FloridaBlack Quality Measures Compared to Achievable Benchmarks
The NHQDR quality measures specific to Black are compared to achievable benchmarks, which are derived from the top-performing States. Better performance of a State can mean higher or lower values of a measure, depending on the desired outcome. For example, low values are desirable for measures such as infant mortality, whereas high values are desirable for measures such as preventative screening. The categories of achievement have been standardized across the measure definitions so that:
Far away from benchmark - a State's value for a measure has not achieved 50% of the benchmark.
Close to benchmark - a State's value for a measure is between 50% and 90% of a benchmark (i.e., worse than the benchmark but has achieved at least half of the benchmark but not as much as 90% of a benchmark).
Achieved benchmark or better - a State's value for a measure is no worse than 90% of the benchmark value, the measure has achieved the benchmark. This category also includes the case in which the measure’s value is equal to or better than the benchmark.
Measures That Are Far From Benchmark
Rating of health care 0-6 on a scale from 0 (worst grade) to 10 (best grade) by adults who had a doctor´s office or clinic visit in the last 12 months, Medicare fee-for-service |
Black |
13.3 |
8.8 |
51.7% |
Adult hospital patients who did not receive good communication about discharge information |
Black |
11.8 |
7.7 |
52.8% |
Adults age 40 and over with diagnosed diabetes who received a flu vaccination in the calendar year |
Black |
30.0 |
65.8 |
54.4% |
Home health care patients who had to be admitted to the hospital |
Black |
28.2 |
17.7 |
59.0% |
Low-risk, long-stay nursing home residents with a catheter inserted and left in the bladder |
Black |
4.2 |
2.5 |
65.4% |
Rating of health care 0-6 on a scale from 0 (worst grade) to 10 (best grade) by adults who had a doctor´s office or clinic visit in the last 12 months, Medicare managed care |
Black |
12.5 |
7.2 |
75.1% |
Adults who needed to see a specialist in the last 12 months who sometimes or never found it easy to see a specialist, Medicare fee-for-service |
Black |
13.0 |
7.2 |
79.4% |
Short-stay nursing home patients with pressure ulcers that are new or worsened |
Black |
0.5 |
0.3 |
89.3% |
Adults who had a doctor's office or clinic visit in the last 12 months and needed care, tests, or treatment who sometimes or never found it easy to get the care, tests, or treatment, Medicare managed care |
Black |
9.8 |
4.9 |
100.8% |
Long-stay nursing home residents with physical restraints |
Black |
0.5 |
0.2 |
126.1% |
High-risk, long-stay nursing home patients with pressure ulcer |
Black |
8.2 |
3.4 |
142.6% |
Adult hospital patients who strongly disagree or disagree that staff took their preferences and those of their family and caregiver into account when deciding what the patients discharge health care would be |
Black |
7.9 |
3.2 |
143.8% |
Adults who had a doctor's office or clinic visit in the last 12 months and needed care, tests, or treatment who sometimes or never found it easy to get the care, tests, or treatment, Medicare fee-for-service |
Black |
10.7 |
4.4 |
144.1% |
Low-risk, long-stay nursing home residents with loss of control of bowels or bladder |
Black |
53.4 |
16.7 |
219.8% |
Adults who needed to see a specialist in the last 12 months who sometimes or never found it easy to see a specialist, Medicare managed care |
Black |
20.5 |
6.4 |
220.3% |
Adults who had a doctor's office or clinic visit in the last 12 months whose health providers sometimes or never spent enough time with them, Medicare managed care |
Black |
9.7 |
2.8 |
253.1% |
Adults who needed care right away for an illness, injury, or condition in the last 12 months who sometimes or never got care as soon as wanted, Medicare managed care |
Black |
21.4 |
4.3 |
391.5% |
Adults who had a doctor's office or clinic visit in the last 12 months whose health providers sometimes or never explained things in a way they could understand, Medicare managed care |
Black |
10.0 |
1.9 |
419.8% |
Measures With No Available Benchmark Information or Supplemental Measures
Population |
Short-stay home health patients who had drug education on all medications |
Black |
97.1 |
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People who needed to see a doctor but could not because of cost in the past 12 months |
Black |
21.2 |
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Composite measure: Adults who had a doctor's office or clinic visit in the last 12 months whose health providers sometimes or never listened carefully, explained things clearly, respected what they had to say, and spent enough time with them, Medicare fee |
Black |
5.5 |
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Adult hospital patients who always had good communication with nurses in the hospital |
Black |
83.9 |
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Adult hospital patients who always had good communication with doctors in the hospital |
Black |
83.7 |
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Adult hospital patients who strongly agree that they understood how to manage their health after discharge |
Black |
57.2 |
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Adult hospital patients who strongly agree that they understood the purpose for taking each of their medications after discharge |
Black |
53.5 |
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