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).
The chest imaging-confirmed measure of pneumonia diagnosis is a process measure of inpatient hospitalizations that identifies the proportion of adult patients hospitalized patients with a discharge diagnosis of pneumonia and who received systemic or oral antimicrobials at any time during admission who received chest imaging that supported the diagnosis of pneumonia, as recommended by clinical practice guidelines. The measure applies to a target population of adult hospitalized patients.
Percentage of laboratory potassium samples drawn in the emergency department (ED) with hemolysis.
Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV prescribed antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of HIV infection 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.
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with a BMI documented during the current encounter or during the previous twelve months AND with a BMI outside of normal parameters, a follow-up plan is documented during the encounter or during the previous twelve months of the current encounter
Normal Parameters: Age 18 and older BMI >= 18.5 and < 25 kg/m2
Percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received an influenza immunization OR who reported previous receipt of an influenza immunization
Percentage of patients aged 12 years and older screened for depression on the date of the encounter or 14 days prior to the date of the encounter using an age appropriate standardized depression screening tool AND if positive, a follow-up plan is documented on the date of the eligible encounter
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older who were screened for tobacco use one or more times within 24 months AND who received tobacco cessation intervention if identified as a tobacco user
Three rates are reported:
a. Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older who were screened for tobacco use one or more times within 24 months
b. Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older who were screened for tobacco use and identified as a tobacco user who received tobacco cessation intervention
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) who have an optic nerve head evaluation during one or more office visits within 12 months
Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of prostate cancer at low (or very low) risk of recurrence receiving interstitial prostate brachytherapy, OR external beam radiotherapy to the prostate, OR radical prostatectomy who did not have a bone scan performed at any time since diagnosis of prostate cancer