Measure Title Attribution Rationale for Creating New Measure 14 Esteban Perla, MPH, Team Lead, Quality Measurement Amelia Scholtz, PhD, Publications Manager, Science, Education, Quality, and Publishing American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association Abdul R. Abdullah, MD, Director, Guideline Science and Methodology Rebecca L. Diekemper, MPH, Guideline Advisor, Perfor- mance Measures American Heart Association Ivor J. Benjamin, MD, FAHA, President Nancy Brown, Chief Executive Officer Mariell Jessup, MD, FAHA, Chief Science and Medical Officer Rose Marie Robertson, MD, FAHA, Deputy Chief Sci- ence and Medical Officer Gayle R. Whitman, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, Senior Vice President, Office of Science Operations Radhika Rajgopal Singh, PhD, Director, Science and Medicine, Office of Science Operations Anne Leonard, MPH, RN, FAHA, Senior Science and Medicine Advisor, Office of Science Operations Melanie Shahriary, RN, BSN, Senior Manager, Perfor- mance Metrics, Quality and Health IT Jody Hundley, Production and Operations Manager, Sci- entific Publications, Office of Science Operations ARTICLE INFORMATION This Physician Performance Measurement Set (PPMS) and related data specifica- tions were developed by the Physician Consortium for Performance Improve- ment (the Consortium), including the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the American Medical Association (AMA), to facilitate quality-improvement activities by physicians. The perfor- mance measures contained in this PPMS are not clinical guidelines, do not es- tablish a standard of medical care, and have not been tested for all potential applications. Although copyrighted, they can be reproduced and distributed, without modification, for noncommercial purposes for example, use by health care providers in connection with their practices. Commercial use is defined as the sale, license, or distribution of the performance measures for commercial gain, or incorporation of the performance measures into a product or service that is sold, licensed, or distributed for commercial gain. 