• 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:011141
  • 2015 Mar

Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) cancer: proportion of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) undergoing disease specific treatment (liver transplant, resection, ablation, trans-arterial chemoembolisation [TACE] or systemic anti-cancer therapy [SACT]) who die within 30 days of definitive treatment.

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce

  • 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

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010353
  • 2013 Jul
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Geriatrics: percentage of patients aged 65 years and older who were screened for future fall risk at least once within 12 months.

American Geriatrics Society; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • 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:009961
  • 2014 Nov

Potentially harmful drug-disease interactions in the elderly: percentage of Medicare patients 65 years of age and older who have evidence of an underlying disease, condition or health concern and who were dispensed an ambulatory prescription for a potentially harmful medication, concurrent with or after the diagnosis.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:011124
  • 2016 May

Sarcoma: proportion of patients with sarcoma who undergo surgical resection or oncological treatment with curative intent who die within 30 days of treatment.

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008569
  • 2012 Apr

Chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD): percentage of patients with symptomatic mild cGVHD with only local therapy prescribed.

American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010542
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Annual monitoring for patients on persistent medications: percentage of members 18 years of age and older who received at least 180 treatment days of ambulatory medication therapy for a select therapeutic agent during the measurement year and at least one therapeutic monitoring event for the therapeutic agent in the measurement year.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008432
  • 2012 Sep

Non-OR procedural safety: percentage of wrong invasive or high-risk procedure events outside of the operating room per month.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010550
  • 2015 Oct

Potentially harmful drug-disease interactions in the elderly: percentage of Medicare members 65 years of age and older who have evidence of an underlying disease, condition or health concern and who were dispensed an ambulatory prescription for a potentially harmful medication, concurrent with or after the diagnosis.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:007515
  • 2012 Nov

Adult acute and subacute low back pain: percentage of patients with radicular pain for whom the clinician ordered imaging studies during the six weeks after pain onset.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008572
  • 2012 Apr

Chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD): percentage of patients with cGVHD who received calcium and vitamin D level testing within 3 months of diagnosis.

American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:007457
  • 2011 Aug
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Pediatric kidney disease: percentage of calendar months within a 12-month period during which patients aged 17 years and younger with a diagnosis of ESRD receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis have a hemoglobin level less than 10 g/dL.

American Society of Pediatric Nephrology; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®; Renal Physicians Association

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010216
  • 2016 Jan

Optimizing patient exposure to ionizing radiation: percentage of final reports for CT imaging studies of the thorax for patients aged 18 years and older with documented follow-up recommendations for incidentally detected pulmonary nodules based at a minimum on nodule size and patient risk factors.

American College of Radiology; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:011007
  • 2017 Jan

Intra-procedure colonoscopy complication rate: percentage of patients who developed one or more intra-procedure colonoscopy complications.

AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, Performance Measurement Initiative, Colonoscopy Work Group

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009964
  • 2014 Nov
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Use of high-risk medications in the elderly: percentage of patients 66 years of age and older who received at least one high-risk medication.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010219
  • 2016 Jan

Optimizing patient exposure to ionizing radiation: percentage of CT and cardiac nuclear medicine (myocardial perfusion studies) imaging reports for all patients, regardless of age, that document a count of known previous CT and cardiac nuclear medicine studies that the patient has received in the 12-month period prior to the current study.

American College of Radiology; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009372
  • 2015 Jan

Total knee replacement: percentage of patients undergoing a total knee replacement who had a physical examination completed within one year prior to the procedure that included all of the following: gait, knee range of motion, presence or absence of deformity of the knee, stability of the knee, neurologic status, vascular status, skin, height, and weight.

American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons