How can the AHRQ QIs be used in quality assessment?
Hospitals and other organizations may use the AHRQ QIs without collecting new data by following these steps: • Identify the performance measure(s) of particular interest from the list of QIs. For example, a group interested in studying children’s health might select the pediatric care indicators. • Determine what hospital(s) will be included in the assessment. For example, a local organization examining access to primary care in the community might include data from all local-area hospitals. • Acquire the relevant hospital discharge data from individual hospitals, State association or data organization, or State agency that makes discharge data available. As of June 2004, 36 States are part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), an ongoing Federal-State-private sector collaboration to build uniform databases from administrative hospital-based data. The National Association of Health Data Organizations (http://www.nahdo.org) provides information on how to access State da
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