Table 1.
Quality measures, overall and by race and ethnicity
| Number of Persons | All 93,311 |
Black 41,297 |
Latinx 14,301 |
White 37,713 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1. Any antipsychotic drug use | 90 | 90 | 93 | 90 |
| 2. Any log-acting injectable antipsychotic drug | 15 | 17 | 14 | 13 |
| 3. Any clozapine use | 4.6 | 2.5 | 4.7 | 7.0 |
| 4. Antipsychotic adherencea ≥ 80% | 49 | 39 | 51 | 59 |
| 5. Antipsychotic adherencea ≥ 50% | 72 | 64 | 76 | 80 |
| 6. No antipsychotic polypharmacy | 79 | 83 | 78 | 76 |
| 7. Any schizophrenia inpatient discharge | 19 | 20 | 21 | 18 |
| 8. Follow-up within 7 days | 24 | 23 | 26 | 24 |
| 9. Follow-up care 30 days | 36 | 34 | 38 | 36 |
| 10. Any schizophrenia ED visit | 3.6 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 3.1 |
| 11. Follow-up care within 7 days | 37 | 35 | 38 | 39 |
| 12. Follow-up care within 30 days | 47 | 44 | 51 | 51 |
| 13. Any ambulatory mental healthcare visit | 99 | 98 | 98 | 99 |
| 14. Quarterly ambulatory MH care visits | 63 | 58 | 66 | 66 |
| No excessive acute care utilization for: | ||||
| 15. schizophrenia | 95 | 94 | 95 | 95 |
| 16. mental health | 91 | 91 | 91 | 91 |
| 17. Any schizophrenia hospitalization | 20 | 20 | 22 | 19 |
| 18. No 30-day re-admission | 77 | 77 | 76 | 77 |
| 19. Any MH hospitalization | 23 | 23 | 24 | 22 |
| 20. No 30-day re-admission | 74 | 74 | 73 | 73 |
| 21. Any MH psychosocial services | 84 | 85 | 83 | 83 |
| 22. Quarterly psychosocial services | 41 | 40 | 37 | 43 |
| 23. Any individual, group, or family psychotherapy | 28 | 36 | 12 | 26 |
| Mean number met (SD) | 10.0 (2.14) | 9.89 (2.21) | 10.0 (2.02) | 10.2 (2.08) |
Note. Entries are percentages except the last row which reports the mean number (SD) of quality measures met. Ordinal metrics include antipsychotic adherence level (items 4 and 5), follow-up after discharge (items 7 + 8 + 9), and follow-up after an emergency department visit (items 10 + 11 + 12); nominal metrics include no re-admission following a schizophrenia hospitalization (items 17 + 18) and no re-admission following a mental health hospitalization (items 19 + 20). ED = emergency department, MH = mental health.
Measured as a percentage of days covered.