“Structure”

Clinical Quality Measures

• Structure (3)

Organization

• U.S.-based Organizations (3)

Name

• American College of Radiology (2)
• Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® (2)
• Quality Measurement, Evaluation, Testing, Review, and Implementation Consortium (Q-METRIC) (1)

Type

• Academic Affiliated Research Institute (1)
• Clinical Specialty Collaboration (2)
• Medical Specialty Society (2)

• Optimizing Patient Exposure to Ionizing Radiation Performance Measurement Set (2)
• Sepsis Measures (1)

Aim

• Better Care (3)

Priority

• Health and Well-being of Communities (2)
• Making Care Safer (2)
• Prevention and Treatment of Leading Causes of Mortality (2)

• Ambulatory/Office-based Care (2)
• Ambulatory Procedure/Imaging Center (2)
• Emergency Department (3)
• Hospital Inpatient (2)
• Hospital Outpatient (3)
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• Internal quality improvement (2)
• Monitoring and planning (1)
• Professional certification (2)

• A clinical practice guideline or other peer-reviewed synthesis of the clinical research evidence (2)
• A formal consensus procedure, involving experts in relevant clinical, methodological, public health and organizational sciences (3)
• A systematic review of the clinical research literature (e.g., Cochrane Review) (1)
• One or more research studies published in a National Library of Medicine (NLM) indexed, peer-reviewed journal (3)

• Administrative clinical data (1)
• Health professional survey (1)
• Registry data (2)

Age

• Adolescent: 13-18 years old (2)
• Child: 6-12 years old (2)
• Child: Pre-school: 2-5 years old (2)
• Does not apply to this measure (1)

Gender

• Does not apply to this measure (1)
• Either male or female (2)

Vulnerable Populations

• Children (3)

• Not within an IOM Domain (1)
• Effectiveness (2)
• Safety (2)