NQMC Update Service: July 11, 2016 || The Joint Commission

NQMC Update Service: July 11, 2016

The Joint Commission

• Hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services: the percentage of patients admitted to a hospital-based inpatient psychiatric setting who are screened within the first three days of admission for all of the following: risk of violence to self or others, substance use, psychological trauma history and patient strengths. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services: the percentage of patients discharged from a hospital-based inpatient psychiatric setting on two or more antipsychotic medications with appropriate justification. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services: the total number of hours that all patients admitted to a hospital-based inpatient psychiatric setting were held in seclusion. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services: the total number of hours that all patients admitted to a hospital-based inpatient psychiatric setting were maintained in physical restraint. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perinatal care: percentage of high-risk newborns with staphylococcal and gram negative septicemias or bacteremias. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perinatal care: percentage of newborns that were exclusively fed breast milk during the newborn's entire hospitalization. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perinatal care: percentage of nulliparous women with a term, singleton baby in a vertex position delivered by cesarean birth. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perinatal care: percentage of patients at risk of preterm delivery at greater than or equal to 24 and less than 34 weeks gestation receiving antenatal steroids prior to delivering preterm newborns. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perinatal care: percentage of patients with elective vaginal deliveries or elective cesarean births at greater than or equal to 37 and less than 39 weeks of gestation completed. This updates a previously published measure summary.