Tendo’s Bala Hota, Senior Vice President and Chief Informatics Officer, recently co-authored “Variation in the Reporting of Elective Surgeries and Its Influence on Patient Safety Indicators” for Science Direct.
This article discusses whether transparency into policies of admission type classification (e.g., internal definitions of elective admissions) among hospitals should exist in order to ensure fair and reliable use of Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) when ranking hospitals.