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QOPI Certification Participation Guide
2.1.5
Spring 2015
QOPI® CERTIFICATION QUALITY SCORING THRESHOLD
The QOPI® Certification Report provides the practice score on the 26 designated measures and
the overall quality score.
The Overall Quality Score is an aggregate score, based on these 26
certification measures, within the required modules designated for QOPI® Certification
Note: The practice must meet or exceed a 75% Overall Quality Score
2.1.6
TARGET CHART REQUIREMENTS
Practices must follow the QOPI® sampling methodology and meet the target chart
requirements for their practice size and applicable modules. If all charts from all medical
oncologist and hematologist oncologists from all office locations were not included in the pool
from which charts were sampled, an attestation form must be completed when applying for
Certification to justify why exclusion does not compromise the validity of the abstraction from
an assessment standpoint. Specifically, the following apply:
1. Target for each module should be met
2. If target for certain modules is not met – confirm that all eligible charts for that module have
been abstracted
3. After confirming that all targets are met for each module and, if not met, that all eligible
charts have been abstracted, then confirm minimum unique chart requirements are met.
4. If below the minimum unique chart requirements, you are allowed to add additional charts
of patients that qualify for core or symptom with cases, with any invasive malignancy in the
allowable range.
2.1.7
DETERMINING FTES AT YOUR P RACTICE
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) is the ratio of the total number of clinical hours during a period (part
time, full time, contracted) with the number of working hours in that period; or the proportion of
time a medical oncologist or hematologist provides clinical care, relative to a full time schedule.
The ratio units are FTE units, or equivalent employees working full-time (one FTE equals one
employee working full-time).
For example: You have three clinicians and they work 50 hours, 40 hours, and 10 hours per week –
totaling 100 hours. Assuming a full-time employee works 40 hours per week, your full time
equivalent calculation is 100 hours divided by 40 hours, or 2.5 FTE.
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