Public Health/Disease Surveillance
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Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV who did not have a medical visit in the last 6 months of the measurement year
A medical visit is any visit in an outpatient/ambulatory care setting with a nurse practitioner, physician, and/or a physician assistant who provides comprehensive HIV care.
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Percent of live newborn infants that receive Hepatitis B vaccination before discharge (or within 1 month of life, if the infant had an extended hospital stay) at each single hospital/birthing facility during given time period (one year).
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Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV who had at least one medical visit in each 6-month period within 24 months with a minimum of 60 days between medical visits.
A medical visit is any visit in an outpatient/ambulatory care setting with a nurse practitioner, physician, and/or a physician assistant who provides comprehensive HIV care.
Description
Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV who had at least one medical visit in each 6-month period of the 24-month measurement period with a minimum of 60 days between medical visits
A medical visit is any visit in an outpatient/ambulatory care setting with a nurse practitioner, physician, and/or a physician assistant who provides comprehensive HIV care.
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Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV with a HIV viral load less than 200 copies/mL at last HIV viral load test during the measurement year
A medical visit is any visit in an outpatient/ambulatory care setting with a nurse practitioner, physician, and/or a physician assistant who provides comprehensive HIV care.
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Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV with a HIV viral load less than 200 copies/mL at last HIV viral load test during the measurement year.
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The inappropriate diagnosis of UTI in hospitalized medical patients (or “Inappropriate Diagnosis of UTI”) measure is a process measure that evaluates the annual proportion of hospitalized adult medical patients treated for UTI who do not meet diagnostic criteria for UTI (thus are inappropriately diagnosed and overtreated).
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Percentage of healthcare personnel (HCP) who receive the influenza vaccination.
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Percentage of persons 13 years and older diagnosed with Stage 3 HIV infection (AIDS) within 3 months of a diagnosis of HIV infection.
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This composite measure assesses whether or not children and adolescents (age 0-17 years) receive health care within a medical home according to the survey respondent (almost always the child’s parent). The medical home measure is based on six of the seven components of care first proposed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)—health care that is accessible, family-centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. (Note: "accessible" is the one component of medical home that is not directly addressed in this composite measure.