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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Publications/2013/C.14.10.D001_REVISED.pdf
January 01, 2013 - ”
• “Determine Intent: When converting a quality measure from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS, rather than … … [T]he most ideal way to convert code sets for quality measures would be to examine
the original intent … For existing measures undergoing coding updates and maintenance, the extent to which the
population … • “Version the Updated Measure: Measures with coding updates should be identified by version. … Different
versions of measures may be used longitudinally for various purposes but may not be exactly
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Publications/FullListPublications-508.pdf
October 09, 2024 - How Preventable Hospitalizations
Became A Widely Used But Flawed Quality Measure." … "Challenges of using asthma admission rates as a
measure of primary care quality in children: An international … Challenges in assessing hospital-level stroke
mortality as a quality measure: comparison of ischemic … Do pre-
existing complications affect the failure to rescue quality measures? … Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions
to measure quality of care.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Publications/2004/Narrative%20Agenda%20of%20the%20Conferences%20for%20Health%20Care%20Purchasers%20and%20Providers.doc
January 01, 2004 - the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs). … These measures can be used with existing administrative databases, using free software publicly available … the fact that they measure outcomes of health care delivery that consumers care about has created growing … interest in exploring new uses for these measures. … feedback from AHRQ QI users is an important part of AHRQ’s strategy for continuously improving these measures
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Webinars/2021/v2021%20QI%20Software%20Release.pdf
January 01, 2021 - AHRQ Quality Indicators Software: v2021 ICD-10-CM/PCS Release Webinar, August 2021
AHRQ Quality … Indicators from NQF
• AHRQ will continue to maintain and develop measures that meet
standards of … refinements and new measures
8
AHRQ QI Modules
Prevention
(PQIs)
• Potentially
preventable … order: Shock, Sepsis, Pneumonia, GI hemorrhage, and DVT/PE
− Updated PSI 03 (Pressure Ulcer Rate) measure … Hallmarks of AHRQ QIs: Ensuring Quality
• Continuous Quality Improvement ► Reviews of research
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/PSI/v2020/TechSpecs/PSI%2090%20Patient%20Safety%20and%20Adverse%20Events%20Composite.pdf
July 01, 2020 - AHRQ Quality Indicators™ (AHRQ QI™) ICD-10-CM/PCS Specification v2020
July 2020 1
Patient … Hospital-Level Indicator
Type of Score: Ratio
Prepared by:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Disutility is the measure of the severity of the adverse events associated
with each of the harms (i.e … Inpatient Databases, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Program, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality … For more information, see Quality Indicator Empirical Methods and Composite User Guide.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/PSI/v2021/TechSpecs/PSI%2090%20Patient%20Safety%20and%20Adverse%20Events%20Composite.pdf
July 01, 2021 - AHRQ Quality Indicators™ (AHRQ QI™) ICD-10-CM/PCS Specification v2021
July 2021 1 of 2
Patient … Hospital-Level Indicator
Type of Score: Ratio
Prepared by:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Disutility is the measure of the severity of the adverse events associated
with each of the harms (i.e … Inpatient Databases, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Program, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality … For more information, see Quality Indicator Empirical Methods and Composite User Guide.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Software/WinQI/V2020/AHRQ_WinQI_v2020.0.1_Software_Rel_Notes.pdf
January 01, 2021 - Software v2020.0.1
AHRQ Quality Indicators
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) … coded discharges in their input file got unexpected results around
POA-based exclusions in PSI and PDI measures … v2020 software includes risk-adjustment, signal variance, reference population
rates, and composite weights … Downloads/Software/SAS/V2020/AHRQ_QI_v2020_ICD10_Po
pulation_File.pdf
4.0 Reporting Rates for Specific Measures … v2020 software includes risk-adjustment, signal variance, reference population
rates, and composite weights
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Webinars/2019/v2019_QI_Software_Release_Slides_080119.pdf
January 01, 2019 - AHRQ Slide Template 2019-Regular
August 1, 2019
AHRQ Quality Indicators Software:
v2019 ICD-10-CM/ … Default.aspx
RETIREMENT OF SELECT QIs
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About AHRQ QIs
QIs have been a successful program with > 100
measures … improvement
► Rarity of events – some indicators measured events
that are so rare that the measure … improvement
► Volume as a stand-alone measure is not useful for
quality improvement
OVERVIEW … software reports
► Risk-adjusted rates, signal variance, reference
population rates, and composite weights
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/News/AHRQ_QI_Standing_Work_Group_Announcement.pdf
March 14, 2016 - February 18, 2016
Notice of request for expert nominations to a Standing Work Group (SWG) for the AHRQ
Quality … Indicators (QIs)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking nominations for … nursing and/or nursing management experience
One or more individuals with experience using AHRQ QI measures … Curriculum vita (with citations to any pertinent publications related to quality measure development … measures based on ICD-coded administrative data
• Knowledge of current quality measurement methodologies
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Archive/News2004.aspx
January 13, 2004 - Quality Indicators Version 2.1, Revision 4
November 24 2004 – Release of AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicators … Series
September 30 2004 – AHRQ Releases Guide To Using its Quality Indicators for Hospital Quality … Can hospital quality be measured well enough to
link payment to quality? … will help those designing public reporting and payment
initiatives identify measures that fit their local … The Quality Indicators measure outcomes that consumers care about
such as patient safety and complication
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/PSI/v2019/TechSpecs/PSI%2090%20Patient%20Safety%20and%20Adverse%20Events%20Composite.pdf
December 01, 2013 - Adverse Events Composite
Technical Specifications
Patient Safety Indicator 90 (PSI 90)
AHRQ Quality … associated with each patient safety event by the corresponding utility
weights (1–disutility). … Disutility is the measure of the severity of the adverse events associated
with each of the harms (i.e … Inpatient Databases, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Program, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality … For more information, see Quality Indicator Empirical Methods and Composite User Guide.
