Available Performance Measures

• Medication Errors for inpatients
• Falls
• Cardiopulmonary arrests
• Unplanned readmission of postpartum patients within 31 days
• Unplanned readmission of newborn within 7 days
• Unplanned returns to operating room
• Unscheduled returns to the ICU (48 hrs)
• Emergency room cardiopulmonary arrests
• Patients delivered by cesarean section
• Nosocomial surgical site infection (SSI)
• Nosocomial bloodstream infection (BSI)
• Nosocomial gastroenteritis
• Nosocomial pneumonia (LRI)
• Nosocomial URI
• Skin decubitis
• Flu Vaccine Prevalence
• Patient satisfaction (treatment plan explained)
• Adverse Drug Reaction

Core Measure Sets

• Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Community Acquired Pneumonia
• Heart Failure
• Surgical care improvement project
• New CORE measures as released by Joint Commission

For more information on CORS, contact M. Jeanne Bock at 319-335-8013 or by e-mail to: mary-bock@uiowa.edu