Public Health/Disease Surveillance

Percentage of persons 13 years and older diagnosed with Stage 3 HIV infection (AIDS) within 3 months of a diagnosis of HIV infection.

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.

Percentage of all adult peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis patients included in the sample for analysis with serum calcium measured at least once within month

The three components of this measure assess different facets of providing medical assistance with smoking and tobacco use cessation:

Advising Smokers and Tobacco Users to Quit: A rolling average represents the percentage of patients 18 years of age and older who were current smokers or tobacco users and who received advice to quit during the measurement year.

This measure assesses antimicrobial use in hospitals based on medication administration data that hospitals collect electronically at the point of care and report via electronic file submissions to CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

Standardized infection ratio (SIR) and Adjusted Ranking Metric (ARM)of hospital-onset unique blood source MRSA Laboratory-identified events (LabID events) among all inpatients in the facility

Measures the quantitative number of days of school missed due to illness or condition among children and adolescents age 6-17 years.

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.

This measure calculates case-mix-adjusted readmission rates, defined as the percentage of admissions followed by 1 or more readmissions within 30 days, for patients less than 18 years old. The measure covers patients discharged from general acute care hospitals, including children’s hospitals.

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.