Outpatient Services

This measure identifies patients with an emergency medicine visit for syncope that had an ECG done as part of their evaluation.

This measure identifies patients with hypertension (HTN) that had a serum creatinine in last 12 reported months

Percentage of vulnerable adults treated with an opioid that are offered/prescribed a bowel regimen or documentation of why this was not needed

Adult patients with advanced cancer who are screened for pain with a standardized quantitative tool at each outpatient visit

This measure estimates the rate of emergency department visits for children ages 3 – 21 who are being managed for identifiable asthma, using specified definitions. The measure is reported in visits per 100 child-years.

2022 submission:

Percentage of calendar months within a 12-month period during which patients aged 17 years and younger with a diagnosis of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis have a hemoglobin level < 10 g/dL

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