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KHC and the Kansas Hospital Association are partnering to release a series of Issue Briefs on Emergency Department visits in Kansas, using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Emergency Department Prevention Quality Indicators (PQEs) [1]
The Issue Briefs on Emergency Department visits will be released, beginning with Emergency Department Visits for Non-Traumatic Dental Conditions.
In September 2023 AHRQ released a new group of area-based quality measures called Emergency Department Prevention Quality Indicators (PQEs) [1]. It contains five PQE measures that reflect ED visit rates for potentially preventable emergency department (ED) visits. The PQEs are area-based measures meaning they are evaluated and reported for geographic areas, usually counties. As with the existing group of Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs), the PQEs are “avoidable use” measures in that they identify conditions that are sensitive to the health status of the population of a county (or other area) and the availability and quality of health care services in the county. PQEs are not used for measuring quality at the hospital level.
Emergency Department PQI Issue Briefs
KHA and KHC hope that the results provided in the Issue Briefs will be useful to hospitals and other organizations engaged in planning population health improvement activities, community health needs assessments, or other health improvement efforts.
For additional information on the EDPQIs and methods used for the Issue Briefs, see the Methods and Notes.
References
[1] AHRQ ED PQI Technical Documentation, Version v2023, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/measures/ed_pqi_resources. Accessed March 6th, 2024.
[2] AHRQ QI: Quality Indicator Resources. (n.d.). Retrieved March 6, 2024, from https://qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/measures/how_to_use_ed_pqi_resources