NQMC Update Service: July 11, 2016 || Quality Measurement, Evaluation, Testing, Review, and Implementation Consortium (Q-METRIC)

NQMC Update Service: July 11, 2016

Quality Measurement, Evaluation, Testing, Review, and Implementation Consortium (Q-METRIC)

• Pediatric asthma: percentage of children, ages 1 through 17 years with persistent asthma, who, during the measurement year, presented to a hospital emergency department (ED) for an asthma exacerbation and were prescribed an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) at the time of discharge.