NDLI: Migration of Patients Between Five Urban Teaching Hospitals in Chicago

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Author	Galanter, William L. Applebaum, Andrew Boddipalli, Viveka Kho, Abel Lin, Michael Meltzer, David Roberts, Anna Trick, Bill Walton, Surrey M. Lambert, Bruce L.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	To quantify the extent of patient sharing and inpatient care fragmentation among patients discharged from a cohort of Chicago hospitals. Admission and discharge dates and patient ZIP codes from 5 hospitals over 2 years were matched with an encryption algorithm. Admission to more than one hospital was considered fragmented care. The association between fragmentation and socio-economic variables using ZIP-code data from the 2000 US Census was measured. Using validation from one hospital, patient matching using encrypted identifiers had a sensitivity of 99.3 % and specificity of 100 %. The cohort contained 228,151 unique patients and 334,828 admissions. Roughly 2 % of the patients received fragmented care, accounting for 5.8 % of admissions and 6.4 % of hospital days. In 3 of 5 hospitals, and overall, the length of stay of patients with fragmented care was longer than those without. Fragmentation varied by hospital and was associated with the proportion of non-Caucasian persons, the proportion of residents whose income fell in the lowest quartile, and the proportion of residents with more children being raised by mothers alone in the zip code of the patient. Patients receiving fragmented care accounted for 6.4 % of hospital days. This percentage is a low estimate for our region, since not all regional hospitals participated, but high enough to suggest value in creating Health Information Exchange. Fragmentation varied by hospital, per capita income, race and proportion of single mother homes. This secure methodology and fragmentation analysis may prove useful for future analyses.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	8
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01485598
Journal	Journal of Medical Systems
Volume Number	37
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	1573689X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-02-05
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Health information exchange Health information technology Fragmentation of care Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences Health Informatics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Information Management Information Systems Health Informatics

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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