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Anne Marie Rafferty - RN4CAST

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<strong>RN4CAST</strong> DESIGN<br />

• Patient outcomes<br />

Derived from routinely collected administrative databases<br />

• Patient demographics<br />

• Characteristics of the hospital admission and discharge<br />

• Principal and secondary International Classification of Diseases<br />

diagnosis and procedure codes<br />

• Diagnosis Related Groups assignment<br />

• Outcomes: length-of-stay<br />

discharge status (mortality and 30-day mortality)<br />

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