Validation of Stroke Meaningful Use Measures in a National Electronic Health Record System.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Meaningful Use (MU) program has increased the national emphasis on electronic measurement of hospital quality.

Objective

To evaluate stroke MU and one VHA stroke electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) in national VHA data and determine sources of error in using centralized electronic health record (EHR) data.

Design

Our study is a retrospective cross-sectional study of stroke quality measure eCQMs vs. chart review in a national EHR. We developed local SQL algorithms to generate the eCQMs, then modified them to run on VHA Central Data Warehouse (CDW) data. eCQM results were generated from CDW data in 2130 ischemic stroke admissions in 11 VHA hospitals. Local and CDW results were compared to chart review.

Main measures

We calculated the raw pro

SUBMITTER: Phipps MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4803676 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature