NQMC Update Service: June 17, 2013 ► Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

NQMC Update Service: June 17, 2013

June 17, 2013

New This Week

NQMC Update Service: June 17, 2013

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 06/17/2013 12:00 PM EDT

June 17, 2013

New This Week

Measure Summaries

Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

• Anatomical pathology: percentage of validated large biopsy results with a turnaround time (collected to validated time) less than 96 hours, during the 1 to 2 week time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Anatomical pathology: percentage of validated large biopsy results with a turnaround time (received to validated time) less than 92 hours, during the 1 to 2 week time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Anatomical pathology: percentage of validated small biopsy results with a turnaround time (collected to validated time) less than 48 hours, during the 1 to 2 week time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Anatomical pathology: percentage of validated small biopsy results with a turnaround time (received to validated time) less than 44 hours, during the 1 to 2 week time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Chemical pathology: percentage of serum/plasma potassium validated report results for ED (or requests specified as urgent) with a turnaround time (received to validated time) less than 60 minutes, during the 2 to 4 week time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Haematology: percentage of Coag validated report results from ED with a turnaround time (collected to validated time) less than 60 minutes, during the 2 to 4 week time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Haematology: percentage of Coag validated report results from ED with a turnaround time (received to validated time) less than 40 minutes, during the 2 to 4 week time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Haematology: percentage of haemoglobin validated report results from ED with a turnaround time (collected to validated time) less than 60 minutes, during the 2 to 4 week time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Haematology: percentage of haemoglobin validated report results from ED with a turnaround time (received to validated time) less than 40 minutes, during the 2 to 4 week time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Microbiology: percentage of validated CSF results from ED for microscopy (gram +/- stain) with a turnaround time (collected to validated time) less than 60 minutes, during the 1 to 2 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Microbiology: percentage of validated CSF results from ED with a microscopy (gram +/- stain) with a turnaround time (received to validated time) less than 40 minutes, during the 1 to 2 month time period. This updates a previously published measure summary.