Validity of diagnostic and drug data in standardized nursing home resident assessments: potential for geriatric pharmacoepidemiology. SAGE Study Group. Systematic Assessment of Geriatric drug use via Epidemiology

Giovanni Gambassi, Francesco Luigi Landi, L Peng, C Brostrup Jensen, K Calore, J Hiris, L Lipsitz, V Mor, Roberto Bernabei

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolo in rivista

Abstract

The Health Care Financing Administration requires that patients admitted to certified nursing homes be assessed with the Minimum Data Set, a data collection instrument containing more than 300 demographic, diagnostic, clinical, and treatment variables. Long-term care databases potentially may be used to assess the outcomes of specific treatments as well as drug effectiveness. The authors sought to ascertain reliability and validity of diagnostic and drug data in a database obtained by merging the Minimum Data Set with detailed information on drugs consumed by each resident.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)167-179
Numero di pagine13
RivistaMedical Care
Volume36
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1998

Keywords

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Data Collection
  • Databases, Factual
  • Drug Therapy
  • Drug Utilization
  • Female
  • Geriatric Assessment
  • Health Care Surveys
  • Humans
  • Kansas
  • Maine
  • Male
  • Mississippi
  • New York
  • Nursing Homes
  • Patient Admission
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • South Dakota

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