The Specifications Manual for National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures includes the measure sets: AMI, HF, PN, SCIP, CAC, VTE and STK.
The aligned 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
Current version of the Specifications Manual for National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures
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Last Version of the Specifications Manual for National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures
Over time, it will be necessary to present more than one version of the manual on this web page so that a specific data collection time period (i.e., based on hospital discharge dates) can be associated with the applicable manual. This web page presents aligned manual pages for hospital discharge dates in the past (i.e., the data transmission deadline has passed for this data).