FORCE-TJR registry has recently been certified as a CMS Qualified Clinical Data Registry allowing physicians to focus on quality patient care.
Here are 15 facts about FORCE-TJR:
1. FORCE-TJR is considered the most comprehensive national registry for total hip and knee joint replacement and their surgical outcomes.
2. FORCE-TJR has fulfilled QCDR requirements by successfully collecting and tracking more than 30,000 TJR patients across the nation in more than 150 provider institutions.
3. The expansion of FORCE-TJR registry will provide patient and disease tracking, implant performance, patient-reported outcomes and quality monitoring of TJR.
4. FORCE-TJR may now complete the collection and submission of PQRS quality measures on behalf of member hospitals and physicians. This allows FORCE-TJR members to bypass 2016 payments.
5. Approximately 40 percent of healthcare providers treating Medicare patients will have their payments docked by 1.5 percent this year due to not submitting data on patient's health to the government, according to the Wall Street Journal.
6. A poll showed that 83 percent of respondents stated that programs reduced their ability to care for patients because the programs are time-consuming and confusing.
7. FORCE-TJR allows physicians to primarily focus on patient quality care and reduce the frustrations associated with programs that require physicians to report patients' health to the government.
8. With this newly granted certification, FORCE-TJR developed new non-PQRS measures which include:
• Pain and functional status for hip and knee replacements
• Improvement in pain and function after hip and knee replacements
• Mental health assessment for patients who undergo hip and knee replacements
• Assessment and improvement on patients with osteoarthritis in the hip or knee
9. FORCE-TJR is now capable of defining new quality measures such as patient-reported outcomes and submitting this data to the CMS without any additional data.
10. FORCE-TJR was originally a $12 million research project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
11. FORCE-TJR is the first registry to identify risk-adjusted national benchmarks such as patient risk factors.
12. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School led a group of 150 surgeons from around the nation in collecting information from more than 30,000 TJR patients.
13. This collection of TJR patients establishes a statistically important cohort for the AHRQ-funded registry.
14. FORCE-TJR is presently expanding with plans to enroll surgeons and hospitals beyond the AHRQ-cohort.
15. FORCE-TJR registry gives access to national TJR benchmarks, real-time patient-reported outcome scoring and comprehensive, comparative arthroplasty practice feedback and data to improve patient care and compare performance to peer surgeons/institutions.
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