Development and Validation of Perioperative Risk-Adjustment Models for Hip Fracture Repair, Total Hip Arthroplasty, and Total Knee Arthroplasty

Conclusions: Risk-adjustment models using data from health records demonstrated good discrimination and calibration for HFR, THA, and TKA. It is possible to provide adequate risk adjustment using only the most predictive variables commonly available within the clinical record. This finding helps to inform the trade-off between model performance and data-collection burden as well as the need to define priorities for data capture from electronic health records. These models can be used to make fair comparisons of outcome measures intended to characterize provider quality of care for value-based-purchasing and registry initiatives.
Source: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Hip, Knee, Trauma Scientific Articles Source Type: research