• Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010167
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Heart failure (HF): hospital-level, risk-standardized payment associated with a 30-day episode of care for HF.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Yale-New Haven Health Services Corporation/Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation under contract to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:011054
  • 2017 Jun
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Prostate cancer: percentage of patients, regardless of age, with a diagnosis of prostate cancer at low (or very low) risk of recurrence receiving interstitial prostate brachytherapy, OR external beam radiotherapy to the prostate, OR radical prostatectomy, OR cryotherapy who did not have a bone scan performed at any time since diagnosis of prostate cancer.

American Medical Association; American Urological Association

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010053
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Ambulatory surgery: percentage of Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) admissions experiencing a wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure, or wrong implant.

Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Quality Collaboration

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:008655
  • 2013 Jan
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Influenza vaccination: percentage of healthcare personnel (HCP) who receive the influenza vaccination.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • 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:009949
  • 2014 Nov
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Osteoporosis management in women who had a fracture: percentage of women 67 to 85 years of age who suffered a fracture and who had either a bone mineral density (BMD) test or prescription for a drug to treat osteoporosis in the six months after the fracture.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010870
  • 2015 Sep
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

End stage renal disease (ESRD): percentage of all patient months for adult patients (≥ 18) whose delivered peritoneal dialysis dose was a weekly Kt/Vurea ≥ 1.7 (dialytic + residual).

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010665
  • 2016 Feb
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

In-center hemodialysis patients' experiences: percentage of in-center hemodialysis patients who reported how often their nephrologist cared and communicated well.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; CAHPS Consortium; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • 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:011010
  • 2017 Jan
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Outpatient colonoscopy: facility level rate of risk-standardized, all-cause, unplanned hospital visits within 7 days of an outpatient colonoscopy.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:009705
  • 2015 Mar
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED): proportion of adult patients with a new CIED with an in-person evaluation within 2 to 12 weeks following implantation.

Heart Rhythm Society

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010530
  • 2015 Oct
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Osteoporosis management in women who had a fracture: percentage of women 67 to 85 years of age who suffered a fracture and who had either a bone mineral density (BMD) test or prescription for a drug to treat or prevent osteoporosis in the six months after the fracture.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010873
  • 2015 Sep
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

End stage renal disease (ESRD): percentage of patient months on maintenance hemodialysis during the last HD treatment of month with a chronic catheter continuously for 90 days or longer prior to the last hemodialysis session.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • 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:010346
  • 2015 Jun
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

Osteoporosis: percentage of women 65 to 85 years of age who have documentation in their medical record of having received a central dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) test of their hip or spine.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

  • 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:010667
  • 2016 Feb
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

In-center hemodialysis patients' experiences: percentage of in-center hemodialysis patients who reported whether specified information was provided to them.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; CAHPS Consortium; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  • 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:009908
  • 2015 May
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

End stage renal disease (ESRD): percentage of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients aged 18 years and older receiving hemodialysis during the 12-month reporting period and on dialysis for greater than 90 days who 1) have a functional AVF, or 2) have a functional AVG, or 3) have a catheter but have been seen/evaluated for a functional autogenous AVF or AVG at least once during the 12–month reporting period.

Kidney Care Quality Alliance

  • Measure Summary
  • NQMC:010670
  • 2016 Feb
  • NQF-Endorsed Measure

In-center hemodialysis patients' satisfaction with care: in-center hemodialysis patients' overall rating of their dialysis center.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; CAHPS Consortium; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services