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Patient Fall Rate

  • All documented falls, with or without injury, experienced by patients on eligible unit types in a calendar quarter. Reported as Total Falls per 1,000 Patient Days.
    (Total number of falls / Patient days) X 1000

    Measure focus is safety.
    Target population is adult acute care inpatient and adult rehabilitation patients.

    CBE ID
    0141

PC-01 Elective Delivery

  • This measure assesses patients with elective vaginal deliveries or elective cesarean births at >= 37 and < 39 weeks of gestation completed. This measure is part of a set of four nationally implemented measures that address perinatal care (PC-01: Elective Delivery, ePC-01: Elective Delivery; PC-02: Cesarean Birth, ePC-02: Cesarean Birth will be added as an eCQM 1/1/2020; PC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding, ePC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding; PC-06 Unexpected Complications in Term Newborns was added 1/1/2019).

    CBE ID
    0469

PC-01 Elective Delivery

  • This measure assesses patients with elective vaginal deliveries or elective cesarean births at >= 37 and < 39 weeks of gestation completed. This measure is part of a set of four nationally implemented measures that address perinatal care (PC-01: Elective Delivery, ePC-01: Elective Delivery; PC-02: Cesarean Birth, ePC-02: Cesarean Birth will be added as an eCQM 1/1/2020; PC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding, ePC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding; PC-06 Unexpected Complications in Term Newborns was added 1/1/2019).

    CBE ID
    0469e

PC-02 Cesarean Birth

  • This measure assesses the rate of nulliparous women with a term, singleton baby in a vertex position delivered by cesarean birth. This measure is part of a set of four nationally implemented measures that address perinatal care (PC-01: Elective Delivery, ePC-01: Elective Delivery; PC-02: Cesarean Birth, ePC-02: Cesarean Birth will be added as an eCQM 1/1/2020; PC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding, ePC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding; PC-06 Unexpected Complications in Term Newborns was added 1/1/2019).

    CBE ID
    0471

PC-05 Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding

  • PC-05 assesses the rate of newborns exclusively fed breast milk during the newborn´s entire hospitalization. This measure is part of a set of four nationally implemented measures that address perinatal care (PC-01: Elective Delivery, ePC-01: Elective Delivery; PC-02: Cesarean Birth, ePC-02: Cesarean Birth will be added as an eCQM 1/1/2020; PC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding, ePC-05: Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding; PC-06 Unexpected Complications in Term Newborns was added 1/1/2019).

    CBE ID
    0480

PC-05 Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding

  • PC-05 assesses the rate of newborns exclusively fed breast milk during the newborn´s entire hospitalization. This measure is a part of a set of four nationally implemented measures that address perinatal care (PC-01: Elective Delivery, PC-02: Cesarean Section, ePC-02 Cesarean Birth will be added as an eCQM 1/1/2020, PC-06 Unexpected Complications in Term Newborns was added as a chart-based measure on 1/1/2019).

    CBE ID
    0480e