Core Measures & Registries Data Abstraction Outsourcing

ADN’s expert and trusted Core Measures & Registry Data Abstraction Outsourcing Service reduces the burden on your facility so you can focus on proactive quality management.

Our Chart Abstraction Service can help your hospital or organization meet the data collection and reporting requirements of The Joint Commission (TJC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR), and Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) and more.

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Real Thank-You Emails: “Working with ADN has been nothing but a pleasure. My questions and or concerns are always addressed timely by an attentive team member with kindness and professionalism.”

Melanie Hedges Draper, Core Measures CoordinatorBaptist Health Medical Center – Hot Spring County

Real Thank-You Emails: “I appreciate that your team is so knowledgeable and thorough. I absolutely do not regret my decision to go with ADN! Thanks!”

Marsha Donaldson, Quality & Performance Improvement Manager Martin Health

Real Thank-You Emails: “Thanks for your help. Our Clinical Record Committee asked earlier this month about ADN and I informed them that you always follow-up on any emails or that we’ve spoken on the phone. The committee was pleased with the communication aspect with ADN.”

Diane Fields, Director of CompliancePomegranate Health Systems of Central Ohio

Core Measures & Registries Data Abstraction Outsourcing

ADN’s expert and trusted Core Measures & Registry Data Abstraction Outsourcing Service reduces the burden on your facility so you can focus on proactive quality management.

Our Chart Abstraction Outsourcing Service can help your hospital or organization meet the data collection and reporting requirements of The Joint Commission (TJC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR), and Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) and more.

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What We Abstract

Melanie Hedges Draper, Core Measures CoordinatorBaptist Health Medical Center – Hot Spring County

Real Thank-You Emails: “I appreciate that your team is so knowledgeable and thorough. I absolutely do not regret my decision to go with ADN! Thanks!”

Marsha Donaldson, Quality & Performance Improvement Manager Martin Health

Diane Fields, Director of CompliancePomegranate Health Systems of Central Ohio

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Tactical Goals
REDUCE COSTS
Take advantage of per-chart pricing to reduce costs, reallocate abstraction staff to frontline positions or other roles, then outsource those positions to shave budget dollars. Bundle with our Core Measures application to save even more.
AVOID COSTS
Insourcing carries costs beyond salaries. Data shows the true cost per employee that includes benefits/taxes is 125% – 140% of the salary, not to mention soft/unknown costs and the manager’s time cost.
SHIFT FROM GENERALISTS TO EXPERTS
Insourced teams typically rely on one or a few abstraction generalists who may also wear other hats. ADN’s team includes experts in many registries and measures who also stay updated on ever-evolving specifications.
REDUCE FINANCIAL RISK
Allowing a team of experts to manage your abstraction provides better protection from payment reduction from abstraction errors made due to diverted focus or lack of sufficiently consistent training. Let us be an extension of your team and business.

Strategic Goals
IMPROVE BUSINESS FOCUS
Focus your time and energy on the key goal leadership expects of quality directors and managers: Building a High-Reliability Organization. Offload the time-consuming management of abstraction to expertly trained, skilled specialists.
REFOCUS RESOURCES
Abstraction is complex and time consuming for your already stretched resources. Reallocate existing and scarce staff who are needed either to help in frontline care positions or to implement and monitor improvement tactics and initiatives.
INCREASE AGILITY & FLEXIBILITY
Reducing the need to manage abstraction allows your department to more quickly implement improvement strategies or to more quickly adapt to risks and threats. Gain confidence, reduce overhead, keep headcount low, and leave data collection headaches to the experts.
PREPARE FOR FUTURE CHALLENGES
Prepare for future financial and operational threats like the current pandemic, as well as other challenges, by freeing up your time and budget to better plan and weather future events.

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Accurate, Timely and Deadline-Focused

Nothing is more important to our team than giving you the peace of mind that your data abstraction is completed accurately and on-time. Our team maintains industry-leading accuracy with a 99.80% Category Assignment Agreement Rate and a 98.38% Data Element Agreement Rate.

Under 24-Hour Response Time to Clients

Many of our clients expressed that previous vendors they worked with wouldn’t provide timely answers; they felt like just a number in a large company’s group of customers. Our team responds to your requests within 24 hours. It’s not a policy — it’s a team mindset. We track our response time and take it seriously. It’s one thing to say clients come first. It’s another thing to act like it.

