Performance Measure Name: Procedures and Tests
Description: Patients who are transferred from an ED to another healthcare facility have communicated with the receiving facility within 60 minutes of discharge a list of tests done and results sent.
Surgical patients with prophylactic antibiotics initiated within one hour prior to surgical incision. Patients who received vancomycin or a fluoroquinolone for prophylactic antibiotics should have the antibiotics initiated within two hours prior to surgical incision. Due to the longer infusion time required for vancomycin or a fluoroquinolone, it is acceptable to start these antibiotics within two hours prior to incision time.
Surgical patients who received prophylactic antibiotics consistent with current guidelines (specific to each type of surgical procedure).
Surgical patients whose prophylactic antibiotics were discontinued within 24 hours after Anesthesia End Time. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Practice Guideline for Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Cardiac Surgery (2006) indicates that there is no reason to extend antibiotics beyond 48 hours for cardiac surgery and very explicitly states that antibiotics should not be extended beyond 48 hours even with tubes and drains in place for cardiac surgery.
Rate of ASC patients who received IV antibiotics ordered for surgical site infection prophylaxis on time
Percentage of patients who died from cancer dying in an acute care setting
What percentage of infants had bloodspot newborn screening performed as mandated by state of birth?
Proportion of patients who died from cancer not admitted to hospice
Proportion of patients who died from cancer with more than one emergency department visit in the last 30 days of life
Percentage of adult dialysis patients with a 3-month rolling average of total uncorrected calcium (serum or plasma) greater than 10.2 mg/dL (hypercalcemia)