Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project

Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project - Measure Specifications Effective with January 1, 2006 Discharges

This document is a summary of the measure specifications and data elements that are required for each CMS measure. It also outlines the criteria that are used to include and exclude patients from each measure. The data elements include those from Methodist patient databases and manual data abstractions which are project specific.

2005 Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project (PDF)