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Quality Indicator Resources: AHRQ QI Methodology
For additional information on the development of the HCBS QIs, view the resources below:
Literature … Review literature.
Finalize specifications.
Summarize evidence. … Phase 4: Retire Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator and determine that retirement … Phase 3: Maintain Existing Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator. … Periodic review by clinical panels.
Consider new data and methodological advances.
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Quality Indicator Resources: AHRQ QI Methodology
For additional information on the development of the HCBS QIs, view the resources below:
Literature … Review literature.
Finalize specifications.
Summarize evidence. … Phase 4: Retire Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator and determine that retirement … Phase 3: Maintain Existing Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator. … Periodic review by clinical panels.
Consider new data and methodological advances.
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Quality Indicator Resources: AHRQ QI Methodology
For additional information on the development of the HCBS QIs, view the resources below:
Literature … Review literature.
Finalize specifications.
Summarize evidence. … Phase 4: Retire Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator and determine that retirement … Phase 3: Maintain Existing Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator. … Periodic review by clinical panels.
Consider new data and methodological advances.
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Quality Indicator Resources: AHRQ QI Methodology
For additional information on the development of the HCBS QIs, view the resources below:
Literature … Review literature.
Finalize specifications.
Summarize evidence. … Phase 4: Retire Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator and determine that retirement … Phase 3: Maintain Existing Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator. … Periodic review by clinical panels.
Consider new data and methodological advances.
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Quality Indicator Resources: AHRQ QI Methodology
For additional information on the development of the HCBS QIs, view the resources below:
Literature … Review literature.
Finalize specifications.
Summarize evidence. … Phase 4: Retire Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator and determine that retirement … Phase 3: Maintain Existing Indicators
Review evidence on the use of the indicator. … Periodic review by clinical panels.
Consider new data and methodological advances.
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AHRQ QIs Fact Sheet: FAQs on the SAS QI and WinQI v2020 Software
(pdf file)
While modifying the input data file for COVID-19 cases will work for both WinQI
and SAS QI, AHRQ also … Potential refinements to the QI software are based on user feedback, literature review and
environmental … Thus, in some cases, induced terminations of pregnancy are
misclassified as live births because there … Users may review discharge-level results to determine if evidence in the administrative
record indicates … occurrence of an adverse event.
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AHRQ - Quality Indicators
After three rounds of intensive review at both the NQF Surgery Standing Committee and the NQF Consensus … However, AHRQ has chosen not to continue with the NQF review process, pending a review of competing priorities … have an NQF Number are not individually endorsed by NQF.
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PSI 9, PSI 10, and PSI 11 are not part of … the NQF Endorsed Composite, but they are components of the AHRQ
QITM Composite measure.
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PDI 8 and … PDI 9 are not part of the NQF Endorsed Composite, but they are components of the AHRQ QITM
Composite
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AHRQ - Quality Indicators
After three rounds of intensive review at both the NQF Surgery Standing Committee and the NQF Consensus … However, AHRQ has chosen not to continue with the NQF review process, pending a review of competing priorities … have an NQF Number are not individually endorsed by NQF.
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PSI 9, PSI 10, and PSI 11 are not part of … the NQF Endorsed Composite, but they are components of the AHRQ
QITM Composite measure.
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PDI 8 and … PDI 9 are not part of the NQF Endorsed Composite, but they are components of the AHRQ QITM
Composite
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Microsoft Word - Retirement Notice_v2019_Indicators.docx
(pdf file)
Version 2019 of the AHRQ QI software is
expected to be released in the summer of 2019. … set of sustainable indicators. … including: (1) user feedback (e.g., user survey, interviews); (2) systematic literature
review and … evidence scans (e.g., literature review, request for information) conducted by AHRQ
in the summer of … above five (5) themes became the underlying basis for
retirement:
Ø Limited evidence base in the literature
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AHRQ - Quality Indicators
procedures for which there are questions of overuse, underuse, or misuse and
Volume of procedures for … The AHRQ QIs are used by a wide range of organizations for a variety of purposes. … Indicators are reviewed carefully for validity and are submitted to the National Quality Forum (NQF) for review … Consult the Quality Indicators software page
Review the release notes for SAS and WinQI
Review the … results of comparison testing
Where can I see a list of all the ICD-9 codes?
