AHRQ Quality Indicators
Public Health Informatics prepares KIC FastStats Preventable Hospitalizations (AHRQ Quality Indicators) using an approach developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). AHRQ developed Quality Indicators (QIs) as part of an array of health care decision making and research tools that can be used by program managers, researchers, and others at the Federal, State, and local levels.
These indicators use hospital discharge data to highlight potential quality concerns, identify areas that need further study and investigation, and track changes over time. The AHRQ QIs include Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs), Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs), Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), and Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs). Kansas preventable hospitalization quality indicators are prepared using Kansas hospital discharge data provided by the Kansas Hospital Association. Comparative national level indicator rates are derived from data found at http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/.
Preventable Hospitalizations (AHRQ Indicators) for Kansas tables were calculated using AHRQ Quality Indicators software version V4.1a provided at http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/.
In order to create reliable state and regional quality indicator rates three years of data are used. Insufficient data exists for some QIs at regional and county levels. Rates are risk-adjusted by age and sex. This file was updated June 13, 2013. All national measures are now calculated with AHRQ Quality Indicators software version V4.1a. See the update history for details.
Four sets of indicators have been prepared:
Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) are measures that can be used with hospital inpatient discharge data to identify ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) in adult populations.
Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) are measures that can be used with hospital inpatient discharge data to provide information on quality. Several reported IQI levels are included in this indicator.
Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) are measures that screen for patient adverse events resulting from exposure to the health care system. Several reported PSI levels are included in this indicator.
Pediatric Indicators (PDIs) are a set of measures that can be used with hospital inpatient discharge data to provide a perspective on the quality of pediatric healthcare. PDIs focus on potentially preventable complications and iatrogenic events for pediatric patients treated in hospitals, and on preventable hospitalizations among pediatric patients.
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AHRQ 2008 State Snapshot Measures provide information about health care quality. These measures contain information about strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The snapshots are based on data collected for the National Healthcare quality Report (NHQR). They have information about overall health care quality, types of care (preventive, acute, and chronic), setting of care (hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing home, and home health), and selected clinical conditions with special focus areas on diabetes, asthma, Healthy People 2010, clinical preventive services, and disparities. Information is also available specifically for Kansas.
This page updated November 3, 2014.