Risk Adjustment

"Risk Adjustment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The use of severity-of-illness measures, such as age, to estimate the risk (measurable or predictable chance of loss, injury or death) to which a patient is subject before receiving some health care intervention. This adjustment allows comparison of performance and quality across organizations, practitioners, and communities. (from JCAHO, Lexikon, 1994)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Risk Adjustment" by people in this website by year, and whether "Risk Adjustment" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 30 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2014 and 2016
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