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Measure Views

Overview

The National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC) Template of Measure Attributes, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary tool used to create NQMC content. This tool, represented by the Complete Summary, contains all of the key attributes used to summarize each measure for the purposes of creating the various standard summary formats available at the NQMC Web site.

There are eight options for viewing measures at the NQMC Web site: Brief Summary, Complete Summary, Measure Comparison, Full-Text, XML View, Palm Download, MS Word, and Adobe PDF.

The default view is the Brief Summary -- when you select a particular measure title from within a list of search or browse results, the system immediately links to the Brief Summary. From there, you may choose to view the Complete Summary, Full-Text measure (when available), XML View, Palm Download, MS Word, or Adobe PDF by choosing the appropriate option in the Summary box of the Side Menu.

Brief Summary

This view provides a short summary of key measure attributes, including the title of the measure, bibliographic references to the source documentation, measure domain, description of the measure, rationale for the measure, primary clinical component, denominator and numerator descriptions, data sources needed for the denominator and numerator, information on the hierarchical placement of the measure, measure developer(s) and submitter(s), release and revision dates, and other information related to the measure's identification, status, and availability.

Brief Summary

Complete Summary

This view provides a summary of all measure attributes, including the key measure attributes listed in the Brief Summary above, in addition to, measure attributes related to evidence supporting the measure and the need for the measure, the state of use of the measure, application of the measure in its current use, characteristics of the primary clinical component, Institute of Medicine (IOM) health care report categories, data collection and computation of the measure, and evaluation of the measure properties.

Complete Summary

Measure Comparison

NQMC provides you with the ability to generate side-by-side comparisons for any combination of two or more measures. A standard set of measure attributes in the Measure Comparison includes the title of the measure, the measure developer and submitter, release and revision dates, measure set name and composite measure name to which the measure belongs (if applicable), description, rationale, denominator and numerator descriptions, data source, care setting selected, computation of the measure, and information on the extent of measure testing.

Creating Measure Comparisons

Measure Comparison Help

XML View of Complete Summary

NQMC provides a measure's Complete Summary in XML format. In order to view a specific summary in the XML view:

Select the measure that you would like to view
Click on the "XML View" link in the Summary box of the Side Menu

XML View

Palm Downloads of Complete Summary

NQMC provides a measure's Complete Summary in a text format downloadable to Palm-based Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). In order to download a specific summary for Palm-based PDA view:

Select the measure that you would like to view
Click on the "Palm Download" link in the Summary box of the Side Menu

Pocket PC users can directly access the entire site in real time using Pocket IE or as downloaded Web pages. Users may also download all NQMC measure summaries as Microsoft (MS) Word documents (see below).

Palm Download