The Age-Friendly Learning Healthcare System: Replicating electronic health record based documentation metrics for 4Ms care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

University of Utah Health (UUH) is an academic medical center that achieved "committed to care excellence" in age-friendly care in 2021 and has a long-standing culture of quality improvement central to a learning health system. University of California San Francisco (UCSF) developed electronic health record (EHR) documentation metrics for inpatient assessment of the 4Ms (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) based on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's recommended care practice for an Age-Friendly Healthcare System. In partnership with UCSF, we replicated the assessment and action EHR metrics with local adaptations for each of the 4Ms at UUH.

Methods

The UCSF team shared 4Ms documentation metrics and Structured Query Language code used to asses

SUBMITTER: Butler JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11907747 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature