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. 2022 Jun 6:290:395-399.
doi: 10.3233/SHTI220104.

Testing a Novel Inpatient Respiratory Depression Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) for Orthopedic Practice in Two Large U.S. Health Systems

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Testing a Novel Inpatient Respiratory Depression Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) for Orthopedic Practice in Two Large U.S. Health Systems

Ania Syrowatka et al. Stud Health Technol Inform. .

Abstract

The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of using an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) to assess inpatient respiratory depression rates following elective primary total hip or total knee arthroplasty using data routinely collected in electronic health records. Measure testing was conducted at two large urban, academic health systems - Mass General Brigham and a geographically distant system in southern U.S. The risk-adjusted inpatient respiratory depression rates were 3.83 and 2.73% for the two health systems, respectively. Clinician group rates ranged from 1.40 to 4.35%, demonstrating opportunity for improvement. Both the data and measure specifications showed strong reliability and validity to allow for calculation of accurate and comparable rates of inpatient respiratory depression.

Keywords: Patient safety; electronic health records; orthopedics.

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