• 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:010211
  • 2015 Feb

Diagnostic imaging: percentage of final reports for CT or MRI studies of the chest or neck or ultrasound of the neck for patients aged 18 years and older with no known thyroid disease with a thyroid nodule less than 1.0 cm noted incidentally with follow-up imaging recommended.

American College of Radiology; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010099
  • 2014 Nov

Prostate cancer: percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of prostate cancer receiving interstitial prostate brachytherapy, OR external beam radiotherapy to the prostate, OR radical prostatectomy, OR cryotherapy with documented evaluation of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), AND primary tumor (T) stage, AND Gleason score prior to initiation of treatment.

American Urological Association; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010658
  • 2015 Oct

Perioperative care: percentage of patients, regardless of age, who undergo a surgical procedure under anesthesia who have documentation that all applicable safety checks from the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist were performed before induction of anesthesia.

American Society of Anesthesiologists; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • 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:010463
  • 2015 Nov
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Colorectal cancer screening: percentage of patients aged 18 years and older receiving a surveillance colonoscopy, with a history of a prior adenomatous polyp(s) in previous colonoscopy findings, who had an interval of 3 or more years since their last colonoscopy.

American College of Gastroenterology; American Gastroenterological Association; American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010655
  • 2015 Oct

Perioperative care: percentage of patients, aged 3 through 17 years of age, who undergo a procedure under general anesthesia in which an inhalational anesthetic is used for maintenance AND who have two or more risk factors for postoperative vomiting (POV), who receive combination therapy consisting of at least two prophylactic pharmacologic anti-emetic agents of different classes preoperatively or intraoperatively.

American Society of Anesthesiologists; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • 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:010424
  • 2015 Aug
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Eye care: percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of uncomplicated cataract who had cataract surgery and had any of a specified list of surgical procedures in the 30 days following cataract surgery which would indicate the occurrence of any of the following major complications: retained nuclear fragments, endophthalmitis, dislocated or wrong power IOL, retinal detachment, or wound dehiscence.

American Academy of Ophthalmology; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010663
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Perioperative care: percentage of surgical patients, aged 18 years and older, who receive an anesthetic when undergoing procedures with the indications for prophylactic parenteral antibiotics for whom administration of a prophylactic parenteral antibiotic ordered has been initiated within one hour prior to the surgical incision.

American Society of Anesthesiologists; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010203
  • 2015 Feb
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Diagnostic imaging: percentage of patients undergoing a screening mammogram whose information is entered into a reminder system with a target due date for the next mammogram.

American College of Radiology; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010209
  • 2015 Feb

Diagnostic imaging: percentage of final reports for patients aged 18 years and older who had a previously documented iodinated contrast reaction who undergo any imaging examination using intravenous iodinated contrast that include documentation that the patients were pre-medicated with corticosteroids with or without H1 antihistamines.

American College of Radiology; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010102
  • 2014 Nov
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Prostate cancer: percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of prostate cancer at high or very high risk of recurrence, receiving external beam radiotherapy to the prostate who were prescribed adjuvant hormonal therapy (GnRH agonist or antagonist).

American Urological Association; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010206
  • 2015 Feb

Diagnostic imaging: percentage of final reports for patients aged 18 years and older undergoing CT with documentation that one or more of the specified dose optimization techniques were used.

American College of Radiology; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010212
  • 2015 Feb

Diagnostic imaging: percentage of final reports for abdominal imaging studies for asymptomatic patients aged 18 years and older with one or more of the following noted incidentally with follow-up imaging recommended: liver lesion less than or equal to 0.5 cm; cystic kidney lesion less than 1.0 cm; adrenal lesion less than or equal to 1.0 cm.

American College of Radiology; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010214
  • 2016 Jan

Optimizing patient exposure to ionizing radiation: percentage of total CT studies performed for all patients, regardless of age, that are reported to a radiation dose index registry and that include at a minimum selected data elements.

American College of Radiology; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:007458
  • 2011 Aug

Pediatric kidney disease: percentage of patients aged 17 years and younger with a diagnosis of ESRD on hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis for whom there is documentation of a discussion regarding advance care planning.

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

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010656
  • 2015 Oct

Perioperative care: percentage of patients, aged 18 years and older, who undergo a procedure under an inhalational general anesthetic, AND who have three or more risk factors for postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), who receive combination therapy consisting of at least two prophylactic pharmacologic anti-emetic agents of different classes preoperatively or intraoperatively.

American Society of Anesthesiologists; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010220
  • 2016 Jan

Optimizing patient exposure to ionizing radiation: percentage of final reports of CT studies performed for all patients, regardless of age, which document that a search for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format images was conducted for prior patient CT imaging studies completed at non-affiliated external entities within the past 12-months and are available through a secure, authorized, media-free, shared archive prior to an imaging study being performed.

American College of Radiology; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®