ACHS Performance and Outcomes Service – Clinical Indicators – Essay Writing Nursing Assignment Help

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INTRODUCTION 

The ACHS Performance and Outcomes Service (POS) team provides the ability for members to produce comparative reports from a secure, online reporting tool – The Performance Indicator Reporting Tool (PIRT). The reports contain an organisation’s rate, its 99% confidence interval, the expected number of events and the number of excess events. These measures are presented to assist HCOs to assess to what extent their rate varies compared to other organisations submitting data. It will provide evidence for HCOs to either determine areas for improvement or reinforce the existing level of performance. 

HCOs can produce two reports for each set of Clinical Indicators (CIs) submitted: a General Comparison Report and a Peer Group Comparison Report. The General Comparison Report compares all organisations that have submitted data for a particular set of CIs whereas a Peer Group Comparison Report compares an organisation with similar (peer group) organisations. Similar organisations are determined on the information that is provided to the ACHS in the PIRT program. For example, the Intensive Care CI set requires selection of one of the following classifications: 

• Adult ICU – Level III 

• Adult ICU – Level II 

• Adult ICU – Level I 

• Paediatric ICU 

A sample ‘General Comparison – Day Patient Clinical Indicators Version 5’ report accompanies this guide to enable you to interpret the reports.