AHRQ - Quality Indicators Mapping Tool

The AHRQ Quality Indicators Mapping Tool (QIMT) is a software program that

1. maps selected AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) for a State, by county
2. overlay user-defined population data, assuming the user can supply these additional datasets
3. display county-level rates and cost-reduction data in a worksheet format

The QIMT uses hospital discharge records as the basis to calculate the county level rates of each of the area-level indicators in all four of the AHRQ QI modules:

• the Prevention Quality Indicators,
• the Inpatient Quality Indicators,
• the Patient Safety Indicators, and
• the Pediatric Quality Indicators.