eCQM QICore Content Implementation Guide
2024.0.0 - CI Build
eCQM QICore Content Implementation Guide, published by cqframework. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2024.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/cqframework/ecqm-content-qicore-2024/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
Official URL: https://madie.cms.gov/Measure/HospitalHarmOpioidRelatedAdverseEventsFHIR | Version: 0.1.000 | |||
Draft as of 2024-07-09 | Responsible: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) | Computable Name: HospitalHarmOpioidRelatedAdverseEventsFHIR | ||
Other Identifiers: Short Name (use: usual, ), UUID:30256069-ee4f-45b8-895a-5452cf8e9e4e (use: official, ), UUID:8f15b4f6-b1b5-41a0-b158-282ff051a62d (use: official, ), Endorser (use: official, ), Publisher (use: official, ) | ||||
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. American Institutes for Research(R), formerly IMPAQ International, disclaims all liability for use or accuracy of any third party codes contained in the specifications. LOINC(R) copyright 2004-2023 Regenstrief Institute, Inc. This material contains SNOMED Clinical Terms(R) (SNOMED CT[R]) copyright 2004-2023 International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. ICD-10 copyright 2023 World Health Organization. All Rights Reserved. |
This measure assesses the number of inpatient hospitalizations for patients age 18 and older who have been administered an opioid medication and are subsequently administered an opioid antagonist within 12 hours, an indication of an opioid-related adverse event
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Title: | Hospital Harm - Opioid-Related Adverse EventsFHIR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Id: | HospitalHarmOpioidRelatedAdverseEventsFHIR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Version: | 0.1.000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Url: | Hospital Harm - Opioid-Related Adverse EventsFHIR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
short-name identifier: |
CMS819FHIR |
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version-independent identifier: |
urn:uuid:30256069-ee4f-45b8-895a-5452cf8e9e4e |
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urn:uuid:8f15b4f6-b1b5-41a0-b158-282ff051a62d |
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endorser (CMS Consensus Based Entity) identifier: |
3501e |
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publisher (CMS) identifier: |
819FHIR |
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Effective Period: | 2025-01-01..2025-12-31 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher: | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Author: | American Institutes for Research (AIR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description: | This measure assesses the number of inpatient hospitalizations for patients age 18 and older who have been administered an opioid medication and are subsequently administered an opioid antagonist within 12 hours, an indication of an opioid-related adverse event |
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Purpose: | UNKNOWN |
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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. American Institutes for Research(R), formerly IMPAQ International, disclaims all liability for use or accuracy of any third party codes contained in the specifications. LOINC(R) copyright 2004-2023 Regenstrief Institute, Inc. This material contains SNOMED Clinical Terms(R) (SNOMED CT[R]) copyright 2004-2023 International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. ICD-10 copyright 2023 World Health Organization. All Rights Reserved. |
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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. Due to technical limitations, registered trademarks are indicated by (R) or [R] and unregistered trademarks are indicated by (TM) or [TM]. |
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Scoring: |
Proportion |
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Rationale: | Opioids are often the foundation for sedation and pain relief. Opioid-based analgesia continues to be the most commonly used treatment in postoperative pain management, with more than 95% of surgical patients receiving opioids during their hospitalization (Baker et al., 2020). However, use of opioids can also lead to serious adverse events, including constipation, over sedation, delirium, and respiratory depression (Urman, 2021a). Opioid-related adverse events (ORADE) have both patient-level and financial implications. The presence of an ORADE was associated with a 55% longer postoperative length of stay, 29% lower odds of discharge home, and 2.9 times the odds of death (Urman, 2021b). For surgical patients, occurrence of opioid-related adverse events was associated with an increase of 1.6 days in LOS and $8225 more in cost for the index hospitalization. Patients who experienced ORADEs while in a hospitalized setting were more likely to have received a higher total dose of opioids during hospitalization (Cone et al., 2023; Shafi et al., 2018). Numerous studies report the additive (risk-adjusted) hospitalization cost burden of surgical patients with ORADEs to be between $4350–$8225, representing a 27–47% increase in (risk-adjusted) admission costs (Khanna et al., 2021). Most opioid-related adverse events are preventable. Each year, adverse drug events (ADE) account for nearly 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations (AHRQ, 2019). An estimated one-third of all adverse events that occur in the inpatient setting are adverse drug events (ODPHP, 2020). Additionally, in a closed-claims analysis, 97% of adverse events were judged preventable with better monitoring and response (Lee et al., 2015). Naloxone administration is often used as an indicator of a severe opioid-related adverse event, and implementation of this measure can advance safe use of opioids in hospitals and prevent these serious and potentially lethal adverse drug events. |
