What are the clinical quality measures used for?.
1. What are the clinical quality measures used for? Identify five clinical quality measures used by CMS. Describe the general structure of the five clinical quality measures you identified and explain how they are reported. Provide an example of how each of the five clinical quality measures you identified are designed to improve the quality of care. 2. What are the role of benchmarks in quality improvement activities? In order to benchmark progress, describe what an organization can compare its benchmarks against. Provide an example of a source for benchmarks. 3. What is the difference between structured and unstructured data? Compare the impact of using structured versus unstructured data. 4. Why does health care data need to be aggregated? In the data aggregation process, what is the impact of using information that is assigned a code as opposed to free text data? 5. What is the purpose of looking at different types of data? What is the role of clinical terminology in data aggregation, normalization, and reconciliation? 6. How do you evaluate outliers? How can outliers be used to determine root cause of data integrity issues? Research and briefly explain how CMS uses Winsorization when calculating cost performance.