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Erschienen in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® 4/2012

01.04.2012 | Symposium: Value Based Healthcare

Public Reporting of Cost and Quality Information in Orthopaedics

verfasst von: Youssra Marjoua, MD, MPP, Craig A. Butler, MD, MBA, Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA

Erschienen in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Ausgabe 4/2012

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Abstract

Background

Public reporting of patient health outcomes offers the potential to incentivize quality improvement by fostering increased accountability among providers. Voluntary reporting of risk-adjusted outcomes in cardiac surgery, for example, is viewed as a “watershed event” in healthcare accountability. However, public reporting of outcomes, cost, and quality information in orthopaedic surgery remains limited by comparison, attributable in part to the lack of standard assessment methods and metrics, provider fear of inadequate adjustment of health outcomes for patient characteristics (risk adjustment), and historically weak market demand for this type of information.

Questions/purposes

We review the origins of public reporting of outcomes in surgical care, identify existing initiatives specific to orthopaedics, outline the challenges and opportunities, and propose recommendations for public reporting of orthopaedic outcomes.

Methods

We performed a comprehensive review of the literature through a bibliographic search of MEDLINE and Google Scholar databases from January 1990 to December 2010 to identify articles related to public reporting of surgical outcomes.

Results

Orthopaedic-specific quality reporting efforts include the early FDA adverse event reporting MedWatch program and the involvement of surgeons in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. Issues that require more work include balancing different stakeholder perspectives on quality reporting measures and methods, defining accountability and attribution for outcomes, and appropriately risk-adjusting outcomes.

Conclusions

Given the current limitations associated with public reporting of quality and cost in orthopaedic surgery, valuable contributions can be made in developing specialty-specific evidence-based performance measures. We believe through leadership and involvement in policy formulation and development, orthopaedic surgeons are best equipped to accurately and comprehensively inform the quality reporting process and its application to improve the delivery and outcomes of orthopaedic care.
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Metadaten
Titel
Public Reporting of Cost and Quality Information in Orthopaedics
verfasst von
Youssra Marjoua, MD, MPP
Craig A. Butler, MD, MBA
Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA
Publikationsdatum
01.04.2012
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Ausgabe 4/2012
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Elektronische ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-011-2077-6

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