The Committee on Assessment of Quality (formerly know as the Quality Assessment Committee) has announced the inauguration of an outcomes measurement project. This pilot project will focus on measures relating to the management of intracranial aneurysms. A number of pilot sites have been selected and the project should be running by October.
Robert Harbaugh, MD, chairman of the Outcomes Committee, and Megan Morgan, project director, will be managing the project. This will be a comprehensive examination of the results of various interventions currently employed in management of intracranial aneurysms, and includes both functional as well as patient satisfaction outcomes.
The Committee has also prepared a model report card for use as a preliminary tool to monitor quality, as well as for self-assessment. Potential uses could be in dealing with health care purchasers and HMOs as well as for use with patients facing procedures already surveyed and analyzed for various performance measures. This will be available for downloading on NEUROSURGERY://ON-CALL®, along with disease/condition specific tools, at a later date.