Optimal Care Pneumonia Score (Eligible Patients Receiving All Care Measures)

What Does This Measure?

The overall percentage of eligible pneumonia patients who received all of the measures of high-quality care tracked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Why Is This Important?

Certain treatments have been proven to get the best results for most pneumonia patients. This measurement shows a hospital’s overall performance in providing recommended treatments for pneumonia.

What Are We Doing to Improve Our Performance?

Duke has enacted several initiatives to improve our performance. These include:

• Evidence-based medicine
• Standardized order sets
• Antibiotic prescribing tools for physicians
  
• Computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
• Electronic medical records (EMR)
• Patient rounding
• Six Sigma and DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control process) methodologies
• Nursing and physician education
• Patient safety and clinical quality committees
• Patient advocacy and support groups
• Pneumonia-specific discharge instructions and patient education information
• Smoking cessation programs and patient education information
• Tobacco-free campus
  
• Balanced scorecard metrics

More Information

• See more pneumonia quality measures
• See all performance measures
• Compare Duke to other North Carolina hospitals at NC Hospital Quality Report
• Compare Duke to regional and national hospitals at Hospital Quality Alliance's Hospital Compare