Liability and validity of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol in Turkey

Abstract

These results indicate that the AEP is a reliable and valid instrument to assess appropriateness of patient-days in Turkey.

Developing of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol for Public Hospitals in Iran

“…Although in the initial stages of this study the override’ was 5.7%, because overrides may be misused by inexperienced reviewers or because of bias likelihood ( 9 ), we avoided using the override option. Table 1 shows selected characteristics for all admissions.…”

“…“Overall agreement is the proportion of judgments in which two reviewers agree. Specific inappropriate agreement is the proportion of judgments (among those judged to be inappropriate by at least one of the two reviewers) that are rated as being inappropriate by both reviewers” ( 9 ). Specific appropriate agreement is also calculated in a similar way.…”

Assessing the causes inducing lengthening of hospital stays by means of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol

“…In this perspective, the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) is one of the most valid tools [3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. The AEP assesses the relevance of an admission or of a hospitalisation day through explicit, predefined criteria, which are related to care but independent of the pathology [3].…”

“…The AEP assesses the relevance of an admission or of a hospitalisation day through explicit, predefined criteria, which are related to care but independent of the pathology [3]. It is an instrument applicable to all adult patients admitted in a medical, surgical or gynaecological service [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

Appropriate utilization of hospital beds in internal medicine: evaluation in a tertiary care hospital

“…In this study, as a part of the process analysis of the institutional quality management and promotion programme in our hospital, we aimed to assess the effectiveness of the use of hospital beds in internal medicine department using the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) [3] and the factors associated with inappropriate utilization. AEP was previously validated and used as a useful and reliable tool for assessment of hospital stay in many different countries [4–7], as well as in Turkey [8–10].…”