Lower comorbidity scores and severity levels in Veterans Health Administration hospitals: a cross-sectional study
Matthew P. Dizon,
Adam Chow,
Michael K. Ong
et al.
Abstract:Background
Previous studies found that documentation of comorbidities differed when Veterans received care within versus outside Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Changes to medical center funding, increased attention to performance reporting, and expansion of Clinical Documentation Improvement programs, however, may have caused coding in VHA to change.
Methods
Using repeated cross-sectional data, we compared Elixhauser-van Walraven scores and … Show more
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