Evaluating population health

ED visits per 1000 patients

Emergency department (ED) visits per 1000 patients is a common benchmark metric used by health care organizations (payers, providers, ACOs) to evaluate the health of a patient population. High utilization of the ED may suggest several underlying issues:

1. Suboptimal care management
2. Insufficient access to primary or preventive care
3. Inappropriate healthcare-seeking behavior by patients

By monitoring these rates, health care organizations can identify areas for improvement in their care delivery models and implement strategies to reduce unnecessary ED visits.

Zus summarizes inpatient, emergency, observation, and preadmit encounters that occur within 36 hours of each other into a Transition of Care Lens, which can be queried from the Lens Transition of Care table.

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Sample query available here

IP admits per 1000 patients

Inpatient (IP) admissions per 1000 patients is a common benchmark metric used by health care organizations to evaluate the health of a patient population. Reducing hospitalizations not only reduces the risk of adverse events and prolonged hospital stays (such as the risk of healthcare-associated infections), but also reduces costs.

By monitoring these rates, health care organizations can identify trends and implement strategies to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations.

Zus summarizes inpatient, emergency, observation, and preadmit encounters that occur within 36 hours of each other into a Transition of Care Lens, which can be queried from the Lens Transition of Care table.

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Sample query available here