Examines interventions in the healthcare system that use Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR-S) to affect patient trajectories--i.e., the sequence of encounters a patient has with the healthcare system--by improving health and thereby reducing healthcare utilization, or by reducing a costly form of utilization (e.g., inpatient stays) and increasing a more economical form (e.g., office visits to physicians, or prescription medications).CHF Management The Population with CHF We took a respondent in the trajectory file to have CHF if the pair of a CCC and a 3-digit ICD-9 code in Table 6.7 was associated with that respondent. As a condition, CHF is somewhat ambiguous.
Title | : | Analysis of Healthcare Interventions that Change Patient Trajectories |
Author | : | James H. Bigelow, Katya Fonkych, Constance Fung, Jason Wang |
Publisher | : | Rand Corporation - 2005-10-27 |
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