NQMC Update Service: March 27, 2017

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 03/27/2017 03:10 PM EDT

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March 27, 2017

New This Week

Measure Summaries

American College of Chest Physicians New Developer

Lung cancer: percentage of active smokers with lung cancer who have had smoking cessation counseling documented.
Lung cancer: percentage of non-surgical biopsies in patients with clinical stage IV non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer that obtained an adequate amount of tissue for molecular testing.
Lung cancer: percentage of patients with clinical stage IB or higher, but no evidence of metastatic disease, who have had a mediastinal lymph node sampling procedure performed prior to the initiation of curative intent therapy.
Lung cancer: percentage of patients with clinical stage III or IV lung cancer, or neurologic symptoms, who have had brain imaging performed within 3 months prior to the initiation of treatment.
Lung cancer: percentage of patients with evidence of one to three distant metastases who have had an attempt at biopsy confirmation of a site of metastasis, or documentation of a reason that this was not possible or necessary.
Lung cancer: percentage of patients with lung cancer in whom a performance status measure is documented prior to treatment.
Lung cancer: percentage of patients with lung cancer who have an American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) current edition clinical lung cancer stage documented prior to curative intent therapy.

Announcements

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Coming Soon

Updated University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care Measures

Health Awareness Topics: March 2017

National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (see related measures)
National Kidney Month (see related measures)

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