Surgery patients for whom either active warming was used intraoperatively for the purpose of maintaining normothermia or who had at least one body temperature equal to or greater than 96.8° F/36° C recorded within the 30 minutes immediately prior to or the 15 minutes immediately after Anesthesia End Time.
Surgery patients for whom either active warming was used intraoperatively for the purpose of maintaining normothermia or who had at least one body temperature equal to or greater than 96.8° F/36° C recorded within the 30 minutes immediately prior to or the fifteen minutes immediately after Anesthesia End Time.
Denominator
1.15 Denominator
All patients, regardless of age, undergoing surgical procedures under general or neuraxial anesthesia of 60 minutes duration
Exclusions
Exclusions
• Patients who have a length of stay >120 days (all CMS quality measures have this exclusion- has to do with quarterly reporting) • Patients whose ICD-9-CM principal procedure occurred prior to the date of admission • Patients whose length of anesthesia was less than 60 minutes • Patients who did not have general or neuraxial anesthesia • Patients with physician/APN/PA documentation of intentional hypothermia for the procedure performed.
Measure Record
Most Recent Endorsement Activity
Measure Retired and Endorsement Removed Surgery Endorsement Project 2013-2015
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