NQMC Update Service: March 9, 2014

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 03/09/2015 12:11 PM EDT

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC)

March 9, 2015

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Measure Summaries

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

Occupational health: annual asbestosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual coal workers' pneumoconiosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual incidence rate of acute work-related pesticide-associated illness and injury cases per 100,000 employed persons age 16 years or older.

Occupational health: annual mesothelioma incidence rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual other and unspecified pneumoconiosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual rate of asbestosis inpatient hospitalizations per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual rate of coal workers' pneumoconiosis inpatient hospitalizations per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual rate of other and unspecified pneumoconiosis inpatient hospitalizations per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual rate of silicosis inpatient hospitalizations per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual rate of total pneumoconiosis inpatient hospitalizations per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual silicosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual total pneumoconiosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized asbestosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized coal workers' pneumoconiosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized mesothelioma incidence rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized other and unspecified pneumoconiosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized rate of asbestosis inpatient hospitalization per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized rate of coal workers' pneumoconiosis inpatient hospitalizations per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized rate of other and unspecified pneumoconiosis inpatient hospitalizations per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized rate of silicosis inpatient hospitalizations per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized rate of total pneumoconiosis inpatient hospitalization per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized silicosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: annual, age-standardized total pneumoconiosis death rate per million residents age 15 years or older.

Occupational health: proportion of ever-employed adults with current asthma who report that their asthma was caused or made worse by exposures at work.

Announcements

Notice to Our Users - Enhanced HHS Measures Inventory Coming Soon in April 2015!

In order to provide complete measure information to our users, the launch of the enhanced HHS Measures Inventory has been rescheduled for April 2015 (from February 2015). The HHS Measures Inventory is currently undergoing improvements to enhance the content, functionality, and overall user experience of the Web site.

Streamlined Measure Updating. The HHS Measures Inventory will transition from an annual to a "real-time" updating of content directly to the Web site.
Links to Expanded Measure Information. When available, external links will be established among measures in the HHS Measures Inventory and the same or similar measure residing in the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC), the National Quality Forum (NQF), and the United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) repositories.
New Measure History Display. A complete history of entry actions, including measure submission, review, and the date and time of each action will be displayed for each measure record.

Contact Us with inquiries regarding the change in schedule or the forthcoming measure information.

Coming Soon

New American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) Urinary Incontinence measures. Look for these measures in NQMC in the near future!

Health Awareness Topics - March 2015

National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (see related measures)
National Kidney Month (see related measures)
Save Your Vision Month (see related measures)

How to Participate

Submit measures: Visit our Submit Measures page for information on how to submit your organization's measures.
Suggest a measure for possible inclusion: Submit your suggestions for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets that you would like to see included in NQMC.

NQMC Sister Resource

Look for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in AHRQ's National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC).

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