HIGHLIGHTS
- CMS wants meaningful data to help patients and their families choose home health and hospice care.
- Abt updates current quality reporting tools and quality measures, and develops new ones.
- The reporting systems will help patients and families select high quality home health and hospice care providers.
The Challenge
To help patients and their families find high quality home health and hospice care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires support for developing and maintaining patient assessment tools and quality measures for its Home Health and Hospice Quality Reporting Programs. This includes developing and testing new assessment items and quality measures that meaningfully assess aspects of care that patients and families value, and that providers can use to improve quality.
The Approach
Building on Abt’s work developing clinical assessment tools and quality measures in post-acute care settings, our researchers are:
- Developing a new hospice patient assessment instrument that measures clinical care and quality throughout the hospice stay.
- Updating the home health patient assessment instrument to improve data standardization.
- Developing, testing, and implementing reliable, valid quality measures for these settings of care.
The Results
From this work, we’re helping generate information and data that will help patients and their families choose quality home health and hospice care.
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