Safe Use of Opioids – Concurrent Prescribing
Description
Proportion of inpatient hospitalizations for patients 18 years of age and older prescribed, or continued on, two or more opioids or an opioid and benzodiazepine concurrently at discharge.
Proportion of inpatient hospitalizations for patients 18 years of age and older prescribed, or continued on, two or more opioids or an opioid and benzodiazepine concurrently at discharge.
Percentage of patients assigned female at birth and ages 15-44 who were asked if they wanted to talk about contraception or pregnancy prevention and had their response recorded during the measurement period (which is a calendar year), among patients with a qualifying encounter; to focus on the population of non-postpartum women, the measure excludes those individuals who had a live birth making them eligible for postpartum contraceptive services, and also excludes those who are anatomically infecund or have had female sterilization from the denominator.
Percentage of surgical inpatients who experienced a complication and then died within 30-days from the date of their first “operating room” procedure. Failure-to-rescue is defined as the probability of death given a postoperative complication.
This is a measure of follow-up clinical visits for patients with chronic conditions who have experienced an acute exacerbation of one of six conditions (eight categories) of interest (coronary artery disease [CAD] {high or low acuity}, hypertension {high or medium acuity}, heart failure [HF], diabetes, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD]) and are among adult Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) beneficiaries who are attributed to entities participating in the CMMI Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) model.
The Use of Pharmacotherapy for Opioid Use Disorder measure evaluates the percentage of Medicaid or Medicare-Medicaid participants, aged 18 years and older, who have been diagnosed with an opioid use disorder (OUD) who filled a prescription for, were administered, or dispensed, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medication to treat or manage OUD during the measurement year.
This metric is designed to measure the critical care transport team's utilization of waveform capnography during critical care medical transport. Waveform capnography has evolved as the standard for the safe placement and maintenance of advanced airways (e.g., endotracheal tubes) in adult and pediatric patients. The metric specifically focuses on transported patients with advanced airways in whom continuous waveform capnography is appropriately used. This metric is stratified by age into the following three categories: neonatal (defined as infants <29 days), pediatric (