Unmatched Service

For more than a decade, we’ve offered Core Measures and Registry Data Abstraction. Despite the growth of these services, we’ve still retained our inaugural clients through our unmatched expertise, client service, flexibility and customer support.

Flexible Outsourcing Options

We will work directly with your facility to provide a solution that fits your needs – whether it’s on site, off site, full or partial outsourcing. Our experienced abstraction specialists will work with any EHR or vendor you use.

Safeguard Against Team Shortages

Use ADN personnel to complement your existing data abstraction staff to provide coverage for employees on temporary leave or to serve as a safety net for abstractor shortages or unplanned employee departures.

Improve Your Team With IRR

Whether there are changes to measure guidelines or you are training a new abstractor, ADN can help. We can train your abstractors and conduct follow-up Inter-rater Reliability assessments to ensure their understanding.

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Registries We Abstract

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) – AFib

The AFib Ablation Registry™ is your source for data assessing the prevalence, demographics, management and outcomes of patients undergoing atrial fibrillation (AFib) ablation procedures. Participating supports the development of evidence-based guidelines for AFib treatments that will optimize patient outcomes.

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) – CathPCI

The CathPCI Registry^® assesses the characteristics, treatments and outcomes of cardiac disease patients who receive diagnostic catheterization and/or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures. This powerful tool captures the data that measure adherence to ACC/AHA clinical practice guideline recommendations, procedure performance standards and appropriate use criteria for coronary revascularization.

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) – Chest Pain - MI (formerly ACTION)

For over a decade, the Chest Pain – MI (formerly ACTION) Registry^® has been the single, most trusted source for outcomes-based, continuous quality improvement focusing exclusively on high-risk STEMI/NSTEMI patients. The registry collects and delivers detailed, in-hospital clinical, process-of-care and outcomes data for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). See Top 15 Reasons to Participate in the Chest Pain – MI (formerly ACTION) Registry.

This allows for complex decision making to maximize patient care while lowering risk and health care costs. It also helps hospitals apply the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) clinical guideline recommendations in their facilities and provides invaluable tools to measure care and achieve quality improvement goals.

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) – EP Device Implant Registry (formerly ICD)

The EP Device Implant Registry^TM is your most trusted source of evidence-based data collection and reporting for ICD/CRT-D procedures. Participating in the EP Device Implant Registry is still your most reliable way to track ongoing compliance with the updated CMS National Coverage Determination (NCD). The EP Device Implant Registry plays an important role in determining the association between evidence-based treatment strategies and clinical outcomes.

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) – IMPACT

With the IMPACT Registry^®, gain access to a multi-institutional data set to support the development of evidence-based guidelines and review performance benchmarks to guide quality improvement for pediatric and adult congenital heart disease (CHD) patients who undergo diagnostic and interventional catheterizations

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) – PVI

The PVI Registry^TM assesses the prevalence, demographics, management and outcomes of patients undergoing lower extremity peripheral arterial catheter-based interventions and includes carotid artery stenting (CAS) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA). The PVI Registry provides data collection and equips clinicians with decision-making data whether care is provided in a hospital cath lab, interventional radiology department, or an outpatient vascular center.

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) – STS/ACC TVT

The STS/ACC TVT Registry^TM , created by a collaboration between the Society for Thoracic Surgeons and the ACC, monitors patient safety and real-world outcomes related to transcatheter valve replacement and repair procedures – emerging treatments for valve disease patients. Employing state-of-the-art heart valve technology, transcatheter heart valve procedures provide new treatment options for patients who are not eligible for conventional heart valve replacement or repair surgery.

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) – LAAO

The LAAO Registry^TM is approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to meet the registry requirements outlined in the national coverage decisions for Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure.

Society of Thoracic Surgeons – STS National Database

The STS National Database was established in 1989 as an initiative for quality improvement and patient safety among cardiothoracic surgeons. As of January 1, 2018, the STS National Database has four components, each focusing on a different area of cardiothoracic surgery—Adult Cardiac Surgery, General Thoracic Surgery, and Congenital Heart Surgery, as well as mechanical circulatory support via the Intermacs Database. The Database has grown exponentially over the years, both in terms of participation and stature.

Vascular Quality Initiative – VQI

SVS VQI’s 14 registries contain demographic, clinical, procedural and outcomes data from more than a million vascular procedures performed across the United States, as well as Canada and Singapore. Each record includes information from the patient’s initial hospitalization and at one-year follow-up.

