Change in rasch derived values of self-care function from admission to discharge among adult patients treated as short term rehabilitation patients in a skilled nursing facility who were discharged alive. The time frame for the measure is 12 months. The measure includes the following 8 items: Eating, Grooming, Dressing Upper Body, Dressing Lower Body, Toileting, Bowel, Expression, and Memory.

Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of heart failure (HF) and a current or prior ejection fraction (EF) <40% who are self-identified Black or African Americans and receiving ACEI or ARB and Beta-blocker therapy who were prescribed a fixed-dose combination of hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate seen for an office visit in the measurement period in the outpatient setting or at each hospital discharge

Percentage of adult inpatient hospital discharges to home for which the individual was on warfarin and discharged with a non-therapeutic International Normalized Ratio (INR) who had an INR test within 14 days of hospital discharge

Percentage of patients, regardless of age, who undergo central venous catheter (CVC) insertion for whom CVC was inserted with all elements of maximal sterile barrier technique, hand hygiene, skin preparation and, if ultrasound is used, sterile ultrasound techniques followed

A Wrong-Patient Retract-and-Reorder (Wrong Patient-RAR) event occurs when an order is placed on a patient within an EHR, is retracted within 10 minutes, and then the same clinician places the same order on a different patient within the next 10 minutes. A Wrong-Patient Retract-and-Reorder rate is calculated by dividing Wrong Patient-RAR events by total orders examined.

The percentage of children who received visual acuity screening at least once by their 6th birthday; and if necessary, were referred appropriately.

This measure assesses antimicrobial use in hospitals based on medication administration data that hospitals collect electronically at the point of care and report via electronic file submissions to CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

The percentage of patients ages 40 to 75 years who were dispensed a medication for diabetes that receive a statin medication.

Percentage of patient months for adult and pediatric patients whose delivered peritoneal dialysis dose was a weekly Kt/Vurea (dialytic + residual) >= 1.7 (adult, >=18) or >= 1.8 (pediatric, <18).

Percentage of adult in-center hemodialysis patients in the facility whose average ultrafiltration rate (UFR) is >=13 ml/kg/hour AND who receive an average of <240 minutes per treatment during the calculation period.