Measuring Diabetes Care Performance Using Electronic Health Record Data: The Impact of Diabetes Definitions on Performance Measure Outcomes.
Am J Med Qual
; 29(4): 292-9, 2014.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24006028
The objective was to examine the use of electronic health record (EHR) data for diabetes performance measurement. Data were extracted from the EHR of a health system to identify patients with diabetes using 8 different EHR data-based methods of identification. These EHR-based methods were compared to the gold standard of a manual medical record review. The study team then assessed whether the method of identifying patients with diabetes could affect performance measurement scores. The sensitivity of the 8 EHR-based methods of identifying patients with diabetes ranged from moderate to high. The use of certain data elements in the EHR to identify patients with diabetes selectively identified those who had better performance measures. Diabetes performance measures are influenced by the data elements used to identify patients. As EHR data are used increasingly to measure performance, continuing to improve our understanding of how EHR data are collected and used will be critical.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Quality Assurance, Health Care
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Diabetes Mellitus
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Electronic Health Records
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Aspects:
Patient_preference
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Am J Med Qual
Journal subject:
SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
Netherlands