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Presentations/2005/2005AHRQQI_Farquhar_Overview_of_AHRQ_QI.ppt
January 01, 2005 - Farquhar, AHRQ
Overview
AHRQ Quality Indicators
Current Quality Indicator Activities
Indicator … Basic philosophy: Create indicators of quality, not necessarily definitive measures
Primary design … carotid endarterectomy and PTCA) are included in the IQI software but are not recommended as stand alone measures … Updated review of the volume and procedure-based mortality measures.
PQI – FY2006 coding update. … QI Comparative Data
Summary measures of distribution from National data
Expected, risk-adjusted and
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Software/WinQI/V2021/AHRQ_WinQI_v2021_Software_Rel_Notes.pdf
July 01, 2021 - Release of AHRQ Quality IndicatorsTM Software for WinQI, v2021
AHRQ Quality Indicators
TM … .............................................................. 1
5.0 Reporting Rates for Specific Measures … Page 2 July 2021
5.0 Reporting Rates for Specific Measures
The AHRQ WinQI v2021 software includes … risk-adjustment, signal variance, reference population rates, and
composite weights for PSI, IQI, … Provider-Level Indicators
The AHRQ WinQI v2021 ICD-10-CM/PCS software does not include the following measures
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/News/MONAHRQ%20Position%209-19-12.pdf
September 19, 2012 - seeking a Program Lead for the award-winning MONAHRQ program
One strategy increasingly used to improve quality … is the production of public reports
comparing the quality of hospitals and other providers. … health plans to quickly and easily create a website using their
own hospital discharge data, inpatient measures … from CMS Hospital Compare and/or
HCAHPS survey measures for public reporting of quality (for more information … The incumbent will also
form part of a quality measurement and reporting team at AHRQ, which includes
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Publications/2013/Empirical_Methods_r.pdf
January 01, 2013 - The QI measure health care quality and can be used to highlight potential quality
concerns, identify … Select the component weights
The composite measure is the weighted average of the scaled and reliability-adjusted … QI Empirical Methods
Page 36
Let ï be a 1 × ñ vector of observed quality measures (for a given … (univariate) and the estimation error is
assumed not correlated across measures (e.g., each measure … $, the reliability of the measure, and is the r-squared which
measures how much of the variation in
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Webinars/2019/AHRQ_QI_v2019_Software_Release_Webinar_Transcript.pdf
January 01, 2019 - PQIs, or Prevention Quality Indicators, are reported at the county level
and are population-based measures … Finally, PDIs, or Pediatric
Quality Indicators, are hospital-based measures covering patients under … The AHRQ QIs are standardized evidence-based quality measures. … And, lastly, volume as a stand-alone measure were retired because they're not
useful for quality improvement … There are also updated signal variants, reference
population rates, and composite weights that are all
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/News/Listserv_SAS_and_WinQI_4.3.pdf
August 24, 2011 - of
sources, such as expert panels, user queries, published literature and harmonization
with other measures … See
the ‘Log of changes made to the measure software’ document for each AHRQ QI
module for specific … The measure title is modified accordingly to
“Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or Asthma in Older … The measure title is modified accordingly to “Asthma in Younger
Adults Admission Rate”.
4. 3M™ All … In other words, no variation in hospital performance can be seen in
these four measures using the smoothed
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Case_Studies/Johns_Hopkins_Case_Study.pdf
August 01, 2019 - This effort
involves implementing the PSIs alongside other quality measures to achieve system-wide improvement … “The PSIs are one group of measures we use to align our system-wide quality improvement goals
and communicate … Indicators (QIs)
The AHRQ QIs include four sets of measures—Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs), … Inpatient Quality Indicators
(IQIs), Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), and Pediatric Quality Indicators … across the
healthcare enterprise view the measures as "best in class."
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/SAS_QI_Release_Memo_COVID-19-Fix_v2021.pdf
September 13, 2021 - Word - SAS_QI_Release_Memo_COVID-19-Fix_v2021.docx
Version 2021 Page 1 September 2021
AHRQ Quality … (AHRQ) SAS Quality Indicators (QI) v2021 modules
that include hospital-level indicators [Inpatient … Quality Indicators (IQI), Pediatric Quality Indicators
(PDI), and Patient Safety Indicators (PSI)] allow … The error occurs in the Measures programs for the PSI, PDI and IQI modules. … To correct this, the
Measures program will be updated by adding the red text below:
Version 2021
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qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Archive/News2007.aspx
September 28, 2007 - Indicator Version 3.1
February 27 2007 – AHRQ QI Version 3.1 and Composite Measure Release Date Scheduled … Research and Quality (AHRQ) is pleased to announce the release of the AHRQ
Quality Indicator Version … 3.1 for the Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI), Inpatient Quality
Indicators (IQI), Patient Safety … Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the release of the
AHRQ Quality Indicator Version 3.2 for the … Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI),
Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI), Patient Safety Indicators