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NQMC Update Service: March 11, 2013

NQMC Update Service: March 11, 2013

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 03/11/2013 12:00 PM EDT

March 11, 2013

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Measure Summaries Australian Council on Healthcare Standards Access and exit block: percentage of adult elective surgical cases deferred or cancelled due to the lack of an ICU bed, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary. Access and exit block: percentage of adult patients discharged from the ICU between 6PM and 6AM, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary. Access and exit block: percentage of adult patients who were transferred to another facility/ICU due to unavailability of an ICU bed, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary. Access and exit block: percentage of adult patients whose discharge from the ICU was delayed more than 6 hours, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary. Access and exit block: percentage of appropriate adult patients referred to an ICU, who have documented evidence by an intensivist that they could not be admitted to the unit because of inadequate resources, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary. Intensive care patient management: percentage of rapid response calls to adult ICU patients within 72 hours of being discharged from the ICU, during the 6 month time period. Intensive care patient treatment: percentage of adult patients being treated appropriately for VTE prophylaxis, according to local protocol, within 24 hours of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary. Intensive care unit (ICU) central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI): percentage of adult ICU-associated centrally inserted central line-associated bloodstream infection (CI-CLABSI), during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary. Intensive care unit (ICU) central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI): percentage of adult ICU-associated peripherally inserted central line-associated bloodstream infection (PI-CLABSI), during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary. Minimum standards for a rapid response system (RRS): percentage adult patients who have experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest, during the 6 month time period. Minimum standards for a rapid response system (RRS): percentage of adult deaths in all patients, during the 6 month time period. Minimum standards for a rapid response system (RRS): percentage of deaths in adult patients who do not have a not for resuscitation (NFR) order at the time of death, during the 6 month time period. Minimum standards for a rapid response system (RRS): percentage of rapid response system calls to adult patients within 24 hours of admission to hospital, during the 6 month time period. Minimum standards for a rapid response system (RRS): percentage of rapid response system calls to adult patients, during the 6 month time period. Utilisation of patient assessment systems: percentage of adult intensive care submissions to the ANZICS CORE Adult Patient Database with completed information and review of results, during the 6 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.