Quality Measure Implementation Guide (STU3)
3.0.0 - STU 3 US

This page is part of the Quality Measure STU2 for FHIR R4 Implementation Guide (v3.0.0: STU3) based on FHIR R4. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Example Measure: Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis

Active as of 2022-02-22
Id: measure-vte-1-FHIR
Url: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/Measure/measure-vte-1-FHIR
Version: 8.2.000
Identifier:

value: 108

Name: VTE_1_FHIR
Title: Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis
Status: active
Experimental: true
Scoring:

system: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-scoring

code: proportion

display: Proportion

Improvement Notation:

system: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-improvement-notation

code: increase

display: Increased score indicates improvement

Type:

system: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-type

code: process

Date: 2022-02-22
Publisher: Clinical Quality Information WG
Description: This measure assesses the number of patients who received VTE prophylaxis or have documentation why no VTE prophylaxis was given the day of or the day after hospital admission or surgery end date for surgeries that start the day of or the day after hospital admission
Supplemental Data:
expressionsystem
SDE Ethnicity http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-data-usage
SDE Payer http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-data-usage
SDE Race http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-data-usage
SDE Sex http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-data-usage
Use Context:
codevalue
program
Jurisdiction: US
Topic: 57024-2
Copyright: Measure specifications are in the Public Domain. LOINC(R) is a registered trademark of the Regenstrief Institute. This material contains SNOMED Clinical Terms(R) (SNOMED CT(C)) copyright 2004-2017 International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization. All rights reserved.
Disclaimer: These performance measures are not clinical guidelines and do not establish a standard of medical care, and have not been tested for all potential applications. The measures and specifications are provided without warranty
Approval Date: 2019-03-08
Last Review Date: 2019-03-08
Effective Period: 2018-01-01..2018-12-31

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