Pneumonia Vaccination Status for Older Adults (NQF 0043)

EMeasure Name Pneumonia Vaccination Status for Older Adults EMeasure Id 38d3c446-df8e-4cc7-b3f5-90ea538c40d5
Version number 1 Set Id aa066eed-e8f6-4fec-8084-61d3d1e8b6e2
Available Date No information Measurement Period January 1, 20xx through December 31, 20xx
Measure Steward National Committee for Quality Assurance
Endorsed by National Quality Forum
Description The percentage of patients 65 years of age and older who have ever received a pneumococcal vaccine.
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Measure scoring Proportion
Measure type Process
Stratification
None
Risk Adjustment
None
Data Aggregation
Rationale
This measure monitors the appropriate and timely use of vaccines among age-appropriate older adults. Each year, 20% of Americans contract influenza (flu) (CDC 2009). Rates of infection are highest among children and immunosuppressed patients, while mortality is highest among adults over 64 years, children under 2 years and persons with chronic medical conditions (CDC 2008). More than 200,000 people are hospitalized for flurelated complications each year; 63% are 65 or older (CDC 2009; Thompson et al. 2004). The health impact of influenza on older adults is substantial and flu short vaccines are the most effective way to prevent severe illness complications and death. This measure facilitates efforts toward infectious disease prevention among a vulnerable subgroup of the population.
Clinical Recommendation Statement
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Forces Guide to Clinical Preventive Services recommends pneumococcal vaccine for all immunocompetent individuals who are 65 and older or otherwise at increased risk for pneumococcal disease. Routine revaccination is not recommended, but may be appropriate in immunocompetent individuals at high risk for morbidity and mortality from pneumococcal disease (e.g., persons 75 years of age or with severe chronic disease) who were vaccinated more than five years previously (USPSTF, 1989).
Improvement notation
Higher score indicates better quality
Measurement duration
12 month(s)
Reference
United States Preventive Services Task Force. Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1989. 791-814. 
Definition
Guidance
Numerator element:
Pneumococcal vaccination is expected once ever for patients 65 years of age or older. There is no clear standard location for documentation in EHRs of pneumococcal vaccination that is administered external to the providers  practice. The measure specification assumes that administered vaccines will be documented in the medication administration record. In a truly interoperable environment, even medications administered elsewhere could be captured in the medication administration record. In absence of such interoperability the implementer may need to look elsewhere in the medical record for evidence of vaccine administered in other setting, e.g., a preventive care screening record.
        

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Measure set CLINICAL QUALITY MEASURE SET 2011-2012