Home Health & Hospice Week
Quality:
These 7 Measures Will Go Low-Profile In 2019
Published on Fri May 04, 2018
Pain assessment measure trips up hospices. When the composite quality measure "Hospice and Palliative Care Composite Process Measure - Comprehensive Assessment at Admission" goes live on Hospice Compare next fall, these are the seven measures that comprise it that will be relegated to an "expandable/collapsible format under the composite measure itself" and their scores, according to the 2019 proposed rule: 1. Treatment Preferences (NQF #1641) 98.8%
2. Beliefs/Values (NQF #1647) 95.9%
3. Pain Screening (NQF #1634) 93.2%
4. Pain Assessment (NQF #1637) 72.5%
5. Dyspnea Screening (NQF #1639) 98.5%
6. Dyspnea Treatment (NQF #1638) 92.8 %
7. Bowel Regimen (NQF #1617) 97.5%
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