Outcome

Percent of patients aged 18 years and older undergoing isolated CABG who require intubation for more than 24 hours postoperatively

Percent of patients aged 18 years and older undergoing isolated CABG (without pre-existing renal failure) who develop postoperative renal failure or require dialysis

Percent of patients aged 18 years and older undergoing isolated CABG who have a postoperative stroke (i.e., any confirmed neurological deficit of abrupt onset caused by a disturbance in blood supply to the brain) that did not resolve within 24 hours

Percent of patients aged 18 years and older undergoing isolated CABG who require a re-intervention during the current hospitalization for mediastinal bleeding with or without tamponade, graft occlusion, valve dysfunction, or other cardiac reason

Rate of risk-standardized acute, unplanned hospital admissions among Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries 65 years and older with diabetes who are assigned to an Accountable Care Organization (ACO).

Rate of risk-standardized acute, unplanned hospital admissions among Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries 65 years and older with heart failure who are assigned to an Accountable Care Organization (ACO).

Rate of risk-standardized acute, unplanned hospital admissions among Medicare fee-for-service
(FFS) beneficiaries 65 years and older with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) who are assigned to an Accountable Care Organization (ACO).

Risk-standardized rate of acute, unplanned cardiovascular-related hospital admissions among Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) patients aged 65 years and older with heart failure (HF) or cardiomyopathy.

This measure is a re-specified version of the measure, “Hospital-level risk-standardized complication rate (RSCR) following elective primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) and/or total knee arthroplasty (TKA)” (NQF 1550), which was developed for patients 65 years and older using Medicare claims data.

This measure estimates a hospital-level risk standardized survival rate (RSSR) for adult patients aged 18 years and older who experience an in-hospital cardiac arrest.