Define encounters for analysis
Why use this feature
You can define and gather encounters together to easily analyze populations so that your organization can address a wide variety of business questions or challenges. This allows you to look at a problem and identify the affected population. For example, you may want to evaluate the causes behind readmissions or find out what hip replacement patients are still experiencing joint pain more than three months after surgery.
How this feature works
What: By defining episodes and return population definitions in Axiom, you can gain insight across facilities, years, and patient care settings that are linked by a common ID with the flexibility to look at visits (and all of the associated visit data) for visits occurring before and after the index, anchor, or admission.
The definition allows you to configure the following:
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The date range in which the encounter(s) occurred
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The frequency and timeframe for when pre-anchor(s) and post-anchor(s) occured
Where: From the Enterprise Decision Support home page, in the Encounter analysis section, click Define encounter rules.
Who: Users assigned the EDS User role profile.
How: Add a definition by clicking +Add, and selecting either Episode or Return definition type. To search for a definition, you can use the search box in the upper right corner of the page. To filter the results in the table, click the ellipsis(...) in any of the available headings.
TIP: To use this feature, we recommend that you read all of the associated online help topics listed in the "Where to find more information" section below.
Manage the definitions from one page.
The definition page clearly indicates the criteria needed and allows you to add notes to provide a description of the definition
Where to find more information
The following topics in the online help have been added or updated with information and instructions for using this feature:
