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About Core Quality Measures | National Quality Measures Clearinghouse

• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010774
 
• 2016 MAR

Adult depression in primary care: percentage of patients with a diagnosis of major depression or persistent depressive disorder with documentation of DSM-5 criteria at the time of the diagnosis.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010208
 
• 2015 FEB

Diagnostic imaging: percentage of imaging studies for patients aged 18 years and older with knee pain who undergo knee MRI or MRA who are known to have had knee radiographs performed within the preceding three months based on information from the radiology information system (RIS), patient-provided radiological history, or other health-care source.

American College of Radiology; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010249
 
• 2014 JAN

Epilepsy: percentage of all patients with a diagnosis of epilepsy with active anti-seizure therapy side effects for whom an intervention was discussed.

American Academy of Neurology

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010229
 
• 2015 MAR

Diagnostic imaging: percentage of cancers detected at screening mammography that are invasive carcinoma less than or equal to 10 mm or ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).

American College of Radiology

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:011141
 
• 2015 MAR

Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) cancer: proportion of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) undergoing disease specific treatment (liver transplant, resection, ablation, trans-arterial chemoembolisation [TACE] or systemic anti-cancer therapy [SACT]) who die within 30 days of definitive treatment.

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008351
 
• 2013 JAN

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) diagnosis and treatment: percentage of patients with VTE who are initially prescribed warfarin therapy with documentation in the medical record indicating a baseline INR was obtained.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010035
 
• 2015 MAY

Self-injury: age-standardized rate of hospitalization in a general hospital due to self-injury per 100,000 population age 15 and older.

Canadian Institute for Health Information

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008489
 
• 2011 MAR

Metabolism and nutrition: percentage of patients with enteral nutrition (EN) correctly monitored.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008512
 
• 2011 MAR

Toxicology: percentage of appropriately indicated renal replacement therapy (RRT) procedures.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010950
 
• 2014 DEC

Diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy: proportion of patients diagnosed with malignancy where sufficient tissue was obtained for genetic profiling/all tissue sent for profiling.

British Thoracic Society

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010268
 
• 2012 JUL

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): percentage of patients diagnosed with ALS who are dysarthric who were offered a referral at least once annually to a speech language pathologist for an augmentative/alternative communication evaluation.

American Academy of Neurology

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010759
 
• 2014 NOV

Epilepsy: percentage of children with epilepsy who were commenced on antiepileptic drugs referred for input by an epilepsy specialist nurse by 1 year.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:009930
 
• 2014 NOV
• NQF-ENDORSED MEASURE

Immunizations for adolescents: percentage of adolescents 13 years of age who had one dose of meningococcal vaccine and one tetanus, diphtheria toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) or one tetanus, diphtheria toxoids vaccine (Td) by their 13th birthday.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010598
 
• 2015 OCT

Health plan members' experiences: percentage of parents/caretakers of health plan members who reported how often their child got care quickly.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010618
 
• 2015 OCT

Antibiotic utilization: summary of outpatient utilization of antibiotic prescriptions during the measurement year, stratified by age and gender.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010937
 
• 2016 FEB

Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma: percentage of patients who undergo surgical management of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma for whom there is no unplanned hospital readmission within 30 days of discharge.

Washington University School of Medicine

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008534
 
• 2011 MAR

Bioethics: percentage of informed written consent forms correctly filled out.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:011121
 
• 2016 MAY

Sarcoma: proportion of patients with osteosarcoma who are under the age of 40 who undergo neo-adjuvant combination systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT).

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:011264
 
• 2016 FEB

Cutaneous melanoma: proportion of patients with cutaneous melanoma who undergo diagnostic excision biopsy where the surgical pathology report contains a full set of data items (as defined by the current Royal College of Pathologists dataset).

NHS Scotland; Scottish Cancer Taskforce

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010710
 
• 2015 OCT
• NQF-ENDORSED MEASURE

Short-stay nursing home care: percent of residents who self-report moderate to severe pain.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; RTI International