title: Outcome-based quality improvement in home health care: the OASIS indicators.
abstract: The outcomes movement in home health care is expanding rapidly, with strong support from both the industry and Medicare. The Federal government has proposed requiring all Medicare-certified agencies to collect data items from the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) to form the basis for standardized risk-adjusted outcome reporting as part of a systematic outcome-based quality improvement (OBQI) approach. In addition to contributing to improving patient outcomes, OASIS data items, when combined with other assessment information, utilization data, and cost information, can provide home health care agencies with a powerful integrated information set for internal management and strategic planning.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA.
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Shaughnessy
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Crisler
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Schlenker
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States