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MEASURES ENDORSED BY NQF, MAY 15, 2008

Length of Stay/Readmission

-- Risk-adjusted average length of inpatient hospital stay

-- Overall inpatient hospital average length of stay (ALOS) and ALOS by DRG service category

-- All-cause readmission index

-- 30-day all-cause risk standardized readmission rate following heart failure hospitalization

-- Severity-standardized average length of stay-routine care

-- Severity-standardized average length of stay-special care

-- Severity-standardized average length of stay-deliveries

Patient Safety, Adult

-- Accidental puncture or laceration

-- Death in low mortality DRGs

-- Iatrogenic pneumothorax

-- Death among surgical inpatients with serious, treatable complications

-- Bilateral cardiac catheterization rate

-- Blood cultures performed within 24 hours prior to or 24 hours after hospital arrival for patients who were transferred or admitted to ICU within 24 hours of hospital arrival

-- Congestive heart failure mortality

-- Hip fracture mortality rate

-- Transfusion reaction, age 18 years and older

Patient Safety, Pediatrics

-- Accidental puncture or laceration

-- Decubitus ulcer

-- Iatrogenic pneumothorax in nonneonates

-- Transfusion reaction, age under 18 years

Pediatrics

-- PICU severity-adjusted length of stay

-- PICU unplanned readmission rate

-- Review of unplanned PICU readmissions

-- Home management plan of care document given to patient/caregiver

-- Pediatric heart surgery mortality

-- Pediatric heart surgery volume

-- PICU pain assessment on admi
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