NQMC Update Service: June 10, 2013 ► Canadian Institute for Health Information

NQMC Update Service: June 10, 2013

NQMC Update Service: June 10, 2013

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 06/10/2013 12:00 PM EDT

June 10, 2013

New This Week

Measure Summaries

Canadian Institute for Health Information

• Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): age-standardized rate of new AMI events admitted to an acute care hospital, per 100,000 population age 20 and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): risk-adjusted rate of unplanned readmission following discharge for AMI. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Acute myocardial infarction (AMI): the risk-adjusted rate of all-cause in-hospital death occurring within 30 days of first admission to an acute care hospital with a diagnosis of AMI. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Ambulatory care sensitive conditions: age-standardized acute care hospitalization rate for conditions where appropriate ambulatory care prevents or reduces the need for admission to the hospital, per 100,000 population younger than age 75 years. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Caesarean section: proportion of women delivering babies in acute care hospitals by Caesarean section. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Cardiac revascularization: age-standardized rate of coronary bypass graft (CABG) surgery performed on inpatients in acute care hospitals or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) performed on patients in acute care hospitals, same-day surgery facilities or catheterization laboratories, per 100,000 population age 20 and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery: age-standardized rate of CABG surgery performed on inpatients in acute care hospitals, per 100,000 population age 20 and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Hip fracture: age-standardized rate of new hip fractures admitted to an acute care hospital, per 100,000 population age 65 and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Hip fracture: risk-adjusted proportion of hip fracture patients age 65 and older who underwent hip fracture surgery in an acute care hospital on the day of admission or the next day. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Hip fracture: risk-adjusted proportion of hip fracture patients age 65 and older who underwent hip fracture surgery in an acute care hospital on the day of admission, the next day or the day after that. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Hip fracture: risk-adjusted proportion of hip fracture patients age 65 and older who underwent hip fracture surgery within 48 hours of admission to hospital.

• Hip replacement surgery: age-standardized rate of unilateral or bilateral hip replacement surgery performed on inpatients in acute care hospitals per 100,000 population age 20 and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Hysterectomy: age-standardized rate of hysterectomy provided to patients in acute care hospitals or same-day surgery facilities, per 100,000 women age 20 and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Inflow/outflow: ratio of the number of separations (discharges and deaths) from acute care/same-day surgery facilities within a given region to the number of acute care/same-day surgery separations generated by residents of that region. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Injury: the age-standardized rate of acute care hospitalization due to injury resulting from the transfer of energy (excluding poisoning and other non-traumatic injuries), per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Knee replacement surgery: age-standardized rate of unilateral or bilateral knee replacement surgery performed on patients in acute care hospitals or same-day surgery facilities, per 100,000 population age 20 and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Medical: risk-adjusted rate of unplanned readmission for adult medical patients within 30 days of discharge.

• Mental illness: age-adjusted rate of total number of days in general hospitals for selected mental illness, per 10,000 population.

• Mental illness: age-standardized rate of separations from general hospitals through discharge or death following a hospitalization for a selected mental illness, per 100,000 population.

• Mental illness: risk-adjusted percentage of individuals who had three or more episodes of care for a selected mental illness over all those who had at least one episode of care for a selected mental illness in general hospitals within a given year.

• Mental illness: risk-adjusted rate of readmission following discharge for a mental illness.

• Mortality: total number of premature deaths that could potentially have been avoided through all levels of prevention per 100,000 population (potentially avoidable mortality).

• Mortality: total number of premature deaths that could potentially have been avoided through secondary and tertiary prevention efforts per 100,000 population (mortality from treatable causes).

• Mortality: total number of premature deaths that could potentially have been prevented through primary prevention efforts per 100,000 population (mortality from preventable causes).

• Obstetrics: risk-adjusted rate of unplanned readmission for obstetric patients within 30 days of discharge.

• Pediatrics: risk-adjusted rate of unplanned readmission for pediatric patients within 30 days of discharge.

• Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI): age-standardized rate of PCIs performed on inpatients in acute care hospitals, same-day surgery facilities or catheterization laboratories, per 100,000 population age 20 and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Physician-to-population ratio: total number of general practitioners and family physicians per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Physician-to-population ratio: total number of specialist physicians per 100,000 population. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Premature mortality: age-standardized rate of premature deaths per 100,000 population.

• Self-injury: age-standardized rate of hospitalization in a general hospital due to self-injury, per 100,000 population.

• Stroke: age-standardized rate of new stroke events admitted to an acute care hospital, per 100,000 population age 20 and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Stroke: the risk-adjusted rate of all-cause in-hospital death occurring within 30 days of first admission to an acute care hospital with a diagnosis of stroke. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Surgery: risk-adjusted rate of unplanned readmission for adult surgical patients within 30 days of discharge.