"Provider Care Experience" | eCQI Resource Center

Performance/Reporting Period

2022

QDM Datatype (QDM Version 5.5 Guidance Update):

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype indicate the provider's experience with the availability of resources (e.g., scheduling, equipment, space, and such consumables as medications). "Provider care experience" gauges provider satisfaction with key structures, processes, and outcomes in the healthcare delivery system.

Timing: The time the care experience is recorded; author dateTime.

QDM Category (QDM Version 5.5 Guidance Update)

Care Experience

Care Experience represents the experience a patient has when receiving care or a provider has when providing care. The individual Care Experience datatypes should be consulted for further details.

QDM Attributes

authorDateTime

The time the data element was entered into the clinical software. Note, some datatypes include both relevant dateTime and author dateTime attributes. When both are present, author dateTime is included to accommodate negation rationale.

The author dateTime addresses when an activity is documented. Documentation can occur at the beginning, during, at the end, or subsequent to the end of the activity. The author dateTime should be used only if the relevantPeriod cannot be obtained or to represent the time negation rationale is documented.

Note: negation rationale indicates a one-time documentation of a reason an activity is not performed. Negation of QDM datatype related actions for a reason always use the author dateTime attribute to reference timing and must not use relevantPeriod.

recorder

The recorder indicates who recorded (or documented) the information (e.g., the individual or organization documenting the information). Note that HL7 FHIR modeling includes reference to asserter for concepts such as diagnosis and Allergy/Intolerance. Feedback from implementers and EHR vendors suggest that asserter fields default to the individual entering the information without clear evidence about how often clinicians change the default to theperson who reported the information. Therefore, QDM retains a recorder attribute for the referenced QDM datatypes.

The prescriber attribute references the new QDM entities (patient, care partner, practitioner, or organization) and any or all of the attributes of the respective QDM entity. For example, to reference that a physician who recorded a diagnosis is the same person who was the primary participant in an Encounter and assure the physician's specialty meets the measures requirements, the eCQM can use the Practitioner Entity and its attributes. Should the eCQM choose to reference a physician practice or a hospital, the performer can reference the Organization Entity and indicate the identifier and/or the organization type.