Clinical Outcomes
Sample Reports
Quarterly Outcomes reports include (click on the link for a sample report):
Demographic breakdown of report categories along with overall clinic outcome scores. Clinic is given 3 historical quarters of information for their facility along with a comparison to Facility Rolling Year, Network Rolling Year, and National Rolling Year. Report is broken down as follows:
- Patient Population - Total number of patients and distribution
by gender
- AgeRange - Distribution of patients that fall into specified age
ranges
- Insurance - Distribution of patients that fall in specified insurance
type groups
- Health Plan - coverage supplied by an insurer to reimburse or by
a payer for medical expenses. Often ties to indemnity carriers, HMOs etc.
- PIP/MVA/PNC - insurance types that fall into same general category
- PIP - short hand for Personal Injury Protection, a form of property
and casualty insurance coverage that reimburses medical providers for their care
to people following accidents and that reimburses contractors or vendors that help
repair physical property harmed as the result of an accident
- MVA - short hand for Motor Vehicle Accident coverage, a form of
PIP
- PNC - short hand for Property Casualty Insurance that includes
motor vehicle incidents (MVA) and is sometimes referred to as PIP
- Work Comp - a form of insurance coverage to reimburse for medical
expenses, disability, and time loss related to an on-the-job injury
- Outcomes - Overall clinic outcomes for the following categories:
- Functional Improvement
- Decrease in Pain
- Perceived Improvement
- Number of Visits
- Work Days Lost
- Acuity - Distribution of acuity days that fall in specified acuity ranges. Anything greater than 90 days in this category is considered chronic.
Breakdown of outcomes categories by anatomical region. Groupings include Upper Extremity,
Lower Extremity, Lumbar, Cervical/Thoracic, TMJ, and Hand. Neurological conditions
are reported separately, but in the same format as Problem Area report. Clinic is
given 3 historical quarters of information for their facility along with a comparison
to Facility Rolling Year, Network Rolling Year, and National Rolling Year. Report
is broken down as follows:
- Problem Area
- Number of Patients
- Functional Improvement
- Decrease in Pain
- Perceived Improvement
- Number of Visits
- Work Days Lost
Breakdown of outcomes categories by therapist. Each therapist has outcomes grouped
by anatomical region for the current reporting quarter. Therapist also receives
an overall average for the reporting quarter as well as a rolling year overall average.
Comparison data for clinic, network, and national are listed at the bottom of the
therapist report. Report is broken down as follows:
- Therapist
- Anatomical Region
- Patients – number of patients
- Pain – decrease in pain
- Function – functional improvement
- Improvement – perceived improvement
- Visits – average number of visits
- Lost Work – average number of lost work days
- Acute – percentage of patients whose acuity days were less than 90 days
- Chronic – percentage of patients whose acuity days were more than 90 days
Breakdown of work status and lost work days as reported by patient. Report shows
work status and lost work days for 3 applicable insurance types (PIP/MVA/PNC, Health
Plan, and Work Comp) as well as the clinic’s overall distribution of work status
and work days lost for all cases. Clinic is given 4 historical quarters of information
for their clinic. Report is broken down as follows:
- Average Lost Work Days (graph) - graphic display of lost work days by reporting quarter
- Return to Work Status - percentage of patients in each category
- Have not returned to work
- No lost work time
- Not employed outside the home
- Return to work w/modification
- Return to work w/o restriction
This overview report shows all outcome measure data on one page for the current
reporting quarter. It includes outcomes by anatomical region as well as clinic overall
outcomes. Report is broken down as follows:
- Outcomes by Anatomical Region
- Clinic Overall Outcomes
- Totals
- Number of cases
- Average visits
- Average lost work days
This report is only available to network administrators, or someone who oversees
a group or network of clinics or hospitals that utilize the CareConnections Outcomes
System. Report lists clinic overall outcomes for each clinic in a given network
or group of clinics for the current reporting quarter and for the rolling year.
Report shows overall average for network, rolling network average, and rolling national
average at the bottom of each page of the report for comparison. Report is broken
down as follows:
- Patients – number of patients
- Clinic Name – name of network or group member clinic
- Pain – decrease in pain
- Function – functional improvement
- Improvement – perceived improvement
- Visits – average number of visits
- Lost Work – average number of lost work days
- Acute – percentage of patients whose acuity days were less than 90 days
- Chronic – percentage of patients whose acuity days were more than 90 days
- Network Quarterly Average
- Network Rolling Year Average
- National Rolling Year Average