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| Project Title | Validation of Acute Myocardial Infarction Cases |
| Date Posted |
7-01-2011
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| Project Status | Complete |
| Description |
Project to assess the positive predictive value of a diagnosis and procedure code-based algorithm for identifying cases of acute myocardial infarction in electronic healthcare databases using an expert panel to review extracts from full-text medical records stripped of direct identifiers.
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| Health Outcome | acute myocardial infarction (AMI) |
| Population / Cohort | patients hospitalized in 2009 |
| Time Period | 2009 |
| Workgroup Leader(s) | Jerry H. Gurwitz, MD, Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, MA |
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| Data Sources | Mini-Sentinel Data Partners |
| Deliverables |
Mini-Sentinel-Validation-of-AMI-Cases.pdf
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| Keywords | acute myocardial infarction, case-identification, validation, adjudication, medical record review, mini-sentinel, Gurwitz |
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