Percentage of end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients aged 18 years and older with medical record documentation of a discussion of renal replacement therapy modalities (including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis, transplants and identification of potential living donors, and no/cessation of renal replacement therapy) at least once during the 12-month reporting period.
The Patient Experience of Psychiatric Care as Measure by the Inpatient Consumer Survey (ICS) was developed to gather patient´s evaluation of their inpatient psychiatric care. The survey is composed of the following six individual measures or domains:
Percentage of ASC admissions experiencing a fall in the ASC.
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.
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
PSI 90 is a composite of ten adverse event indicators that summarizes hospitals’ performance on patient safety for the CMS Medicare fee-for-service population. The timeframe used in the CMS Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) and CareCompare public reporting are set within the Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) Final Rule annually. Typically, the performance periods use multiple months of claims data.
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