Data Collection And Data Reporting Tools
Stroke

Introduction

These tools have been developed as one option for collecting and reporting DSC stroke measure data. Your organization may choose to design manual data collection and reporting tools of your own or develop an electronic format for data collection and data reporting. These data tools have been created with the following objectives:

• Minimize unnecessary entries;
• Expedite and streamline the data collection process; and
• Facilitate data aggregation for measure rate calculations and report submission.

The data elements included in these tools could be added to an existing data collection tool or program within your organization or your organization may wish to add other data elements to these forms with a goal of avoiding duplicative or multiple data abstraction activities. Combining data collection efforts may support additional performance improvement initiatives as well.

Guide to Use

1. Always complete the report period information. This is critical since a single patient/participant might be included in multiple report periods.
2. Always complete questions 1-12. These data elements capture fundamental population inclusion criteria and will avoid the collection of data for patients who are not eligible for any measure populations.
3. Always complete one data collection tool per patient case.
4. Aggregate Category D and Category E responses from each Data Collection Tool and complete the Data Reporting Tool to calculate rates.
5. It is very important that the data definitions and abstraction guidelines included in the Data Element Dictionary (Section 5) of the Stroke Performance Measurement Implementation Guide be used when abstracting data for these measures.

Data Collection Tool-Stroke

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