NQMC Update Service: November 19, 2012 ▲ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

NQMC Update Service: November 19, 2012

New This Week

Measure Summaries

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

• Acute myocardial infarction: hospital 30-day, all-cause risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) following AMI hospitalization. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Acute myocardial infarction: hospital 30-day, all-cause, risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) following AMI hospitalization. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Heart failure: hospital 30-day, all-cause risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) following HF hospitalization. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Heart failure: hospital 30-day, all-cause, risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) following HF hospitalization. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Pneumonia: hospital 30-day, all-cause risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) following pneumonia hospitalization. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Pneumonia: hospital 30-day, all-cause, risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) following pneumonia hospitalization. This updates a previously published measure summary.