NQMC Update Service: February 8, 2016 || Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

NQMC Update Service: February 8, 2016

Measure Summaries

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

• Accidental puncture or laceration: percentage of accidental punctures or lacerations during a procedure per 1,000 discharges for patients ages 17 years and younger. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Accidental puncture or laceration: percentage of accidental punctures or lacerations during a procedure per 1,000 discharges for patients ages 18 years and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Asthma admission: percentage of admissions with a principal diagnosis of asthma per 100,000 population, ages 2 through 17 years. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Dehydration admission: percentage of admissions with a principal diagnosis of dehydration per 100,000 population, ages 18 years and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes long-term complications admission: percentage of admissions for a principal diagnosis of diabetes with long-term complications per 100,000 population, ages 18 years and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Diabetes short term complications admission: percentage of admissions for a principal diagnosis of diabetes with short-term complications per 100,000 population, ages 18 years and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Gastroenteritis admission: percentage of admissions for a principal diagnosis of gastroenteritis, or for a principal diagnosis of dehydration with a secondary diagnosis of gastroenteritis, per 100,000 population, ages 3 months through 17 years. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Iatrogenic pneumothorax: percentage of iatrogenic pneumothorax cases per 1,000 discharges for patients ages 17 years and younger. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Lower-extremity amputation among patients with diabetes: percentage of admissions for any-listed diagnosis of diabetes and any-listed procedure of lower-extremity amputation per 100,000 population, ages 18 years and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Neonatal blood stream infection: percentage of discharges with healthcare-associated bloodstream infection per 1,000 discharges for newborns and outborns with birth weight of 500 grams or more but less than 1,500 grams; with gestational age between 24 and 30 weeks; or with birth weight of 1,500 grams or more and death, an operating room procedure, mechanical ventilation, or transferring from another hospital within two days of birth.This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perforated appendix admission rate: percentage of admissions for any-listed diagnosis of perforations or abscesses of the appendix per 1,000 admissions with any listed appendicitis, ages 18 years and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Pressure ulcer: percentage of stage III or IV pressure ulcers per 1,000 discharges for patients ages 17 years and younger. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Uncontrolled diabetes admission: percentage of admissions for a principal diagnosis of diabetes without mention of short-term or long-term complications per 100,000 population, ages 18 years and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Urinary tract infection admission: percentage of admissions with a principal diagnosis of urinary tract infection per 100,000 population, ages 18 years and older. This updates a previously published measure summary.