CMS832 - Highest and Lowest Creatinine outside of 30 days

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    • Type: Hosp Inpt eCQMs - Hospital Inpatient eCQMs
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      This issue can be closed. It is the same as EKI-35 (https://oncprojectracking.healthit.gov/support/browse/EKI-35).
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      This issue can be closed. It is the same as EKI-35 ( https://oncprojectracking.healthit.gov/support/browse/EKI-35 ).
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    • CMS0832v3
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      Patients with their highest or lowest creatinine values after HospitalWithObservation + 30 days fail the numerator.

      Longstay patients may never qualify as having an AKI.

      This is a problem in RY 2025. This looks to have been addressed with CMS832v3.2.000 for Reporting Year 2026 wth LowestSerumCreatininePrior and LowestSErumCreatininineWithin7DaysPrior.
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      Patients with their highest or lowest creatinine values after HospitalWithObservation + 30 days fail the numerator. Longstay patients may never qualify as having an AKI. This is a problem in RY 2025. This looks to have been addressed with CMS832v3.2.000 for Reporting Year 2026 wth LowestSerumCreatininePrior and LowestSErumCreatininineWithin7DaysPrior.

      In 'Encounter with 2 Times Serum Creatinine Increase', HighCreatinineTest.result.value must be equivalent to "HighestSerumCreatinine"(EncounterWithHighCreatinine). Similarly, LowCreatinineTest.result.value must be equivalent to "LowestSerumCreatinine"(EncounterWithHighCreatinine).

       

      This is problematic when the 'highest' or 'lowest' Creatinine values are after 30 days. SerumCreatinineSequenceByQuantity draws from the entire HospitalizationWithObservation.

       

      When the 'highest' creatinine lab result is after 30 days, these two criterion can never be met. 
      and HighCreatinineTest.result.value = "HighestSerumCreatinine"(EncounterWithHighCreatinine)
      and HighCreatinineTestTime during Interval[start of HospitalWithObservation + 48 hours, start of HospitalWithObservation + 30 days]
      This is similarly problematic for 'Encounter with 1.5 Times Serum Creatinine Increase' with the additional complexity of a rolling 7 day window between the low and high creatinine labs. 

       

      We recommend that Measure Authors revisit the intention of Stage 2 or greater AKI. If it is still desired to impose a 30-day "at-risk" window, we would recommend one of the following:

      1. Limit the initial population to patients with a total length of stay under 30 days.
      2. Adjust the SerumCreatinineSequence functions and Encounter with 1.5/2.0x Increase statements to sort values within a particular timeframe rather than the entire hospitalization.

            Assignee:
            Augustine Weber
            Reporter:
            Alex Liu
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