NQMC Update Service: September 12, 2011
September 12, 2011
New This Week
Measure Summaries
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
- Perioperative protocol: percentage of appropriate surgical patients who have their site marked by the surgeon in preop with his/her initials. This updates a previously published measure summary.
- Perioperative protocol: percentage of infections in patients undergoing clean surgery. This updates a previously published measure summary.
- Perioperative protocol: percentage of surgical cases in which a verbal, active Time Out is conducted by all appropriate members of the surgical team prior to incision. This updates a previously published measure summary.
- Perioperative protocol: percentage of surgical cases where the baseline count was conducted prior to the patient arriving in the operating/procedure room. This updates a previously published measure summary.
- Perioperative protocol: percentage of surgical patients with documentation of verification of correct patient, site/side and procedure. This updates a previously published measure summary.
- Perioperative protocol: percentage of surgical patients with prophylactic antibiotic received within 60 minutes prior to surgical incision. This updates a previously published measure summary.
- Perioperative protocol: percentage of unintentionally retained foreign objects in surgical cases per month. This updates a previously published measure summary.
- Perioperative protocol: percentage of wrong surgery events per month. This updates a previously published measure summary.
Withdrawn Summaries
The summaries listed below have been withdrawn from the NQMC Web site because they are no longer in current use and therefore, do not meet the NQMC Inclusion Criteria. Please see the Measure Archive for a complete list of all measures that have been withdrawn from the NQMC Web site.
Press Ganey Associates, Inc.
- Medical practice satisfaction: mean section score for "During Your Visit" questions on Medical Practice Survey.
Announcements
Coming Soon
- New Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement Diagnosis and Treatment of Chest Pain and ACS Measures. Look for these measures in NQMC in the near future!
Newly Submitted
Conference News
- The 2011 AHRQ Annual Conference, "AHRQ: Leading Through Innovation & Collaboration," will be held September 18-21, 2011 in Bethesda Maryland. Visit the conference home page for more information. Registration is now open.
Health Awareness Topics -- September 2011
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Awareness Month (see related measures)
- National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month (see related measures)
- National Cholesterol Education Month (see related measures)
How to Participate
- Submit measures: Visit our Submit Measures page for information on how to submit your organization's measures.
- Suggest a measure for possible inclusion: Submit your suggestions for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets that you would like to see included in NQMC.
NQMC Sister Resources
- Find Innovations and QualityTools classified by disease or clinical category, patient population, setting of care, stage of care, and more in AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site.
- Look for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in AHRQ's National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC).
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