The Specifications Manual for Joint Commission National Quality Core Measures includes HBIPS and PC core measure sets that are not common to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Specifications Manual for National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures includes the measure sets: AMI, HF, PN, SCIP, CAC, VTE and STK. This manual represents the result of efforts by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and The Joint Commission to achieve identity among common national hospital performance measures and to share a single set of common documentation