Clinicians: Individual

Percentage of daily work in hours by the entire group of nurses or nursing assistants spent tending to residents

This measure assesses the proportion of all newborn infants who did not complete a hearing screen prior to discharge, who went on to receive an outpatient screen before the child was 31 days of age.

*Numbering within the parentheses references the US national extension quality measure identifiers developed for the Use Cases published in the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Quality, Research and Public Health (QRPH) EHDI Technical Framework Supplement available at www.ihe.net/Technical_Framework/index.cfm#quality

Participation in a systematic qualified clinical database registry involves:
a. Physician or other clinician submits standardized data elements to registry
b. Data elements are applicable to consensus endorsed quality measures
c. Registry measures shall include at least two (2) representative NQF consensus endorsed measures for registry's clinical topic(s) and report on all patients eligible for the selected measures.
d. Registry provides calculated measures results, benchmarking, and quality improvement information to individual physicians and clinicians.

This Registry should be capable of
a. generating population based reports relating to published guideline goals or benchmarking data
b. providing comparisons to the practitioner
c. providing feedback that is related to guideline goals
d. capturing data for one or more chronic disease conditions (i.e. diabetes) or preventive care measures (i.e. USPTF recommendations) for all patients eligible for the measures

Percentage of patients undergoing cervical spine radiographs in trauma who do not have neck pain, distracting pain, neurological deficits, reduced level of conciousness or intoxication.

Percentage of surgical patients aged 18 years and older undergoing procedures with the indications for prophylactic parenteral antibiotics, who have an order for prophylactic antibiotic to be given within one hour (if fluoroquinolone or vancomycin, two hours), prior to the surgical incision (or start of procedure when no incision is required)

Percentage of patients with pneumonia, age 65 and older, who were screened for pneumococcal vaccine status and were vaccinated prior to discharge, if indicated

Percentage of procedures for which the patient received Beta Blockers within 24 hours preceding surgery/ Total number of isolated CABG procedures

This measure identifies pregnant women who had a HBsAg (hepatitis B) test during their pregnancy.

This measure identifies pregnant women who had a syphilis test during their pregnancy.