Unmasking your team to your peers in D2D

New for D2D 5.0: Teams now have the ability to “unmask” themselves to their peers and to see how one another is doing.

What does unmasking look like?

Teams that have said “yes” to being unmasked were asked to select their team name from a drop-down list during D2D data submission.

You will be able to review the data from your unmasked peers in two ways:

• Select from a drop-down list of unmasked teams on the interactive report.
  • Any AFHTO member who accesses the interactive report, even if they did not submit data or did not agree to be unmasked, will see this list.
  • When you select a team from this list, you will see that team’s full interactive report.
• Select from a drop-down list of core D2D indicators from a spreadsheet in the Comparator Tab.
  • View an indicator to see how data from all of the unmasked teams, along with the team names.
  • Use filters in the table to further refine the data you see, in order to narrow it down to teams like your own (e.g., urban/rural, academic).

Note that the following data will NOT be visible to peers:

• Responses to the Team Profile Questionnaire
• Data for expanded indicators not part of the Quality roll-up indicator.

My team didn’t agree to be unmasked. Can I still use this functionality of D2D?

Yes! Data for unmasked teams will be visible to all AFHTO members, regardless of whether they agreed to be unmasked, even if they didn’t participate in D2D this year. We hope that all our member teams will be interested to see which of their teams have performed well on indicators that are important to them, so they can reach out to for ideas to improve their own scores. We also hope that after seeing their peers unmasked, more teams will feel comfortable being unmasked in future iterations of D2D.

What do I need to do if I want my team to be unmasked next time?

Your board, lead clinician, and other key stakeholders may wish to weigh in on whether to unmask your team to your peers. Ask the relevant decision-makers on your team for permission to share your team’s data with your peers in D2D. If your board needs to give formal approval, you’ll need to get this onto the agenda in time for the last board meeting before the submission platform opens. Submission for D2D 6.0 will start in mid-August 2018, so consider getting this on the agenda for your board’s next meeting. Unmasking is optional, and team-level data will never be shared outside of the AFHTO membership.