Quality Improvement with Benchmarking (external benchmarking to multiple organizations)
Description
Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV who had at least one medical visit in each 6-month period within 24 months with a minimum of 60 days between medical visits.
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.
Description
Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV who had at least one medical visit in each 6-month period of the 24-month measurement period with a minimum of 60 days between medical visits
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.
Description
Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV with a HIV viral load less than 200 copies/mL at last HIV viral load test 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.
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Percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of HIV with a HIV viral load less than 200 copies/mL at last HIV viral load test during the measurement year.
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Percentage of patients with chart documentation of preferences for life sustaining treatments.
Description
The measure estimates the hospital-level, risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) for Medicare patients (Fee-for-Service [FFS] and Medicare Advantage[MA]) discharged from the hospital with a principal discharge diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. The outcome is all-cause 30-day mortality, defined as death from any cause within 30 days of the index admission date, including in-hospital death, for stroke patients. The measure includes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Stroke Scale as an assessment of stroke severity upon admission in the risk-adjustment model.
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Hospital Visits after Hospital Outpatient Surgery measures facility-level risk-standardized rate of acute, unplanned hospital visits within 7 days of a procedure performed at a hospital outpatient department (HOPD) among Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) patients aged 65 years and older. An unplanned hospital visit is defined as an emergency department (ED) visit, observation stay, or unplanned inpatient admission.
Description
This measure was developed to improve the quality of care delivered to patients undergoing orthopedic procedures in an ambulatory surgical center (ASC). To assess quality, the measure calculates the risk-standardized rate of acute, unplanned hospital visits within seven days of qualified orthopedic surgeries or procedures performed at an ASC among Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients aged 65 years and older. An unplanned hospital visit is defined as an emergency department (ED) visit, observation stay, or unplanned inpatient admission.
Description
This measure was developed to improve the quality of care delivered to patients undergoing urology procedures in an ambulatory surgical center (ASC). The measure estimates a facility-level rate of risk-standardized, all-cause, unplanned hospital visits within seven days of a urology surgery at an ASC among Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients aged 65 years and older. An unplanned hospital visit is defined as an emergency department (ED) visit, observation stay, or unplanned inpatient admission.
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The measure estimates a hospital-level risk-standardized complication rate (RSCR) associated with elective primary THA and/or TKA procedures for Medicare patients (Fee-for-Service [FFS] and Medicare Advantage [MA]) aged 65 and older. The outcome (complication) is defined as any one of the specified complications occurring from the date of index admission to up to 90 days after the index admission. Complications are counted in the measure only if they occur during the index hospital admission or during a readmission.