Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:The Culture of Health Care
Unit:Quality Measurement and Improvement
Lecture:Current quality measures in use
Slide content:CQM: Eligible Professional (Physician) Example Measure: Appropriate testing for children with pharyngitis (sore throat) CMS eMeasure Identification: CMS146v1 NQF #: 0002 NQSs Priority Domain: Efficient Use of Healthcare Resources Measure Steward: National Committee for Quality Assurance Description: Percentage of children 218 years who were diagnosed with pharyngitis, ordered an antibiotic, and received a group A streptococcus (strep) test for episode 15
Slide notes:The list of all CQMs for both eligible professionals and eligible hospitals is too long to display for this lecture, but this slide provides one example of the measures used in the program. This measure for eligible professionals focuses on children with pharyngitis [far-in- jie - tiss ], or sore throat. You can see that the quality measure is identified with the CMS e-measure identification number and the NQF number. This measure represents one of the six NQS domainsspecifically, the efficient use of health care resources, which is required in later stages of the meaningful use criteria. The NCQA is identified as the steward of this specific measure, which includes oversight of the official measure description and the required measurement (numerator and denominator) statement. This example illustrates how individual quality measures in the meaningful use program are now identified and aligned across multiple quality measure programs. The official description is to measure the percentage of children two to eighteen years of age who were diagnosed with pharyngitis, ordered an antibiotic, and received a group A streptococcus (strep) test for the episode. 15