New EQRS Dashboard: Facility Pneumococcal Pneumonia Vaccination

February 5, 2024

On February 5, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added a new Facility Pneumococcal Pneumonia Vaccination Dashboard on the Reports screen in the End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Quality Reporting System (EQRS). Beginning on this date, EQRS users can access the Facility Pneumococcal Pneumonia Vaccination Dashboard by clicking Reports Dashboards from the Reports drop-down tab in EQRS (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Navigating to Reports Dashboards in EQRS

Users can generate two reports in the Facility Pneumococcal Pneumonia Vaccination Dashboard (Figure 2):

• Facility Summary report
• Patient Details report

The Facility Summary report reflects facility-level pneumococcal pneumonia vaccination information in EQRS. This includes the number of patients that are up to date on their vaccines, the number of patients that are fully vaccinated, the number of patients that are eligible for a vaccination(s), and the pneumococcal pneumonia vaccination rate in the facility.

The Patient Details report reflects patient-level pneumococcal pneumonia vaccination information in EQRS. This includes patient vaccination statuses and vaccination dates for the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)20, PCV15, and PCV13, and the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV)23.

Users can filter data in the Patient Details report with the EQRS Unique Patient Identifier (UPI) filter field or with the Patient Vaccination Status drop-down filter, if desired.

Figure 2: Facility Influenza Vaccination Dashboard

Users can download and print each report using the Export to CSV or Export to Excel function within the dashboard. Please note, that the CSV is the preferred download method, and dashboard content is dictated by the user’s access and role in EQRS. CMS will continue to add new dashboards to the Reports screen in EQRS and will notify the ESRD community via email about new dashboard releases in EQRS.

For assistance with EQRS technical issues, please contact the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) Service Center. The CCSQ Service Center is open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Time and can be reached via phone at 866-288-8912, email at qnetsupport-esrd@cms.hhs.gov or online at the CCSQ Support Center.