“Measure Summaries”

Clinical Quality Measures

• Process (6)

Related Health Care Delivery Measures

• Use of Services (2)

Organization

• U.S.-based Organizations (8)

Name

• National Committee for Quality Assurance (4)
• The Joint Commission (4)

Type

• Health Care Accreditation Organization (8)

• HEDIS 2016: Health Plan Collection (1)
• HEDIS 2017: Health Plan Collection (3)
• National Quality Core Measures (4)

Aim

• Better Care (6)

Priority

• Health and Well-being of Communities (6)
• Making Care Safer (2)
• Prevention and Treatment of Leading Causes of Mortality (4)

• Ambulatory/Office-based Care (4)
• Hospital Inpatient (5)
• Hospital Outpatient (1)
• Managed Care Plans (4)

• Accreditation (8)
• Collaborative inter-organizational quality improvement (4)
• Decision-making by businesses about health plan purchasing (3)
• Decision-making by consumers about health plan/provider choice (3)
• External oversight/Medicaid (4)
• External oversight/Medicare (1)
• External oversight/State government program (4)
• Internal quality improvement (7)
• Monitoring and planning (1)
• Pay-for-reporting (4)
• Public reporting (4)
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• All Core Quality Measures (8)

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• Obstetrics and Gynecology (8)
• Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH), and Primary Care (2)

• Hospital Compare (1)
• Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (2)
• Physician Quality Reporting System (2)

• A clinical practice guideline or other peer-reviewed synthesis of the clinical research evidence (5)
• A formal consensus procedure, involving experts in relevant clinical, methodological, public health and organizational sciences (5)
• A systematic review of the clinical research literature (e.g., Cochrane Review) (2)
• One or more research studies published in a National Library of Medicine (NLM) indexed, peer-reviewed journal (6)

• Administrative clinical data (8)
• Electronic health/medical record (2)
• Paper medical record (6)

Age

• Adult: 65-79 years old (1)
• Adult: 45-64 years old (5)
• Adult: 19-44 years old (5)
• Adolescent: 13-18 years old (4)
• Child: 6-12 years old (3)
• Infant: Newborn (1)
• Unspecified (1)
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Gender

• Either male or female (1)
• Female (only) (7)

Vulnerable Populations

• Does not apply to this measure (3)
• Unspecified (5)

• Not within an IOM Domain (2)
• Effectiveness (4)
• Safety (2)
• Timeliness (2)