TJC Accepted Non-Core Quality Indicators

McLean BASIS plus offers 25 non-core measures that have been accepted by The Joint Commission for accreditation purposes in connection with the ORYX® initiative. These include:

• Seven measures from the BASIS-24®, a consumer self-report of symptom and functional difficulty. BASIS-24® is the revised version of our original BASIS-32® consumer self-report survey.
• Six measures from the BASIS-32®, a consumer self-report of symptom and functional difficulty.
• Four measures from the Perceptions of Care Survey, an 18-item self-report rating scale incorporating patient/client perspectives on the quality of (inpatient and outpatient) behavioral health services received.
• Rates of hospital readmission within 30 days of discharge.
• Rates of patient-to-staff and patient-to-patient assaults.
• Rates of medication errors.
• Rates of episodes and hours of seclusion and restraint.

Click here for a listing, description, and ID numbers of non-core performance measures that have been accepted by The Joint Commission for accreditation purposes in connection with the ORYX® initiative.

Psychiatric Core Measures

McLean BASIS plus transmits and reports results for the Hospital-Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HBIPS) core measure test set. Psychiatric hospitals may collect and submit data for the test set of seven core psychiatric measures in lieu of submitting data for nine non-core measures. These include:

• Admission screening for violence risk, substance use,  psychological trauma history and patient strengths completed
• Hours of physical restraint use
• Hours of seclusion use
• Patients discharged on multiple antipsychotic medications
• Patients discharged on multiple antipsychotic medications with appropriate justification
• Post discharge continuing care plan created
• Post discharge continuing care plan transmitted to next level of care provider upon discharge

McLean BASIS plus has been serving as an ORYX® vendor since 1998, when The Joint Commission began the program. We are excited and committed to this important new program in psychiatric and behavioral health quality measurement and reporting.
Hospitals interested in participating in core indicators should review the seven measures and the detailed specifications available on The Joint Commission website.

Call us for more additional information about collecting and transmitting core measures.

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