Use of Electronic Health Record-Based Measures to Assess Quality of Care for Pediatric Agitation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Acute agitation during pediatric mental health emergency department (ED) visits presents safety risks to patients and staff. We previously convened multidisciplinary stakeholders who prioritized 20 proposed quality measures for pediatric acute agitation management. Our objectives were to assess feasibility of evaluating performance on these quality measures using electronic health record (EHR) data and to examine performance variation across 3 EDs.

Methods

At a children's hospital and 2 nonchildren's hospitals, we assessed feasibility of evaluating quality measures for pediatric acute agitation management using structured EHR data elements. We retrospectively evaluated measure performance during ED visits by children 5 to 17 years old who presented for a mental he

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11265604 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature