The Benchmark Report allows ALERT IIS users to retrieve a list and count of patients who have met an immunization benchmark or predefined series of benchmarks. The resulting report may be viewed in ALERT IIS, exported as a text file, or exported as a spreadsheet.

• Generating a Benchmark Report

• 1. Select the patient population to be assessed by clicking one of the following options described below:

  Select Patient Population Options	Description	Available Admin Role
  All Patients Associated with Selected Site	Selecting this option will return only patients who have been immunized at the selected site.	Yes
  All Patients Associated with Provider	Selecting this option will return only patients who are active within the organization.	Yes
  All Patients Residing in County	Selecting this option will return all patients residing in the displayed county. This report will not exclude patients based on if a patient is active within your organization or not.  This option is only available to county providers.	No
  All patients residing in County and all patients associated with Provider.	Selecting this option will return a combination of the two previous options. It will return all patients active within your organization or residing within the county displayed.  This option is only available to county providers.	No

  
  
  3. Select one of the following options described below to specify the patients to return on the report:

  Patient Benchmark Options	Description
  Patients who DID meet the benchmark	The population will be limited to patients patients who met the benchmark(s) defined in the Select Benchmark table.
  Patients who did NOT meet the benchmark	The population will be limited to patients who did not meet the benchmark(s) defined in the Select Benchmark table.
  All patients, regardless of whether they met the benchmark or not	The population will be limited to patients meeting the criteria defined in the Select Benchmark table..

  
  
  4. Select the age, birth date range or age range of the patients by selecting one of the following options:

  Select Age or Birth Date Range Options	Description
  Less than or equal to 72 months old	The population will be limited to patients who are less than or equal to 72 months old as of the evaluation date.
  Birth date range	The population will be limited to patients who have a birth date in this range.
  Age range	The population will be limited to patients within this age range as of the evaluation date.

  
  
  5. Select the Options for Benchmarking by selecting one of the following:

     Options for Benchmarking Options	Description
     Standard Assessment	The standard benchmark report will be generated.
     Assess Patients with Sufficient Refusal History as Covered	The standard benchmark report will be generated however will count patients with sufficient refusal comments as being considered up-to-date.  In order for patient refusals of vaccine to be calculated correctly on the benchmark report, an appropriate Applies-To-Date must be entered for refusal comments on the Patient Comments tab.

     
     
  6. Enter your evaluation date criteria in MM/DD/YYYY format or use the calendar icon to choose a date.

  Select Evaluation Date	Description
  Date Field	The evaluation date that the Benchmark Report uses to determine the cohort for the report.  The evaluation date also limits immunizations considered for the report.  No immunizations given after the evaluation date are included in the evaluation.

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  7. Select the benchmark(s) to be used on the report using the Age Specific Immunization Benchmarks table or the Aggregate Outcomes Benchmarks table described below.  
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     • Age Specific Immunization Benchmarks table

  Column	Description
  Age	Age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  DTaP	Number of doses of DTaP at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  HepB	Number of doses of HepB at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  Hib	Number of doses of Hib at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  MMR	Number of doses of MMR at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  Polio	Number of doses of Polio at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  Pneumo	Number of doses of Pneumo at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  Varicella	Number of doses of Varicella at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.

  
  

• Aggregate Outcomes Benchmarks table

• Column	Description
  Age	Age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  431	Number of 4 DTaP, 3 Polio, and 1 MMR doses at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  43133	Number of 4 DTaP, 3 Polio, 1 MMR, 3 Hib, and 3 HepB doses at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.
  431331	Number of 4 DTaP, 3 Polio, 1 MMR, 3 Hib, 3 HepB, and 1 Varicella doses at the specific age at which the Immunization benchmark will be taken.

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  • • Selecting benchmark(s)
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      • To select one or more single vaccine benchmarks within a single row, click the box where the vaccine and the number of months intersect. For example, clicking the box with "4" in it where "DTaP" and "@ 19 months" intersect will result in a report with this benchmark included.

      • To select all benchmarks in a row, you may click on the first box in the row that indicates "@ X months".

      • To select benchmarks in a predefined series, select one of the 431, 43133, or 431331 combinations at the bottom of the table.

  8. Click the Generate button.

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