A new study emanating from research teams at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania has found that up to 66%, depending on the specific comorbidity, of an incoming orthopedic patient’s comorbidities are missed in the initial hospital admission records!
The new study, “Improved Risk Adjustment for Comorbid Diagnoses in Administrative Claims Analyses of Orthopaedic Surgery,” appeared in the March 19, 2025, edition of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
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