• 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:005006
  • 2009 Feb

Assessment of risk and prevention of malnutrition: percentage of intensive care unit (ICU) patients who are assessed for risk of malnutrition within 24 hours after admission.

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: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:007585
  • 2012 Apr

Acute care prevention of falls: percentage of patients who receive appropriate falls prevention interventions based upon the results of their falls risk assessment.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010790
  • 2016 Jul
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services: the total number of hours that all patients admitted to a hospital-based inpatient psychiatric setting were maintained in physical restraint.

The Joint Commission

  • 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:009992
  • 2015 Mar

Stroke: percentage of SAH and ICH stroke patients for whom a severity measurement is performed prior to surgical intervention in patients undergoing surgical intervention and documented in the medical record, OR documented within 6 hours of arrival at the hospital ED for patients who do not undergo surgical intervention.

The Joint Commission

  • 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:010707
  • 2016 Jan

Overuse of imaging: ratio of the number of MRI scans to the number of CT scans obtained on or within the 30 days after the date of evaluation for atraumatic headache for children, ages 4 through 17 years old, within the measurement year.

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

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010967
  • 2016 Sep

Upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy: percentage of patients monitored for complications (adverse events) after therapeutic UGI endoscopy.

European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008323
  • 2012 Nov

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis: percentage of hospitalized patients who have a baseline international normalized ratio when initially prescribed warfarin.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009961
  • 2014 Nov

Potentially harmful drug-disease interactions in the elderly: percentage of Medicare patients 65 years of age and older who have evidence of an underlying disease, condition or health concern and who were dispensed an ambulatory prescription for a potentially harmful medication, concurrent with or after the diagnosis.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010944
  • 2014 Dec

Diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy: proportion of bronchoscopy procedures performed with a completed safety checklist.

British Thoracic Society

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009257
  • 2015 Jul

Drug-drug interactions: percentage of patients who received a prescription for a target medication during the measurement period and who were dispensed a concurrent prescription for a precipitant medication.

Pharmacy Quality Alliance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:005003
  • 2009 Feb

Prevention of contrast-induced renal damage: percentage of patients whose renal function (creatinine level) is assessed within the 24 hours prior to undergoing tests with iodine-containing contrast media.

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:004980
  • 2009 Feb

Radiograph labeling: percentage of simple radiographs that are correctly identified.

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:010793
  • 2016 Jul
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Perinatal care: percentage of patients with elective vaginal deliveries or elective cesarean births at greater than or equal to 37 and less than 39 weeks of gestation completed.

The Joint Commission

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008492
  • 2011 Mar

Nephrologic care: percentage of correctly monitored continuous renal replacement (CRR) therapy treatments.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:005026
  • 2009 Feb

Standardized methods for labeling, packaging and storing medications: percentage of failures in labeling of medications prepared in hospital pharmacy service.

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:009995
  • 2015 Mar

Stroke: percentage of SAH patients for whom nimodipine treatment was administered within 24 hours of arrival at the hospital.

The Joint Commission