CDC National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Digital Quality Measures (dQM) Content Package IG - Local Development build (v3.0.0) built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) Build Tools. See the Directory of published versions
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| Official URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/fhirportal/dqm/ig/ImplementationGuide/gov.cdc.nhsn.dqm | Version: 3.0.0 | |||
| IG Standards status: Trial-use | Maturity Level: 2 | Computable Name: NHSNMeasures | ||
| Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.1002 | ||||
Overview
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Digital Quality Measures (dQMs) Content Package Implementation Guide (IG) defines the standards for reporting the initial population and supplemental data elements required to calculate metrics for NHSN dQM measurement. This IG does not define how to calculate a specific NHSN dQM or event of interest.
This IG complies with the NHSN dQM Reporting IG, published by Health Level Seven International (HL7®) for general requirements for submissions to NHSN. The NHSN dQM Reporting IG specifications will be revised in accordance with any changes to NHSN reporting requirements. Figure 1 shows how the CDC NHSN dQM Content Package IG fits into the broader landscape of NHSN surveillance and quality measurements.
Three sources support NHSN dQMs:
- HL7 Balloted Framework IGs: National HL7 implementation guides that provide the core FHIR resource structures
- NHSN Content Package IGs: NHSN-specific implementation guides that define measure profiles and logic
- NHSN Protocols and Metrics: Clinical protocols and specifications that define the measure requirements
The HL7 NHSN dQM Reporting IG, a HL7 balloted framework IG, provides the overall framework for the HL7 NHSN dQM Reporting IG. The CDC NHSN dQM IG, an NHSN Content Package IG, contains three groups of protocols and metrics consisting of measure profiles and their related CQL logic:
- Acute Care Hospital (ACH) Monthly Profiles and CQL
- ACH Daily Profiles and CQL
- Long-term Care (LTC) Monthly Profiles and CQL
Several NHSN measure concepts are represented in this content package, including:
- Glycemic Control
- Adult Sepsis
- Bacteremia & Fungemia
- C. difficile Infection
- Respiratory Pathogens Surveillance (RPS)
- Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AU/AR)
All parts of the framework ultimately depend on patient-level information for reporting.
All measure reporting artifacts and profiles relate to patient-level data extraction, representation, and submission for quality measurement.
Purpose
These specifications define the data content requirements for submissions for the CDC NHSN dQMs Content Package to NHSN through NHSNLink.
Relationships to Other Standards
This IG has the following dependencies:
- HL7 FHIR Release 4
- US Core 6.1.0
- US Core 3.1.1
- QI-Core 6.0.0
- HL7 NHSN dQM 1.0.0
- HL7 CRMI 1.0.0
- Quality Measure IG 5.0.0
- Clinical Quality Framework Common FHIR Assets 4.0.1
- Data Exchange for Quality Measures (DEQM) 5.0.0
Audience
The audience for this work is all developers who want to enable their software systems to report surveillance data to the NHSN via FHIR dQMs.
Acknowledgements
Lantana Consulting Group, Inc. produced and developed the content in this IG under contract to the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
| Role | Name | Organization | Email Address |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Editor | Rick Geimer | Lantana Consulting Group | rick.geimer@lantanagroup.com |
| Primary Editor | Corey Spears | Lantana Consulting Group | corey.spears@lantanagroup.com |
| Primary Editor | Aaron Nusstein | Lantana Consulting Group | aaron.nusstein@lantanagroup.com |
| Co-Editor | Andrea Benin | CDC | aqb4@cdc.gov |
| Co-Editor | Kristina Betz | CDC | rly7@cdc.gov |
| Co-Editor | Amrit Kerr | Lantana Consulting Group | amrit.kerr@lantanagroup.com |
| Co-Editor | Sheila Abner | CDC | sha8@cdc.gov |
| Co-Editor | Nadine Shehab | Lantana Consulting Group | ftn0@cdc.gov |
| Co-Editor | Jennifer Watkins | CACI | nub7@cdc.gov |
| Co-Editor | Raymond Dantes | CDC | vic5@cdc.gov |
| Co-Editor | David deRoode | Lantana Consulting Group | david.deroode@lantanagroup.com |
| Co-Editor | Zabrina Gonzaga | Lantana Consulting Group | zabrina.gonzaga@lantanagroup.com |
| Co-Editor | Sean McIlvenna | Lantana Consulting Group | sean.mcilvenna@lantanagroup.com |
| Co-Editor | Lynn Perrine | Lantana Consulting Group | lynn.perrine@lantanagroup.com |
| Co-Editor | Kim Figueroa | Lantana Consulting Group | kim.figueroa@lantanagroup.com |
| Co-Editor | Mary-Margaret Richter | Lantana Consulting Group | mm.richter@lantanagroup.com |
| Co-Editor | Shanai Thornton | Lantana Consulting Group | shanai.thornton@lantanagroup.com |
