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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/news/awards_archive.jsp
November 01, 2024 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … Improving Hospital Performance Rankings Using Discrete Patient Diagnoses for Risk Adjustment of Outcomes … The quality of care delivered to patients within the same hospital varies by insurance type . … The Effects of Safety Net Hospital Closures and Conversions on Patient Travel Distance to Hospital Services … Incident stroke and mortality associated with new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients hospitalized
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/race/HCR_disparitiesIBformatted.jsp
May 01, 2016 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … Net, and Special Populations Workgroup adopted the premise that the safety net is essential to caring … Combine policy changes with community programs. 24
Increase workforce and strengthen the safety … Provide technical assistance to help safety net providers leverage healthcare reform opportunities to … No longer available online.
20 Maryland Health Reform Coordinating Council; Public Health, Safety
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/kid_2016_introduction.jsp
January 01, 2016 - safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … There is no uniform patient identifier available that allows a patient-level analysis with the KID. … lengths of stay than patients in other community hospitals. … Type of Data Element
HCUP Name
Coding Notes
All Patient Refined DRG (3M)
APRDRG
All Patient
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb130.jsp
May 01, 2012 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that there were 10.2 million 4-wheel ATVs in use in … Patients who visit EDs for ATV-related injuries are less likely to be insured than other injured ED patients … Rate of ED visits for ATV-related injuries by patient residence, 2009. … "All-Terrain Vehicle Safety in Florida: Is Legislation Really the Answer?"
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/AppendixFMHAAHQRKick-Off.pdf
January 15, 2008 - for hospitals participating in the
project will be enhanced comparative reporting for quality and patient … safety performance analyses and also
additional tools in identifying the accuracy of medical coding … IT staff, particularly those involved with clinical lab systems; medical record experts, quality and patient … safety professionals.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb164.jsp
October 01, 2013 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … These events pose a serious patient safety concern. … Compared to privately insured patients, Medicare-covered patients had higher rates and Medicaid-covered … Patients in the Midwest had higher in-hospital ADE rates for all four ADE causes compared to patients … insured patients.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb114.jsp
May 01, 2011 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … In January 2011, Congress reintroduced legislation to set minimum safety standards for concussion management … Sports related concussions by patient age
The ED visits for sports related concussion are highly … Patient discharge status for sports related concussions
Figure 2 shows that the vast majority (95.4 … Level of loss of consciousness by patient discharge status for sports related concussions, 2008.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/news/exhibit_booth/hcup_90_min_pres.jsp
December 01, 2022 - are available:
Value-added variables (supplemental variables for revisit analyses, injury indicators … , indicators for observation and ED services)
Hospital characteristics (teaching status, ownership/ … safety, etc. … safety, etc. … safety, etc.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb315-overview-MRSA-2016-2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - hospitalized.1,2
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National
Healthcare Safety … ■ In 2019 and 2021, male patients were 1.8 times as likely as female patients to have MRSA infections … on
healthcare-associated infections in 2020: A summary of data reported to the National Healthcare Safety … Umscheid, M.D., M.S., Director
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
(CQuIPS)
Agency … Safety
(CQuIPS)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/kid_2009_introduction.jsp
January 01, 2009 - (DRG_NoPOA) and MDC in use on discharge date, calculated without POA indicators (MDC_NoPOA). … safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … There is no uniform patient identifier available that allows a patient-level analysis with the KID. … lengths of stay than patients in other community hospitals. … Texas Restriction on AGE for General Patient Population other than HIV or Drug/Alcohol Use Patients
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS_Introduction_2015.jsp
January 01, 2015 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … There is no uniform patient identifier available that would allow a patient-level analysis to identify … National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) of the DHHS' CDC and the US Consumer Product Safety … patient died in the ED, (98) ED visits in which patient was not admitted, destination unknown, (99) ED … visit in which patient was discharged alive, destination unknown (but not admitted)
Sex of patient
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccs/ccs.jsp
July 01, 2025 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … Common reasons for hospitalization among adult patients with diabetes. … Common reasons for hospitalization among adult patients with diabetes. … Journal of patient safety , 10(3):133-139, Sep 2014. … Racial disparities in hospitalized elderly patients with chronic heart failure.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/nisoverview.jsp
July 01, 2025 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … The NIS protects patient confidentiality because State and hospital identifiers are no longer provided … that is included in a typical discharge abstract, with safeguards to protect the privacy of individual patients … 10-CM/PCS) diagnosis, procedures, and external cause of morbidity codes beginning October 1, 2015
Patient … safety
Impact of health policy changes
The NIS is used in a variety of publications and online
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/kid_2003_introduction_rpt.jsp
January 01, 2003 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … Patient Refined DRG: Risk of Mortality Subclass
APRDRG_Severity
2003
All Patient Refined DRG … There is no uniform patient identifier available that allows a patient-level analysis with the KID. … lengths of stay than patients in other community hospitals.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/raceethnicitytoolkit/or26.jsp
August 01, 2014 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … It is a cumulative list beginning with patients registered in the mid-1980s, and it includes only demographic … These are primarily patients with private insurance. … misclassified more frequently than other races/ethnicities
Misclassification errors may follow a patient … answer the "why" questions
Slide 31
Thank you
Acknowledgements
The Tribes of Washington — patients
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2005_02.pdf
January 01, 2005 - Increasingly, EDs also function as safety nets for vulnerable
patient groups having limited access to … ; patient race appears
unrealistic only in State C, where 20% of patients are recorded as “other” races … Retain
the indicators submitted by hospitals? … Retain
the indicators submitted by hospitals? … “Managing Indigent Care: A Case Study of Safety-Net Emergency Department.”
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/SampleVHIandhospitalcontractforAHRQstudy.jsp
May 01, 2011 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Clinical Information" means, with respect to patients of XXXX … information);
Use its good faith best efforts to develop and provide XXXX with risk-adjusted AHRQ patient … safety and quality indicators using data sets enhanced with Clinical Information and clinical data provided … the obligation of Associate to comply with Privacy Standards with respect to any current or former patient
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/ataglance/HCUPanalysisCdiff.pdf
April 12, 2021 - Inpatient Trends for C. diff, 2011-2019
OVERVIEW
Health care-associated infections are a threat to patient … safety and have become the most common
complication of modern health care. … Human Services (HHS)
identified key actions needed to achieve and sustain progress in protecting patients … is included in a typical discharge abstract,
with safeguards to protect the privacy of individual patients … Examination of the Coding of Present-on-Admission Indicators in
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/race/HCUP_R_E_finalreport-02311AHRQ.jsp
November 01, 2011 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … report in February 2011 that analyzes leading state-produced disparities documents and their use of patient … partners) with information on leading states activities related to collection, analysis and use of patient … (i.e., should the comparison group be the population with the best health indicators? … Ernest Moy , Medical Officer, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/KID_2009_Introduction.pdf
January 01, 2009 - (DRG_NoPOA) and MDC in use on discharge date, calculated without POA
indicators (MDC_NoPOA). … safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … There is no uniform patient identifier available that allows a patient-level
analysis with the KID. … lengths of stay than patients in other community hospitals. … Texas Restriction on AGE for General Patient
Population other than HIV or Drug/Alcohol Use Patients