Measuring Preventive Care Delivery: Comparing Rates Across Three Data Sources.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Preventive care delivery is an important quality outcome, and electronic data reports are being used increasingly to track these services. It is highly informative when electronic data sources are compared to information manually extracted from medical charts to assess validity and completeness.

Methods

This cross-sectional study used a random sample of Medicaid-insured patients seen at 43 community health centers in 2011 to calculate standard measures of correspondence between manual chart review and two automated sources (electronic health records [EHRs] and Medicaid claims), comparing documentation of orders for and receipt of ten preventive services (n=150 patients/service). Data were analyzed in 2015.

Results

Using manual chart review as the gold sta

SUBMITTER: Bailey SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5067199 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature