Cohort Type allows you to select whether you would like to measure against a cohort of patients who started treatment during a given period or a cohort of patients who were active in treatment in a certain period. Cohort Type applies to both Effectiveness and Efficiency Metrics.
The following items should be considered when selecting the Cohort Type:
All patients who are active for any part of the period in question will be counted.
This includes patients who were discharged during the period, as well as patients still in care.
Patients must have at least 2 assessments completed to be counted for the cohort.
Outcomes are evaluated at the end of the period in question, rather than when the measurement was completed.
For example, if you are looking for results for patients active in the month of October, and a patient completed an assessment on October 14th, their length of service would be through the end of October
Assessments can be completed in a prior period - for example, if the last assessment a patient took was in September, this would still be the assessment used to calculate the outcomes for October.
For the total metric, each patient is only counted once
For example, if you select a period of June-August, the denominator will be:
All unique patients active at all in June, July or August.
On breakdown month-by-month graph, each patient is evaluated for that month
It is the equivalent of running separate reports for June, July, August.
If you sum up the denominators for each, you will get a total which represents the total number of treatment months across those months.