Deborah J Rennie

Biographic Data

ID5534472
NAMEDeborah J Rennie
GIVEN NAMESDeborah J
FAMILY NAMERennie
SIGNATURERENNIE D J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, San Francisco
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX0

  • Relationship Between Discharge Practices and Intensive Care Unit In-Hospital Mortality Performance

    Eduard E Vasilevskis, Michael W Kuzniewicz et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2009References: 39

    CONTEXT: Current intensive care unit performance measures include in-hospital mortality after intensive care unit admission. This measure does not account for deaths occurring after transfer to another hospital or soon after discharge and therefore, may be biased. OBJECTIVE: Determine how transfer rates to other acute care hospitals and early post-discharge mortality rates impact hospital performance assessments using an in-hospital mortality mod…

  • The Best of Both Worlds

    R Adams Dudley, Carol A Medlin et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2003References: 11

    BACKGROUND: There remains considerable uncertainty about whether prospective or concurrent risk adjustment (RA) is preferable. Although concurrent models have better predictive power than prospective models, the large payments associated with concurrent RA create incentives for fraudulent coding. A hybrid strategy--in which prospective payments were used for patients with low expected costs and concurrent payments were available upon the diagnosi…