• 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: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: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: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: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:008449
  • 2011 Mar

Acute respiratory failure: percentage of circuits used per 7-day blocks of mechanical ventilation (MV).

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

  • 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:009629
  • 2014 Feb

Urinary incontinence (UI): percentage of patients whose transfer summary is reviewed for a history of UI on admission.

American Medical Directors Association

  • 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: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:009634
  • 2014 Feb

Urinary incontinence (UI): percentage of patients who have received a physical examination and workup as indicated for UI.

American Medical Directors Association

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010671
  • 2013 Jan

Cancer screening: percentage of women aged 51 to 74 years who have had at least one mammogram performed during the measurement year or the year prior to the measurement year.

The Israel National Program for Quality Indicators in Community Healthcare

  • 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:008472
  • 2011 Mar

Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with ischemic stroke undergoing intravenous fibrinolysis.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009262
  • 2010 Sep

Disease-specific antibiotic prescribing: percentage of patients aged between 18 and 75 years with acute bronchitis/bronchiolitis prescribed antibacterials for systemic use.

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Network

  • 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

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:000342
  • 2002 Oct

Advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD): percent of patients with phosphorus greater than 4.5 mg/dL after a low phosphorus diet for one month, now on a phosphate binder.

Renal Physicians Association