a linked electronic health record (EHR)-Medicare claims dataset, 2 neurologists and 2 psychiatrists performed a standardized review of EHR records between 2016 and 2018 for a stratified random sample of 1002 patients among 40,690 eligible subjects. Reviewers adjudicated delirium status (reference standard) during this 3-ye

SUBMITTER: Moura LMVR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9588515 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature