• 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: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:008489
  • 2011 Mar

Metabolism and nutrition: percentage of patients with enteral nutrition (EN) correctly monitored.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008512
  • 2011 Mar

Toxicology: percentage of appropriately indicated renal replacement therapy (RRT) procedures.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

  • 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:009930
  • 2014 Nov
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Immunizations for adolescents: percentage of adolescents 13 years of age who had one dose of meningococcal vaccine and one tetanus, diphtheria toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) or one tetanus, diphtheria toxoids vaccine (Td) by their 13th birthday.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • 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: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: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:000333
  • 2002 Oct

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

Renal Physicians Association

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:011041
  • 2016 Jan

Ovarian cancer: proportion of patients with early stage epithelial ovarian cancer (FIGO stage 1) undergoing primary surgery who have an adequate staging operation involving total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH), bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO), omentectomy and washings.

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce

  • 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:008466
  • 2011 Mar

Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of fractured femurs treated surgically within 24 hours.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:006375
  • 2009 Jun

Pancreatic cancer: percentage of patients undergoing cancer-directed resection for whom the tumor histology is recorded.

American College of Surgeons

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009243
  • 2015 Jul

Proportion of days covered (PDC): percentage of patients who filled at least two prescriptions for a sulfonylurea or sulfonylurea combination on two unique dates of service who met the PDC threshold of 80% during the measurement period.

Pharmacy Quality Alliance

  • 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