| Number (percent) of interviewees making the recommendation | Recommendation | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | (19%) | Provide a template and guidance for using the QIs for public reporting |
| 10 | (19%) | Provide guidance on next steps for improving quality once a potential opportunity for improvement is flagged by the QIs |
| 8 | (15%) | Collaborate with other organizations to create a national standard set of measures |
| 8 | (15%) | Make QIs more user-friendly (such as simpler indicator names) |
| 7 | (13%) | Increase responsiveness and speed of user support |
| 6 | (11%) | Expand outreach and marketing to more people and more audiences |
| 6 | (11%) | Provide guidance for how consumers should interpret values of QIs |
| 5 | (9%) | Provide benchmark QI values for various populations |
| 4 | (7%) | Add a greater educational component to outreach and user support |
| 4 | (7%) | Develop a comprehensive list of who is using the QIs, how they are using them, and impact they are having |
| 4 | (7%) | Provide funding for research studies using the QIs |
| 3 | (6%) | Improve the process of incorporating feedback from users on the QIs |
| 3 | (6%) | Provide guidance on how coding of discharge data can be improved |
| 2 | (4%) | Choose 1 statistical software package (SAS or SPSS) and drop the other; also drop/cut back on the PC application |
| 2 | (4%) | Contract with other organizations to provide outreach, education, user support, and to disseminate information |
| 2 | (4%) | Make the Fact book series more accessible |
| 1 | (2%) | AHRQ staff should do communication and relationship-building directly with state agencies rather than using a contractor |
| 1 | (2%) | Develop basic educational materials appropriate for local/hospital level (QI director) rather than a researcher, who is already familiar with material, and disseminate them widely |
| 1 | (2%) | Develop something like the Dartmouth Atlas charts showing geographic variations in QIs – would help choose which QIs to report |
| 1 | (2%) | Make formulas easier to access – some formulas are buried in documents and SAS code and some are missing from documentation |
| 1 | (2%) | Provide code for STATA |
| 1 | (2%) | Provide FAQs, list of questions already answered, for quick reference |
| 1 | (2%) | Provide outreach to promote use of PQIs |
| 1 | (2%) | Provide print outreach materials, not just email |
| 1 | (2%) | Provide software for Macintosh computers |
| 1 | (2%) | Standardize the layout/organization of documentation across measure sets |
Source: RAND analysis of interview responses.