Outpatient Services

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.

Percentage of emergency department visits by patients < 18 years of age with a current weight documented in kilograms in the ED electronic health record; measure to be reported each month.

Percentage of patients who died from cancer, and admitted to hospice and spent less than 3 days there

Percentage of patients who died from cancer admitted to the ICU in the last 30 days of life

This measure tracks the percentage of patients in each dialysis practitioner group practice who were on the kidney or kidney-pancreas transplant waitlist. Results are averaged across patients prevalent on the last day of each month during the reporting year.

Please note, this measure is at the dialysis practitioner level (the clinician who receives the Monthly Capitation Payment for overseeing dialysis care).

The proposed measure is a directly standardized percentage, which is adjusted for covariates (e.g. age and risk factors).

Admissions for any-listed diagnosis of perforations or abscesses of the appendix per 1,000 admissions with any-listed appendicitis, ages 18 years and older. Excludes obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions.

[NOTE: The software provides the rate per hospital admission. However, common practice reports the measure as per 1,000 admissions. The user must multiply the rate obtained from the software by 1,000 to report cases per 1,000 admissions.]

0-100 measure of performance evaluation related to patient-centered communication, derived from items on the staff and patient surveys of the Communication Climate Assessment Toolkit

Percentage of surgical patients aged 18 years and older undergoing procedures with the indications for a first OR second generation cephalosporin prophylactic antibiotic who had an order for first OR second generation cephalosporin for antimicrobial prophylaxis

Percentage of cardiac surgical patients aged 18 years and older undergoing procedures with the indications for prophylactic antibiotics AND who received a prophylactic antibiotic, who have an order for discontinuation of prophylactic antibiotics within 48 hours of surgical end time.

Percentage of non-cardiac surgical patients aged 18 years and older undergoing procedures with the indications for prophylactic parenteral antibiotics AND who received a prophylactic parenteral antibiotic, who have an order for discontinuation of prophylactic parenteral antibiotics within 24 hours of surgical end time