Aspect Medical Systems Inc. inked a five-year comparative effectiveness research deal with Cleveland Clinic to study clinical best practices for anesthesiology.
The Norwood brain monitoring equipment maker said the study, using data from the medical clinic’s electronic medical records system, will compare patient outcomes in more than 85,000 surgical procedures for such measures as 30-day and one-year mortality rates and duration of hospitalization.
The study will seek to stratify the risk levels unique to each case, weighting for factors based on demographics, pre-existing illness and disease stage that might affect outcomes.
Aspect also said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid created a code that covers procedures using its anesthesia monitoring system, effective October 1.