URSA-QUALITY-AAB: Antibiotic Avoidance for Acute Bronchitis (AAB)

Measure Description

Among qualifying episodes of new acute bronchitis for patients aged 3 months and older, the percentage that were not dispensing an antibiotic for 3 days following the index encounter in which the initial diagnosis was documented. Unadjusted Certified Measure 288afeea-3bdc-4ac4-b47f-3023dd41cd12

Metadata

• Measure Type: Rate Measure
• Temporal Structure: Entity
• Component Class: Long-Form
• Denominator Case Field: Output NCQA Payer Type Code, Episode ID
• Target Direction: Down

Denominator Description

Episodes of new acute bronchitis for patients aged 3 months and older at the time of the index encounter.

Numerator Description

Qualifying denominator patients without a qualifying antibiotics fill within 3 days following the index encounter.

Published Fields

• Data Model Keys

  • Patient ID
  • Measure ID
  • Primary Payor ID
  • Primary Plan ID

• 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.

• Patient Fields

  • Patient Operational ID
  • Patient Date of Birth
  • Patient Age Integer
  • Is Patient Sex Female
  • Is Patient Sex Male
  • Patient State Abbreviation
  • Patient ZIP Code 5-Digit
  • Patient Date of Death

• Insurance Fields

  • Primary Payor Description
  • Primary Plan Description
  • Primary Plan Financial Class Description

• Denominator Fields

  • Is Denominator Event Criterion Met
  • Is Continuous Membership Criterion Met
  • Is Any Required Exclusion
  • Is Eligible Population
  • Index Encounter Document Effective Date
  • Is Required Exclusion for Hospice
  • Is Required Exclusion for Patient Death

• Numerator Fields

  • Numerator Document ID
  • Numerator Document Effective Date
  • Numerator NDC Code
  • Numerator Label Description
  • Numerator Active Ingredients Description

• NCQA Cert Fields

  • Is NCQA Numerator Criteria Met
  • Output NCQA Payer Type Code
  • NCQA Race Code
  • NCQA Ethnicity Code
  • NCQA Gender Code
  • Patient Age Integer Unbounded by Death

• [No Field Group]

  • Ursa Serial ID

• Metadata Fields

  • Is Inverted Measure
  • Is Parameter Set to Override Continuous Enrollment Criteria
  • Is Parameter Set to Override Payor Criteria

• Measure Fields

  • Denominator
  • Numerator