Developing electronic clinical quality measures to assess the cancer diagnostic process.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Measures of diagnostic performance in cancer are underdeveloped. Electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) to assess quality of cancer diagnosis could help quantify and improve diagnostic performance.

Materials and methods

We developed 2 eCQMs to assess diagnostic evaluation of red-flag clinical findings for colorectal (CRC; based on abnormal stool-based cancer screening tests or labs suggestive of iron deficiency anemia) and lung (abnormal chest imaging) cancer. The 2 eCQMs quantified rates of red-flag follow-up in CRC and lung cancer using electronic health record data repositories at 2 large healthcare systems. Each measure used clinical data to identify abnormal results, evidence of appropriate follow-up, and exclusions that signified follow-up was unnecessa

SUBMITTER: Murphy DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10436145 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature