Assignment task: You have been tasked with displaying Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital quality measures data for a 5-year period on four quality measures at your site. After examining the data, identify trends and determine the best way to present the actionable information to stakeholders.
Assignment:
Write a paper presenting the data to the stakeholders. Address the following:
Q1. What conclusions can be drawn for each quality measure over the 5-year period?
Q2. What trends do you see for each quality measure over the 5-year period?
Q3. When comparing each quality measure, is the quality measure better than, worse than, or no different from the national benchmark over time?
Q4. Based on your examination of the data, which of the quality measures should you prioritize and why?
Q5. Develop quality improvement metric and related measures to improve care processes, outcomes, and the patient experience relating to the identified area of opportunity.
Q6. Explain how you would monitor the metric and us.