Measuring case severity: a novel tool for benchmarking and clinical documentation improvement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severity of illness (SOI) is an All Patients Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR DRG) modifier based on comorbidity capture. Tracking SOI helps hospitals improve performance and resource distribution. Furthermore, benchmarking SOI plays a key role in Quality Improvement (QI) efforts such as Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) programs. The current SOI system highly relies on the 3 M APR DRG grouper that is updated annually, making it difficult to track severity longitudinally and benchmark against hospitals with different patient populations. Here, we describe an alternative SOI scoring system that is grouper-independent and that can be tracked longitudinally.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Xiang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9013032 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature