Measures Most Viewed

Browse Measures Most Viewed to find a listing of the NQMC ten most frequently viewed measures over the past 30 days. The Measures Most Viewed Browse is updated daily.

Prostate cancer: percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of clinically localized prostate cancer receiving interstitial prostate brachytherapy, OR external beam radiotherapy to the prostate, OR radical prostatectomy, OR cryotherapy who received counseling on, at a minimum, the following treatment options for clinically localized disease prior to initiation of treatment: active surveillance, AND interstitial prostate brachytherapy, AND external beam radiotherapy, AND radical prostatectomy. 2010 Sep. NQMC:003487
American Urological Association - Medical Specialty Society; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® - Clinical Specialty Collaboration. View all measures by the developer(s)

Ambulatory care sensitive conditions: age-standardized acute care hospitalization rate for conditions where appropriate ambulatory care prevents or reduces the need for admission to the hospital, per 100,000 population under age 75 years. 2010 May. [NQMC Update Pending] NQMC:005387
Canadian Institute for Health Information - Nonprofit Organization. View all measures by the developer(s)

Surgical care improvement project: percent of patients who received prophylactic antibiotics consistent with current guidelines. 2010 Apr. [NQMC Update Pending] NQMC:006087
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/The Joint Commission. View all measures by the developer(s)

Percent time in therapeutic INR range (TTR): mean TTR achieved among patients who received prescriptions for warfarin and had sufficient INR values to calculate TTR. 2011 Jan. NQMC:006321
Rose, Adam, MD, MSc, FACP; Berlowitz, Dan, MD, MPH; Reisman, Joel, AB; Ash, Arlene, PhD; Ozonoff, Al, PhD; Hylek, Elaine, MD, MPH - Independent Author(s); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service, Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research (CHQOER) - Government Affiliated Research Institute. View all measures by the developer(s)

Heart failure (HF): hospital 30-day, all-cause, risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) following HF hospitalization. 2010 Apr. [NQMC Update Pending] NQMC:006119
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Federal Government Agency [U.S.]; Yale-New Haven Health Services Corporation/Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation under contract to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Academic Affiliated Research Institute. View all measures by the developer(s)

Surgical care improvement project: percent of surgical patients with urinary catheter removed on postoperative day 1 or postoperative day 2 with the day of surgery being day zero. 2010 Apr. [NQMC Update Pending] NQMC:006091
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/The Joint Commission. View all measures by the developer(s)

Childhood immunization status: percentage of enrolled children who had four diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP), three injectable polio virus (IPV), one measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), three haemophilus influenza type B (HiB), three hepatitis B (HepB), one chicken pox vaccination (VZV), four pneumococcal conjugate (PCV) vaccinations, two hepatitis A (HepA) vaccinations, two or three rotavirus (RV) vaccinations, and two influenza vaccinations by their second birthday (combination #10). 2010 Jul. [NQMC Update Pending] NQMC:006197
National Committee for Quality Assurance - Health Care Accreditation Organization. View all measures by the developer(s)

Surgical patients' experiences: percentage of surgical patients who reported how well their surgeon communicated with them after surgery. 2011 Oct. NQMC:006443
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Federal Government Agency [U.S.]; CAHPS Consortium - Health Care Quality Collaboration. View all measures by the developer(s)

Acute myocardial infarction/chest pain: median time from emergency department (ED) arrival to ECG (performed in the ED prior to transfer) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or chest pain patients (with probable cardiac chest pain). 2009 Jan. NQMC:004292
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Federal Government Agency [U.S.]. View all measures by the developer(s)

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Childhood immunization status: percentage of enrolled children who had four diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP), three injectable polio virus (IPV), one measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), three haemophilus influenza type B (HiB), three hepatitis B (HepB), one chicken pox vaccination (VZV), four pneumococcal conjugate (PCV) vaccinations, two or three rotavirus (RV) vaccinations, and two influenza vaccinations by their second birthday (combination #9). 2010 Jul. [NQMC Update Pending] NQMC:006196
National Committee for Quality Assurance - Health Care Accreditation Organization. View all measures by the developer(s)

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