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Enhancing Clinical Information in Statewide Hospital Administrative Data: Project Summary and Lessons Learned
This report, developed by Thomson Reuters and NASHP, is based on lessons from the AHRQ-sponsored Adding Clinical Data project, which awarded Pilot or Planning contracts to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Partner organizations in Florida, Minnesota, Virginia, and Washington to explore feasible, practical solutions to adding clinical data to administrative discharge records. Adding present on admission coding and laboratory results to existing administrative datasets is seen as a practical, effective, and cost-effective method to produce more accurate and expanded quality assessments of hospitals; it will also provide the evidence base for quality improvement efforts.January 2010» -
Maximizing the Use of State Adverse Event Data to Improve Patient Safety, Brief
This news brief reviews key findings from a meeting of state officials that focused on efforts to improve data integrity, event report analysis, and data feedback and dissemination. The report examines these issues and identifies a number of challenges and opportunities that states encounter as they attempt to improve their databases and the usefulness of the data for improving patient safety. Eleven states participated in the summit: Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Utah. The report contains a number of tools and resources that have been developed by the participating states.December 2005» -
Maximizing the Use of State Adverse Event Data to Improve Patient Safety
This report reviews key findings from a meeting of data collectors (state officials who administer reporting systems), analysts (state officials or consultants to them), and users (providers, purchasers, and consumers). The meeting was held to identify mechanisms to improve reporting, tools used for event report analysis and dissemination, and opportunities for improvement. This report reviews key findings from the meeting to assist states in improving their reporting systems and to encourage providers to improve the quality of the required reports so that data are credible and useful in shaping patient safety improvement interventions. It focuses on data integrity, event report analysis, and data feedback. The report also raises a number of challenges and opportunities that states encounter as they attempt to improve their databases and the usefulness of the data for improving patient safety.October 2005 -
Using Administrative Data to Assess Quality of Care in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program
This paper is designed to provide states with guidance on how to use administrative data for quality assessment purposes. State agencies and health plans routinely collect administrative data such as enrollment, claims, and encounter files for billing and program operations purposes. While these data were not originally intended for quality purposes, they can form a strong foundation to support quality assessment activities.November 2003» -
How States Report Medical Errors to the Public: Issues and Barriers
This paper explores how data from mandatory reporting systems are (or can be) disclosed to the public. Based upon detailed interviews with states that have mandatory reporting systems, NASHP identified critical junctures in the design of reporting systems that influence the ultimate use of data. By examining and mapping out these critical junctures, the parameters of existing reporting systems can be better understood, and the intent of new reporting systems can be made more explicit and viable.
This report examines the protection and disclosure of mandatory reported data with a focus on:
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How Safe Is Your Health Care? A Workbook for States Seeking to Build Accountability and Quality Improvement Through Mandatory Reporting Systems
This comprehensive workbook provides a step-by-step guide to help state policy makers build or redesign a mandatory reporting system. The workbook provides an overview of the various policy goals and considerations that frame states' mandatory reporting systems. It is designed to enable states to learn from the success of other states and, at the same time, avoid the pitfalls they may have experienced in building their systems. This publication is available in three separate sections for download.November 2001»
