Draft dQM CMS Content Implementation Guide
2025.1.0 - CI Build

Draft dQM CMS Content Implementation Guide, published by cqframework. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2025.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/cqframework/dqm-content-cms-2025/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## Libraries

Library | Description
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AHAOverall | This version of the AHAOverall library is patterned after HFCommonDefinitionsQDM library version '3.0.000'
AdultOutpatientEncounters | This library contains a definition used to identify denominator qualifying encounters.
AdvancedIllnessandFrailty | This library contains definitions used to exclude patients 66 and older with an indication of frailty who also meet advanced illness criteria, and patients 66 and older who are living long term in a nursing home.
AlaraCommonFunctions | Provides common functions used in the Alara CT measures for determining qualifying scans and extracting noise and dose values.
CMS108FHIRVTEProphylaxis | CMS108FHIRVTEProphylaxis
CMS1206FHIRCTOQR | CMS1206FHIRCTOQR
CMS122FHIRDiabetesAssessGT9Pct | CMS122FHIRDiabetesAssessGT9Pct
CMS125FHIRBreastCancerScreen | CMS125FHIRBreastCancerScreen
CMS130FHIRColorectalCancerScrn | CMS130FHIRColorectalCancerScrn
CMS135FHIRACEIorARBorARNIforHF | CMS135FHIRACEIorARBorARNIforHF
CMS165FHIRControllingHighBP | CMS165FHIRControllingHighBP
CMS2FHIRPCSDepScreenAndFollowUp | CMS2FHIRPCSDepScreenAndFollowUp
CMS986FHIRMalnutritionScore | CMS986FHIRMalnutritionScore
CQMCommon | This library contains declarations that are commonly used in eCQMs and shared across the logic of multiple measures, such as the Encounter Inpatient value set, and the Inpatient Encounter population criteria definition. This library also contains functions for calculating hospitalization duration as well as hospital arrival and departure times.
Hospice | This library contains a definition used to exclude patients who are in hospice care for any part of the measurement period.
PalliativeCare | This library contains a definition used to exclude patients receiving palliative care for any part of the measurement period.
Status | This library contains functions used to constrain FHIR resource elements for measures authored by NCQA, based on QICore 6.0.0 resources including IG and authoring patterns. The functions may appear similar to some QICoreCommon functions but differ in that they have constraints that are relevant for measures authored by NCQA.
SupplementalDataElements | This is the QI-Core 6.0.0-derived version of the Supplemental Data Elements library containing the CMS SDE definitions for Payer, Race, Ethnicity and Sex
TJCOverall | Common functions and definitions used by TJC measures
US Quality Core Common | Common terminologies and functions used in US Quality Core-based CQL artifacts
VTE | Definitions and functions used for VTE measures, including VTE Initial Population.