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3M™ Potentially Preventable Admissions (PPA)

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The 3M™ Potentially Preventable Admissions (PPA) methodology identifies hospital admissions that could have potentially been preventable with better coordinated care. The use of quality outcome measures can expand upon currently available process measures and can speed the transformation to an efficient and effective outcomes-based health care delivery system. 3M PPAs are more comprehensive in large part because of advances in our understanding of the role coordinated care can play in avoiding admissions together with the understanding that the preventability of these events should be adjusted for the overall burden of illness of the individual patient.

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Addressing an urgent need in our health care system

Addressing an urgent need in our health care system

Every year, millions of patients are admitted to hospitals for chronic disease exacerbations that were potentially preventable with better management in the community. Reducing such potentially unnecessary admissions both saves money and improves patient outcomes.

The 3M Potentially Preventable Admissions (PPA) methodology is a clinical classification system that identifies avoidable initial hospital admissions. 3M PPA uses the industry-standard 3M™ All Patient Refined DRG (APR DRG) Classification System to identify the preventable admission and 3M™ Clinical Risk Grouping (CRG) Software to risk-adjust the comparison data.

Performing careful, clinically defined risk adjustment

Performing careful, clinically defined risk adjustment

Accurate and fair 3M PPA identification requires careful, clinically defined risk adjustment. The widely accepted 3M™ Clinical Risk Grouping (CRG) Software measures baseline population health status in comparing actual versus expected 3M PPA rates.

Applying a categorical measurement to generate actionable information

Applying a categorical measurement to generate actionable information

3M PPA is one of the five 3M™ Potentially Preventable Event methodologies that generate specific results for clinicians and health care managers to use in improving care and reducing cost.

Specific logic for integrated health delivery systems and residential nursing care facilities

Specific logic for integrated health delivery systems and residential nursing care facilities

Organizations that accept responsibility for the care of identified populations can be held to higher standards. 3M PPA methodology identifies approximately 41 potentially preventable reasons for admission in the general population, 100 reasons in populations managed by integrated health delivery systems, and 126 reasons in populations from residential nursing care facilities.

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