NQMC Update Service:January 27, 2014 ▲ Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

NQMC Update Service:January 27, 2014

January 27, 2014

NQMC Update Service:January 27, 2014

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 01/27/2014 12:00 PM EST

January 27, 2014

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Measure Summaries Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® Nuclear medicine - radionuclide bone imaging: percentage of final reports for all patients, regardless of age, undergoing bone scintigraphy that include physician documentation of correlation with existing relevant imaging studies (e.g., x-ray, MRI, CT) that were performed. This updates a previously published measure summary. Nuclear medicine - radionuclide bone imaging: percentage of patients, regardless of age, undergoing bone scintigraphy, considered to be potentially at risk for fracture in a weight-bearing site for whom there is documentation of direct communication to the referring physician within 24 hours of completion of the imaging study. This updates a previously published measure summary.