Summit Q&A Scorecard

Vizient Quality and Accountability Scorecard

These domains serve as a North Star in supporting strategic improvement initiatives.

Mortality

Effectiveness

Mortality

Effectiveness

Patient Centerness

Efficiency

Patient Centerness

Efficiency

Safety

Equity

Safety

Equity

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Supporting Strategic Improvement Initiatives

Key Benefits

The Quality and Accountability (Q&A) Study was created in 2005 to identify structures and practices associated with high-quality outcomes and safety performance across a set of metrics within specific, high-impact patient populations. Vizient has leveraged provider feedback and participation to create peer cohorts for Comprehensive Academic Medical Centers (AMC), Large Specialized Complex Care Medical Centers (LSMC), Complex Care Medical Centers (CCMC), and Community Medical Centers (Community) which enables Vizient provider organizations to compare their year-over-year performance with similar hospitals while targeting specific performance improvement opportunities. Vizient also provides scorecards for specialty cohorts including Oncology, Pediatrics, Critical Access and Small Community Hospitals. The Q&A Scorecard is produced annually and includes a full year of the most recently available data from the Clinical Data Base, National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) to evaluate sustained performance improvement across clinical quality, cost and utilization metrics within the domains of mortality, efficiency, safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, and equity.

• Strategic prioritization: The Q&A was developed to identify characteristics of high-performing organizations and to use these as a catalyst to highlight strategic priorities for the organization. By utilizing insights provided across the six study domains, member organizations can improve quality, cost and utilization outcomes.
• Comparative cohorting: Vizient’s growing membership paired with feedback from our Q&A provider steering committee served as a catalyst for the creation of additional Q&A study cohorts. Provider hospitals are assigned to cohorts based on service line specific procedural volumes. This comparative cohorting is unique to Vizient’s Q&A study and allows providers to benchmark their performance with similar hospitals.
• Drill down capabilities: Providers can drill down into trending performance by mortality, efficiency, safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, equity domains, and cohort compare groups. Providers also can leverage the “send to CDB” functionality on the scorecard to create timely, contemporary, and actionable custom reports.