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141. Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI) Log of Coding Updates and Revisions Through Version V2020 (pdf file)
     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

142. C.16.6.6.4.2 AHRQ QI Newsletter Quarter 1 (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/News/QI_Newsletter_I_2_13.pdf
     May 01, 2015 - measures for improvement strategically. … implications, strategic initiatives, external mandates (such as public perception of care), and a measure … The team uses the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) Process Improvement Methodology … AHRQ QI improvement software is used to measure improvement efforts over time. … in Spring 2013), we’ll be highlighting the Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI).

143. Document (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Publications/2006/fr16my06N.pdf
     January 01, 2006 - publications relevant to the development and use of risk- adjustment, hierarchical modeling; performance measures … alternative approaches to risk-adjustment and hierarchical modeling; • Experience with development of measures … measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital inpatient administrative … : the Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI), the Inpatient Quality Indicators, the Patient Safety Indicators … children, women of childbearing age, the elderly); (5) existence of an analytical method that can measure

144. Iqi Hospital Level Retirement Notice (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/News/IQI_Hospital_Level_Retirement_Notice.pdf
     October 10, 2016 - ANNOUNCEMENT Retirement of Three Provider-Level Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) in Future Versions … of the AHRQ QI Software The AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) contain two types of indicators …  IQI 25: Bilateral Cardiac Catheterization Rate This announcement is to inform users of AHRQ Quality … these procedures have shifted primarily to the outpatient setting, making IQI 25 a less meaningful measure … 2007 to 2012, IQI 25 rates have improved from 61/1,000 to 12/1,000 hospitalizations, suggesting the measure

145. Release of AHRQ Quality IndicatorsTM Software for WinQI v2020, July 2020 (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Software/WinQI/V2020/AHRQ_WinQI_v2020_Software_Rel_Notes.pdf
     July 01, 2020 - IndicatorsTM Release of AHRQ Quality Indicators Software for WinQI v2020 Release of AHRQ Quality … This software applies to all four modules: Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI), Inpatient Quality Indicators … v2020 software includes risk-adjustment, signal variance, reference population rates, and composite weights … Downloads/Software/SAS/V2020/AHRQ_QI_v2020_ICD1 0_Population_File.pdf 4.0 Reporting Rates for Specific Measures … v2020 software includes risk-adjustment, signal variance, reference population rates, and composite weights

146. Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI) Log of ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM/PCS, and DRG Coding Updates and Revisions to IQI Documentation and Software (pdf file)
     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

147. Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI) Log of ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM/PCS, and DRG Coding Updates and Revisions to PQI Documentation and Software (pdf file)
     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 and annual coding updates AHRQ Quality IndicatorsTM … Rationale for the change: Measure maintenance. … 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

148. APR-DRG Version 28 listserv announcement (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/News/APR-DRG_listserv_v1.pdf
     February 15, 2012 - Grouper Version 28 Released with Windows and SAS Version 4.3 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … The 3M APR-DRG grouper is used in Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI) mortality measures.

149. Slide 1 (ppt file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Presentations/2005/2005AHRQQI_Varga_Implementing_All_the_consensus_standards_the_journey_so_far.ppt
     January 01, 2005 - Website: Questions & Answers What is in this Quality Report? … organization moving in a direction that is inherently inevitable Improve our care; “We’ll manage what we measure … lists instead of deciding indicator by indicator Not being the indicator owner not redefining the measure … Better data; less time arguing about the measure and more time improving performance. … Evaluation What we’ve learned about the measures Few existing tools to automate or streamline any of

150. Microsoft Word - Retirement Notice_v2019_Indicators.docx (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/News/Retirement%20Notice_v2019_Indicators.pdf
     May 23, 2019 - Microsoft Word - Retirement Notice_v2019_Indicators.docx Retirement of Select AHRQ Quality Indicators … , v2019 Software May 23, 2019 1 ANNOUNCEMENT Retirement of Select AHRQ Quality Indicators … (QIs) in Upcoming v2019 QI Software This announcement pertains to 21 AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs … Quality Indicators (IQIs) (8) Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) (1) Pediatric Quality Indicators … improvement Ø Rarity of events – some indicators measure events that are so rare that the measure

151. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
     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 … , 2005 © 2005 University HealthSystem Consortium * Baseline and Outcome Measures … September 26, 2005 © 2005 University HealthSystem Consortium * Descriptive Measures

152. Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI) Log of Coding Updates and Revisions Through Version V2020 (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/PQI/V2020/ChangeLog_PQI_v2020.pdf
     September 30, 2020 - 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 beincluded … New measure name “Community-Acquired Pneumonia Admission Rate” Rationale for the change: Align the measure … v4.3 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 beincluded

153. Listserv Rqi 4.3 Final (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/News/Listserv_RQI_4.3_final.pdf
     November 09, 2011 - November 9, 2011 – Release of AHRQ Readmission Quality Indicator SAS Beta Software The Agency for … Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the release of the AHRQ Quality Indicators (AHRQ QI … ) Readmission Quality Indicators (RQI) module, Beta Version SAS Software and Documentation (Version … As a beta release, the measures and software have not been field-tested.

154. Clarified APR-DRG_Listserv (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/News/Clarified_APR-DRG_Listserv.pdf
     February 17, 2012 - Embedded in the AHRQ QI Software Windows and SAS Version 4.3 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … The 3M APR-DRG grouper ROM assignments are used in the risk-adjustment of the Inpatient Quality Indicators … (IQI) mortality measures.

155. Themes from HCBS Expert Call Discussions (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Publications/2012/Appendix_1B_Details_of_Expert_Panel_Calls.pdf
     January 01, 2012 -  One expert expressly noted that the indicators were not valid measures of quality for HCBS services … , 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.

156. User Survey Available (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/News/User_Survey_Available.pdf
     January 04, 2013 - Dear AHRQ QI User: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ; www.ahrq.gov) aims to better … understand the needs of organizations using the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI) (www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov … ) and other healthcare quality measures. … Pancholi Senior Social Science Research Analyst Program Officer, AHRQ Quality Indicators Initiative

157. Microsoft Word - Carilion_Clinic_Case_Study.docx (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Case_Studies/Carilion_Clinic_Case_Study.pdf
     August 01, 2019 - Microsoft Word - Carilion_Clinic_Case_Study.docx August 2019 Page 1 of 3 AHRQ Quality Indicators … Recently, Joshua Clark, Senior Director Quality & Patient Safety, shared with AHRQ the improvements … Indicators (QIs) The AHRQ QIs include four sets of measures—Patient Safety Indicators, Inpatient Quality … Indicators, Prevention Quality Indicators, and Pediatric Quality Indicators—which address quality of … across the healthcare enterprise view the measures as “best in class.”

158. Iqi Area Level Retirement Notice (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/News/IQI_Area_Level_Retirement_Notice.pdf
     September 01, 2016 - ANNOUNCEMENT Retirement of the Area-Level Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) in Future Versions of … the AHRQ QI Software The AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) contain two types of indicators … Rate  IQI 29 Laminectomy or Spinal Fusion Rate This announcement is to inform users of AHRQ Quality … Therefore, AHRQ is retiring the following measures based on … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

159. AHRQ - Quality Indicators
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Software/ICD10Planning.aspx
     December 01, 2016 - ICD-10 Software Release Plan The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will release the … (QIs) to their own inpatient hospital administrative data to inform quality improvement efforts in … Indicators (PQI), Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI), Patient Safety Indicators (PSI), and Pediatric … Quality Indicators (PDI). … Individual measure Technical Specifications (ICD-10 compliant). 5.

160. AHRQ Slide Template 2019-Widescreen (pdf file)
     qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Webinars/2020/v2020%20QI%20Software%20Release_Final-08032020.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - informing policy ► Some used for performance based payment programs • Broad Applicability ► 65+ measures … software reports ► Risk-adjusted rates, signal variance, reference population rates, and composite weights … Some used for performance based payment programs • • • Broad Applicability ► ► ► ► 65+ measures … ► ► ► ► Risk - adjusted rates, signal variance, reference population rates, and composite weights … ► ► ► ► Overall − − − − Records where DRG is assigned the value of 999 are not used for measure