The number of hospital discharges with a procedure of partial or total pancreatic resection for patients 18 years and older or obstetric patients. Excludes acute pancreatitis admissions.
This measure identifies patients 2 years of age and older with acute otitis externa who were or were not prescribed systemic antimicrobial therapy.
This measure identifies patients with an emergency medicine visit for non-traumatic chest pain that had an ECG done as part of their evaluation.
This measure identifies patients with an emergency medicine visit for syncope that had an ECG done as part of their evaluation.
This measure identifies patients with hypertension (HTN) that had a serum creatinine in last 12 reported months
Patient(s) with a recent emergency room encounter for a transient cerebral ischemic event that had any physician visit within 14 days of the acute event.
The Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) is a brief parent-report questionnaire that is used to assess overall psychosocial functioning in children from 3 to 18 years of age. Originally developed to be a screen that would allow pediatricians and other health professionals to identify children with poor overall functioning who were in need of further evaluation or referral, the PSC has seen such wide use in large systems that it has increasingly been used as a quality indicator and as an outcome measure to assess changes in functioning over time.
The percentage of births with birthweight <2,500 grams
Admissions for any-listed diagnosis of perforations or abscesses of the appendix per 1,000 admissions with any-listed appendicitis, ages 18 years and older. Excludes obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions.
[NOTE: The software provides the rate per hospital admission. However, common practice reports the measure as per 1,000 admissions. The user must multiply the rate obtained from the software by 1,000 to report cases per 1,000 admissions.]
Percentage of long-stay nursing home patients 65 years old or older who have a new balance problem who receive physical therapy or nursing rehabilitation/restorative care