Percentage of end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients aged 18 years and older with medical record documentation of a discussion of renal replacement therapy modalities (including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis, transplants and identification of potential living donors, and no/cessation of renal replacement therapy) at least once during the 12-month reporting period.
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 Promoting Healthy Development Survey (PHDS) is a 43-item parent survey that can be used by health care providers, health systems, Medicaid agencies, and other stakeholders to measure and improve the quality of preventive and developmental care for children ages 0-48 months. The survey is designed to measure parent’s experience with care and the extent to which they received preventative and developmental services in accordance with nationally recommended guidelines put forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics and Bright Futures practice guidelines (3rd edition).1
The average (geometric mean) hospital length of stay in days relative to the expected geometric mean length of stay of any well defined population of inpatients over a specified time interval
Percentage of women who 1) received or had documented use of most or moderately effective contraception and 2) received a long-acting reversible contraceptive method during the calendar year.
To focus the measure on the population of women interested in contraceptive services, the denominator excludes those individuals who did not receive or have documented use of a method if they indicated during the year that they did not want these services, as well as those who are eligible for postpartum contraceptive services during the measurement period.
Percentage of women 1) who received or had documented use of most or moderately effective contraception during the postpartum period (primary measure) and 2) received a long-acting reversible contraceptive method during the postpartum period (sub-measure). To focus the measure on the population of women interested in contraceptive services, the denominator excludes those individuals who did not receive or have documented use of a method if they indicated they did not want these services.
This measure captures the proportion of ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke patients with documentation that they or their caregivers were given stroke education materials.
This family-centered survey questionnaire consists of 68 questions that assess various aspects of care experiences during inpatient pediatric hospital stays. Questions can be used individually to measure specific performance but 35 rating questions can also be summarized into domain scores.
The 68 questions of the survey can be divided into 3 groups:
1. 26 background questions that mostly provide information for comparisons across different demographic and patient groups:
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of end stage renal disease (ESRD) with a catheter after 90 days on hemodialysis who are seen/evaluated by a vascular surgeon or other surgeon qualified in the area of vascular access for permanent vascular access at least once during the 12-month reporting period.
The Young Adult Health Care Survey (YAHCS) is a survey of adolescents 14-18 years of age that assesses how well the health care system provides adolescents with recommended preventive care. The YAHCS assesses the provision of private and confidential care, experience of care, helpfulness of care provided, and the following aspects of preventive care:
• Preventive screening and counseling on risky behaviors.
• Preventive screening and counseling on sexual activity and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).