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Appropriate Testing for Children with Pharyngitis - episodic or chronic measure

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      Thank you for your question. We agree that this is an episode of care measure. During the 2016 annual update cycle, we updated the measure header to reflect this. In the latest specification, you will see "Occurrence A of Encounter, Performed: Ambulatory/ED Visit" against the Measure Item Count field in the header. We hope this addresses your concern.
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      Thank you for your question. We agree that this is an episode of care measure. During the 2016 annual update cycle, we updated the measure header to reflect this. In the latest specification, you will see "Occurrence A of Encounter, Performed: Ambulatory/ED Visit" against the Measure Item Count field in the header. We hope this addresses your concern.
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      While the USHIK specs do call out occurrence A and no others, the clinical recommendation statement does seem to indicate that this should be done on a patient by patient basis for each of the patient’s eligible visits with pharyngitis. To me, this sounds like an episodic measure with an acute filter. Should this measure performance be calculated for each episode of pharyngitis or once during the reporting period?

            edave Mathematica EC eCQM Team
            rneibel Rosa Neibel (Inactive)
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