Fig. 1
From: Development of an algorithm to identify fall-related injuries and costs in Medicare data
Flow diagram for the third step of the algorithm. The flow diagram above consists of three different types of boxes and two types of arrows. Rounded rectangles represent start or end, rectangles represent processes, and diamonds represent decisions. When used alone, solid arrows represent the direction of flow. When both solid and dotted arrows originate from a decision box, they each represent responses of “yes” and “no”, respectively. For each iteration, start on the top left corner of the figure, at the shaded rounded rectangle with the outbound solid arrow, and end in one of the eight rounded rectangles on the far right. Six shaded rectangles refer to the different types of encounters while the other two refer to invalid cases. For each type of encounter, the final number of encounters is included in parenthesis