The wealth of data allows centers and providers to compare their performance to regional and national benchmarks.
Each center and provider receive biannual dashboards and regular performance reports, so they can use their data to support quality improvement initiatives.
Biannual regional meetings allow physicians, nurses, data managers, quality officers, and others to meet, share information and ideas, and learn from each other in a positive and supportive environment.

Where SVS VQI data are used to:

Significantly improve the delivery of vascular care at a local and national level, reducing complications and expenses.
Stratify risk, analyze outcomes, develop quality improvement, define best clinical practices, assess comparative effectiveness research and improve resource utilization.
Facilitate participation in clinical trials and other medical device evaluation efforts.
Collaborate with multiple organizations, including the American College of Cardiology, Society of Interventional Radiology, governmental regulatory agencies, device manufacturers, and payers
Help provide clinically detailed data for device performance, post-market surveillance, and label expansion
Partner with vascular registries from Europe and Asia to form the International Consortium of Vascular Registries (ICVR) to bring a global perspective to improving vascular care and device evaluation.

National Surgical Quality Improvement Program – NSQIP

Many hospitals have trouble tracking surgical complications and may lack the data necessary to analyze and take appropriate steps to fix problem areas. You can’t improve a hospital’s surgical quality if you can’t measure it; and for that you need robust, valid data. Yet 59 percent of surveyed sites were unaware of their hospital’s surgical complication rate before they joined the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program^®

ACS NSQIP data enhances a hospital’s ability to zero in on preventable complications. Because it was developed by surgeons who understand the realities of the operating room, ACS NSQIP helps hundreds of hospitals across the country gauge the quality of their surgical programs with unrivaled precision and measurably improve surgical outcomes.

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – Stroke

Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke is an in-hospital program for improving stroke care by promoting consistent adherence to the latest scientific treatment guidelines. Since its initiation in 2003, 1,656 hospitals have entered more than two million patient records into the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke database. Numerous published studies demonstrate the program’s success in achieving measurable patient outcome improvements.

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – Comprehensive Stroke

Certified Comprehensive Stroke Centers are required to meet the performance measurement requirements for Primary Stroke Centers, including the collection of data for the eight stroke core measures and submission of monthly data points every quarter through the Certification Measure Information Process (CMIP).

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – Heart Failure

Get With The Guidelines^®-Heart Failure is an in-hospital program for improving care by promoting consistent adherence to the latest scientific treatment guidelines. Numerous published studies demonstrate the program’s success in achieving significant patient outcome improvements. Among the proven results are reductions in 30-day readmissions, a measure now used by CMS in determining CMS reimbursement rates.

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – AFIB

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) affects between 2.7 and 6.1 million Americans, often leading to heart-related complications as well as increasing the risk for stroke fivefold. Get With The Guidelines^®-AFIB is the newest addition to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s collaborative performance improvement programs. The program is designed to assist hospital care teams in consistently providing the latest evidence-based treatment for their AFib patients. At the same time, it offers a means of monitoring the quality of AFib care in U.S. hospitals and building a database for continued research and further quality improvement.

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – CAD

GWTG-CAD is available as a tool to track AMI process data

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – Resuscitation

GWTG-R facilitates the efficient capture, analysis and reporting of data that empowers and supports the implementation of current guidelines, creation and dissemination of new knowledge, and development of next generation, evidence-based practice in resuscitation science. Its mission is to save more lives by preventing in-hospital cardiac arrest and optimizing outcomes through benchmarking, quality improvement, knowledge translation, and research.

Trauma Registries

Trauma registries used document acute care delivered to patients hospitalized with injuries. They provide data to identify and drive process improvement activities that will reduce morbidity and mortality from traumatic events.

National Healthcare Safety Network – NHSN

CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. NHSN provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections.

In addition, NHSN allows healthcare facilities to track blood safety errors and important healthcare process measures such as healthcare personnel influenza vaccine status and infection control adherence rates.

Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium – PC⁴

The Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC⁴) aims to improve the quality of care to patients with critical pediatric and congenital cardiovascular disease in North America and abroad. Formed in 2009 with National Institutes of Health funding, PC⁴ is a unique collaborative of leaders in pediatric cardiac critical care, cardiac surgery, and cardiology representing a diverse group of centers caring for these vulnerable patients. The core pillars of collaborative quality improvement serve as the foundation for PC⁴: purposeful collection of specific clinical data on outcomes and practice; timely performance feedback to clinicians, and continuous improvement based on empirical analysis and collaborative learning.

Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program – Readmissions MBQIP

We created the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP) to improve the quality of care patients receive in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) (PDF – 2 MB).

MBQIP focuses these efforts in the 45 states that participate in the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program. Through Flex, MBQIP works with 1,360 rural Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to use quality measure data for quality improvement activities.

MBQIP supports CAHs in reporting on quality measures. Most quality measures are collected through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality reporting programs.

These measures help CAHs understand health care processes, outcomes, patient perceptions of care, and organizational structure to guide decisions about improvements to health care services.

Quality improvement efforts focus on strategies for hospitals serving smaller patient groups those found in urban areas.

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR): AFib

The AFib Ablation Registry^™ is your source for data assessing the prevalence, demographics, management and outcomes of patients undergoing atrial fibrillation (AFib) ablation procedures. Participating supports the development of evidence-based guidelines for AFib treatments that will optimize patient outcomes.

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR): CathPCI

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR): Chest Pain - MI (formerly ACTION)

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) – EP Device Implant Registry (formerly ICD)

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR): IMPACT

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR): PVI

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR): STS/ACC TVT

National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR): LAAO

Society of Thoracic Surgeons – STS National Database

Vascular Quality Initiative – VQI

The wealth of data allows centers and providers to compare their performance to regional and national benchmarks.
Each center and provider receive biannual dashboards and regular performance reports, so they can use their data to support quality improvement initiatives.
Biannual regional meetings allow physicians, nurses, data managers, quality officers, and others to meet, share information and ideas, and learn from each other in a positive and supportive environment.

Where SVS VQI data are used to:

Significantly improve the delivery of vascular care at a local and national level, reducing complications and expenses.
Stratify risk, analyze outcomes, develop quality improvement, define best clinical practices, assess comparative effectiveness research and improve resource utilization.
Facilitate participation in clinical trials and other medical device evaluation efforts.
Collaborate with multiple organizations, including the American College of Cardiology, Society of Interventional Radiology, governmental regulatory agencies, device manufacturers, and payers
Help provide clinically detailed data for device performance, post-market surveillance, and label expansion
Partner with vascular registries from Europe and Asia to form the International Consortium of Vascular Registries (ICVR) to bring a global perspective to improving vascular care and device evaluation.

National Surgical Quality Improvement Program – NSQIP

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – Stroke

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – Comprehensive Stroke

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – Heart Failure

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – AFIB

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – CAD

GWTG-CAD is available as a tool to track AMI process data.

Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) – Resuscitation

Trauma Registries

National Healthcare Safety Network – NHSN

Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium – PC⁴

Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program – Readmissions MBQIP

We created the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP) to improve the quality of care patients receive in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) (PDF – 2 MB).

MBQIP supports CAHs in reporting on quality measures. Most quality measures are collected through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality reporting programs.

These measures help CAHs understand health care processes, outcomes, patient perceptions of care, and organizational structure to guide decisions about improvements to health care services.

Quality improvement efforts focus on strategies for hospitals serving smaller patient groups those found in urban areas.

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State-Specific Programs We Abstract

California CABG Outcomes Reporting Program – CCORP

The California CABG Outcomes Reporting Program (CCORP) is currently collecting and reporting CABG operative mortality data for all California hospitals and surgeons that perform the CABG procedure.

California STEMI: Santa Clara County STEMI

The data collection and reporting standards required of prehospital providers to support the quality improvement process for the Cardiac Care System.

Vermont Oxford Network – VON

With more than 1,200 centers worldwide submitting data on VLBW and all NICU admissions, the reporting tools give centers the necessary data and benchmarks to make meaningful local improvement.

Teams in the improvement programs (NICQ and iNICQ) participate in VON Day Audits, point-prevalence quality audits that include unit-level and patient-level measures for benchmarking and to inform their improvement projects. Teams in NICQ also work with homeroom faculty to identify VON data items for special reports.

Arkansas IQI Program

The Inpatient Quality Incentive (IQI) program provides millions of dollars in performance bonus payments to hospitals that improve care for clinical priorities of the Arkansas Medicaid program. The IQI program requires hospitals to meet specific goals for a number of quality measures – certain aspects of care proven to improve outcomes for patients. Hospitals also must pass validation to receive payment or recognition.

