• Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010249
  • 2014 Jan

Epilepsy: percentage of all patients with a diagnosis of epilepsy with active anti-seizure therapy side effects for whom an intervention was discussed.

American Academy of Neurology

  • 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:008534
  • 2011 Mar

Bioethics: percentage of informed written consent forms correctly filled out.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:011016
  • 2017 Feb

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma: percent of lymphoma patients of childbearing age who received treatment for lymphoma and who were offered fertility counseling prior to starting treatment OR documentation in the medical record why such counseling was unnecessary.

American Society of Hematology

  • 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:008030
  • 2012 Jul

Routine prenatal care: percentage of pregnant patients who receive counseling and education at each visit as outlined in the guideline.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008934
  • 2013 Jul

Heart failure in adults: percentage of patients with heart failure diagnosis who were educated on the management of their condition.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:002697
  • 2006 Sep

Intensive care unit (ICU) palliative care: percent of patients whose family was personally given a written information leaflet by an ICU team member on or before Day One of ICU admission.

Vizient, Inc.

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010196
  • 2013 Jan

Major depressive disorder (MDD): percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of MDD who received patient education at least once during the measurement period, regarding the minimum specified criteria.

American Psychiatric Association; 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:002978
  • 2006 Dec
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Health information: proportion of children whose parents received all health information.

Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative

  • 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:009655
  • 2014 Mar

Perioperative protocol: percentage of patients with comorbidities undergoing elective non-high-risk surgery who have preoperative recommendations documented/communicated to the patient and/or surgical facility for all of the following applicable comorbidities: antithrombotic therapy, recent coronary stent/antiplatelet therapy, beta-blocker therapy, diabetes mellitus, sleep apnea, and nicotine cessation.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009368
  • 2013 Nov

Assessment and management of chronic pain: percentage of patients diagnosed with chronic pain who are prescribed an opioid who have an opioid agreement form and urine toxicology screen documented in the medical record.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:006141
  • 2010 Apr

Cancer - fatigue/anemia: percentage of known cancer patients who are newly diagnosed with cancer who had an assessment of the presence or absence of fatigue.

RAND Corporation

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:006158
  • 2010 Apr

Cancer - information and care planning: percentage of patients with advanced cancer who died an expected death who were referred for palliative care prior to death (hospital-based or community hospice) or there was documentation why there was no referral.

RAND Corporation

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010187
  • 2015 Apr

High body mass index (BMI) follow-up: percentage of children ages 2 through 17 years with a BMI greater than or equal to 85th percentile who had documentation of communication of weight classification at an outpatient care visit during the measurement year.

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

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009596
  • 2014 Feb

Pain management: percentage of patients with documented person-centered inter-professional care plan for acute or chronic pain.

American Medical Directors Association

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010211
  • 2015 Feb

Diagnostic imaging: percentage of final reports for CT or MRI studies of the chest or neck or ultrasound of the neck for patients aged 18 years and older with no known thyroid disease with a thyroid nodule less than 1.0 cm noted incidentally with follow-up imaging recommended.

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

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010141
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Tobacco treatment: percent of patients who received counseling AND medication as well as those who received counseling and had reason for not receiving the medication during the hospital stay within the first three days after admission.

The Joint Commission