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AAMC Core Measure Scores

Quality measures scores on how often AAMC provides some of the recommended care compared to what other hospital average scores are across the state.


> Click here to view our core measure scores chart.

Understanding Core Measures

AAMC Core Quality Measure Scores

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), along with its collaborators in the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) and the nation's hospitals have worked together to create and publicly report hospital quality information.

The hospital quality measures on AAMC's web site show recommended care for some of the most common conditions that hospitals treat. Research has shown that these treatments provide the best results for most adults with those conditions that are an important part of the patients' overall care. You will see some of the recommended care that an adult should get if being treated for a heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, or having surgery.

The graph listed below has quality measures scores on how often AAMC provides some of the recommended care compared to what other hospital average scores are across the state.

This information helps you, your health care provider, family, and friends compare the quality of care provided in the hospitals that agree to submit data on the quality of certain services they provide for certain conditions. This quality information not only helps you make good decisions about your health care, but also encourages hospitals to improve the quality of health care they provide.

Core Measures January –March 2010
State
Mean
  AAMC Scores
  Measure: Heart Failure  
86% Discharge Instructions 74%
97% Left ventricular function Assessment 98%
93% ACEI or ARB prescribed at Discharge 81%
97% Smoking Cessation Counseling 100%

  Measure: Pneumonia  
88% Pneumococcal Vaccination 91%
91% ED Blood Culture prior to Antibiotic 84%
95% Smoking Cessation Counseling 100%
94% Antibiotic administered within 6 hours of Hospital Visit 87%
91% Most appropriate initial antibiotic(s) 87%
83% Influenza Vaccination 83%

  Surgical Care Improvement Project  
94% Antibiotics within 1 hour of surgical incision 90%
97% Patient received recommended antibiotics 94%
91% Antibiotics discontinued within 24 hours of surgery end time 98%
89% Beta Blocker received during periop period 89%
99% Appropriate Hair removal 100%
99% SCIP-VTE-1-VTE Ordered 89%
99% SCIP-VTE-2-VTE Received 88%

  Measure: Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)  
97% Aspirin at Arrival 96%
95% Aspirin Prescribed at Discharge 98%
93% ACEI ARB for LVSD 100%
98% Smoking Cessation 100%
95% Beta Blocker at Discharge 100%
76% PCI within 90 minutes of arrival 74%

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