Feedback and reporting tools contain examples of information that can be provided to hospitals and stakeholders to inform them of the quality of their reporting and to assist them in locating areas for hospital-specific quality improvement.

POA Feedback and Reporting Tools

• An Example of Using Present on Admission Data: CMS-Defined Hospital-Acquired Conditions in All-Payer Data (PDF file, 96 KB; HTML) (Maeda et al, 2011)



• Screening Algorithms to Assess the Accuracy of Present-on-Admission Coding (Pine et al, 2009 Perspectives in Health Information Management)



• Hospital-Specific Reports
• POA Distribution Tables and Tables on Patient Safety Measures with and without POA, VA Pilot project hospital results