Report
Development and Evaluation of Candidate Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements: Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 1: Executive Summary)
Nov 15, 2019
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 mandates that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) use standardized patient assessment data elements across post-acute care settings. CMS tasked RAND with developing and testing the data elements. This report, Volume 7 of a series, presents test data and interpretations of the results for care preferences, medication reconciliation, and global health data elements.
Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 7: Global Health, Care Preferences, and Medication Reconciliation)
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracted with the RAND Corporation to evaluate candidate standardized patient assessment data elements (SPADEs) in a national field test titled the National Beta Test. The National Beta Test was conducted to evaluate the performance of candidate SPADEs in the clinical categories of (1) cognitive function and mental status; (2) special services, treatments, and interventions; (3) medical conditions and comorbidities; (4) impairments; and (5) other categories, for use in four post-acute care (PAC) settings: home health agencies, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities.
This is Volume 7 of the final report on the National Beta Test, which includes the identification and testing of candidate SPADEs that fall into other clinical categories (care preferences, medication reconciliation, and global health). This volume provides results and significance tests on the feasibility, reliability, validity, stability and change over time, and sensitivity to national representativeness of the candidate SPADEs. The data elements tested include PROMIS Global Health, Care Preferences, and Medication Reconciliation. All three data element sets performed fairly well, with some variability in performance.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Standardized Assessment of Global Health, Care Preferences, and Medication Reconciliation in Post-Acute Care
Chapter Three
PROMIS Global Health
Chapter Four
Care Preferences
Chapter Five
Medication Reconciliation
Chapter Six
Conclusion
Appendix
Supplementary Tables
The research described in this report was sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and conducted by the Quality Measurement and Improvement Program within RAND Health Care.
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