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Advancing primary care measurement with D2D 1.0 and the Starfield Model
Two big steps in our progress to measure, improve and demonstrate the value of interprofessional primary care:
Access to hospital discharge data
Participation of health team in a service that provides automated near-real-time updating of the health team’s EMR with information about hospital discharges of the team’s patients via one of the following services: Hospital Report Manager (HRM), Physician Office Integration (POI), Timely Discharge Information System (TDIS) or Southwest Physician Office Interface to Regional EMR (SPIRE)
Size of team
Self-described size of health team based on number of patients served (large vs small)
Telephone access to health team
Patient Experience Survey Question:
How do you rate the ease of [one of the following versions of the question]
- Access OR
- reaching the office OR
- getting through to the office OR
- get through to someone at the clinic