A reliability adjusted measure of AAA repair performance that optimally combines two important domains: AAA hospital volume and AAA operative mortality, to provide predictions on hospital AAA survival rates in patients age 18 and over.
A reliability adjusted measure of Esophagectomy surgical performance that optimally combines two important domains: Esophagectomy hospital volume and Esophagectomy operative mortality, to provide predictions on hospital Esophagectomy survival rates in patients age 18 and over.
A reliability adjusted measure of pancreatic resection surgical performance that optimally combines two important domains: Pancreatic resection hospital volume and pancreatic operative mortality, to provide predictions on hospital pancreatic survival rates in patients age 18 and.
Documents the extent to which a provider uses certified/qualified electronic health record (EHR) system that incorporates an electronic data interchange with one or more laboratories allowing for direct electronic transmission of laboratory data into the EHR as discrete searchable data elements.
Documents the extent to which a provider uses a certified/qualified electronic health record (EHR) system capable of enhancing care management at the point of care. To qualify, the facility must have implemented processes within their EHR for disease management that incorporate the principles of care management at the point of care which include:
a. The ability to identify specific patients by diagnosis or medication use
b. The capacity to present alerts to the clinician for disease management, preventive services and wellness
This measure is based on data from the MDS 3.0 assessment of short-stay nursing facility residents and reports the percentage of those short-stay residents who can self-report and who are on a scheduled pain medication regimen at admission (5-day PPS MDS assessment) and who report lower levels of pain on their discharge MDS 3.0 assessment or their 14-day PPS MDS assessment (whichever comes first) when compared with the 5-day PPS MDS assessment.
This measure calculates the percentage of thorax computed tomography (CT) studies that are performed without and with contrast, out of all thorax CT studies performed (those without contrast, those with contrast, and those with both) at each facility. The measure is calculated based on a one-year window of Medicare fee-for-service claims data. The measure has been publicly reported annually by the measure steward, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), since 2010, as a component of its Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (HOQR) Program.
Percentage of home health episodes of care in which the start or resumption of care date was either on the physician-specified date or within 2 days of the referral date or inpatient discharge date, whichever is later.
Percentage of discharges from an inpatient facility (eg, hospital inpatient or observation, skilled nursing facility, or rehabilitation facility) to home or any other site of care, of patients, regardless of age, for which a transition record was transmitted to the facility or primary physician or other health care professional designated for follow-up care within 24 hours of discharge
Percent of patients aged 18 years and older undergoing cardiac surgery who received prophylactic antibiotics within one hour of surgical incision or start of procedure if no incision was required (two hours if receiving vancomycin or fluoroquinolone)