Riverside County EMS STEMI Program – REMSA-STEMI

The Riverside County EMS STEMI System encompasses a network of prehospital 9-1-1 EMS providers and hospitals receiving STEMI patients. This program focuses on patients who suffered confirmed STEMI heart attacks in Riverside County, with data being added quarterly and available for comparison on a continuous basis. Cases are those patients transported via 9-1-1 ambulances to Riverside County STEMI receiving centers.

The goals of the program include: 1) Reducing E2B times (monitoring EMS to balloon times and reducing to under 90 minutes 90% of the time), 2) increasing pre-activation of cath lab teams (increasing EMS notification to 80% of the time), and 3) providing 100% feedback from confirmed and suspected EMS transported STEMI cases to providers (including discharge diagnosis, hospital disposition and discharge summary).

Riverside County EMS Stroke Program – REMSA-STK

The Riverside County EMS Stroke System encompasses a network of prehospital 9-1-1 EMS providers and hospitals receiving stroke patients. Participating facilities within Riverside County submit data on stroke cases brought to them via the 9-1-1 system that were confirmed as stroke cases and entered into stroke registries, such as Get With the Guidelines.

Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program – Cardiac COAP

The Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program (COAP) is a Washington State initiative designed to produce clinical information needed to improve quality of care and meet the growing demand for accountability in the health care industry.

COAP’s physician-led Management Committee, in partnership with State officials and key stakeholders, has created this program as a model of collaboration in which Washington State’s cardiac community can work together toward a common goal — improving patient care and health outcomes. COAP’s timely reporting mechanism provides hospitals with clinical feedback on a quarterly basis.

California CABG Outcomes Reporting Program – CCORP

The California CABG Outcomes Reporting Program (CCORP) is currently collecting and reporting CABG operative mortality data for all California hospitals and surgeons that perform the CABG procedure.

California STEMI: Santa Clara County STEMI

The data collection and reporting standards required of prehospital providers to support the quality improvement process for the Cardiac Care System.

Riverside County EMS STEMI Program – REMSA-STEMI

Riverside County EMS Stroke Program – REMSA-STK

Arkansas IQI Program

Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program – Cardiac COAP

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Core Measures We Abstract

Inpatient Measures

ED: Emergency Department

Decrease decision to admit time and time patients spend in ED

IMM: Immunization-Influenza

Increase flu immunization rates in high risk patients

PC: Perinatal Care

Monitor increase in elective deliveries and decrease non-emergent C-Section deliveries

SEP: Severe Sepsis & Septic Shock

Measures timely management of sepsis and septic shock to decrease organ failure, mortality, LOS and cost

STK: Stroke

Monitor interventions and appropriate discharge instructions for stroke patients

VTE: Venous Thromboembolism

Decrease VTEs through monitoring, prophylaxis, and utilization of best practices

HBIPS: Hospital Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services

Admission screenings, events and transitions to next level of care

SUB: Substance Abuse

Adherence to standardized performance measures addressing alcohol screening and cessation counseling

TOB: Tobacco

Adherence to standardized performance measures addressing tobacco screening and cessation counseling

MD: Screening for Metabolic Disorders

Measures the percentage of patients discharged with an antipsychotic prescription for which a structured metabolic screening for: (1) BMI; (2) blood pressure; (3) glucose or HbA1c; and (4) lipid panel was completed in the past year.

TOC: Transition of Care

The movement of a patient from one setting of care (hospital, ambulatory primary care practice, ambulatory specialty care practice, long-term care, home health, rehabilitation facility) to another.

Outpatient Measures

OP-AMI: Acute Myocardial Infarction

Monitors timeliness of Fibrinolysis treatment and transfer to the next level of care

OP-ED Throughput

Monitors timeliness of evaluation and treatment of patients arriving in ED

OP-STK: Stroke

Head CT or MRI Scan Results for Acute Ischemic Stroke or Hemorrhagic Stroke Patients who Received Head CT or MRI Scan Interpretation Within 45 minutes of ED Arrival

OP-Cataracts

Improvement in Patient’s Visual Function within 90 Days Following Cataract Surgery

OP-ENDO: Endoscopy/Polyp Surveillance

Appropriate follow-up interval for patients with and without history of polyps

OP-EBRT: External Beam Radiation Therapy

Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of bone metastases and no history of previous radiation who receive EBRT with an acceptable fractionation scheme as defined by the guideline.

