National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Digital Quality Measure (dQM) Reporting Implementation Guide
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National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Digital Quality Measure (dQM) Reporting Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Public Health. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0-ballot built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/nhsn-dqm/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Measure: Acute Care Hospital Initial Population Measure

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/nhsn-dqm/Measure/NHSNdQMAcuteCareHospitalInitialPopulation Version: 1.0.0-ballot
Standards status: Informative Computable Name: NHSNdQMAcuteCareHospitalInitialPopulation
Other Identifiers: OID:2.25.316204395913842452684237438142819890580.29.2

Copyright/Legal: Limited proprietary coding is contained in the Measure specifications for user convenience. Users of proprietary code sets should obtain all necessary licenses from the owners of the code sets.

The Acute Care Hospital Initial Population includes all encounters for patients of any age in an ED, observation, or inpatient location or all encounters for patients of any age with an ED, observation, inpatient, or short stay status during the measurement period.

Generated Narrative: Measure NHSNdQMAcuteCareHospitalInitialPopulation

CQFM Population Basis: Encounter

CQFM Effective Data Requirements: EffectiveDataRequirements

url: Measure NHSN dQM Acute Care Hospital Initial Population

identifier: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)/urn:oid:2.25.316204395913842452684237438142819890580.29.2

version: 1.0.0-ballot

name: NHSNdQMAcuteCareHospitalInitialPopulation

title: NHSN dQM Acute Care Hospital Initial Population

status: Draft

experimental: false

date: 2024-02-29 17:44:38-0500

publisher: HL7 International / Public Health

contact: HL7 International / Public Health: http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/pher

description:

The Acute Care Hospital Initial Population includes all encounters for patients of any age in an ED, observation, or inpatient location or all encounters for patients of any age with an ED, observation, inpatient, or short stay status during the measurement period.

jurisdiction: United States of America

copyright:

Limited proprietary coding is contained in the Measure specifications for user convenience. Users of proprietary code sets should obtain all necessary licenses from the owners of the code sets.

relatedArtifact

type: Documentation

display: https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/index.html [placeholder for link to protocol on CDC website]

url: https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/index.html

Documents

-Url
*https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/index.html

library: NHSNdQMAcuteCareHospitalInitialPopulation

disclaimer:

This performance measure is not a clinical guideline, does not establish a standard of medical care and has not been tested for all potential applications. THE MEASURES AND SPECIFICATIONS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. This measure and specifications are subject to further revisions.

scoring: Cohort

type: Outcome

rationale:

The NHSN Acute Care Hospital dQM allows for facilities to report line level patient data electronically to NHSN for the following modules that are reported monthly: Glycemic Control, Hypoglycemia; Healthcare facility-onset, antibiotic-Treated Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) Infection (HT-CDI); Hospital-Onset Bacteremia & Fungemia (HOB); Venous Thromboembolism (VTE); Late Onset Sepsis / Meningitis. *Please see Acute Care / Critical Access Hospitals (ACH) | NHSN | CDC for the individual measure protocols.

group

population

id

initial-population

code: Initial Population

description: All encounters for patients of any age in an ED, observation, or inpatient location or all encounters for patients of any age with an ED, observation, inpatient, or short stay status during the measurement period.

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierInitial Population

supplementalData

id

sde-condition

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Condition

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Condition

supplementalData

id

sde-device

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Device

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Device

supplementalData

id

sde-diagnosticreport-lab

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE DiagnosticReport Lab

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE DiagnosticReport Lab

supplementalData

id

sde-diagnosticreport-note

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE DiagnosticReport Note

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE DiagnosticReport Note

supplementalData

id

sde-diagnosticreport-others

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE DiagnosticReport Others

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE DiagnosticReport Others

supplementalData

id

sde-encounter

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Encounter

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Encounter

supplementalData

id

sde-location

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Location

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Location

supplementalData

id

sde-medication-administration

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Medication Administration

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Medication Administration

supplementalData

id

sde-medication-request

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Medication Request

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Medication Request

supplementalData

id

sde-medication

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Medication

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Medication

supplementalData

id

sde-observation-lab-category

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Observation Lab Category

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Observation Lab Category

supplementalData

id

sde-observation-vital-signs-category

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Observation Vital Signs Category

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Observation Vital Signs Category

supplementalData

id

sde-observation-category

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Observation Category

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Observation Category

supplementalData

id

sde-coverage

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Coverage

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Coverage

supplementalData

id

sde-procedure

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Procedure

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Procedure

supplementalData

id

sde-specimen

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Specimen

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Specimen

supplementalData

id

sde-service-request

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Service Request

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Service Request

supplementalData

id

sde-minimal-patient

usage: Supplemental Data

description: SDE Minimal Patient

Criteria

-LanguageExpression
*text/cql-identifierSDE Minimal Patient