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Age Range:

Does not apply to this measure
Adult: 80 years old and older
Adult: 65-79 years old
Adult: 45-64 years old
Adult: 19-44 years old
Adolescent: 13-18 years old
Child: 6-12 years old
Child: Pre-school; 2-5 years old
Infant: 01-23 months old
Infant: Newborn
Infant: Low birth weight
Infant: Very low birth weight

Institute of Medicine Domain:

Not within an IOM Domain
Effectiveness
Equity
Patient-centeredness
Safety
Timeliness

Measurement Setting:

Ambulatory/Office-based Care
Ancillary Services
Behavioral Health Care
Community Health Care
Emergency Medical Services
Home Care
Hospices
Hospitals
Long-term Care Facilities
Managed Care Plans
National Public Health Programs
Regional, County, or City Public Health Programs
Rehabilitation Centers
Residential Care Facilities
Rural Health Care
Substance Use Treatment Programs/Centers

Least Aggregated Level of Services Delivery Addressed:

Clinical Practice or Public Health Sites
Individual Clinicians or Public Health Professionals
Multisite Health Care or Public Health Organizations
Regional, County or City
Single Health Care Delivery or Public Health Organizations
State/Provincial

Current Use:

Accreditation
Collaborative inter-organizational quality improvement
Decision-making by businesses about health plan purchasing
Decision-making by consumers about health plan/provider choice
Decision-making by health plans about provider contracting
Decision-making by managers about resource allocation
External oversight/Department of Defense/TRICARE
External oversight/Indian Health Service
External oversight/Maternal and Child Health Bureau
External oversight/Medicaid
External oversight/Medicare
External oversight/Regional, county, or city agencies
External oversight/State government program
External oversight/Veterans Health Administration
Internal quality improvement
Monitoring and planning
Monitoring health state(s)
National health policymaking
National reporting
Pay-for-performance
Pay-for-reporting
Population health improvement
Quality of care research
Regional, county, or city health policymaking
State/Provincial health policymaking

Measure Domain:

Clinical Quality Measures: Process
Clinical Quality Measures: Access
Clinical Quality Measures: Outcome
Clinical Quality Measures: Structure
Clinical Quality Measures: Patient Experience
Related Health Care Delivery Measures: User-enrollee Health State
Related Health Care Delivery Measures: Management
Related Health Care Delivery Measures: Use of Services
Population Health Quality Measures: Population Access
Population Health Quality Measures: Population Outcome
Population Health Quality Measures: Population Structure
Population Health Quality Measures: Population Experience
Related Population Health Measures: Population Health State
Related Population Health Measures: Population Use of Services
Related Population Health Measures: Environment

Data Source:

Administrative clinical data
Administrative management data
Clinical training documentation
Documentation of organizational self-assessment
Electronic health/medical record
Flowsheet
Health professional survey
Laboratory data
Medical record
National public health data
Organizational policies and procedures
Patient/Individual survey
Pharmacy data
Provider characteristics
Region, county, or city public health data
Registry data
Special or unique data

Organizations:

Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement, Performance Measurement Initiative, Colonoscopy Work Group
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Quality Collaboration
American Academy of Dermatology
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Neurology
American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation/American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation
American College of Cardiology
American College of Emergency Physicians
American College of Physicians
American College of Radiology
American College of Rheumatology
American College of Surgeons
American Gastroenterological Association
American Gastroenterological Association Institute
American Geriatrics Society
American Heart Association
American Medical Association on behalf of the AAFP, AAOS, AACE, American College of Rheumatology, The Endocrine Society, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Academy of Dermatology, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology, American College of Radiology, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, American College of Physicians, Society of Hospital Medicine, and the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American College of Radiology, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American College of Surgeons, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Geriatrics Society, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, American Gastroenterological Association, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Society of Hematology and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®, and National Committee for Quality Assurance
American Medical Association on behalf of the American Urological Association and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the College of American Pathologists and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Association on behalf of the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® and Society of Nuclear Medicine
American Medical Association on behalf of the Renal Physicians Association and Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
American Medical Directors Association
American Physical Therapy Association
American Podiatric Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association
American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
American Society of Anesthesiologists
American Society of Clinical Oncology
American Society of Clinical Oncology/National Comprehensive Cancer Network
American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
American Society of Hematology
American Society of Pediatric Nephrology
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
American Urological Association
Anderson, Roger T., PhD, Medical Quality Enhancement Corporation
Arthritis Foundation
Asian Liver Center at Stanford University
Atkinson, Mark J., PhD
Atkinson, Mark J., PhD; Hass, Steven L., PhD
Australian Council on Healthcare Standards
Boston University Health & Disability Research Institute
British Medical Association
CAHPS Consortium
California Department of Public Health
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Casarett, David, MD, MA; VA Medical Center
Center for Health Care Quality, Department of Health Policy, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/The Joint Commission
Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative
Chinman, Matthew, PhD (MIRECC); Young, Alexander S., MD, MSHS (MIRECC); Sandy Forquer (Comprehensive Neuroscience Inc.); Edward Knight (ValueOptions); Anita Miller (ValueOptions); Melissa Rowe (RAND)
Chinman, Matthew, PhD; Young, Alexander S., MD, MSHS; Veterans Administration Desert Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)
College of American Pathologists
Eisen, Susan V., PhD
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Focus On Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc.
Grupo de Investigación sobre Gestión de la Calidad en Servicios de Salud, University of Murcia, under contract to the Spanish Ministry of Health
Harvard Medical School
Health Resources and Services Administration
HealthPartners
Heyland, Daren K., MD, MSc
HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives: Asthma Collaborative
HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives: Depression Collaborative
HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives: Diabetes Collaborative
Inouye, Sharon K., MD, MPH
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
Kidney Care Quality Alliance
Kolcaba, Katharine, PhD
Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Service Administration
McLean Hospital, Department of Mental Health Services Evaluation
Mercer, Stewart W., BSc, MSc, PhD, MBChB, MRCGP
National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Committee for Quality Assurance
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
National Health Service (NHS) Confederation
National Stroke Foundation (Australia)
New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®
Press Ganey Associates, Inc.
RAND Corporation
RAND Health
Regents of the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Renal Physicians Association
Rose, Adam, MD, MSc, FACP
Rose, Adam, MD, MSc, FACP; Berlowitz, Dan, MD, MPH; Reisman, Joel, AB; Ash, Arlene, PhD; Ozonoff, Al, PhD; Hylek, Elaine, MD, MPH
Society of Hospital Medicine
Society of Nuclear Medicine
Spanish Agency for Healthcare Quality of the Spanish Ministry of Health
STABLE Project National Coordinating Council
The Danish National Indicator Project
The Endocrine Society
The Joint Commission
Therapeutic Associates, Inc.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service, Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research (CHQOER)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Veterans Health Administration
Veterans Health Administration Parkinson's Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center
VHA, Inc.
Yale-New Haven Health Services Corporation/Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation under contract to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Young, Alexander S., MD, MSHS; Veterans Administration Desert Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC); and University of California Los Angeles

Endorser:

National Health Service (NHS)
National Quality Forum

Organization Type:

Academic Affiliated Research Institute
Academic Institution
Clinical Specialty Collaboration
Disease Specific Society
Federal Government Agency [U.S.]
For Profit Organization
Government Affiliated Research Institute
Health Care Accreditation Organization
Health Care Quality Collaboration
Independent Author(s)
Managed Care Organization
Medical Specialty Society
National Government Agency [Non-U.S.]
Nonprofit Organization
Nonprofit Research Organization
Professional Association
State/Local Government Agency [U.S.]

Gender:

Does not apply to this measure
Either male or female
Female (only)
Male (only)

Professionals Involved in Delivery of Health Services:

Does not apply to this measure (e.g., measure is not provider specific)
Advanced Practice Nurses
Allied Health Personnel
Chiropractors
Clergy
Clinical Administrators/Managers
Clinical Laboratory Personnel
Dentists
Dietitians
Emergency Medical Technicians/Paramedics
Health Educators
Nurses
Occupational Therapists
Optometrists
Pharmacists
Physical Therapists
Physician Assistants
Physicians
Podiatrists
Psychologists/Non-physician Behavioral Health Clinicians
Public Health Professionals
Respiratory Care Practitioners
Social Workers
Speech-language Pathologists

Measure Initiative(s):

Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA)
Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC)
Home Health Compare
Hospital Compare
National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR)
National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR)
Nursing Home Compare
Physician Quality Reporting System
Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program

Publication Year:

2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1997
1990

Institute of Medicine Care Need:

Not within an IOM Care Need
End of Life Care
Getting Better
Living with Illness
Staying Healthy

Vulnerable Population:

Does not apply to this measure
Children
Frail Elderly
Homeless
Mentally Ill
Minority Groups
Non-English Speaking Populations
Poverty Populations
Rural Populations
Women

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