EDTC: Emergency Department Transfer Communication

The Emergency Department Transfer Communication measure provides hospitals with a means of assessing how well key patient information is communicated from an emergency department to any healthcare facility. The measure applies to patients with a wide range of medical conditions (e.g., acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory compromise and trauma) and is relevant for both internal quality improvement purposes as well as external reporting to consumers and purchasers.

STK-OP-1: Stroke Outpatient

Description: Median time from hospital arrival in the emergency department to transfer of a hemorrhagic stroke patient or an ischemic stroke patient to another hospital.

ED: Emergency Department

Decrease decision to admit time and time patients spend in ED

IMM: Immunization-Influenza

Increase flu immunization rates in high risk patients

PC: Perinatal Care

Monitor increase in elective deliveries and decrease non-emergent C-Section deliveries

SEP: Severe Sepsis & Septic Shock

Measures timely management of sepsis and septic shock to decrease organ failure, mortality, LOS and cost

STK: Stroke

Monitor interventions and appropriate discharge instructions for stroke patients

VTE: Venous Thromboembolism

Decrease VTEs through monitoring, prophylaxis, and utilization of best practices

HBIPS: Hospital Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services

Admission screenings, events and transitions to next level of care

SUB: Substance Abuse

Adherence to standardized performance measures addressing alcohol screening and cessation counseling

TOB: Tobacco

Adherence to standardized performance measures addressing tobacco screening and cessation counseling

MD: Screening for Metabolic Disorders

TOC: Transition of Care

The movement of a patient from one setting of care (hospital, ambulatory primary care practice, ambulatory specialty care practice, long-term care, home health, rehabilitation facility) to another.

OP-AMI: Acute Myocardial Infarction

Monitors timeliness of Fibrinolysis treatment and transfer to the next level of care

OP-ED Throughput

Monitors timeliness of evaluation and treatment of patients arriving in ED

OP-STK: Stroke

Head CT or MRI Scan Results for Acute Ischemic Stroke or Hemorrhagic Stroke Patients who Received Head CT or MRI Scan Interpretation Within 45 minutes of ED Arrival

OP-Cataracts

Improvement in Patient’s Visual Function within 90 Days Following Cataract Surgery

OP-ENDO: Endoscopy/Polyp Surveillance

Appropriate follow-up interval for patients with and without history of polyps

OP-EBRT: External Beam Radiation Therapy

EDTC: Emergency Department Transfer Communication

STK-OP-1: Stroke Outpatient

Description: Median time from hospital arrival in the emergency department to transfer of a hemorrhagic stroke patient or an ischemic stroke patient to another hospital.

Rationale: Hemorrhagic stroke is a life-threatening condition caused by a rupture in a weakened blood vessel in the brain. Surgical intervention to repair a ruptured aneurysm may be indicated and necessitate urgent transfer of the patient, if the hospital is unable to provide advanced neurological treatments and services.

The benefits of both IV altelplase and mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke are time dependent. The earlier the treatment within the time window, the greater the benefit to patients. Initiation of IV alteplase at a primary stroke center (PSC) and rapid transport to an advanced center capable of performing endovascular treatment may lead to faster and more complete reperfusion for certain patients eligible for these treatments (Powers, 2018).

The Brain Attack Coalition recommends that such transfers occur within 2 hours of patient arrival at the transferring stroke center (Alberts, 2013). Reducing the time stroke patients remain in the emergency department (ED) can improve access to a higher-level of stroke care and surgical intervention or advanced intra-arterial endovascular treatments, and increase quality of care. For those stroke patients who are not transferred to a TSC or CSC, inpatient admission within 3 hours, preferably to a formal stroke unit, is recommended (Jauch, 2013).

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“With the demand for public reporting, we turned to American Data Network to assist with the burden of data collection. They had the experience and know-how to take on all of our Core Measures responsibilities. Outsourcing our Core Measures abstractions has freed up our staff, allowing them to concentrate on focused clinical areas. We are now able to spend more time on using the data to improve the quality of patient care at Mt. Sinai.”

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Why Partner With Us?

Accurate, Timely and Deadline-Focused

Under 24-Hour Response Time to Clients

Unmatched Service

Flexible Outsourcing Options

Safeguard Against Team Shortages

Improve Your Team With IRR

Free Outsourcing Cost-Benefit Analysis Template

Registries We Abstract

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State-Specific Programs We Abstract

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Core Measures We Abstract

Inpatient Measures

Outpatient Measures

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