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Hospital-Acquired VTE: What We Have Learned

Hospital-Acquired VTE: What We Have Learned. Martha J. Radford, MD Chief Quality Officer NYU Langone Medical Center September 2009. VTE Prevention in the USA. SCIP Measures. SCIP on Intranet. POA. HAC. Ortho Guidelines. Chest Guidelines. AHRQ PSIs.

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Hospital-Acquired VTE: What We Have Learned

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  1. Hospital-Acquired VTE: What We Have Learned Martha J. Radford, MD Chief Quality Officer NYU Langone Medical Center September 2009

  2. VTE Prevention in the USA SCIP Measures SCIP on Intranet POA HAC Ortho Guidelines Chest Guidelines AHRQ PSIs 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

  3. VTE Prevention in the USA AHRQ Validation SCIP Measures SCIP on Intranet POA HAC Ortho Guidelines Chest Guidelines AHRQ PSIs 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

  4. VTE Prevention at NYULMC HAC Review Internal SCIP Dept VTE Standards VTE Prophy in CPOE 2010 Goal: No Preventable VTE SCIP VTE in P4P SCIP Measures SCIP on Intranet POA HAC Ortho Guidelines Chest Guidelines AHRQ PSIs 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

  5. We Learned from AHRQ Validation: Our Coding Needs Improvement • Of the 17 2006 VTE PSI cases we reviewed for the AHRQ validation study, our coding was incorrect for 5 (29%). • This began a focus on VTE coding quality that continues today. • The appearance of VTE following ortho procedures as a HAC has solidified the need for accurate VTE coding.

  6. NYULMC VTE Coding Accuracy

  7. Coding Errors at NYULMC • One fourth to one third: no evidence for VTE • Two thirds to three fourths: VTE was present on admission • If date of study demonstrating VTE was after the date of admission, VTE not coded as “present on admission”.

  8. Coding Interventions at NYULMC • Outreach to coders about impact of their coding on quality and safety assessment. • Ongoing feedback to coders about coding errors • Organizational focus on clinical documentation, clinical documentation specialists interact frequently with coders.

  9. Actual Hospital-Acquired VTE

  10. VTE Prevention at NYULMC HAC Review Internal SCIP Dept VTE Standards VTE Prophy in CPOE 2010 Goal: No Preventable VTE SCIP VTE in P4P SCIP Measures SCIP on Intranet POA HAC Ortho Guidelines Chest Guidelines AHRQ PSIs 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

  11. Department Standards for VTE Prophylaxis • 2006: Medicine department • 2007: Surgery departments (8) • 2008: Departments’ CPOE order sets • 2009: Required order module (medicine) • 2010: Organization-wide goal to eliminate preventable VTE:  ACCOUNTABILITY

  12. Department Standards • Risk assessment • Documentation of contraindications to VTE prophylaxis • VTE prophylaxis ordering options

  13. At first Purely Optional Medicine Admission Order Set

  14. Medicine Admission Order Set: VTE Compulsory

  15. Medicine Admission Order Set: VTE Compulsory You cannot enter entire order set unless either a VTE order is entered or you have documented why VTE prophylaxis is not indicated

  16. Surgical Department Standards and Order Sets Challenges include: • Bleeding risk of great concern • Start VTE prophylaxis on admission, or postop? • What happens with epidural anesthesia? • Conflicting guidelines: orthopedics ALL surgical services place intermittent compression devices before or in the OR, but this may not be sufficient for some patients at particularly high risk.

  17. Increasing Accountability • Every quarter we send to all department chairs a “quality safety score card” that displays the department’s performance on a variety of quality performance measures: • Administrative measures: admissions, hospital mortality, length of stay, 30-day readmissions. • Nationally-reported quality performance measures. • AHRQ patient safety indicators. • Internal quality and safety measures.

  18. Department Quality-Safety Score Card

  19. Department Score Card: Numerator Cases • Also included: • Patient identifiers • Attending physician

  20. Analytic Report from EMR

  21. Internal Quality Report Posted on Intranet

  22. What Have We Learned? • Accurate coding needs attention from clinicians. • Computerized order entry with decision support can be harnessed to improve VTE prophylaxis. • Decreasing the rate of hospital-acquired VTE—real and apparent—is possible.

  23. What Do Hospitals Need from Measures? Actionable performance data: • Timely, reliable measures • With “drill down” to the “unit of actionability” • For VTE prophylaxis at NYULMC, this is the department

  24. What Has AHRQ Learned? • What is the variability in hospital coding practice? • Are the AHRQ PSIs sufficiently reliable as safety measures to permit fair hospital comparison?

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