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 0.1.0-cibuild 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: 0.1.0-cibuild
Standards status: Informative Computable Name: NHSNdQMAcuteCareHospitalInitialPopulation

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.

Name: NHSNdQMAcuteCareHospitalInitialPopulation
Title: NHSN dQM Acute Care Hospital Initial Population
Status: draft
Measure 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.
Background and 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.
Initial Population: 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.
Supplemental Data:
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SDE Condition MeasureDataUsage
SDE Device MeasureDataUsage
SDE DiagnosticReport Lab MeasureDataUsage
SDE DiagnosticReport Note MeasureDataUsage
SDE DiagnosticReport Others MeasureDataUsage
SDE Encounter MeasureDataUsage
SDE Location MeasureDataUsage
SDE Medication Administration MeasureDataUsage
SDE Medication Request MeasureDataUsage
SDE Medication MeasureDataUsage
SDE Observation Lab Category MeasureDataUsage
SDE Observation Vital Signs Category MeasureDataUsage
SDE Observation Category MeasureDataUsage
SDE Coverage MeasureDataUsage
SDE Procedure MeasureDataUsage
SDE Specimen MeasureDataUsage
SDE Service Request MeasureDataUsage
SDE Minimal Patient MeasureDataUsage
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.
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.
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