Appropriate Care Measures (ACMs):
Focus on overall care
Appropriate care measures are a new way of reporting hospital performance on Medicare quality measures related to congestive heart failure, pneumonia and acute myocardial infarction. ACMs reflect the percentage of patients who received all the recognized components of care for a specific condition. High performance on several components of care, combined with a low performance on a single element, can result in a low score on that ACM.
This new reporting framework is designed to stress the importance of comprehensive high-quality care for each patient. ACMs will likely become the basis for many pay-for-performance activities in the hospital sector. Hospitals desiring increased support and guidance on the new measures can request participation in an intensive participation group (IPG) with AFMC.
To find out more about ACMs, Medicare’s new priorities for quality improvement, and AFMC’s free guidance and support, call 1-877-375-5700.
Radar graphs:
- Simultaneously display many performance measures
- Each measure is plotted on a different axis
- Low performance rates are plotted towards the center of the graph, high performance rates near the periphery of each axis
- Ideal care (on the following graphs) would result in the entire "radar" being colored
- Aggregated performance on the measures is plotted on the top axis of the subsequent graphs
Appropriate Care Measures (ACM): Hospital Submitted Data for Quarter 3, 2007 Discharges
*Excludes Cases Submitted to the Clinical Warehouse After Due Date. Includes PPS and Critical Access data.
This radar graph shows statewide performance for measures related to congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction and inpatient pneumonia.
PN 1: Oxygenation Assessment
PN 2: Pneumoccocal Vaccination
PN 5b: Initital antibiotic received within 4 hours of hospital arrival
AMI 1: Aspirin at arrival
AMI 2: Aspirin prescribed at discharge
AMI 3: ACEI or ARB for LVSD
AMI 5: Beta-blocker prescribed at discharge
AMI 6: Beta-blocker at arrival
HF 2: LVF assessment
HF 3: ACEI or ARB for LVSD
Heart Failure
This radar graph shows statewide performance on the appropriate care measure (ACM) related to heart failure
Appropriate Care Measures (ACM):
Hospital Submitted Data for Quarter 3, 2007 Discharges
*Excludes Cases Submitted to the Clinical Warehouse After Due Date. Includes PPS and Critical Access data.
Find out more about ACMs related to these quality improvement project: Heart Failure
Acute Myocardial Infarction
This radar graph shows statewide performance on the appropriate care measure (ACM) related to acute myocardial infarction
Appropriate Care Measures (ACM):
Hospital Submitted Data for Quarter 3, 2007 Discharges
*Excludes Cases Submitted to the Clinical Warehouse After Due Date. Includes PPS and Critical Access data.
Find out more about ACMs related to these quality improvement project: AMI
Inpatient Pneumonia
This radar graph shows statewide performance on the appropriate care measure (ACM) related to inpatient pneumonia
Appropriate Care Measures (ACM):
Hospital Submitted Data for Quarter 3, 2007 Discharges
*Excludes Cases Submitted to the Clinical Warehouse After Due Date. Includes PPS and Critical Access data.
Find out more about ACMs related to these quality improvement project: Pneumonia |
