Table 4.
Weighted Score Card for Pain Assessment
| Total Weighted Data Need Score for Clinical Topic: Pain Assessment = 2.76* | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reason Data is Needed | High Priority Data Needs | Data Need Tallies for selected Clinical Data Elements** | ||||||
| Pain Location | Pain Duration | Pain Severity | Pain Course | Pain Periodicity | Temporal Pattern | Alleviating Factors | ||
| Regulatory | TJC1 Standards for assessing and treating pain | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| NDNQI2 Pediatric Pain Assessment | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Billing | Identified by SME3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Quality | QM MU PQRS4 Oncology Results Report | 1 | ||||||
| CDS | Pain indicated add to Plan of Care | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Weighted score per clinical data element | 2.23 | 2.27 | 2.4 | 2.05 | 1.73 | 1.97 | 2.49 | |
*
Weighted Score Key: 0-1 non-regulatory data need only, 1-2 regulatory data needs, 2-3 non-regulatory and regulatory data needs.
**
Table only displays the clinical data elements with weighted score > 1.0;
1
TJC: The Joint Commission;
2
NDNQI: National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators;
3
SME: Subject Matter Expert;
4
QM MU PQRS: Quality Measures Meaningful Use Physician Quality Reporting System