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Hospital Quality Indicators

Quality Indicators (QIs) are standardized, evidence-based measures of health care quality that can be used with readily available hospital inpatient administrative data to measure and track clinical performance and outcomes.

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Inpatient Quality Indicators

Mortality indicators reporting the percentage of patients who died in the hospital after undergoing a specific type of surgery. Utilization indicators reflecting the use of certain procedures about which questions have been raised about overuse or underuse.
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Patient Safety Indicators

Potential complications that occur within hospital and potential adverse events following surgeries, procedures, and childbirth. Money charged per case.
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Pediatric Quality Indicators

Quality of care of children under the age of 18.
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Prevention Quality Indicators

Amount of cases hospitals deal with that are connected to preventable diseases. Some preventable diseases that are monitored are: asthma, diabetes and urinary infections. assessing the effectiveness of this care.