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    • Dedee Hamson
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    • Emory Healthcare
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      Thank you for your suggestion regarding CMS819v3, Hospital Harm - Opioid-Related Adverse Events. Currently, the use of Naloxone to treat pruritis is considered off-label use, however, we will continue to monitor the published literature on this topic and consider the appropriateness of an exclusion in a future Annual Update.
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      Thank you for your suggestion regarding CMS819v3, Hospital Harm - Opioid-Related Adverse Events. Currently, the use of Naloxone to treat pruritis is considered off-label use, however, we will continue to monitor the published literature on this topic and consider the appropriateness of an exclusion in a future Annual Update.
    • CMS0819v3
    • Encounter in erroneously numerator : no hospital harm

      For future consideration of exclusions. Our hospital will sometimes place sickle cell patients on low dose narcan drips (planned) to mitigate severe pruritis and nausea while on narcotics for vaso-occlusive crisis. This is not an adverse event or hospital harm event as it is a planned therapy for the patient but it is showing in the numerator for this measure Perhaps there would be a way to exclude this scenario in the future. 

            aweber Mathematica EH eCQM Team
            dehamson Dedee Hamson
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