Quality Improvement
Best Practices
BMC2 quality improvement initiatives are identifying and disseminating best practices to improve quality of care and patient outcomes while reducing costs.
Performance Indexes
Our performance indexes track the progress and findings of our quality improvement projects each year.
How We Ensure Data Quality
BMC2 nurse auditors review a select sample of patient records at participating sites annually to ensure definitions are understood and all data is being thoroughly and accurately abstracted. This is not a “data cleaning” exercise—this is monitoring for quality assurance. We provide new data abstractors with in-depth training, and we host monthly webinars with data abstractors to answer questions and to discuss data abstraction issues. Participating physicians, coordinators, and data abstractors attend online and in-person meetings throughout the year to discuss data trends and share quality improvement challenges and best practices.
Cross site peer review of selected cases provides practitioners feedback on procedure appropriateness and interventional quality.