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QCDR Name |
2019 QCDR Measure IDs |
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If applicable, please enter additional information regarding the data source used |
Provide a concise summary of evidence of a performance gap, in addition to any study citation (citations should be the most current available or within 5 years) (REQUIRED) |
Is there a variance in the measure rate? If yes, indicate if the variance is within your registry and/or from another source. If another source, please cite the source. |
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If this is an existing measure with changes, do the changes impact the intent of the measure? |
Please indicate what has changed to the existing measure and how the change impacts the intent of the 2018 version |
Can the measure be benchmarked against the previous performance year's data? |
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What one meaningful measure area applies to this measure? (REQUIRED) |
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Ratio Measure (REQUIRED) |
If Continuous Variable and/or Ratio is chosen, what would be the range of the score(s)? (if not continuous variable and/or ratio measure enter N/A) |
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CareSense |
MICS4 |
Pain, Function and General Health Postoperative Improvement |
Performance Measure #1 - Change in the calculated score of a validated general health, function, and/or pain score using a standard patient reported outcome survey from before to after surgery.
Performance Measure #2 - The overall percentage of patients that improve their general health, function, and/or pain scores beyond a minimum threshold for each postoperative interval.
Instructions: Patients who undergo a surgical procedure are asked to complete an outcomes survey both preoperatively and following surgery.
Rationale: Understanding a patient’s mental and general physical improvement, functional improvement, and improvement in pain levels as a result of surgery is an important aspect of clinical care. The general health scores, functional scores, and pain scores that are calculated can be used to improve a specific patient’s care plan or can be analyzed retrospectively to modify overall treatment methodologies. Doctors have the option of collecting a postoperative outcomes survey at different intervals following surgery to account for different surgery types and physician follow-up patterns. |
The number of patients that have a postoperative score and a preoperative score. Patients must take a preoperative survey (within 2 months of surgery) and a postoperative survey at 1 month (+/-1 one week), 6-weeks (+/- one week), 3 months (+/- two weeks), or 6 months (+/- three weeks). Valid general health questionnaires include, but are not limited to, the VR-12, PROMIS, PROMIS-10, VR-6D, SF-12, SF-36, and EQ-5D. Valid pain and function questionnaires include, but are not limited to, the Neck Disability Index, the Quick DASH, the HOOS-JR, the KOOS-JR, and the Foot Function Index. |
Each individual patient improvement score is calculated by subtracting the preoperative survey score from the postoperative survey score. The numerator is calculated by summing all the improvement scores for each patient. |
Patients who did not receive surgery. |
Patients who are unable to answer questions due to illiteracy, language difficulties, mental illness, or non-consent. |
Survey scores that can not be calculated due to incomplete surveys. |
Claims |
Hybrid, Survey |
Evidence indicates that clinicians can not accurately assess patient improvement without asking the patients about their health state directly (1). The use of patient reported outcomes surveys to measure the patient's postoperative improvement in general health, function, and pain addresses this performance gap.
1 - Justice AC, Rabeneck L, Hays RD, Wu AW, Bozzette SA, for the Outcomes Committee of the ACTG. Sensitivity, specificity, reliability, and clinical validity of provider-reported symptoms: a comparison with self-reported symptoms. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 1999;21(2):126-33. |
No |
Existing Approved QCDR Measure With Changes |
N/A |
Three previous measures from 2018- MICS1, MICS2, and MICS3 - were combined into a single new measure |
No |
This is a new measure, so no previous benchmarks apply |
No |
N/A |
N/A |
Yes |
Outcome |
Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) |
Effective Clinical Care |
Patient Reported Functional Outcomes |
This measure is using standard PROs to assess patient improvement for general health, function, and pain scores. Thus, the meaningful measure is "Patient Reported Functional Outcomes" |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
N/A |
2 |
2nd Performance Rate |
No |
N/A |
N/A |
The guideline that this measure is derived from comes from the AHRQ set of clinicial guidelines titled "Registires for Evaluating Patient Outomces: A User's Guide". Source: https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/registries-guide_research.pdf |
General Surgery |
Surgical/Procedural Care |