What process is being used to develop the overall approach?
The Measures and Methods Workgroup began its work by gathering and reviewing a comprehensive collection of existing hospital quality measures that are already reported to state or federal entities by Pennsylvania hospitals. More specifically, measures needed to meet the following requirements to be considered for selection: • Measures should be already reported and preferably available through public data sources — Given the initial time and resource constraints, PHCQA needed to limit the selected measures to ones that already exist or can be derived from existing data sources, and not via raw data collection or proprietary sources. • Measures should be endorsed by national organizations and already recognized as being valid measures of hospital quality — To secure the credibility of PHCQA’s first report, only measures that have already been established individually as being good indicators of quality will be considered. • Measures should be evidence-based and include process and outco
