Cultural Competency Implementation Measure
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The Cultural Competence Implementation Measure is an organisational survey designed to assist healthcare organisations in identifying the degree to which they are providing culturally competent care and addressing the needs of diverse populations, as well as their adherence to 12 of the 45 NQF-endorsed® cultural competency practices prioritised for the survey.
Numerator
The target audience for this survey includes health care organisations across a range of health care settings, including hospitals, health plans, community clinics, and dialysis organisations. The focus of the measure is the degree to which health care organisations have adopted or implemented 12 of the 45 NQF-endorsed cultural competency preferred practices.
Denominator
As mentioned above, the survey can be used to measure adherence to 12 of the 45-NQF endorsed cultural competence preferred practices. The survey could be used to focus on a particular type of health care organisation, or more broadly to collect information across various organisation types.
Exclusions
None
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
None
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Instrument-Based Data