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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Presentations/2005/2005AHRQQI_Fraser_AHRQ_Quality_Indicators.ppt
January 01, 2005 - The Goal:
System Improvement
System Design
for Quality
& Value
(microsystems &
macrosystems)
Measure … HIT
Inform
by evidence and
models of successful
design strategies
Measurement Challenges (1):
Measure … and data can improve with use – “good” measures and data can get better (though not perfect)
BUT – … Pediatric Measures – under way
Women’s Health Measures?
Readmissions? … measures
Develop evaluation criteria for measures
Timeline: 1 year
Vision for Quality Indicators
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/PQI/V2021/ChangeLog_PQI_v2021.pdf
September 30, 2021 - differences are
expected to exist between the ICD-9-CM v6.0, the last ICD-9 version of the AHRQ QI measures … Rationale for the change:
Measure maintenance. … Rationale for the change:
This name change acknowledges that the measures includes a subset of bacterial … and v4.4 do not check for a possible issue with user-defined
composite weighting – users must set weights … for all possible individual
indicators, including zero weights for indicators that are not to be included
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Archive/News2007.aspx
September 28, 2007 - Release of AHRQ Quality Indicator Version 3.1
February 27 2007 – AHRQ QI Version 3.1 and Composite Measure
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Webinars/2019/v2019_QI_Software_Release_Slides_080119.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Default.aspx
RETIREMENT OF SELECT QIs
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About AHRQ QIs
QIs have been a successful program with > 100
measures … quality improvement
► Rarity of events – some indicators measured events
that are so rare that the measure … specifications
for ICD-10 CM/PCS to remain useful for quality
improvement
► Volume as a stand-alone measure … software reports
► Risk-adjusted rates, signal variance, reference
population rates, and composite weights
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/User_note_COVID.pdf
July 01, 2020 - continues to obtain additional information, updates will be considered for both the
user guidance and the measure
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/FAQs_Support/FAQ_QI_Hospital.aspx
September 12, 2012 - understanding of
CMS’ calculation and reporting of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) measures … based on Medicare claims
and the use of these measures for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting … access this information visit
www.qualitynet.org ,
Hospitals-Inpatient > Claims-Based Measures … about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') calculation or reporting of
the AHRQ measures
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Presentations/2005/2005AHRQQI_Cuny_Failure_to_Rescue_Preventing_Avoidable_Deaths_with_Rapid_Rescue_Teams.ppt
January 01, 2005 - achieving best practice
To further define the common characteristics of FTR patients to refine the measure … September 26, 2005
© 2005 University HealthSystem Consortium *
Key Performance Measure … September 26, 2005
© 2005 University HealthSystem Consortium *
Key Performance Measure … September 26, 2005
© 2005 University HealthSystem Consortium *
Baseline and Outcome Measures … September 26, 2005
© 2005 University HealthSystem Consortium *
Descriptive Measures
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/IQI/v2019/TechSpecs/IQI_15_Acute_Myocardial_Infarction_Mortality_Rate.pdf
July 01, 2019 - However, common practice reports the
measure as per 1,000 discharges.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/News/EXTENDED%20FAR%20Notice%20ICD-10%20Workgroups.pdf
July 31, 2012 - highlighting experience and knowledge relevant to the development,
refinement, or testing of quality measures … Curriculum vita (with citations to any pertinent publications related to quality measure
specification
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/News/FAR%20Notice%20ICD-10%20Workgroups.pdf
July 13, 2012 - highlighting experience and knowledge relevant to the development,
refinement, or testing of quality measures … Curriculum vita (with citations to any pertinent publications related to quality measure
specification
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Publications/2012/Appendix_1B_Details_of_Expert_Panel_Calls.pdf
January 01, 2012 - , not to directly measure the quality of HCBS services. … on hospital-based measures, rather than on
measures of social support … to have some documentation of why AHRQ settled on the hospital-based
measures. … One panelist felt that a single mental illness measure would not be sufficiently reliable. … Another panelist felt that a single mental illness measure would not be sufficiently
reliable.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/IQI/V2020/ChangeLog_IQI_v2020.pdf
September 30, 2020 - Rationale for the change:
Measure maintenance and coding updates. … V5.0 March
2015
IQI Composite Specification/
Calculation
Weights for the measures that make up … and v4.4 do not check for a possible issue with user-defined
composite weighting – users must set weights … for all possible individual
indicators, including zero weights for indicators that are not to be includedin … that are not indicated for the measure (that is,
where the process measure is not consideredappropriate
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/PSI/v2019/TechSpecs/PSI_07_Central_Venous_Catheter-Related_Blood_Stream_Infection_Rate.pdf
July 01, 2019 - However, common practice
reports the measure as per 1,000 discharges.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/IQI/v2020/TechSpecs/IQI_15_Acute_Myocardial_Infarction_Mortality_Rate.pdf
July 01, 2020 - However, common practice reports the
measure as per 1,000 discharges.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/IQI/v2021/TechSpecs/IQI_15_Acute_Myocardial_Infarction_Mortality_Rate.pdf
July 01, 2021 - However, common practice reports the
measure as per 1,000 discharges.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/IQI/V2021/ChangeLog_IQI_v2021.pdf
September 30, 2021 - to the documentation to clarify the measure intent or functionality. … V5.0 March 2015 IQI Composite Specification/
Calculation
Weights for the measures that make up the … and v4.4 do not check for a possible issue with user-defined
composite weighting – users must set weights … for all possible individual
indicators, including zero weights for indicators that are not to be included … that are not indicated for the
measure (that is, where the process measure is not considered appropriate
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/News/PQI13_Retirement_Announcement.pdf
January 01, 2014 - This shift in coding greatly reduces the validity of this measure, as
originally intended, to reflect … as effectively with medications.2 While it is unclear whether this incentive
impacts county-level measures
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/PSI/v2020/TechSpecs/PSI_07_Central_Venous_Catheter-Related_Blood_Stream_Infection_Rate.pdf
March 01, 2021 - However, common practice reports
the measure as per 1,000 discharges.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/PSI/v2021/TechSpecs/PSI_07_Central_Venous_Catheter-Related_Blood_Stream_Infection_Rate.pdf
July 01, 2021 - However, common practice reports
the measure as per 1,000 discharges.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Archive/News2002.aspx
November 05, 2002 - The Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) are a set of measures that provide
a perspective on hospital … October 25 2002 – Technical Report of Patient Safety Indicators
Now Available
The technical report, "Measures … The Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) are a set of quality measures providing
information on potential