Top metrics to follow in risk management
The metrics tracked in your risk management program will vary according to your own needs and concerns, but this list of commonly applicable and useful metrics comes from Alan Rosenstein, MD, medical director of Physician Wellness Services, a consulting company based in Minneapolis:
Core Financial/Legal
For physicians, the denominator should be RVUs.
For hospitals, the denominator should be beds.
Claims
Losses
Premiums (Gross, but also per dollar of revenue and per FTE providers)
Clinical
For physicians, the denominator should be FTE providers.
For hospitals, the denominator should be beds/units.
Health care-acquired conditions
Medication errors
Objects left in surgery
Hospital-acquired infections
Occurrence of selected other adverse events such as falls or wrong-site surgery per month
In-patient surgery issues
Total number of incident reports (patient/ staff) per month
Number of malpractice cases per month.
The metrics tracked in your risk management program will vary according to your own needs and concerns, but this list of commonly applicable and useful metrics comes from Alan Rosenstein, MD, medical director of Physician Wellness Services, a consulting company based in Minneapolis:You have reached your article limit for the month. Subscribe now to access this article plus other member-only content.
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