Understanding Your Data Q

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Understanding Your DataQ A

• Dennis L. Hart, PhD, PT
• Director of Consulting and Research
• Focus On Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc.
• November 4, 2000

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Basic Needs

• Continuous Quality Improvement
• Marketing/Sales

Everything is predicated on these!
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Your Quarterly Report

• Visits 9.37.3, 8 median, 1 to 98 range
• Duration 34.436.4, 26 median, 1 to 1149 range
• Net Revenue 776761, 570 median, 5 to
  29,600 range

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N106,154
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Your Quarterly Report

• Outcome 58.765.2, 51.8 median, -249 to 338
  range
• Utilization 80.1124, 53.7 median, -1900 to
  2900 range
• Value 116.5238, 69 median, -3554 to 17453 range

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N73,939
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Your Quarterly Report

• Patient Satisfaction 95.19.6, 100 median, 0 to
  100 range
• What about percentile ranking?
• By company
• By clinic

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N73,882
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Concept

• Group Analyses
• Overall management analyses
• Patient Analyses
• Patient management
• Always try to break down the data into the
  smallest useful unit

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Responsiveness of Constructs
Monitor
Effect Size
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Functional Scale Report

• Breaks the Outcome Index into its component
  constructs, i.e.. Phys vs mental
• By Impairment Category
• Use to determine first blush of clinical
  strengths and weaknesses
• Can get for individual clinicians, age range,
  payer type, acuity, etc.

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Outcome by Therapist
National Ave.
Outcome Index
ANCOVA
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Regression Analysis

• Which variables control my outcome?
• Is your outcome affected by payer type, I.e. too
  many patients on workers compensation or
  Medicare or Medicaid?
• Is your outcome affected by the age of your
  patients?
• Is your outcome affected by the time spent with
  an extender of care?

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Consulting

• Putting it all together
• Understand your implementation
• Implementation rate patients entered divided
  by the patients that could have been entered
• Completion rate patients who completed
  discharge surveys divided by the patients
  entered
• Understand your patients

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Consulting

• Use a variety of comparative data
• National, region, state, network, payer, etc
• Constructs, I.e. OI, UI, PF, RP, BP, MH, VT, SF
• Recommendations
• Now the analyses...

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Any further questions??