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- Title
The Prevention Index: Using Technology to Improve Quality Assessment.
- Authors
Vogt, Thomas M.; Aickin, Mikel; Ahmed, Faruque; Schmidt, Mark
- Abstract
To improve quality of care assessment for preventive medical services and reduce assessment costs through development of a comprehensive prevention quality assessment methodology based on electronic medical records (EMRs). Random sample of 775 adult and 201 child members of a large nonprofit managed care system. Problems with current, labor-intensive quality measures were identified and remedied using EMR capabilities. The Prevention Index (PI) was modeled by assessing five-year patterns of delivery of 24 prevention services to adult and child health maintenance organization (HMO) members and comparing those services to consensus recommendations and to selected Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) scores for the HMO. Comprehensive chart reviews of 976 randomly selected members of a large managed care system were used to model the Prevention Index. Principal Findings. Current approaches to prevention quality assessment have serious limitations. The PI eliminates these limitations and can summarize care in a single comprehensive index that can be readily updated. The PI prioritizes services based on benefit, using a person-time approach, and separates preventive from diagnostic and therapeutic services. Current methods for assessing quality are expensive, cannot be applied at all system levels, and have several methodological limitations. The PI, derived from EMRs, allows comprehensive assessment of prevention quality at every level of the system and at lower cost. Standardization of quality assessment capacities of EMRs will permit accurate cross-institutional comparisons.
- Subjects
PUBLIC health; PREVENTIVE medicine; MEDICAL care; HEALTH planning; MEDICAL records; HEALTH services administration; MANAGED care programs; HEALTH maintenance organizations
- Publication
Health Services Research, 2004, Vol 39, Issue 3, p511
- ISSN
0017-9124
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-6773.2004.00242.x