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Solventum™ Potentially Preventable Admissions (PPAs) Classification System

This product was previously 3M™ Potentially Preventable Admissions (PPA)

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TheSolventum™ Potentially Preventable Admissions (PPAs) Classification System 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. Solventum 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 Solventum Potentially Preventable Admissions (PPAs) Classification System methodology is a clinical classification system that identifies avoidable initial hospital admissions. Solventum PPA uses the industry-standard Solventum™ All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR DRGs) Classification System to identify the preventable admission and Solventum™ Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs) Classification System to risk-adjust the comparison data.

Performing careful, clinically defined risk adjustment

Performing careful, clinically defined risk adjustment

Accurate and fair Solventum PPA identification requires careful, clinically defined risk adjustment. The widely accepted Solventum™ Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs) Classification System measures baseline population health status in comparing actual versus expected Solventum PPA rates.

Applying a categorical measurement to generate actionable information

Applying a categorical measurement to generate actionable information

Solventum PPA is one of the five Solventum™ Potentially Preventable Events (PPEs) 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. Solventum 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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