Measure Description
The percentage of individuals ≥65 years of age with concurrent use of ≥2 unique anticholinergic medications
Metadata
- Measure Type: Rate Measure
- Temporal Structure: Entity
- Component Class: Normal-Form
- Denominator Case Field: Patient ID
- Target Direction: Down
Denominator Description
The number of patients at least 65 years or older with at least 2 claims for the same anticholinergic medication.
Numerator Description
The number of patients who have received at least two prescriptions for two or more distinct anticholinergic medications, with an overlap of 30 or more days.
Published Fields
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Data Model Keys
- Patient ID
- Primary Payor ID
- Primary Plan ID
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Date Fields
- Current Continuous Primary Payor Membership Episode Start Date
- Current Continuous Primary Payor Membership Episode End Date
- Segment Start Date -- The start date of the reporting segment. (See also [URSA-CORE] Reporting Segment)
- Segment End Date -- The end date of the reporting segment. (See also [URSA-CORE] Reporting Segment)
- Snapshot Date -- The date, evaluated at 00:00:00 AM, giving the moment the state of the world will be set to for the purposes of an analysis. The snapshot date does not represent the freshness of the data, or the date in real time at which an analysis was executed.
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Patient Fields
- Patient Age Integer
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Provider Fields
- Primary Plan Attributee Provider ID
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Denominator Fields
- Is Continuous Membership Criterion Met
- Is Eligible Population
- Is Any Required Exclusion
- Is Required Exclusion for Hospice
- Is Denominator Event Criteria
- Is IPSD at least 30 days ago
- Earliest Denominator Event Fill (IPSD)
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Numerator Fields
- Numerator Contribution
- Is Numerator Qualifying Using Standard End-of-Year Timing
- Numerator Contribution Using Standard End-of-Year Timing
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Metadata Fields
- Measure ID
- Measure Name
- Is Inverse Measure
- Is Parameter Set to Override Continuous Enrollment Criteria
- Denominator Excluded Reasons Description
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Measure Fields
- Denominator