NQMC Update Service: January 21, 2013 ► Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

NQMC Update Service: January 21, 2013

January 21, 2013

NQMC Update Service: January 21, 2013

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 01/21/2013 12:00 PM EST

January 21, 2013

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New This Week

Measure Summaries

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

• Accidental puncture or laceration (area-level): rate per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Accidental puncture or laceration (provider-level): rate per 1,000 discharges. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Birth trauma -- injury to neonate: rate per 1,000 newborns. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Central venous catheter-related blood stream infections (provider-level): rate per 1,000 discharges. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections (area-level): rate per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Death among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: deaths per 1,000 discharges. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Death in low-mortality DRGs: in-hospital deaths per 1,000 discharges. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Foreign body left during procedure (area-level): discharges per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Iatrogenic pneumothorax (area-level): rate per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Iatrogenic pneumothorax (provider-level): rate per 1,000 discharges. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Obstetric trauma (3rd or 4th degree lacerations): rate per 1,000 instrument-assisted vaginal deliveries. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Obstetric trauma (3rd or 4th degree lacerations): rate per 1,000 vaginal deliveries without instrument assistance. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma (area-level): rate per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma (provider-level): rate per 1,000 surgical discharges. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Postoperative hip fracture: rate per 1,000 surgical discharges. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Postoperative physiologic and metabolic derangement: rate per 1,000 elective surgical discharges with an operating room procedure. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Postoperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis: rate per 1,000 surgical discharges with an operating room procedure. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Postoperative respiratory failure: rate per 1,000 elective surgical discharges with an operating room procedure. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Postoperative sepsis: rate per 1,000 elective surgery discharges with an operating room procedure and a length of stay of 4 days or more. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Postoperative wound dehiscence (area-level): rate of reclosure of postoperative disruption of abdominal wall per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Postoperative wound dehiscence (provider-level): rate of reclosure of postoperative disruption of abdominal wall per 1,000 cases of abdominopelvic surgery. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Pressure ulcer: rate per 1,000 discharges. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Transfusion reaction (area-level): rate per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.