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Table 1 QI description

From: Suitability of three indicators measuring the quality of coordination within hospitals

 

Patient record

Radiology exam order

MDTM

Type of indicator

Composite score of conformity criteria

Composite score of conformity criteria

Compliance rate

Items (N)

10

Presence of:

- surgical report

- obstetrics report

- anesthestic record

- transfusion record

- outpatient prescription

- admission documents

- care and medical conclusions at admission

- in-hospital during prescriptions

- discharge report (incl. information on care delivered and conclusions reached)

Overall organisation of record (incl. physician's name, patient's name, and date of admission)

4, Presence of::

- name of clinician ordering exam

- type of exam requested

- purpose of exam

- patient information (name, age, key clinical history

1

Record of one MDTM with date and names of three professionals

Scoring method

1 (present)/0 (absent)

for each item

1 (present for all 5 types of information)/0 (absence of one among the 5 type of information requested)

1 (present)/0 (absent)

(record reviewed with written conclusion)

Data source

80 random records

130 random orders

60 random new oncology outpatient records

Hospitals (N)

36

22

22

Calculations

Mean score for each medical record.

Mean score for all records in sample (with 99% and 90% confidence intervals).

Overall mean score for all hospitals.

Mean score for all orders in sample (with 99% and 90% confidence intervals).

Overall mean score for all hospitals.

Mean score for all records in sample (with 99% and 90% confidence intervals).

Overall mean score for all hospitals.

Observations (N)

13 899

4004

1378