Quality Indicators Mapping Tool

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Quality Indicators Mapping Tool
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What is the Quality Indicators Mapping Tool
(QIMT)?

• The QIMT is a new QI software application
  designed to help organizations to
• better understand geographical patterns of
  hospital admission rates
• allocate resources more effectively by
  calculating potential cost savings if admission
  rates are reduced

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Main Functions of the QIMT

• Simple creation of maps
• Calculation of cost savings
• Ability to place additional information about
  local populations onto maps

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How the QIMT works

• User provides a dataset (single-year dataset of
  hospital discharge records)
• QIMT runs user dataset against selected QIs
• QIMT produces maps for each indicator and a
  summary data file

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Quality Indicators used in the QIMT

• Not all QIs or QI modules are available
• The QIMT uses
• All Prevention Quality Indicators (14)
• All Area-Level Pediatric Quality Indicators (5)

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Prevention Quality Indicators

• Diabetes, short-term complications (PQI 1)
• Perforated appendicitis (PQI 2)
• Diabetes, long-term complications (PQI 3)
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (PQI 5)
• Hypertension (PQI 7)
• Congestive heart failure (PQI 8)
• Low birth weight (PQI 9)

• Dehydration (PQI 10)
• Bacterial pneumonia (PQI 11)
• Urinary infections (PQI 12)
• Angina without procedure (PQI 13)
• Uncontrolled diabetes (PQI 14)
• Adult asthma (PQI 15)
• Lower extremity amputations among patients with
  diabetes (PQI 16)

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Pediatric Quality Indicators

• Area-Level Indicators
• Asthma Admission Rate (PDI 14)
• Diabetes Short-Term Complication Rate (PDI 15)
• Gastroenteritis Admission Rate (PDI 16)
• Perforated Appendix Admission Rate (PDI 17)
• Urinary Tract Infection Admission Rate (PDI 18)

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Sample Map
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If you want to use the QIMT

• Visit the Innovations Café to see our demo
• or
• Wait for the official release October 31
• (http//www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/)

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• If you have questions or want more information,
  contact
• Melanie Chansky at
• 703-248-1659 or chanskym_at_battelle.org.