Outcome

Percentage of esidents with a valid target assessment and a valid prior assessment with worsening of a depressed or anxious mood.

The number of hospital discharges with a retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment (secondary diagnosis) among surgical and medical patients ages 17 years and younger. Excludes normal newborns, newborns with birth weight less than 500 grams, cases with principal diagnosis of retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment, cases with a secondary diagnosis of retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment present on admission, and obstetric cases.

The number of hospital discharges with a retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment (secondary diagnosis) among surgical and medical patients ages 18 years and older or obstetric patients. Excludes cases with principal diagnosis of retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment and cases with a secondary diagnosis of retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment present on admission.

This is a hospital based, risk adjusted, case mix adjusted elderly surgery aggregate clinical outcomes measure of adults 65 years of age and older.

This is a hospital based, risk adjusted, case mix adjusted morbidity and mortality aggregate outcome measure of adults 18+ years undergoing colon surgery.

The Risk Adjusted Post-Ambulance Provider Triage Emergency Department (ED) Visit Rate Measure (shorthand: Post-Triage ED Visit Rate Measure) assesses the quality of the triage and decision making by ambulance providers who transport low acuity patients to an alternative destination (non-ED location), or facilitate Treatment In Place (TIP), by identifying whether patients have a subsequent ED visit or death within three days.

Risk adjusted, case mix adjusted urinary tract infection outcome measure of adults 18+ years after surgical procedure.

The Risk Standardized Mortality Ratio for Late-Stage CKD and ESRD is an outcome measure to assess how well providers prevent mortality among patients with stage 4 or 5 CKD or ESRD. This measure assesses nephrology practices who care for adult Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) beneficiaries with late-stage CKD and ESRD.

The existing NQF-endorsed measure provides a means for determining the risk-adjusted readmission rate for a selected adult target population and can be applied for any desired timeframe. Readmission rate is defined as the percentage of acute inpatient discharges during the measurement period followed by an acute inpatient admission for any diagnosis to any hospital within 30 days

The average (geometric mean) hospital length of stay in days relative to the expected geometric mean length of stay of any well defined population of inpatients over a specified time interval