Clinical Quality Measure Exchange is Not Easy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The Trial of Aggregate Data Exchange for Maintenance of Certification and Raising Quality was a randomized controlled trial which first had to test whether quality reporting could be a by-product of clinical care. We report on the initial descriptive study of the capacity for and quality of exchange of whole-panel, standardized quality measures from health systems.

Methods

Family physicians were recruited from 4 health systems with mature quality measurement programs and agreed to submit standardized, physician-level quality measures for consenting physicians. Identified measure or transfer errors were captured and evaluated for root-cause problems.

Results

The health systems varied considerably by patient demographics and payer mix. From the 4 systems, 256 fa

SUBMITTER: Phillips RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8118486 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature