Can the Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) be used at a hospital level?
The Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) are designed to highlight rates of hospitalizations that may have been preventable with timely access to quality outpatient care. The denominators for the PQIs are population based and, therefore, the rates are not directly applicable to individual hospitals. These indicators may be of interest to integrated health plans that provide both outpatient and inpatient care to the same population or to hospital systems that serve a defined population. However, such use would require modification of the PQIs software to construct the relevant population files for the population that is “at risk” for subsequent hospitalization. The AHRQ Support team is unable to assist users with such revisions as the PQIs are designed for use at an area level; use at the hospital level is not an option of the current software.
Related Questions
- What is the difference between the Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs), the Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs), the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) and the Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs)?
- Can the Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) be used at a hospital level?
- How can data from the quality indicators be used?
