TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sherwood,Marjorie J.
AU  - Roth,Carol Pindar
AU  - Bernstein,Steven
AU  - Iqbal,Ahmar
AU  - Chassin,Mark R.
AU  - Kosecoff,Jacqueline B.
AU  - Siu,Albert L.
AU  - Brook,Robert H.
AU  - McGlynn,Elizabeth A.
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - John A. Hartford Foundation.
ED  - HMO Quality of Care Consortium.
ED  - Value Health Services, Inc.
TI  - Medical record abstraction form and guidelines for assessing the appropriateness of hysterectomy
SN  - 0833013947
AV  - RG391 .M43 1993
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Hysterectomy
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Forms
KW  - Medical records
KW  - Abstracting and indexing
N1  - Jointly prepared by Value Health Sciences, Inc., in conjunction with the HMO Quality of Care Consortium; Prepared within RAND's Health Sciences Program; Includes 1 bibliographical reference (p. iv); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - This report documents the medical record abstraction form and guidelines for appropriateness of hysterectomy used in the HMO Quality of Care Consortium study of this procedure. The abstraction form was designed to follow the format of a medical record so that abstraction would be both accurate and efficient. For each item or group of items, the section of the medical record that was to serve as the source of data was specified. In addition, items derived from a particular portion of the medical record were grouped. To standardize the abstraction process, a detailed set of guidelines was prepared to accompany the abstraction form. The guidelines define medical terms, specify data sources from the medical record, and provide important medical synonyms. A separate form was developed for use by the physician overreader who was responsible for reviewing the data collected on the abstraction form by the HMO abstractor and reviewed by the nurse supervisor at RAND in order to make necessary clinical judgments. As with the medical records abstraction guidelines, the physician overreader guidelines provide item by item instructions for making the required clinical judgments
UR  -  http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/2006/MR239.pdf
ER  -