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Measuring Best Practice Compliance

Wed, May 19, 2010

Best Practices

Measuring Best Practice Compliance

Learn how to measure best practice compliance with these tips:

  • Aggregate, analyze, and assess outcomes for ongoing performance improvement of new agency evidence-based processes
  • Develop clinician scorecards for compliance to new agency best practices
  • Prior to hiring of new staff:

- Job description must outline and mandate agency’s best practice policies and compliance needed

  • Review clinician compliance for yearly evaluation:

- Evaluation must include review of staff compliance to agency best practices

- Example: Staff member implemented standardized pain assessment for applicable patients 100 percent of the time

This information was adapted from Beacon Health’s audio conference series, OASIS-C Process Measures: Best Practice Strategies that Reduce Risk. The final session was devoted to Examining Depression, Pain, and High-risk Medications and was presented by Laurie Salmons, RN, BSN.

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This post was written by:

Casey Ramsdell

Casey is an associate editor at Beacon Health, the homecare division of HCPro,Inc. She serves as the editor of Beacon Health's newsletter for administrators Homecare Administrator, contributes to Beacon's print and electronic publications, moderates audio conferences, and manages OASIS-Central. Casey has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northeastern University in Boston.

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