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AHRQ - Quality Indicators
procedures for which there are questions of overuse, underuse, or misuse and
Volume of procedures for … The AHRQ QIs are used by a wide range of organizations for a variety of purposes. … Indicators are reviewed carefully for validity and are submitted to the National Quality Forum (NQF) for review … Consult the Quality Indicators software page
Review the release notes for SAS and WinQI
Review the … results of comparison testing
Where can I see a list of all the ICD-9 codes?
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AHRQ - Quality Indicators
Review of Proposed Changes with ICD–10–CM/PCS Conversion of AHRQ Quality Indicators™ (QI)
The Agency … CODES FOR REVIEW: There are four modules of the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI):
the Prevention Quality … The list of AHRQ QI and appendices can be found in the Table of Contents . … For review of each quality indicator, it
is important to remember that the clinical concept in ICD-10 … Endarterectomy Mortality Rate
IQI 32 Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Mortality Rate, Without Transfer Cases
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Icd10 V70 Faq
(pdf file)
Indicators (QIs) converted to
ICD-10-CM/PCS using CMS General Equivalence Mapping (GEM) files and clinical review … For provider-level indicators, such as those reported by hospitals,
observed rates can provide information … Users may review
discharge-level results to determine if evidence in the administrative record indicates … occurrence
of an adverse event. … a paucity of dual-
coded data.
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Performance_Testing_Comparison_Report
(pdf file)
Population File Update, May 2018
AHRQ Quality Indicators Update: This update concerns all versions of … These files are
currently under review. … PDI 90-PDI 92),
Patient Safety Indicators (PSI 21-PSI 27, all of which were retired in v7.0), and Inpatient … Quality
Indicators (IQI 26-IQI 29, all of which were retired in v7.0)].
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Pqi13 Retirement Announcement
(pdf file)
to inform users of AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) that Version 6.0 (2016) of the QI
software will not … Since the development of PQI 13 “Angina without procedure admission rate”, new evidence and uses of … the PQIs, from 81.5 per 100,000
population to 15.7 per 100,000.1 A review of angina related hospitalization … Use of observation services may decrease
the number of chest pain admissions; this shift may be clinically … in differing rates, while the underlying
burden of disease remains constant.
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Ahrq Qi Standing Work Group Announcement
(pdf file)
procedures and medical conditions; utilization of procedures for which there are
questions of overuse … Composition of the Standing Workgroup
The standing workgroup will consist of a diverse group of clinicians … approximately 8 hours of meeting time and 12 hours of
review time. … current quality measurement methodologies published in the literature
• Clinical expertise in the … use and applications of the AHRQ QIs
• Knowledge of the NQF Consensus Development Process.
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AHRQ - Quality Indicators
These approaches are under review at the National Quality Forum as part of the endorsement maintenance … In most cases, MDCs are a straightforward aggregation of DRGs. … , these preoperative cases have become one of the leading causes of "false positive" cases of PSI 12. … likely be too narrow and based on too few cases to be of value. … reports to review risk-adjusted rates by these types of clinical classifications.
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AHRQ - Quality Indicators
These approaches are under review at the National Quality Forum as part of the endorsement maintenance … In most cases, MDCs are a straightforward aggregation of DRGs. … , these preoperative cases have become one of the leading causes of "false positive" cases of PSI 12. … likely be too narrow and based on too few cases to be of value. … reports to review risk-adjusted rates by these types of clinical classifications.
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Psi V6.0 Sasqi Winqi Memo
(pdf file)
of AMI. … The impact
of this correction is not detectable, in terms of the overall discrimination of the three … of this typographical fix is minimal (<0.03 percent difference in
the number of denominator cases … of this typographical fix is minimal (<0.04 percent
difference in the number of denominator cases … PSI software release by
implementing recommendations that emerged from the National Quality Forum’s review
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Psi90 Factsheet Faq V2
(pdf file)
Disutility is the measure of the
severity of the adverse events associated with each of the harms (i.e … Based on literature review
and expert opinion from 13 clinical specialists in surgery, internal medicine … These rankings, along with information from relevant studies in the literature,
were then used to assign … disutilities, or a measure of the severity of the adverse effects,
associated with each of the harms … Yes, the rankings of the hospitals may change when using the modified version of PSI 90.