Introduction to the QI Learning Institute: Slide Presentation

NQF Endorsed Measures—Other: Standards of Hospital Care: Additional Priorities 2007

Length of Stay/Readmission

• Risk-adjusted average length of inpatient hospital stay (Not QIs)
• Overall inpatient hospital average length of stay (ALOS) and ALOS by DRG service category (Not QIs)
• All-cause readmission index (Not QIs)
• 30-day all-cause risk standardized readmission rate following heart failure hospitalization (Not QIs)
• Severity-standardized average length of stay-routine care (Not QIs)
• Severity-standardized average length of stay-special care (Not QIs)
• Severity-standardized average length of stay-deliveries (Not QIs)

Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)

• VTE prophylaxis (Not QIs)
• Intensive Care Unit (ICU) VTE prophylaxis (Not QIs)
• VTE patients with anticoagulation overlap therapy (Not QIs)
• VTE patients unfractionated heparin (UFH) Dosages/platelet count monitoring by protocol (or Nomogram) (Not QIs)
• VTE discharge instructions (Not QIs)
• Incidence of potentially preventable VTE (Not QIs)