Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Background and Purpose

• The AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI) are quality measures based on hospital administrative data that are available in almost all states
  • They grew out of the AHRQ Health Care Utilization Project's data base of hospital utilization information
  • The resulting indicators are based on evidence review and consultation with clinical experts
  • Software is available to transform state level data into scores on Quality Indicators