Purpose:
To provide a method by which each patient's episode of care results, by measure, may be reviewed. This is especially useful when needing to identify which episodes of care have affected the Observed Rate or Observation Value of the measure.
Accessing the Report:
From the Verify Data eCQM Submission menu, select the Quality Improvement tab.(Example Image Pending)
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Select the measure you wish to see the patient results for within the “Select Measures” drop-down box on the left-side of the page.
You may further narrow the Patient Results by:
Selecting the Quarter if data was submitted for multiple quarters
Selecting the specific Population Breakdown item from the Waterfall chart (e.g., click on the bar for “Not in Population”, “Does Not Meet”, etc.)
On the lower right-hand side of the page, click on the “Review patient results” button.
Each Episode of Care that was processed against the selected measure appears in the Patient Results list.
After reviewing or exporting this report, click the ‘<< Back’ button on the lower right-hand side of the page to go back to the Quality Improvement page.
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This list can be exported by clicking on the Export button - indicated below the table on the lower right-hand side of the page. The downloaded file is an Excel file (xlsx).(Example Image Pending)
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Columns within the Report:
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The following columns in the Patient Results list matches the Population breakdown and shows how each patient’s episode of care was processed against the selected eCQM and, if appropriate, selected quarter and/or population breakdown for that eCQM.
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False means the episode of care is not in that breakdown on the Waterfall Chart and True means that it is. An episode of care may be in multiple breakdowns (True) on the Waterfall Chart. For example:
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The columns are as follows. The definition of each column is the same as the associated population breakdown on the waterfall chart.
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Not in Initial Population (True/False)
Initial Population (True/False)
Does Not Meet (True/False)
Measure Population (True/False)
Exclusion (True/False)
Exception (True/False)
Denominator/Population (True/False)
Cases Failing the Measure (True/False)
Numerator (True/False)
Measure Observation Value - Continuous variable (CV) measures: This is the measure observation that was calculated for encounter for the measure. This is the value that is used to calculate the hospital's Median Observed Value.
Additional columns in the Patient Results list (in order from left to right):
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Final Outcome - This column contains the final outcome for the patient’s episode of care.
Encounter ID - This is the Encounter ID contained within the QRDA I document for the Episode of Care
Admit Date - This is the admission date of the encounter.
Discharge Date - This is the discharge date of the encounter.
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