Measures DescriptionTotal Benchmark Solution, LLC’s (TBS’) goal is “to have the most robust solution for analyzing Quality Measures to enable Healthcare organizations to improve performance and Healthcare purchasers to make the best decisions when selecting providers.” TBS’s solution - Quality Benchmark Solution meets that goal. Quality Benchmark Solution provides healthcare organizations a solution to analyze over 700 Industry Standard Quality and Patient Safety Measures from the following organizations and any measure that your organization defines:
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
- American College of Cardiology
- American Heart Association
- American Medical Association on behalf of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
- American Medical Association on behalf of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
- American Medical Association on behalf of the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
- CAHPS Consortium (Behavioral Health)
- Canadian Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Team
- Canadian Cardiovascular Society
- Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Home Health Oriented)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Child Health Corporation of America
- Competency Assessment Instrument (Behavioral Health)
- Focus On Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc.
- Foundation for Accountability
- Harvard Medical School (Behavioral Health)
- HealthPartners
- Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
- National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
- National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance
- National Quality Forum
- Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
- Renal Physicians Association
- State of Wisconsin, Department of Health and Family Services
- Veterans Health Administration
To search through our list of the Standard Measures click here Standard Measures Search.
TBS’ Due Diligence on Measures
The Industry Standard Quality Measures TBS chose to use are the most functional measures available in healthcare today. Excelling in these measures will improve your organization’s performance and position your organization to gain from pay for performance. TBS developed criteria to select the most appropriate and significant performance measures. The TBS Criteria is:
- Importance of the Measure
- Relevance to stakeholders - The topic area of the measure is of significant interest, and financially and strategically important to stakeholders (e.g., businesses, clinicians, patients).
- Health importance - The aspect of health the measure addresses is clinically important as defined by high prevalence or incidence, and a significant effect on the burden of illness (i.e., effect on the mortality and morbidity of a population).
- Applicable to measuring the equitable distribution of health care - The measure can be stratified, or analyzed by subgroup to examine whether disparities in care exist among a population of patients.
- Potential for improvement - There is evidence indicating that there is overall poor quality or variations of quality among organizations indicating a need for the measure.
- Susceptibility to being influenced by the health care system - The results of the measure can be operationalized into actions or interventions that are under the control of the user, leading to improvements that are known to be feasible.
- Scientific Soundness: Clinical Logic
- Explicitness of evidence - The evidence supporting the measure is explicitly stated.
- Strength of evidence - The topic area of the measure is strongly supported by the evidence (i.e., indicated to be of great importance for improving quality of care).
- Scientific Soundness: Measure Properties
- Reliability - The results of the measure should be reproducible and reflect results of action when implemented over time; reliability testing should be documented.
- Validity - The measure is associated with what it purports to measure; validity testing should be documented.
- Allowance for patient/consumer factors as required - The measure allows for stratification or case-mix adjustment.
- Comprehensible - The results of the measure should be understandable for the user who will be acting on the data.
- Feasibility
- Explicit specification of numerator and denominator - A measure should have explicit and detailed specifications for the numerator and denominator; statements of the requirements for data collection should be understandable and implementable.
- Data availability - The data source that is needed to implement the measure should be available, accessible, and timely. The burden of measurement should also be considered, where the costs of abstracting and collecting data are justified by the potential for improvement in care.
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