Percentage of calendar months within a 12-month period during which patients aged 17 years and younger with a diagnosis of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis have a hemoglobin level < 10 g/dL
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.
Percentage of patients who died from cancer, and admitted to hospice and spent less than 3 days there
Percentage of patients who died from cancer admitted to the ICU in the last 30 days of life
Percentage of patients who died from cancer receiving systemic cancer-directed therapy in the last 14 days of life
This measure tracks the percentage of patients in each dialysis practitioner group practice who were on the kidney or kidney-pancreas transplant waitlist. Results are averaged across patients prevalent on the last day of each month during the reporting year.
Please note, this measure is at the dialysis practitioner level (the clinician who receives the Monthly Capitation Payment for overseeing dialysis care).
The proposed measure is a directly standardized percentage, which is adjusted for covariates (e.g. age and risk factors).
Percentage of patients who undergo cystoscopy to evaluate for lower urinary tract injury at the time of hysterectomy for pelvic organ prolapse.
Percentage of patients undergoing hysterectomy for the indication of pelvic organ prolapse in which a concomitant vaginal apical suspension (i.e. uterosacral, iliococygeus, sacrospinous or sacral colpopexy, or enterocele repair) is performed.
Percentage of patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy (CEA) who are taking an anti-platelet agent (aspirin or clopidogrel or equivilant such as aggrenox/tiglacor etc) within 48 hours prior to surgery and are prescribed this medication at hospital discharge following surgery
Percentage of surgical patients aged 18 years and older undergoing procedures with the indications for a first OR second generation cephalosporin prophylactic antibiotic who had an order for first OR second generation cephalosporin for antimicrobial prophylaxis