“My patients are sicker”: A new patient based complexity score for benchmarking in EM скачать в хорошем качестве

“My patients are sicker”: A new patient based complexity score for benchmarking in EM

“My patients are sicker”: A new patient based complexity score for benchmarking in Emergency Medicine (AAAEM Sponsored) The data set created through the Annual Emergency Medicine Benchmark Survey conducted by the Academy of Administrators in Academic Emergency Medicine (AAAEM) in conjunction with the Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (AACEM) sets the benchmark standards for salary, clinical operations, research and education for academic emergency medicine practices and operations. In order to best use benchmark data, it is important for department leaders to compare their performance against like institutions. One significant variable that has not previously been available when building a cohort is the fundamental acuity or “complexity” of the patient population served by the ED. We will report on a new tool that will provide the ability to measure, using patient level data, the complexity of the patient population of any emergency department. The complexity score is developed for each ED based upon patient level information including: co-morbid conditions, social determinants of health, presenting condition and other significant variables of patients presenting to the ED. Benchmarking performance is fundamental to performance improvement: clinical performance improvement, operational improvement or improving performance in research and education. Having the ability to “level the playing field” with a patient complexity score represents an important improvement in benchmarking capability. Presenters: Gregory M. Archual, MBA Alyssa Tyransky, MTDA