Home Health & Hospice Week

Quality:

Your HIS Data Will Result In These 7 Quality Measures

Plus: Get to know the HIS tool sections that will generate the quality standards.

It’s time to become familiar with the sev-en National Quality Forum-approved measures that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser-vices will calculate based on the Hospice Item Set data you collect:

  • NQF #1617 Patients Treated with an Opioid who are Given a Bowel Regimen
  • NQF #1634 Pain Screening
  • NQF #1637 Pain Assessment
  • NQF #1638 Dyspnea Treatment
  • NQF #1639 Dyspnea Screening
  • NQF #1641 Treatment Preferences
  • NQF #1647 Beliefs/Values Addressed.

CMS will calculate the data based on HIS items in the tool’s six categories:

  • Section A: Administrative Information
  • Section F: Preferences
  • Section I: Active Diagnoses
  • Section J: Health Conditions (Pain and Dyspnea)
  • Section N: Medications
  • Section Z: Record Administration.

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