Vaginal Birth Cohort

The Vaginal Birth Cohort is built around APR-DRG 560, including uncomplicated single births. This is often the highest volume cohort in hospitals.

To leverage this cohort:

Profile filters: In the Profile Editor, add the cohort as a profile filter. With this option, you can further customize the profile with additional filters.
Statistical Process Control: Add a Statistical Process Control section to a scorecard and select the cohort from the dropdown. Within this section, the cohort is not customizable and must be used as-is. When drilling into a chart in the SPC section, you can select to create a profile of the encounters you're drilling into so you can analyze and customize further.

Cohort inclusions

To be eligible for this cohort, the encounter must have an APR-DRG for Vaginal Delivery (560).

Encounters with any of the following conditions are excluded from the cohort:

Complicated Birth
- Severity of Illness (SOI) 3 or 4
- Risk of Mortality (ROM) 3 or 4
Complications with the baby
- Linked case with APR-DRG other than 640 (APR-DRG 640 indicates the delivered baby is a Normal Newborn)
- SOI or ROM for the linked case is 3 or 4

The following measures pertain to this cohort in the Statistical Process Control section of scorecards.

Length of Stay (LOS)
1 to 30 Day Readmission Rate Forward
Charges - Principal Procedure (sum of OR Charges on the day of the Principal Procedure)

These measures flag the encounter if the condition is present. The adverse events are aggregated in the Adverse Event bar chart.