NQMC Update Service: October 26, 2015 ► Collaboration for Advancing Pediatric Quality Measures

NQMC Update Service: October 26, 2015

Collaboration for Advancing Pediatric Quality Measures

• Asthma: proportion of emergency department visits for asthma that meet criteria for the ED being the appropriate level of care among all ED visits for asthma in adolescents age 19 to 21 years old with identifiable asthma.

• Asthma: proportion of emergency department visits for asthma that meet criteria for the ED being the appropriate level of care among all ED visits for asthma in children age 2 to 5 years with identifiable asthma.

• Asthma: proportion of emergency department visits for asthma that meet criteria for the ED being the appropriate level of care among all ED visits for asthma in children age 6 to 11 years old with identifiable asthma.

• Asthma: proportion of emergency department visits for asthma that meet criteria for the ED being the appropriate level of care among all ED visits for asthma in children and adolescents age 12 to 18 years old with identifiable asthma.

• Inpatient perinatal care: percent of live-born neonates less than 2,500 grams that have a temperature documented within 15 minutes after their arrival to a Level 2 or higher nursery.

• Inpatient perinatal care: percent of live-born neonates less than 2,500 grams that have a temperature documented within the Golden Hour from birth to 60 minutes of age.

• Inpatient perinatal care: the distribution of temperatures of live-born neonates less than 2,500 grams that arrive at a Level 2 or higher nursery.

• Inpatient perinatal care: the number of live-born neonates less than 2,500 grams that arrive to a Level 2 or higher nursery whose qualifying temperature falls within the criteria for that stratum: cold, very cool, cool, euthermic, and overly warm.