Understanding OPPE, part 6: An OPPE system for 'specialty-specific' metrics

In preceding months, we looked at the design of an OPPE system for general performance metrics that could affect the entire medical staff, including clinical quality case review, professionalism, and medical record documentation. Although I said in last month's column we would wrap up this series on OPPE, a recent Joint Commission survey at my organization brought another topic to light that we need to address in this series. This month, we turn our attention to inclusion of practitioner performance metrics that are specific more to a particular specialty, department, service line, or privilege(s) that cross specialty lines. This allows greater specific scrutiny of competency within a defined clinical domain. The metric chosen will obviously only apply to some subset of practitioners, but the specificity allows better definition for driving improvement and quality care in an area or a procedure or a privilege that is relevant to that department/section/service line.

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