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Fall 2022

Admission and Emergency Department (ED) Visits for Patients Receiving Outpatient Chemotherapy

  • The Admission and Emergency Department (ED) Visits for Patients Receiving Outpatient Chemotherapy Measure, hereafter referred to as the chemotherapy measure, estimates hospital-level, risk-adjusted rates of inpatient admissions or ED visits for cancer patients =18 years of age for at least one of the following diagnoses—anemia, dehydration, diarrhea, emesis, fever, nausea, neutropenia, pain, pneumonia, or sepsis—within 30 days of hospital-based outpatient chemotherapy treatment. Rates of admission and ED visits are calculated and reported separately.

    CBE ID
    3490

Alignment of Person Centered Service Plan (PCSP) with Functional Assessment Standardized items (FASI) needs

  • The percentage of home and community-based services (HCBS) recipients aged 18 years or older whose PCSP documentation addresses needs in the areas of self-care, mobility, and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) as determined by the most recent FASI assessment. For the purposes of this measure application, the term home and community-based services also will refer to community-based long-term services and supports (CB-LTSS).
    CBE ID
    3734

Ambulatory Breast Procedure Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Outcome Measure

  • This measure is for the risk-adjusted Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR) for all Surgical Site Infections (SSI) following breast procedures conducted at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) among adult patients (ages 18 - 108 years) and reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). The measure compares the reported number of surgical site infections observed at an ASC with a predicted value based on nationally aggregated data.

    CBE ID
    3025

CAHPS® Hospice Survey, Version 9.0

  • The measures submitted here are derived from the CAHPS® Hospice Survey, which is a 47-item standardized questionnaire and data collection methodology. The survey is intended to measure the care experiences of hospice patients and their primary caregivers. Respondents to the survey are the primary informal caregivers of patients who died under hospice care. These are typically family members but can be friends. The hospice identifies the primary informal caregiver from their administrative records.

    CBE ID
    2651

Childhood Immunization Status (CIS)

  • Percentage of children 2 years of age who had four diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis (DtaP); three polio (IPV); one measles, mumps and rubella (MMR); three haemophilus influenza type B (HiB); three hepatitis B (HepB); one chicken pox (VZV); four pneumococcal conjugate (PCV); one hepatitis A (HepA); two or three rotavirus (RV); and two influenza (flu) vaccines by their second birthday. The measure calculates a rate for each vaccine.

    CBE ID
    0038