NQMC Update Service: March 27, 2017 | American College of Chest Physicians New Developer

NQMC Update Service: March 27, 2017

American College of Chest Physicians New Developer

• Lung cancer: percentage of active smokers with lung cancer who have had smoking cessation counseling documented.
• Lung cancer: percentage of non-surgical biopsies in patients with clinical stage IV non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer that obtained an adequate amount of tissue for molecular testing.
• Lung cancer: percentage of patients with clinical stage IB or higher, but no evidence of metastatic disease, who have had a mediastinal lymph node sampling procedure performed prior to the initiation of curative intent therapy.
• Lung cancer: percentage of patients with clinical stage III or IV lung cancer, or neurologic symptoms, who have had brain imaging performed within 3 months prior to the initiation of treatment.
• Lung cancer: percentage of patients with evidence of one to three distant metastases who have had an attempt at biopsy confirmation of a site of metastasis, or documentation of a reason that this was not possible or necessary.
• Lung cancer: percentage of patients with lung cancer in whom a performance status measure is documented prior to treatment.
• Lung cancer: percentage of patients with lung cancer who have an American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) current edition clinical lung cancer stage documented prior to curative intent therapy.