Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

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).

All AHRQ measures

select a.* from measures as a, measure_groups_measures as b

where a.measure_id = b.measure_id

and b.measure_group_id = 20

The measures calculated using AHRQ methodology are:

All of these Measures can also be calculated using 3 different methods