Question

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What does it mean for a healthcare setting to report clinical quality measures? Why might a hospital need to periodically run an entire Master Patient Index? Contrast a summary report and a detail report. Discuss the consequences (if any) if a provider does not achieve their core menu/objective percentages

Answer 1

1) Clinical quality measures are the various tools or ways of measuring health care services, which include eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and also monitor the accessibility of critical care.

2) Master patient index maintain accurate medical data of various departments together. This is very helpful in many ways

Patients history can be assessed at the earliest on readmission

Keeps the record of all the diseases which are very helpful to get statistical data for research purpose

3) summary report only gives the statistical data at the end of the entiries like number of OPD patients, number of patients operated etc while a detail report gives a detail information about every patient and department.

4) It will result in poor quality care and certainly a reduction in the patient number to that provider. Also there will be a risk of loosing the accreditation.