You forget that this is driven by politicians and their sycophants along with the bean counters. They just want something to measure so that they can say that because they did x then y happened.
We see them well on the way - a PhD and you will be there - a consultant. Someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time. David de Bhál www.v-practice.com ________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Hosking Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 5:55 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: Division data mining: was [GPCG_TALK]Way cleared forelectronicscripts The new "quality" push mainly refers to the measurement of the systems that manage recall and complex illness. It does not measure the management of acute episodes that we are used to seeing. Our systems to manage complex illness over time are not so good. Many factors could affect a practice's "perfomance" - some are outside the practice' control. Patients are free to go wherever they like. Our history data is imcomplete. When I looked at our immunization data some years ago, it was pretty poor. However we have a large mobile population - some of our SWPEs gave their address in Victoria!. The measures are open to "gaming" eg make sure your initial figures are pretty poor so you can show a significant improvement - send your problem patients to someone else. R Greg Markey wrote: > Now there's a thought...we must begin referring our delinquent > patients to another practice to improve our figures. G > >> >> My practice is extremely keen to see how we are doing compared to other >> practices. >> Finding out that we are doing worse than the median would strongly >> motivate us to do better. Finding out that we are doing better than the >> median would be a very powerful marketing tool for our practice. We >> could say in our practice brochure things like (depending on what was >> found in the comparison between us and other practices): >> "Patients in our practice have lower cholesterol, blood sugar and blood >> pressure, fewer heart attacks and strokes, less cancer and are healthier >> overall than patients in most other practices in the area." >> >> >> Oliver Frank, general practitioner >> 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens >> South Australia 5086 >> Ph. 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 >> _______________________________________________ >> Gpcg_talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.7/410 - Release Date: 8/5/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.9/416 - Release Date: 8/10/2006 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
