CLINICAL CENTER ANNUAL
PERFORMANCE MEASURES - FY2000

 

Strategic Goal: Excellence in Clinical Research Support

  • Clinical Center Program Characteristics - Annual number (and % change) of:
    • admissions
    • inpatient days
    • outpatient visits
    • new protocols
    • new principal investigators
    • new patients
  • Number of clinical research publications in peer-reviewed journals for studies conducted at the CC
  • Citation impact of clinical research publications coming from the CC
  • Number of protocols with a CC investigator partnering with an Institute investigator
  • Percent principal investigators with positive perception of the quality of clinical research support
  • Number of enrollees in clinical research training programs

Strategic Goal: Quality Patient Care

  • Number of clinical quality measures meeting performance thresholds
    • conscious sedation
    • returns to the OR
    • competencies
    • autopsies
    • credentialing/privileging
    • patient/referring MD satisfaction
    • pain
    • consult review
    • use of restraints
    • informed consent
  • Percent patients with positive perception of the quality of care
  • Percent referring physicians with positive perception of the quality of care
  • Percent biomedical equipment inventory that is Year 2000 compliant

Strategic Goal: Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency

  • Cost per patient day
  • Percent patient accrual to protocol compared to planned accrual
  • Percent information systems infrastructure (mission and non-mission critical systems) that are Year 2000 compliant
  • Percent CRC construction and activation plan milestones meeting target dates


For more information about the Clinical Center,
e-mail OCCC@nih.gov, or call Clinical Center Communications, 301-496-2563.

Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7511