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Institution: CLOCKSS  | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In Vol. 4 No. 11, November 1995   Archives  •  Online Features Brief Reports  This Article  • Abstract  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal Health Care Report Cards Validity of Case Definitions William E. Golden, MD; Mario A. Cleves, PhD; Judy Johnston Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(11):976-980. References Article references have been provided for searching and linking. Additional reference information may be available in the article PDF. 1. Dubois RW, Rogers WH, Moxley JH, et al. Hospital inpatient mortality. N Engl J Med. 1987;317:1674-1680. ABSTRACT 2. Park RE, Brook RH, Kosecoff J, et al. Explaining variations in hospital death rates: randomness, severity of illness, quality of care. JAMA. 1990;264:484-490. FREE FULL TEXT 3. Health Care Financing Administration. Medicare Hospital Information Report. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office; 1992. 4. Hannan EL, Kilburn H, O'Donnell JF, Lukacik G, Shields EP. Adult open heart surgery in New York state: an analysis of risk factors and hospital mortality rates. JAMA. 1990;264:2768-2774. FREE FULL TEXT 5. International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: US Dept of Health and Human Services; 1989. 6. Liang MH, Cullen KE, Poss R. Primary total hip or knee replacement: evaluation of patients. Ann Intern Med. 1982;97:735-739. FREE FULL TEXT 7. Lu-Yao GL, Keller RB, Littenberg B, et al. Outcomes after displaced fractures of the femoral neck. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1994;76:15-25. FREE FULL TEXT 8. Helms CM. A pseudo-epidemic of septicemia among Medicare patients in Iowa. Am J Public Health. 1987;77:1331-1332. FREE FULL TEXT 9. Bone RC. Let's agree on terminology: definition of sepsis. Crit Care Med. 1991;19:973-976. PUBMED 10. American College of Chest Physicians—Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Committee. Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis. Crit Care Med. 1992;20:864-875. PUBMED 11. Romano PS, Roos LL, Luft HS, et al. A comparison of administrative versus clinical data: coronary artery bypass surgery as an example. J Clin Epidemiol. 1994;47:249-260. PUBMED 12. Iezzoni LI, Foley SM, Daley J, Hughes J, Fisher ES, Heeren T. Comorbidities, complications, and coding bias: does the number of diagnosis codes matter in predicting in-hospital mortality? JAMA. 1992;267:2197-2203. FREE FULL TEXT 13. Luft HS, Romano PS. Chance, continuity, and change in hospital mortality rates: coronary artery bypass graft patients in California hospitals, 1983 to 1989. JAMA. 1993;270:331-337. FREE FULL TEXT