lunes, 28 de octubre de 2013

AHRQ Health IT Update: EHRs for Quality Assessment

AHRQ Health IT Update: EHRs for Quality Assessment

AHRQ Health IT Update: EHRs for Quality Assessment

Using EHRs to Evaluate Lipid Management Performance Metrics
Electronic health records (EHRs) have emerged as a potential tool to assess quality of care. However, the feasibility and accuracy of EHR’s to assess adherence to lipid management performance measure had not been evaluated until a recent study at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Researchers participating in the AHRQ-funded project created a retrospective cohort of 3,779 patients with coronary artery disease from an academic medical center that uses EHRs. The charts of 300 patients chosen at random were reviewed to identify reasons for failure to adhere to lipid management performance measures. According to the findings, published in the October issue of American Heart Journal, this type of assessment is possible, but accuracy is currently limited and may underestimate provider quality of care. Therefore, the limitations need to be carefully considered before widespread implementation of automated care quality assessment.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24093850

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