AHRQ Quality Indicators
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Record Type
Software
Source
Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Title Acronym
AHRQ QI
Source URL
Description
The AHRQ QIs consist of three modules measuring various aspects of quality: Prevention QIs identify hospital admissions that evidence suggests could have been avoided, at least in part, through high-quality outpatient care; Inpatient QIs reflect quality of care inside hospitals including inpatient mortality for medical conditions and surgical procedures; Patient Safety Indicators also reflect quality of care inside hospitals, but focus on potentially avoidable complications and iatrogenic events. Software and user guides for all three modules are available to assist users in applying the Quality Indicators to their own data.
MEDLINE Search Strategy
Keywords
Medical Errors; Quality Indicators; Health Care; Safety Management; United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Public Health Systems Research
Purpose
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital inpatient administrative data.
Record Originator
Sheps Center, UNC-CH
Related Titles
Special Software
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) makes the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) software available without charge to hospitals and other users. These include software documentation and guides that provide a synopsis of the evidence presented in the Refinement of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Quality Indicators Technical Review and the Patient Safety Indicators Technical Review.
Topic Subset
PHSR
Variables
Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs); Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs); and the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs)
UI
1689
Date Revised
July 21, 2017, 3:38 a.m.