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Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research Quality Indicators 

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital inpatient administrative data.

The AHRQ QIs consist of four modules measuring various aspects of quality:

News

Presentations from the AHRQ 2008 Annual Conference

QI Learning Institute

Understanding the 3M™ All Patient Refined DRGs (APR DRGs)

Phase II of the Validation Pilot for the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators

Release of the Quality Indicators Version 3.2(Mar 2008)

Release of the Preventable Hospitalization Costs Mapping Tool for Windows (Oct 2007)

Release of the Preventable Hospitalization Costs Mapping Tool for SAS (Mar 2007)

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