Evaluation of the Canadian Institute for Health Information Comprehensive Ambulatory Classification System

摘要

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Comprehensive Ambulatory Classification System (CACS) developed by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). CIHI is a national, not-for-profit organization with a mandate to coordinate the development and maintenance of a comprehensive health information system for Canada. Previous to this evaluation, a healthcare team from the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School evaluated the major ambulatory classification systems developed for the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). CIHI requested research evaluation assistance using the U.S. Army Ambulatory Care Database, the same data set used for the HCFA evaluations.