Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Some Priorities for the Future

• Be explicit about the perspective, output, and inputs used in measure:
  • What's the purpose, approach?
• Develop measures to fill important gaps
  • When is it most important to incorporate quality measures?
  • Measures that use health outcomes as outputs
  • Measures for units of analysis other than hospital
• Evaluate whether efficiency measures are scientifically sound, feasible, actionable