Physician office care

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Most medical care occurs in a physician's office. The indicators in this section apply to care delivered outside the hospital by the physicians of Norton Healthcare Physician Practices. The data we display here are based upon a representative sample of the more than 400,000 visits to these physicians annually. As we accumulate additional data each quarter, more of the indicators in this section will have sufficient data to allow us to display a reliable percentage.

Click on the indicator description or on the results to obtain the full report.

Key

better than U.S. average near U.S. average worse than U.S. average # = too few eligible cases to calculate a reliable statistic
blank = does not apply
italic number = no comparative data
  Desired Performance Norton Healthcare Physician Practices Kentucky U.S.
Diabetes - percent of patients
receiving 1 or more HbA1c test(s) high 98.5    
with most recent HbA1c level > 9.0% low 10.8    
receiving at least one LDL-C test high 93.1    
with most recent LDL-C level < 130 mg/dL high 74.9    
with most recent LDL-C level < 100 mg/dL high 57.8    
who received an eye exam/evaluation high 32.7    
w/ most recent BP < 140/90 mm/Hg high 69.6    
  Desired Performance Norton Healthcare Physician Practices Kentucky U.S.
Prevention, Immunization and Screening - percent of patients
who had one or more mammograms (women only) high 64.8    
screened for colorectal cancer high 64.5    
who received one or more PAP tests (women only) high 55.1    
age 50 and older given influenza vaccination high 30.7    
age 65 and older given pneumococcal vaccination high 59.6    
queried for tobacco use during 2-yr period high 84.1    
who smoke and received cessation intervention high #    
  Desired Performance Norton Healthcare Physician Practices Kentucky U.S.
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) - percent of patients
prescribed a lipid-lowering medication high 83.3    
  Desired Performance Norton Healthcare Physician Practices Kentucky U.S.
Heart Failure - percent of patients
given LVF assessment high 98.9    
w/ LVSD prescribed ACEI/ARB (med) high 73.6    
  Desired Performance Norton Healthcare Physician Practices Kentucky U.S.
Asthma - percent of patients
prescribed proper drug therapy (persistent asthma) high #    
prescribed proper drug therapy (any severity) high 100.0Quality Ribbon    
  Desired Performance Norton Healthcare Physician Practices Kentucky U.S.
Respiratory Infections and Pharyngitis - percent of pediatric patients
w/ URI not given antibiotic w/i 3 days of episode high 95.8    
w/ pharyngitis given proper lab test & antibiotic high 89.7    
  Desired Performance Norton Healthcare Physician Practices Kentucky U.S.
Depression - percent of patients with new diagnosis
on antidepressant medication for 84 days high 92.3    
on antidepressant medication for 180 days high 91.7    
  Desired Performance Norton Healthcare Physician Practices Kentucky U.S.
Miscellaneous

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