期刊
ANNALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE
卷 19, 期 3, 页码 207-211出版社
ANNALS FAMILY MEDICINE
DOI: 10.1370/afm.2649
关键词
health information technology; quality measures; family physicians; quality indicators; health care; certification
资金
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [R21HS022583]
The Trial of Aggregate Data Exchange for Maintenance of Certification and Raising Quality aimed to test if quality reporting could be a by-product of clinical care. Family physicians from four health systems participated in the study, with identified errors including data delivery interruptions and nonsensical measure results. Only one system had no identified errors, highlighting the difficulties in secure transfer of standardized quality measures.
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 family physicians elected to participate. Of 19 measures negotiated for use, 5 were used by all systems. There were more than 15 types of identified errors including breaks in data delivery, changes in measures, and nonsensical measure results. Only 1 system had no identified errors. CONCLUSIONS The secure transfer of standardized, physician-level quality measures from 4 health systems with mature measure processes proved difficult. There were many errors that required human intervention and manual repair, precluding full automation. This study reconfirms an important problem, namely, that despite widespread health information technology adoption and federal meaningful use policies, we remain far from goals to make clinical quality reporting a reliable by-product of care.
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