NQMC Update Service: February 3, 2014 ▲ British Medical Association

NQMC Update Service: February 3, 2014

February 3, 2014

New This Week

NQMC Update Service: February 3, 2014

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 02/03/2014 12:00 PM EST

February 3, 2014

New This Week

Measure Summaries British Medical Association

• Contraception: the contractor establishes and maintains a register of women 54 or under who have been prescribed any method of contraception at least once in the last year, or other clinically appropriate interval, e.g., last 5 years for an IUS. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Contraception: the percentage of women on the register prescribed an oral or patch contraceptive method in the preceding 12 months who have also received information from the contractor about long-acting reversible methods of contraception in the preceding 12 months. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Contraception: the percentage of women on the register prescribed emergency hormonal contraception one or more times in the preceding 12 months by the contractor who have received information from the contractor about long-acting reversible methods of contraception at the time of or within 1 month of the prescription. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Patient experience: the contractor ensures that the length of routine booked appointments with doctors in the surgery is not less than 10 minutes.  

• Smoking: the contractor supports patients who smoke in stopping smoking by a strategy which includes providing literature and offering appropriate therapy.

• Smoking: the percentage of patients aged 15 or over who are recorded as current smokers who have a record of an offer of support and treatment within the preceding 24 months.

• Smoking: the percentage of patients aged 15 or over whose notes record smoking status in the preceding 24 months.

• Smoking: the percentage of patients with any or any combination of the following conditions: CHD, PAD, stroke or TIA, hypertension, diabetes, COPD, CKD, asthma, schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder or other psychoses who are recorded as current smokers who have a record of an offer of support and treatment within the preceding 12 months.

• Smoking: the percentage of patients with any or any combination of the following conditions: CHD, PAD, stroke or TIA, hypertension, diabetes, COPD, CKD, asthma, schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder or other psychoses whose notes record smoking status in the preceding 12 months.