Annual Report 2023-2024

Length of Stay Shriners Children’s | 19 days Specialty Hospitals | 38 days (lower score is better) WeeFIM Rating at Discharge

hip, foot and ankle, PRO tools for our patients with cerebral palsy, and spine-specific tools for patients with early onset scoliosis and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Future plans are to focus on building out tools relative to our population of patients with cleft lip and palate. Brace compliance The Brace Compliance Program has helped guide Shriners Children’s physicians in making treatment decisions for patients with infantile, juvenile, or adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. A temperature-sensing device is embedded into the patient’s thoracic lumbar sacral orthosis (TLSO) brace that allows for the objective measurement of the patient’s actual wear time of the brace. Patients routinely follow up and collaboratively review compliance reports with physicians to understand the wear time. Appropriate wear time is associated with positive outcomes. In 2023, the program was live at three Shriners Children’s locations — Lexington, Greenville and Shreveport — with additional locations planned in the future. Among the sites live with the program, we saw over 200 temperature-sensing devices placed into patients’ braces.

Shriners Children’s | 85.0 Specialty Hospitals | 79.9 (higher score is better) Patient reported outcomes Since 2016, Shriners Children’s has used a systemwide approach to collecting and utilizing patient reported outcomes (PROs), which allow us to obtain the patient’s perception of their health and indicate what is most meaningful to their quality of life. Today, patient reported outcomes are a standard of care for outpatient clinic visits. When we are able to review results in real time in the medical record, outcomes data can be used during the visit as clinical decision support for the physician. The Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System, also known as “PROMIS”, is used for the majority of our patients in conjunction with more disease specific tools to deliver personalized care. Some of these disease-specific tools include sports questionnaires focusing on injuries to the knee,

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