Health Care

Risk Adjustment

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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Abstract

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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Synonyms

8 entry terms
  • Adjustment, Risk
  • Adjustments, Risk
  • Risk Adjustments
  • Case-Mix Adjustment
  • Adjustment, Case-Mix
  • Adjustments, Case-Mix
  • Case Mix Adjustment
  • Case-Mix Adjustments

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11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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History Note

1999

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  1. N04w.452.871w.715w.800
  2. N04w.761w.789.800
  3. N05.715w.360.750w.625w.700w.690w.800

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Risk Adjustment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020379. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020379
  2. Risk Adjustment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67399836