Algorithms identifying low‐acuity emergency department visits: A review and validation study

AT Chen, M Muralidharan… - Health Services …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To characterize and validate the landscape of algorithms that use International
Classification of Disease (ICD) codes to identify low‐acuity emergency department (ED) …

Upper Airway Stimulation versus Untreated Comparators in Positive Airway Pressure Treatment–Refractory Obstructive Sleep Apnea

R Mehra, A Steffen, C Heiser, B Hofauer… - Annals of the …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Understand the impact of insurance coverage on sleep apnea outcomes for
patients awaiting upper airway stimulation. Objectives: Examine the natural history of impact …

Concordance in Medical Urgency Classification of Discharge Diagnoses and Reasons for Visit

TV Giannouchos, B Ukert, B Wright - JAMA network open, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Current policies to divert emergency department (ED) visits for less medically
urgent conditions to more cost-effective settings rely on retrospective adjudication of …

Racial and ethnic differences in insurer classification of nonemergent pediatric emergency department visits

A Pomerantz, HG De Souza, M Hall… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Government and commercial health insurers have recently enacted policies to
discourage nonemergent emergency department (ED) visits by reducing or denying claims …

Trends in mortality for Medicare beneficiaries treated in the emergency department from 2009 to 2016

LG Burke, SK Epstein, RC Burke, EJ Orav… - JAMA Internal …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Emergency department (ED) visits are common and increasing. Whether
outcomes associated with care in the ED are improving over time is largely unknown to date …

Trends in costs of care for Medicare beneficiaries treated in the emergency department from 2011 to 2016

LG Burke, RC Burke, SK Epstein, EJ Orav… - JAMA Network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is little evidence regarding how total costs of care associated with an
emergency department (ED) visit have changed, despite increasing policy focus on the …

Cost-related access barriers, medical debt, and dissatisfaction with care among privately insured Americans

CM Wray, L Lopez, M Khare, S Keyhani - Journal of General Internal …, 2023 - Springer
Background Understanding experiences with private important to improving the quality of
health care coverage. Objective To examine the association of health with cost-related …

[PDF][PDF] A revised classification algorithm for assessing emergency department visit severity of populations

KW Lemke, K Pham, DM Ravert… - Am J Manag …, 2020 - ajmc.s3.amazonaws.com
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: Analyses of emergency department (ED) use require visit
classification algorithms based on administrative data. Our objectives were to present an …

Identifying low acuity Emergency Department visits with a machine learning approach: The low acuity visit algorithms (LAVA)

AT Chen, RS Kuzma, AB Friedman - Health Services Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To improve the performance of International Classification of Disease (ICD) code
rule‐based algorithms for identifying low acuity Emergency Department (ED) visits by using …

Appropriateness of emergency care use: a retrospective observational study based on professional versus patients' perspectives in Taiwan

CY Lin, YC Lee - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective The objectives of this study are to refine the measurement of appropriate
emergency department (ED) use and to provide a natural observation of appropriate ED use …