• Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010208
  • 2015 Feb

Diagnostic imaging: percentage of imaging studies for patients aged 18 years and older with knee pain who undergo knee MRI or MRA who are known to have had knee radiographs performed within the preceding three months based on information from the radiology information system (RIS), patient-provided radiological history, or other health-care source.

American College of Radiology; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008351
  • 2013 Jan

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) diagnosis and treatment: percentage of patients with VTE who are initially prescribed warfarin therapy with documentation in the medical record indicating a baseline INR was obtained.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010950
  • 2014 Dec

Diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy: proportion of patients diagnosed with malignancy where sufficient tissue was obtained for genetic profiling/all tissue sent for profiling.

British Thoracic Society

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010268
  • 2012 Jul

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): percentage of patients diagnosed with ALS who are dysarthric who were offered a referral at least once annually to a speech language pathologist for an augmentative/alternative communication evaluation.

American Academy of Neurology

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010759
  • 2014 Nov

Epilepsy: percentage of children with epilepsy who were commenced on antiepileptic drugs referred for input by an epilepsy specialist nurse by 1 year.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:011121
  • 2016 May

Sarcoma: proportion of patients with osteosarcoma who are under the age of 40 who undergo neo-adjuvant combination systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT).

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:011264
  • 2016 Feb

Cutaneous melanoma: proportion of patients with cutaneous melanoma who undergo diagnostic excision biopsy where the surgical pathology report contains a full set of data items (as defined by the current Royal College of Pathologists dataset).

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:000333
  • 2002 Oct

Advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD): percent of patients treated with an erythropoietin or analogue.

Renal Physicians Association

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:000362
  • 2002 Oct

Advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD): percent of patients with documentation regarding discussion of renal replacement therapy (RRT) modalities.

Renal Physicians Association

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:005023
  • 2009 Feb

Standardized methods for labeling, packaging and storing medications: percentage of failures in labeling, conservation and storage of medications in wards, emergency department and operating room dispensaries.

Grupo de Investigación sobre Gestión de la Calidad en Servicios de Salud, University of Murcia, under contract to the Spanish Ministry of Health

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:011270
  • 2016 Feb

Cutaneous melanoma: proportion of patients with cutaneous melanoma undergoing wide local excision within 84 days of their diagnostic excision biopsy.

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009574
  • 2014 Apr

Sickle cell disease (SCD): percentage of children younger than 18 years of age identified as having SCD who had: (1) a pulse oximetry reading, (2) a complete blood count, and (3) a reticulocyte count performed within the same 7‐day period as part of outpatient care during the measurement year.

Quality Measurement, Evaluation, Testing, Review, and Implementation Consortium (Q-METRIC)

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008564
  • 2012 Apr

Infection control after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT): percentage of patients who had HCT and were herpes simplex virus seropositive and/or varicella-zoster virus seropositive and prophylaxis was prescribed.

American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010428
  • 2016 Jan
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): median time to transfer to another facility for acute coronary intervention.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009279
  • 2010 Sep

Disease-specific antibiotic prescribing: percentage of patients older than 2 years with acute otitis media/myringitis prescribed antibacterials for systemic use receiving quinolones.

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Network

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:007191
  • 2009 Nov

Melanoma: percentage of patients with a melanoma less than or equal to 1 mm thick (i.e., T1) for whom the surgical excision margins are 1 cm (or the specific anatomic or cosmetic factors that limit margin distance are noted).

American College of Surgeons

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010353
  • 2013 Jul
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Geriatrics: percentage of patients aged 65 years and older who were screened for future fall risk at least once within 12 months.

American Geriatrics Society; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008344
  • 2013 Jan

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) diagnosis and treatment: percentage of patients diagnosed with lower extremity VTE who meet the criteria for LMWH and for whom shared decision-making was used prior to implementing therapy.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008296
  • 2013 Jan

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): proportion of outpatients with COPD and a Medical Research Council (MRC) level of more than 3 who are offered participation in pulmonary rehabilitation at least once every three years.

Competence Centre for Clinical Quality and Health Informatics West; The Danish registry for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:011069
  • 2016 Jun

Bladder cancer: proportion of patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who are discussed at the multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting before definitive treatment.

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce