No

The measure assesses days spent in acute care within 30 days of discharge from an inpatient hospitalization for HF to provide a patient-centered assessment of the post-discharge period. This measure is intended to capture the quality of care transitions provided to discharged patients who had a HF hospitalization by collectively measuring a set of adverse acute care outcomes that can occur post-discharge: emergency department (ED) visits, observation stays, and unplanned readmissions at any time during the 30 days post-discharge.

This measure assesses days spent in acute care within 30 days of discharge from an inpatient hospitalization for pneumonia, including aspiration pneumonia or for sepsis (not severe sepsis) with a secondary discharge diagnosis of pneumonia coded in the claim as present on admission (POA) and no secondary diagnosis of severe sepsis coded as POA.

The ECHO is a survey that includes 5 multiple item measures and 12 single item measures:

Multiple Item Measures:

Getting treatment quickly
-Get treatment as soon as wanted when it was needed right away
-Get appointments as soon as wanted
-Get professional help by telephone
How well clinicians communicate
-Clinicians listen carefully
-Clinicians explain things in an understandable way
-Clinicians show respect
-Clinicians spend enough time
-Feel safe with clinicians
-Patient involved as much as wanted in treatment
Perceived improvement

Percentage of final reports for procedures using fluoroscopy that include documentation of radiation exposure or exposure time

This measure reports the percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of painful bone metastases and no history of previous radiation who receive external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) with an acceptable fractionation scheme as defined by the guideline.

This measure was developed to improve the quality of care delivered to patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy procedures. The Facility 7-Day Risk-Standardized Hospital Visit Rate after Outpatient Colonoscopy Measure, estimates a facility-level rate of risk-standardized, all-cause, unplanned hospital visits within seven days of a colonoscopy procedure performed at a hospital outpatient department (HOPD) or ambulatory surgical center (ASC) among Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) patients aged 65 years and older.

This measure was developed to improve the quality of care delivered to patients undergoing general surgery procedures in an ambulatory surgical center (ASC). To assess quality, the measure calculates the risk-standardized rate of return to a hospital for an acute, unplanned hospital visit within seven days of qualified general surgery procedures performed at an ambulatory surgical center (ASC) among Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) patients aged 65 years and older.

Percentage of patients who died with documented or undocumented complications within 30 days from admission

Percentage of patients who died with documented or undocumented complications in the hospital

Assesses different facets of fall risk management:

Discussing Fall Risk. The percentage of adults 75 years of age and older, or 65–74 years of age with balance or walking problems or a fall in the past 12 months, who were seen by a practitioner in the past 12 months and who discussed falls or problems with balance or walking with their current practitioner.