NQMC Update Service: December 2, 2013 ▲ Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

NQMC Update Service: December 2, 2013

December 2, 2013

New This Week

NQMC Update Service: December 2, 2013

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 12/02/2013 03:00 PM EST

December 2, 2013

New This Week

Measure Summaries

Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado, under contract to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to bathe themselves. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to dress the lower body. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to dress the upper body. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to eat. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to groom themselves. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to manage their oral medications. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to speak clearly and be understood. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to transfer on/off and to/from the toilet. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to transfer to and from bed. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient improved in ability to walk or move around in a wheelchair. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient is discharged to the community at the end of the home health episode. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient is hospitalized at the end of the home health episode (OASIS-based). This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient needed urgent, unplanned medical care from a hospital emergency department, immediately followed by hospital admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to bathe improved or stayed the same as at admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to manage their oral medications improved or stayed the same as at admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to prepare light meals improved or stayed the same as at admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to prepare light meals improved. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to transfer to and from bed improved or stayed the same as at admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to transfer to/from and on/off the toilet improved or stayed the same as at admission.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to use the phone improved or stayed the same as at admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's ability to use the telephone improved. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's anxiety became less frequent or stayed the same as at admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's anxiety frequency improves. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's behavior problem frequency improves. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's bladder control improves. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's bowel control improves. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's cognitive functioning improved or stayed the same as at admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's confusion frequency improves. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's dyspnea improved. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's frequency of pain when moving around improved. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's grooming ability improved or stayed the same as at admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's speech and language ability improved or stayed the same as at admission. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's surgical wound status improved. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's toileting hygiene improved or stayed the same as at admission.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's toileting hygiene improves.

• Home health care: percentage of home health episodes of care during which the patient's urinary tract infection is cured. This updates a previously published measure summary.