Percent of patients aged 18 years and older undergoing isolated CABG who die, including both all deaths occurring during the hospitalization in which the CABG was performed, even if after 30 days, and those deaths occurring after discharge from the hospital, but within 30 days of the procedure.
Specialty: Thoracic Surgery
Closing the Referral Loop: Receipt of Specialist Report
Percentage of patients with referrals, regardless of age, for which the referring clinician receives a report from the clinician to whom the patient was referred.
Unplanned Hospital Readmission within 30 Days of Principal Procedure
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older who had an unplanned hospital readmission within 30 days of principal procedure.
Patient-Centered Surgical Risk Assessment and Communication
Percentage of patients who underwent a non-emergency surgery who had their personalized risks of postoperative complications assessed by their surgical team prior to surgery using a clinical data-based, patient-specific risk calculator and who received personal discussion of those risks with the surgeon.
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention
Percentage of patients aged 12 years and older who were screened for tobacco use one or more times during the measurement period AND who received tobacco cessation intervention during the measurement period or in the six months prior to the measurement period if identified as a tobacco user.
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG): Surgical Re-Exploration
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older undergoing isolated CABG surgery who require a return to the operating room (OR) for mediastinal bleeding with or without tamponade, unplanned coronary artery intervention (native vessel, graft or both), valve dysfunction, aortic reintervention or other cardiac reason during the current hospitalization.
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG): Prolonged Intubation
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older undergoing isolated CABG surgery who require postoperative intubation > 24 hours.
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG): Postoperative Renal Failure
Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older undergoing isolated CABG surgery (without pre-existing renal failure) who develop postoperative renal failure or require dialysis.
Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record
Percentage of visits for which the eligible clinician attests to documenting a list of current medications using all immediate resources available on the date of the encounter.
Advance Care Plan
Percentage of patients aged 65 years and older who have an advance care plan or surrogate decision maker documented in the medical record or documentation in the medical record that an advance care plan was discussed but the patient did not wish or was not able to name a surrogate decision maker or provide an advance care plan.