Whether you're identifying areas of excellence or targeting improvement opportunities, National Comparatives from CareScience can enhance your clinical process improvement efforts. A complement to the Quality Manager, National Comparatives allows users to compare clinical and financial outcomes and resource use patterns across DRG, diagnosis, procedure, and other parameters. These resource-level comparisons provide valuable insight into practice variations between your facility and national benchmarks.

With the Quality Manager, users can access and analyze detailed information about their facility, physicians, patient care processes, resources and outcomes. The National Comparatives module enhances this clinical analysis with the capability to conduct comparative benchmarking for outcomes and resource use against a national database. Together, the full suite gives physician managers and clinicians insights to identify areas of excellence, opportunities for improvement, and optimum treatment protocols.

National Comparatives offers the following benefits and features:

			A National Dataset for Benchmarking - This dataset is compiled from CareScience clients nationwide (data is generated from more than one and a half million patient encounters captured in the Quality Manager and is growing every day).
			Risk-Adjusted Data for Enhanced Accuracy - The National Comparatives database uses CareScience's unique, risk-assessment methodologies to account for variations in outcomes due to patient demographics, clinical details, and care selection factors.
			Standardization of Resource Terms for Quick and Easy Analysis - All resource data has been standardized using the CareScience Clinical Terminology Service ( based on the National Library of Medicine's widely accepted Unified Medical Language System) to allow for meaningful, accurate comparisons across multiple facilities.
			Flexible Query Tool and Customized Reporting - A flexible query tool to accommodate very specific, user-defined clinical analyses. Users can easily customize the patient populations studied to include DRGs, diagnoses, procedures, and/or specific resource use.