The second perspective provided in the report is a snapshot of which performance measures are currently in use within various levels of care. According to the report, all levels of care use performance measures and devote considerable resources to collection of performance measurement data. The hope was that this first step would identify areas in which there was already a strong data collection process underway, in which there was some consistency of definitions, and in which further study may be readily possible. The study found that a number of key measures identified by the consensus committee as potentially useful for the field are analyzed to varying degrees in a variety of treatment settings. All levels of care use performance measures and devote considerable resources to collection of performance measurement data.
Facilities measure performance in a variety of multi-dimensional categories.
Facilities collect data across various domains, including clinical performance, peer review, perception of care, and coordination of care. Measures of clinical performance and perception of care are among the most widely used measures across treatment settings. Measures of clinical performance and perception of care were found to be generally measurable and manageable across levels of care. On most measures, there was general consistency in definitions. This common language may help facilitate future comparison of data across systems.