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Date	Retired Measure	Reason	Reports Affected
11/16/2009	Pneumonia (PN-1) Oxygen Assessment	Measure no longer being collected.	Index Report, Lung and Pneumonia Report, Hospital Detail Report.
3/15/2010	Heart Attack (AMI-6) Beta Blocker at Arrival	Measure no longer being collected.	Heart Attack and Hospital Detail reports.
3/15/2012	Error Prevention – Unapproved medication abbreviations	Measure was “topped out”, largely due to implementation of electronic medical records.	Error Prevention and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Heart Attack (AMI-1) – Aspirin on Arrival	Measure no longer being collected.	Heart Attack and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Heart Attack (AMI-3) – ACEI for LVSD	Measure no longer being collected.	Heart Attack and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Heart Attack (AMI-4) – Smoking Cessation Counseling	Measure no longer being collected.	Heart Attack and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Heart Attack (AMI-5) – Beta-blocker at Discharge	Measure no longer being collected.	Heart Attack and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Heart Attack Index	Too few remaining heart attack process measures for a valid index.	Index Report, Heart Attack and Hospital Detail reports
12/15/2012	Heart Failure (HF-4) – Smoking Cessation Counseling	Measure no longer being collected.	Heart Failure and Hospital Detail reports
12/15/2012	Heart Failure Index	Too few remaining heart failure process measures for a valid index.	Index Report, Heart Failure and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Pneumonia (PN2) – Pneumococcal Vaccine	Measure no longer being collected.	Lung and Respiratory and Hospital Detail reports
12/15/2012	Pneumonia (PN-4) – Smoking Cessation Counseling	Measure no longer being collected.	Lung and Respiratory and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Pneumonia (PN-5c) – Less than 6 Hours to Antibiotic	Measure no longer being collected.	Lung and Respiratory and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Pneumonia (PN-7) – Flu Vaccine	Too few remaining heart attack process measures for a valid index.	Lung and Respiratory and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Pneumonia Index	Too few remaining pneumonia process measures for a valid index.	Index Report, Lung and Respiratory and Hospital Detail reports.
12/15/2012	Surgical Care Improvement (SCIP-Inf-6) – Safe Method for Hair Removal	Measure no longer being collected.	Surgical Care Improvement and Hospital Detail reports.
3/15/2013	Error Prevention – Medication Reconciliation on Admission	Measure was replaced with Medication Reconciliation on Discharge which is more important to preventing hospital readmissions.	Error Prevention and Hospital Detail reports.