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)

Descriptor ID	D020379
MeSH Number(s)	N04.452.871.715.800 N04.761.789.800 N05.715.360.750.625.700.690.800
Concept/Terms	Risk Adjustment Risk Adjustment Adjustment, Risk Adjustments, Risk Risk Adjustments Case-Mix Adjustment Case-Mix Adjustment Adjustment, Case-Mix Adjustments, Case-Mix Case Mix Adjustment Case-Mix Adjustments

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Risk Adjustment".

Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Organization and Administration [N04.452]
Risk Management [N04.452.871]
Risk Assessment [N04.452.871.715]
Risk Adjustment [N04.452.871.715.800]
Quality of Health Care [N04.761]
Quality Indicators, Health Care [N04.761.789]
Risk Adjustment [N04.761.789.800]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Statistics as Topic [N05.715.360.750]
Probability [N05.715.360.750.625]
Risk [N05.715.360.750.625.700]
Risk Assessment [N05.715.360.750.625.700.690]
Risk Adjustment [N05.715.360.750.625.700.690.800]

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Bar chart showing 23 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015 and 2017 and 2019

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	1	1	2
2006	0	1	1
2007	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2009	1	0	1
2010	0	1	1
2012	1	0	1
2013	1	0	1
2014	0	1	1
2015	2	1	3
2016	0	2	2
2017	1	2	3
2019	0	3	3
2020	0	1	1
2022	0	1	1

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DeVoe WB, Abourezk M, Goslin BJ, Saraswat N, Kiel B, Bach JA, Suh KI, Eriksson EA. Surgical stabilization of severe chest wall injury following cardiopulmonary resuscitation. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 01 01; 92(1):98-102.

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Levy DA, Li H, Sterba KR, Hughes-Halbert C, Warren GW, Nussenbaum B, Alberg AJ, Day TA, Graboyes EM. Development and Validation of Nomograms for Predicting Delayed Postoperative Radiotherapy Initiation in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2020 05 01; 146(5):455-464.

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Converse MP, Sobhanian M, Taber DJ, Houston BA, Meadows HB, Uber WE. Effect of Angiotensin II Inhibitors on Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 04 16; 73(14):1769-1778.

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Mehta A, Lunardi N, Efron DT, Joseph BA, Steven KA, Manukyan M, Fakhry SM, Sakran JV. Characterizing the underlying diagnoses for exploratory laparotomies to improve risk-adjustment models of postoperative mortality. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2019 04; 86(4):664-669.

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Barbaro RP, Boonstra PS, Kuo KW, Selewski DT, Bailly DK, Stone CL, Chow CY, Annich GM, Moler FW, Paden ML. Evaluating Mortality Risk Adjustment Among Children Receiving Extracorporeal Support for Respiratory Failure. ASAIO J. 2019 Mar/Apr; 65(3):277-284.

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Haynes AB, Edmondson L, Lipsitz SR, Molina G, Neville BA, Singer SJ, Moonan AT, Childers AK, Foster R, Gibbons LR, Gawande AA, Berry WR. Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative. Ann Surg. 2017 12; 266(6):923-929.

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Simpson AN, Wilmskoetter J, Hong I, Li CY, Jauch EC, Bonilha HS, Anderson K, Harvey J, Simpson KN. Stroke Administrative Severity Index: using administrative data for 30-day poststroke outcomes prediction. J Comp Eff Res. 2018 04; 7(4):293-304.

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Elmunzer BJ, Noureldin M, Morgan KA, Adams DB, Coté GA, Waljee AK. The Impact of Cholecystectomy After Endoscopic Sphincterotomy for Complicated Gallstone Disease. Am J Gastroenterol. 2017 Oct; 112(10):1596-1602.

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Egan BM, Li J, Wagner CS. Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) and Target Systolic Blood Pressure in Future Hypertension Guidelines. Hypertension. 2016 08; 68(2):318-23.

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Yu S, Garvin KL, Healy WL, Pellegrini VD, Iorio R. Preventing Hospital Readmissions and Limiting the Complications Associated With Total Joint Arthroplasty. Instr Course Lect. 2016; 65:199-210.

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