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Clinical recommendation statement: | Naloxone is an opioid reversal agent typically used for severe opioid-related adverse events. Naloxone administration has been used in a number of studies as an indicator of opioid-related adverse events (Yiu, et al., 2022; Lynn et al., 2017; Nwulu et al., 2013). From Section 10 of the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (Lavonas et al., 2015), the following recommendation is listed for use of naloxone: Naloxone is a potent opioid receptor antagonist in the brain, spinal cord, and gastrointestinal system. Naloxone has an excellent safety profile and can rapidly reverse central nervous system (CNS) and respiratory depression in a patient with an opioid-associated resuscitative emergency. 2020 American Heart Association guidelines update for cardiopulmonary resuscitation continue to recommend naloxone for a patient with suspected opioid overdose who has a definite pulse but no normal breathing or only gasping (i.e., a respiratory arrest), in addition to providing standard Pediatric Basic Life Support (PBLS) or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), it is reasonable for responders to administer intramuscular or intranasal naloxone. These recommendations are identical for adults. In February 2022, FDA approved its abbreviated new drug application for nalmefene hydrochloride injection, 2mg/2mL (1mg/1mL). Nalmefene is an opioid antagonist indicated for the complete or partial reversal of opioid drug effects, including respiratory depression, induced by either natural or synthetic opioids, and in the management of known or suspected opioid overdose (FDA, 2022). In contrast to naloxone, the long half-life of nalmefene is similar to or greater than that of many opioid receptor agonists (Britch et al., 2022), which could decrease the need for repeat drug administration. In May 2023, FDA approved nalmefene hydrochloride nasal spray that delivers 2.7 milligrams (mg) of nalmefene into the nasal cavity. |
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Guidance (Usage): | Qualifying encounters (denominator) include all patients 18 years of age or older at the start of the encounter with at least one opioid medication administered outside of the operating room. To create the numerator: 1. First, start with those encounters meeting denominator criteria 2. Next, remove all events where an opioid or opioid antagonist was administered in the operating room. Opioid antagonist administrations in the operating room are excluded because they could be part of the sedation plan as administered by an anesthesiologist. Encounters that include use of opioid antagonists for procedures and recovery outside of the operating room (e.g., bone marrow biopsy and PACU) are included in the numerator, as it would indicate the patient was over-sedated. Note that should a facility not utilize temporary patient locations, alternative times may be used to determine whether a patient is in the operating room during opioid antagonist administration. Since anesthesia end time could represent the time the anesthesiologist signed off, and thus may include the patient’s time in the PACU, this should be avoided. 3. Next, remove all events where the opioid antagonist was administered via an enteral route. Only opioid antagonists given by a non-enteral (i.e., intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, intranasal, inhalation) route are considered. 4. Finally, remove all administrations of opioid antagonists that were given greater than 12 hours following hospital administration of an opioid medication. This eCQM is an episode-based measure. An episode is defined as each inpatient hospitalization or encounter that ends during the measurement period. This FHIR-based measure has been derived from the QDM-based measure: CMS819v3. Please refer to the HL7 QI-Core Implementation Guide(https://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/STU4.1.1/) for more information on QI-Core and mapping recommendations from QDM to QI-Core4.1.1 (https://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/STU4.1.1/qdm-to-qicore.html). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Supplemental Data Elements: |
SDE Ethnicity SDE Payer SDE Race SDE Sex |
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Supplemental Data Guidance : | For every patient evaluated by this measure also identify payer, race, ethnicity and sex; SDE Ethnicity SDE Payer SDE Race SDE Sex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Terminology and Other Dependencies: |
Library/SupplementalDataElements|3.5.000 Library/FHIRHelpers|4.4.000 Library/QICoreCommon|2.1.000 Library/CQMCommon|2.2.000 |
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