The June 2018 Edition of The Journal of Managed Care contains an article that explores criteria other than the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) persistent asthma definition. Researchers performed an analysis on patients aged two to eighteen with three years of continuous enrollment, constructing and testing multiple potential definitions on two years of data for their ability “to identify patients having an exacerbation in the third year.” Through their testing, researchers were able to find definitions that were more sensitive to asthma criteria than HEDIS. Researchers concluded “population health registries and quality measurement may benefit from using a claims-based definition of pediatric patients at risk of asthma exacerbations that is not as restrictive as the HEDIS persistent asthma criteria.”
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