Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8833783 Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2018 24 Pages PDF
Abstract
Conditions under which practice-pattern-associated modeling bias might exist appear to be uncommon and to have a small impact on quality assessments for the areas examined. The evidence suggests that, within the American College of Surgeons NSQIP modeling paradigm, the principal CPT code adequately risk adjusts for operative procedure in performance assessments.
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