Developing electronic clinical quality measures to assess the cancer diagnostic process.

Daniel R Murphy; Andrew J Zimolzak; Divvy K Upadhyay; Li Wei; Preeti Jolly; Alexis Offner; Dean F Sittig; Saritha Korukonda; Riyaa Murugaesh Rekha; Hardeep Singh

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Developing electronic clinical quality measures to assess the cancer diagnostic process.

June 21, 2023

Murphy DR, Zimolzak AJ, Upadhyay DK, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023;30(9):1526-1531.

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Measuring diagnostic performance is essential to identifying opportunities for improvement. In this study, researchers developed and evaluated two electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) to assess the quality of colorectal and lung cancer diagnosis. Each measure used data from the electronic health record (EHR) to identify abnormal test results, evidence of appropriate follow-up, and exclusions that signified unnecessary follow-up. The authors describe the measure testing results and outline the challenges in working with unstructured EHR data.

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