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Fantasy sports, hospital medicine, and quality metrics. Those were the unique elements of an RIV poster presented by Noppon Setji, MD, medical director of the Duke University Medical Center’s hospital medicine program in Durham, N.C., at HM15.
Dr. Setji, who participates in a fantasy football league for physicians, says he aimed to apply the approaches of fantasy sports leagues to hospitalist quality metrics.1 Dr. Setji wanted to find a way to recognize high-performing hospitalists in his group on a regular basis, beyond the group metrics that had been reported to faculty members—and to create greater accountability and evaluate physicians’ performance over time.
A team developed a survey instrument compiling common clinical process and outcome measures for hospitalists, and faculty members were asked to rate how important the various metrics were to them individually as indicators of physician performance. Their responses were combined into a weighted, composite hospital medicine provider performance score, which reflects the relative value practicing hospitalists assign to available performance measures. Results are easily tabulated on an Excel spreadsheet, Dr. Setji says.
Every three months—or football quarter—the top overall performer is awarded two bottles of wine and possession of the traveling trophy.
“We’re always looking for ways to measure our performance,” Dr. Setji says, “and we all want to know how we’re doing relative to our peers.”
Reference
- Setji NP, Bae JG, Griffith BC, Daley C. Fantasy physician leagues? Introducing the physician equivalent of the Qbr (Quarterly Metric-Based Rating) [abstract]. J Hosp Med. 2015;10(suppl 2).