Dr Foster Intelligence | Clinician Outcomes and Benchmarking (COB)

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In his Review of the readiness of appraisal and clinical governance to support the relicensure of doctors, The Chief Medical Officer concluded "high quality data on clinical outcomes of care are vital to effective assessment of clinical practice".

Clinician Outcomes and Benchmarking (COB)

Clinician Outcomes and Benchmarking (COB) is an easy-to-use, web-based tool offering information on individual consultant performance that can be benchmarked and monitored against the national average.

The tool offers:

An audit of clinical practice benchmarked against historical performance and local and national averages
A record of income generated for the trust (based on PbR tariffs)
An understanding of needs assessment derived from audit
A record of learning and performance as well as quality improvement initiatives
The ability to append notes to individual cases
Printable documentation for purposes of appraisal and revalidation

COB generates reports specific to consultants' performance, covering:

inpatient and outpatient activity
outpatient first to follow-up ratio
outpatient to inpatient conversion rate
mortality rate - procedures & diagnoses
length of stay - procedures & diagnoses
readmissions - procedures & diagnoses
day case rate -procedures
DNA rate

The tool allows:

Consultants - to monitor and benchmark performance against peers at a local and national level in near real time
Medical Directors - to review individual and team activity, outcomes, efficiencies and to inform the appraisal process
Clinical Governance Directors - to provide evidence that governance, safety and quality, and resource utilisation are being systematically monitored and assessed.
Heads of Information - to access consultants and team activity and produce reports for clinical directors

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