The percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient demonstrates an improvement in the condition of surgical wounds.
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1.5 Measure Type1.7 Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM)1.8 Level Of Analysis1.9 Care Setting1.20 Testing Data Sources
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1.14 Numerator
The number of home health episodes of care where the patient has a better status of surgical wounds at discharge compared to start (or resumption) of care.
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1.15 Denominator
The number of home health episodes of care ending during the data collection period other than those covered by generic or measure-specific denominator exclusions.
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Exclusions
Measure-specific exclusions: All home health episodes where it would be impossible for the patient to show measurable improvement because the patient did not have any surgical wounds or had only a surgical wound that was unobservable or fully epithelialized; OR the patient had a surgical wound that was unobservable at discharge; OR the episode of care ended in transfer to inpatient facility or death at home.
Generic exclusions: None, except that HHAs are exempt from reporting OASIS data to CMS on certain categories of patients/clients as described in the next section.
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Most Recent Endorsement ActivityMeasure Retired and Endorsement Removed Surgery Spring Cycle 2018Initial EndorsementLast UpdatedRemoval Date
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StewardCenters for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesSteward Organization POC EmailSteward Organization Copyright
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Risk Adjustment
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Use In Federal Program
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