for Hospital-level Public Reporting or Payment
The perceived advantage of the QIs is that they measure outcomes that consumers care about; these indicators also use administrative data, which are relatively inexpensive, readily available, and already used for hospital quality improvement.
Because AHRQ originally developed and refined these indicators for use in quality improvement and national tracking, there has been some question about how and if to use them in these new ways. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on this question.
www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/...qi_guidance.pdf
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