Percentage of patients transferred to another HEALTHCARE FACILITY whose medical record documentation indicated that patient information was communicated to the receiving FACILITY within 60 minutes of departure
This measure identifies patients 2 years of age and older with acute otitis externa who were or were not prescribed systemic antimicrobial therapy.
This measure identifies patients with an emergency medicine visit for non-traumatic chest pain that had an ECG done as part of their evaluation.
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
2022 submission:
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.
This measure assesses the percentage of COPD exacerbations for members 40 years of age and older who had an acute inpatient discharge or ED encounter on or between January 1–November 30 of the measurement year and who were dispensed appropriate medications.
Two rates are reported.
1. Dispensed a systemic corticosteroid within 14 days of the event
2. Dispensed a bronchodilator within 30 days of the event
Percentage of patients transferred to another HEALTHCARE FACILITY whose medical record documentation indicated that physician information was communicated to the receiving FACILITY within 60 minutes of departure
Percentage of PICU patients receiving: a periodic pain assessment