Outpatient Services

Information From 2015 Submission

Optimal End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Starts is the percentage of new adult ESRD patients during the measurement period who experience a planned start of renal replacement therapy by receiving a preemptive kidney transplant, by initiating home dialysis (peritoneal dialysis or home hemodialysis), or by initiating outpatient in-center hemodialysis via arteriovenous fistula or arteriovenous graft.

Type of score: Proportion
Percentage of patient visits for patients aged 21 years and older with a diagnosis of OA with an assessment for use of anti-inflammatory or analgesic OTC medications

The percentage of women aged 55 years and older, or men, aged 50 years and older, who are taking chronic steroids (>/=3 months), and are taking drugs to prevent osteoporosis

The percentage of women, aged 55 and older, or men, aged 50 and older, with a diagnosis of osteoporosis who are taking osteoporosis therapy.

The percentage of women age 50-85 who suffered a fracture and who either had a bone mineral density test or received a prescription for a drug to treat osteoporosis.

The percentage of women 65-85 years of age who report ever having received a bone density test to check for osteoporosis.

Percentage of patients aged 50 years or older with fracture of the hip, spine or distal radius that had a central DXA measurement ordered or performed or pharmacologic therapy prescribed

Percentage of patients aged 50 years and older with a diagnosis of osteoporosis who were prescribed pharmacologic therapy within 12 months

Percentage of patients aged 2 months through 12 years with a diagnosis of OME who were not prescribed systemic corticosteroids

Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a current diagnosis of Stage 0 through IIC melanoma or a history of melanoma of any stage, without signs or symptoms suggesting systemic spread, seen for an office visit during the one-year measurement period, for whom no diagnostic imaging studies were ordered