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Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance
IMPORTANCE: Despite billions spent in public investment, electronic health records (EHRs) have not delivered on the promise of large quality and safety improvement. Simultaneously, there is debate on whether public quality reporting is a useful tool to incentivize quality improvement. OBJECTIVE: To...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8456388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34546374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.25173 |
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description | IMPORTANCE: Despite billions spent in public investment, electronic health records (EHRs) have not delivered on the promise of large quality and safety improvement. Simultaneously, there is debate on whether public quality reporting is a useful tool to incentivize quality improvement. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether publicly reported feedback was associated with hospital improvement in an evaluation of medication-related clinical decision support (CDS) safety performance. DESIGN, SETTINGS, AND PARTICIPANTS: This nonrandomized controlled trial included US hospitals that participated in the Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) Evaluation Tool in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, a national quality reporting program that evaluates safety performance of hospital CDS using simulated orders and patients, in 2017 to 2018. A sharp regression discontinuity design was used to identify the association of receiving negative feedback with hospital performance improvement in the subsequent year. Data were analyzed from January through September 2020. EXPOSURES: Publicly reported quality feedback. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: The main outcome was improvement from 2017 to 2018 on the Leapfrog CPOE Evaluation Tool, using regression discontinuity model estimates of the association of receiving negative publicly reported feedback with quality improvement. RESULTS: A total of 1183 hospitals were included, with a mean (SD) CPOE score of 59.3% (16.3%) at baseline. Hospitals receiving negative feedback improved 8.44 (95% CI, 0.09 to 16.80) percentage points more in the subsequent year compared with hospitals that received positive feedback on the same evaluation. This change was driven by differences in improvement in basic CDS capabilities (β = 8.71 [95%CI, 1.67 to 18.73]) rather than advanced CDS (β = 6.15 [95% CI, −9.11 to 26.83]). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this nonrandomized controlled trial, publicly reported feedback was associated with quality improvement, suggesting targeted measurement and reporting of process quality may be an effective policy lever to encourage improvement in specific areas. Clinical decision support represents an important tool in ensuring patient safety and decreasing adverse drug events, especially for complex patients and those with multiple chronic conditions who often receive several different drugs during an episode of care. |
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spelling | pubmed-84563882021-10-07 Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance Holmgren, A. Jay Bates, David W. JAMA Netw Open Original Investigation IMPORTANCE: Despite billions spent in public investment, electronic health records (EHRs) have not delivered on the promise of large quality and safety improvement. Simultaneously, there is debate on whether public quality reporting is a useful tool to incentivize quality improvement. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether publicly reported feedback was associated with hospital improvement in an evaluation of medication-related clinical decision support (CDS) safety performance. DESIGN, SETTINGS, AND PARTICIPANTS: This nonrandomized controlled trial included US hospitals that participated in the Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) Evaluation Tool in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, a national quality reporting program that evaluates safety performance of hospital CDS using simulated orders and patients, in 2017 to 2018. A sharp regression discontinuity design was used to identify the association of receiving negative feedback with hospital performance improvement in the subsequent year. Data were analyzed from January through September 2020. EXPOSURES: Publicly reported quality feedback. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: The main outcome was improvement from 2017 to 2018 on the Leapfrog CPOE Evaluation Tool, using regression discontinuity model estimates of the association of receiving negative publicly reported feedback with quality improvement. RESULTS: A total of 1183 hospitals were included, with a mean (SD) CPOE score of 59.3% (16.3%) at baseline. Hospitals receiving negative feedback improved 8.44 (95% CI, 0.09 to 16.80) percentage points more in the subsequent year compared with hospitals that received positive feedback on the same evaluation. This change was driven by differences in improvement in basic CDS capabilities (β = 8.71 [95%CI, 1.67 to 18.73]) rather than advanced CDS (β = 6.15 [95% CI, −9.11 to 26.83]). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this nonrandomized controlled trial, publicly reported feedback was associated with quality improvement, suggesting targeted measurement and reporting of process quality may be an effective policy lever to encourage improvement in specific areas. Clinical decision support represents an important tool in ensuring patient safety and decreasing adverse drug events, especially for complex patients and those with multiple chronic conditions who often receive several different drugs during an episode of care. American Medical Association 2021-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8456388/ /pubmed/34546374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.25173 Text en Copyright 2021 Holmgren AJ et al. JAMA Network Open. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY License. |
spellingShingle | Original Investigation Holmgren, A. Jay Bates, David W. Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance |
title | Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance |
title_full | Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance |
title_fullStr | Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance |
title_full_unstemmed | Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance |
title_short | Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance |
title_sort | association of hospital public quality reporting with electronic health record medication safety performance |
topic | Original Investigation |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8456388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34546374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.25173 |
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