Pediatric Quality Measures Program

The following two tables list children's health care quality measures from the AHRQ-CMS Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP). Table 1 lists available measures that have been developed by PQMP grantees. The list includes links to full reports as they become available. Table 2 lists measure topics for measures in development by PQMP Centers of Excellence grantees.

For more information on any of the measures, contact AHRQChipraqualitymeasures@ahrq.hhs.gov, or you may send an email to the grantee contact noted on the topic fact sheet.

Table 1. Available Measures Developed by PQMP Grantees

Measures Directory:

• Perinatal Care (Services for Delivery of Healthy Newborns)
  • PMCoE
• Child Clinical Preventive Services
  • NCINQ
  • PMCoE—Developmental Screening Followup
• Management of Acute Conditions
  • CAPQuaM—Temperatures of LBW Newborns
  • PMCoE—Dental
  • CEPQM—Hospital Readmissions
  • Q-METRIC—Pediatric Sepsis Syndrome
  • Q-METRIC Overuse of Imaging
• Management of Chronic Conditions
  • CAPQUAM
  • COE4CCN
  • PMCOE—ADHD Care
  • CAPQUAM—Emergency Room Use by Children with Asthma
  • NCINQ—Use of antipsychotics
  • Q-METRIC—Sickle Cell Treatment
• Patient Reported Outcomes (Health Outcomes and Patent Experiences of Care)
  • CHOP
  • CEPQM
• Duration of Enrollment and Coverage (Continuity of Coverage)
  • CHOP
• Availability of Services
  • CAPQUAM
  • QMETRIC—Availability of specialty services for children
• Medication Reconciliation
  • CAPQUAM

Note: The PMCOE testing population for this measure. was Medicaid enrollees. However, we were not able to apply eligibility for EPSDT services to our feasibility testing using MarketScan Medicaid database.

This work was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under the CHIPRA Pediatric Quality Measures Program Centers of Excellence grants. The measure(s) noted in the table, while copyrighted, can be reproduced and distributed, without modification, for noncommercial purposes (e.g., for use by health care providers in connection with their practices). Commercial use of the measures requires a license agreement between the user and copyright owner(s). Neither copyright owner(s) nor their members shall be responsible for any use of the measures.

LEGEND: ADHD = attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder; BMI = body mass index; CAPQuaM = Mount Sinai Collaboration for Advancing Pediatric Quality Measures; CEPQM = Children's Hospital Boston Center of Excellence for Pediatric Quality Measurement; CHIPRA = Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act; CHOP = Center of Excellence at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania; CPT = current procedure terminology; DRG = diagnosis-related group; DSM-IV-TR = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision; ED = emergency department; EMR = Electronic Medical Record; HCAHPS = Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Hospital Survey; ICD-9 = International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision; LBW = low birthweight; LRI = lower respiratory infection; M-CHIP = Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program; MS/DRG = measure of severity/diagnosis-related group; NCINQ = National Collaborative for Innovation in Quality Measurement; NICU = neonatal intensive care unit; OPD = outpatient department; NQMC = National Quality Measures Clearinghouse^TM (http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov); PGHM = pediatric global health measure; PMCoE = Pediatric Measurement Center of Excellence; PQMP = Pediatric Quality Measures Program; Q-METRC = Quality Measurement, Evaluation, Testing, Review, and Implementation Consortium; SCD = sickle cell disease; STI = sexually transmitted infection; TCD = transcranial Doppler.

ⁱ Measure foci are: IT infrastructure for medication reconciliation; policy infrastructure for medication reconciliation; medication-related communications with families; medication-related communications with clinicians; medication reconciliation procedures (extent to which reported practices achieve desirable attributes on practices such as medication history, sharing of information; frequency of medication reconciliation; content and comprehensiveness of medication reconciliation; involvement of pharmacists; use of medication reconciliation (extent to which medication reconciliation processes are audited and incorporated into organizational reporting and improvement activities); privacy score; medication reconciliation assessment performance score (an overall performance score that is algorithmically determined to incorporate multiple categories).