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  Measures
Accidental puncture or laceration (area-level): rate per 100,000 population.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Mar.  NQMC:004057

Adult asthma: hospital admission rate.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004106

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.  Canadian Institute for Health Information  2008 May.  NQMC:002733

Asthma admission rate (area level): rate per 100,000 population.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:002340

Asthma: percent of patients with a reported exposure to environmental tobacco smoke at last visit.  HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives: Asthma Collaborative  2003 Jan.  NQMC:001613

Bacterial pneumonia: hospital admission rate.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004102

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): hospital admission rate.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004097

Congestive heart failure (CHF): hospital admission rate.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004099

Coronary artery disease: angina without procedure hospital admission rate.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004104

Dehydration: hospital admission rate.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004101

Diabetes mellitus: hospital admission rate for long-term complications.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004096

Diabetes mellitus: hospital admission rate for short-term complications.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004094

Diabetes mellitus: hospital admission rate for uncontrolled diabetes.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004105

Diabetes mellitus: lower-extremity amputation rate.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:004107

Diabetes mellitus: percent of patients who are current smokers (documented in the last 12 months).  HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives: Diabetes Collaborative  2006 Jun.  NQMC:001601

Diabetes short-term complications admission rate (area level): rate per 100,000 population.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:002341

Foreign body left during procedure (area level): discharges per 100,000 population.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Mar.  NQMC:004434

Gastroenteritis admission rate (area level): rate per 100,000 population.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  2008 Feb.  NQMC:002342

Heart failure in adults: percentage of adult heart failure patients who have not used tobacco anytime during the previous year (primary care and outpatient cardiology).  Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement  2007 Aug.  NQMC:003538

Hip fracture: age-standardized acute care hospitalization rate for fracture of the hip, per 100,000 population age 65 and over.  Canadian Institute for Health Information  2008 May.  NQMC:002740