The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides data on hospital metrics, as long as their own methodology for calculating Quality Indicators. The program used for this is supplied by them and is designed for SAS program usage (MONAHRQ).
The measures calculated using AHRQ methodology are:
- IQI (Inpatient Quality Indicator) Measures
- PQI (Prevention Quality Indicator) Measures
- PSI (Patient Safety Indicator) Measures
- PDI (Pediatric Quality Indicator) Measures
All of these Measures can also be calculated using 3 different methods
- Observed Measures
- Risk-Adjusted Measures
- Observed to Expected Ratio Measures