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Our primary goal
is improved patient care and Performance Improvement is an
integral component of this goal. A circular process, it starts
with initial patient care and ends with an improved patient
outcome. To this end, we are particularly interested in the
broad question of whether performance improvement activities
actually improve patient care because that's the question
researchers want answered.
Flexible Performance Evaluation:
Our unique approach to data analysis allows you to expand
and contract your PI focus as your direction changes. This
approach provides patient critiques to be automatically generated
from your raw patient data.
For example, if you want to evaluate the trauma alert cases
that did not have a trauma surgeon arrive within 15 minutes
of the patient, Trauma Base will automatically find these
patients from within your raw patient data.
if you want to evaluate all the patients who did not go to
surgery within 48 hours following a penetrating abdomen wound,
Trauma Base will automatically find these patients from within
your raw patient data. Therefore, you will not have to develop
a new audit each time you are doing patient chart reviews.
You can prepare specific forms for PI committee meetings or
overall counts of audit occurrences and review processes using
all or just part of your active Audits.
Answering the Unasked Questions:
Right from the beginning, we designed our database with the
big picture in mind. What questions would we need to answer
not just tomorrow, but in ten or twenty years?
That's part of the beauty of Trauma Base. As a relational
database, we can quickly relate one thing to many, which allows
us to easily create new audits. In fact, our systems are also
designed to allow you the flexibility to set up the Audit
after the fact, or to enter in Audits that are not derived
from the raw data, such as "Patients whose chart documentation
is incomplete".
Our systems come with the unique ability to tag critiques
and/or reviews with question codes (see Report Examples).
These question code programs allow you to easily set up your
own surveys/questionnaires specifically geared to a critique
or review. These questions will then become an integral part
of your specific system, which can then be used for custom
reporting.
Our unique method of developing critiques/audit filters,
and our review mechanisms are the result of needs analysis
and client feedback. Consequently, we have the tools in place
to assist investigators in developing the information to answer
their questions.
Performance Review:
How is your facility doing with regard to PI? Where can you
make improvements and how does the review process directly
affect an individual provider and how does an individual provider’s
practice compare to it’s peers? Answering these questions
are the real payoff in using our PI/Review process.
A valuable tool in helping to perform PI duties is the ability
to track each review and link that review with audits, actions
and dates. In using our tools, clients are effectively and
efficiently able to close the loop, so the likelihood of losing
a case and subsequently having a problem occur during a Joint
Commission, or ACS survey is greatly reduced.
By tracking the review process, your review is complete.
It provides you with as many review types and analysis as
is needed. And, now armed with this critical information,
you can easily look at the larger picture! Our approach has
been used successfully by our clients and is highly regarded
by many site reviewers.
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