Abstract
Attention to health care quality and safety has increased dramatically. The internal
focus of an organization is not without influence from external policy and research
findings. Compared with other specialties, efforts to align and advance rehabilitation
research, practice, and policy using electronic health record data are in the early
stages. This special communication defines quality, applies the dimensions of quality
to rehabilitation, and illustrates the feasibility and utility of electronic health
record data for research on rehabilitation care quality and outcomes. Using data generated
at the point of care provides the greatest opportunity for improving the quality of
health care, producing generalizable evidence to inform policy and practice, and ultimately
benefiting the health of the populations served.
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EHR (electronic health record), EQUADR (Exchanged Quality Data for Rehabilitation), PSO (patient safety organization)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Publication history
Published online: February 04, 2018
Footnotes
Study Performed: Carolinas Rehabilitation, Carolinas HealthCare System (Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation); Duke Health (Duke School of Medicine, Duke School of Nursing, Duke Regional Hospital)
Presented in part as an abstract at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, November 14, 2013, Orlando, Florida.
Published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2013;94:e53.
Supported in part by National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research (grant no. P30NR014139); Carolinas HealthCare System Cannon Research Center; and Duke University School of Nursing. The contents of this article and conduct are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the funding sources.
Disclosures: none.
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