FORCE-TJR Certified as Qualified Clinical Data Registry (Orthopedics This Week)
FORCE-TJR Registry website
Since 2010 the details of 30,000 total joint patients have been tracked by FORCE-TJR (Function and Outcomes Research for Comparative Effectiveness in Total Joint Replacement). Now, FORCE-TJR has been certified as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR).
As part of this certification, says the June 4, 2015 news release, FORCE-TJR has developed new measures that are not related to The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). These include:
Pain and functional status assessment for hip and knee replacements
Improvement in pain and function after hip and knee replacements
Mental health assessment for patients who undergo hip and knee replacements
Assessment and improvement on patients with osteoarthritis in the hip or knee
“The new QCDR designation allows FORCE-TJR to define new quality measures, including patient-reported outcomes, and to submit these data to CMS on behalf of our members—without any additional data collection. The data serve both their internal quality monitoring and meet the CMS mandate,” said Patricia Franklin, M.D., FORCE-TJR’s registry director.
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