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5 Ways to Improve PRO Capture Rate
Tracking your PRO Capture Rate is a MUST Patient-Reported Outcome Capture Rate is the percentage of eligible patients who...
CAHPS: What are they? Why are they important? What do they mean for you?
What is CAHPS? The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program is a multi-year initiative of the...
TKA & THA Implants: Cost vs Value Analysis
Do higher implant costs equate to more value in total hip and knee replacements? Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip...
CMS Proposes Bundled Payments for Joint Replacements
5 Key Points from the Proposed CMS Changes Medicare spent more than $7 billion for hospitalizations alone last year on primary...
Meaningful Use and PQRS Measures: PROs Past, Present, & Future Role
Patient-reported outcome (PRO) data now plays a key role when it comes to Meaningful Use When the incentive first started back...
Adequate Pre-Op Education Proves to Substantially Improve Surgical Outcomes
Patient Education improves Outcomes A Gallup poll asked patients to rate their level of agreement with 3 statements related to...
Why CODE Technology Rocks at Collecting Outcomes
Clinical Outcomes Data and Engineering (CODE) Technology is passionate about collecting patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures...
Patient-Reported Outcome tool selection: 4 Things to Consider
So you are ready to start collecting PRO data… now you’ve got to make some key decisions- what PRO tools to use and at when to...
Meaningful Use and PRO Data
Once you’ve built a data-set with at least a year’s worth of data, you can start utilizing it to improve your practice, negotiate better insurance and managed-care contracts, and satisfy Meaningful Use requirements.
Collecting Outcome Data
Collecting surveys well is the foundation of a successful PRO program Once you know from whom you are going to collect data (the...
What are Patient Reported Outcomes?
Each PRO tool has a unique scoring system that quantifies the results as a single number (or several numbers, in some cases). PRO surveys are used to record patients’ functional status before a surgery/intervention, and then again at specific intervals after the surgery/intervention. Rather than using an x-ray or a range-of-motion test to determine the ‘success’ of an intervention, PRO’s ask the patient for his or her own perspective.
What are Patient-Reported Outcomes?
Put simply, Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) measures are a set of validated, standardized questions that are filled out by the...