Achieving High Validation Rates In a Critical Access Hospital

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Achieving High Validation Rates In a Critical
Access Hospital

• Good Samaritan Health Center
• MetaStar Data Collection Support Webcast
• December 19, 2007
• Danny Loosemore

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Our Rates by Discharge Qtr

• 2005 Q1 98
• 2005 Q2 100
• 2005 Q3 97
• 2005 Q4 94
• 2006 Q1 74
• 2006 Q2 76
• 2006 Q3 98
• 2006 Q4 84
• 2007 Q1 97

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Our Success Factors

• Having the same people abstract all the time
• Myself
• Occasional Staff RN Abstractor
• Learning from our Mistakes
• Q1 and Q2 2006 failed validations
• Pneumonia Patients
• Customized Abstraction Sheets

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Keeping Current

• Downloading New Spec Manuals
• Utilizing Quest
• Reading the Alerts from Thomson Medstat
• Submitting questions to Vendor

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Training

• Participating in Teleconferences
• Thomson-Medstat
• Metastar
• Reading the Manuals
• Questions???