 Financial insight
Health authority renal programs have recently been allocated extra funds for 2008/09 for the critical function of data entry into PROMIS – and in recognition of the time and effort involved.
Data accuracy and completeness are vital to support a range of functions, including individual patient care management, renal unit management, continuous quality improvement and research, outcomes-based planning and funding of renal services.
BCPRA has outlined specific indicators and expected outcomes for each area of funding:
- General data entry (goal: to increase completeness of data entry)
- 100% of all chronic patients have race info entered
- 90% of patients who started dialysis have a comorbidity assessment
- 80% of all patients have at least one weight, height and blood pressure assessment from the past year entered
- 80% of all hemodialysis patients have at least one acuity scale assessment from the past year entered
Data management coordinator (one FTE is allocated to each program with the goal of increasing accuracy and integration of data):
- 90% correctly identified acute and chronic dialysis patients
- 100% of erythopoietin hormone stimulator (EHS) patients with anemia treatment initiation form
- 80% of EHS patients with accurate current prescription
Vascular access data coordinator (intended to improve data capture related to vascular access initiatives):
- Complete data entry to enable production of accurate prevalent access type reports
- Complete data entry to enable production of accurate incident access reports
- Complete data entry to enable production of accurate infection rate reports
For more information contact Keith Whitmore, Senior Director, Renal Networks: 604 875.7349 or kwhitmore@bcpra.ca
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