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• American Heart Month (see related measures)

• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010059
 
• 2014 NOV

Hypertension diagnosis and treatment: percentage of adult patients age greater than or equal to 18 years diagnosed with hypertension who are not at goal for hypertension and have received counseling on diet and physical activity in the past 12 months.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010001
 
• 2015 MAR

Heart failure (HF): percentage of HF patients who have documentation in the medical record of a one-time discussion of advance directives/advance care planning with a healthcare provider.

The Joint Commission

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010028
 
• 2015 MAY

Ambulatory care sensitive conditions: age-standardized acute care hospitalization rate for conditions where appropriate ambulatory care prevents or reduces the need for admission to the hospital, per 100,000 population younger than age 75 years.

Canadian Institute for Health Information

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010134
 
• 2015 OCT
• NQF-ENDORSED MEASURE

Stroke: percent of ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke patients who were assessed for rehabilitation services.

The Joint Commission

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008864
 
• 2013 MAY

Stable coronary artery disease: percentage of patients with documentation in the medical record that an LDL was obtained within the last 12 months with an LDL less than 100 mg/dL. Consider less than 70 mg/dL for high-risk patient.

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008436
 
• 2011 MAR

Cardiac care: percentage of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) classified according to risk.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:009697
 
• 2013 JAN

Adult trauma care: percentage of discharges of patients age 18 years and older with a primary injury diagnosis and one of the following secondary diagnoses: decubitus ulcer, hospital acquired infection, iatrogenic pneumothorax, foreign body left during procedure, myocardial infarction, acute renal failure.

Quality of Trauma in Adult Care (QTAC) Team, University of Calgary

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008445
 
• 2011 MAR

Cardiac care: percentage of cardiac arrest (CA) alerts and Utstein template correctly completed.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008468
 
• 2011 MAR

Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) undergoing cerebral angiography within 48 hours.

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008009
 
• 2012 JUL

Diagnosis and treatment of ischemic stroke: percentage of patients with stroke symptoms who undergo a CT scan within 25 minutes of arrival in the emergency department.

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010539
 
• 2015 OCT
• NQF-ENDORSED MEASURE

Cardiovascular monitoring for people with cardiovascular disease and schizophrenia: percentage of members 18 to 64 years of age with schizophrenia and cardiovascular disease who had an LDL-C test during the measurement year.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:002908
 
• 2010 SEP

Stroke and stroke rehabilitation: percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with the diagnosis of ischemic stroke whose time from symptom onset to arrival is less than 3 hours who were considered for tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) administration.

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

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008936
 
• 2013 JUL

Heart failure in adults: percentage of heart failure patients who are current smokers or tobacco users who received smoking cessation advice or counseling in primary care.

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:009994
 
• 2015 MAR

Stroke: percentage of ischemic stroke patients who develop a symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage within (less than or equal to) 36 hours after the onset of treatment with IV or IA thrombolytic (t-PA) therapy, or mechanical endovascular reperfusion procedure.

The Joint Commission

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:008353
 
• 2013 JAN

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) diagnosis and treatment: percentage of patients with VTE who are prescribed UFH and/or LMWH who have baseline laboratory tests documented in their medical record.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010524
 
• 2015 OCT
• NQF-ENDORSED MEASURE

Comprehensive diabetes care: percentage of members 18 to 75 years of age with diabetes (type 1 and type 2) who had an eye exam (retinal) performed.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:004433
 
• 2003 JAN

Speech and language function: proportion of stroke patients in each risk-adjusted group that make at least one level of progress on the Writing Functional Communication Measure (FCM).

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010626
 
• 2015 OCT

Hospitalization for potentially preventable complications: rate of discharges for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) per 1,000 members and the risk-adjusted ratio of observed to expected discharges for ACSC by chronic and acute conditions, for members 67 years of age and older.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:002905
 
• 2010 SEP

Stroke and stroke rehabilitation: percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with the diagnosis of ischemic stroke or intracranial hemorrhage who received DVT prophylaxis by end of hospital day 2.

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

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• MEASURE SUMMARY
 
• NQMC:010380
 
• 2015 MAR
• NQF-ENDORSED MEASURE

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality: percentage of in-hospital deaths per 1,000 discharges with AMI as a principal diagnosis for patients ages 18 years and older.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality