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AHRQ Preventable Hospitalization Costs, a county level mapping tool
The AHRQ Preventable Hospitalization Costs (PHC) is a software program
that 1) maps selected AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) for a State, by
county, and 2) estimates the cost savings associated with reducing the
level of potentially avoidable hospitalizations. The tool assists health
care decisionmakers in identifying communities for future
interventions, such as improving preventive and primary care services or
improving patient safety, and tracking the impact of such interventions
over time. By overlaying residence data, the program shows where
interventions can have the biggest impact for certain health plan
enrollees or other target populations.
The PHC uses hospital discharge records as the basis to calculate the
county level rates of each of the area-level indicators in two of the
AHRQ QI modules: the Prevention Quality Indicators and Pediatric Quality
Indicators.
This tool will:
- Produce maps displaying the county-level QI rates.
- Overlay user-defined population data, assuming the user can
supply these additional datasets. This tool can calculate the
expected cost savings for a 10- to 50-percent reduction in
cases for each county. With this function, the user supplies the
supplementary charge information for inputted discharge records.
- Display county-level rates and cost-reduction data in a
worksheet format.
The PHC was designed to help health care policymakers and
administrators analyze their own hospital inpatient discharge data in
order to assess the magnitude of problems they face and identify
interventions to reduce potentially preventable hospitalizations and
medical errors. The tool would also be useful for employers, employer
coalitions, Medicaid programs, health departments, hospitals, health
systems, health plans, and researchers interested in population-based
quality measures.
Download the SAS Preventable Hospitalization Costs Mapping Tool
Download the Windows Preventable Hospitalization Costs Mapping Tool
Internet Citation: AHRQ
Quality Indicators Software Download. May 2007. Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/software.htm
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