All Payer Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI) Volume Measures by Hospital (SPARCS): Calendar Year 2015

The datasets contain hospital discharges counts (numerators, denominators, volume counts), observed, expected and risk-adjusted rates with corresponding 95% confidence intervals for IQIs generated using methodology developed by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
The IQIs are a set of measures that provide a perspective on hospital quality of care using hospital administrative data. These indicators reflect quality of care inside hospitals and include inpatient mortality for certain procedures and medical conditions; utilization of procedures for which there are questions of overuse, underuse, and misuse; and volume of procedures for which there is some evidence that a higher volume of procedures is associated with lower mortality.
All the IQI measures were calculated using Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) inpatient data beginning 2009. US Census data files provided by AHRQ were used to derive denominators for county level (area level) IQI measures.

The mortality, volume and utilization measures IQIs are presented by hospital as rates or counts. Area-level utilization measures are presented by county as rates.

本数据集收录了由美国卫生研究与质量管理局（AHRQ）开发的方法生成的医院出院统计数据（分子、分母、总量计数），包括观察值、预期值及风险调整后的比率，以及相应的95%置信区间。这些指标集合（IQIs）通过分析医院行政数据，从多个维度展现了医院护理质量。这些指标反映了医院内部的护理质量，涵盖特定手术和医疗状况的住院死亡率；对于存在过度使用、不足使用和误用疑虑的手术的利用率；以及与较低死亡率相关联的手术数量。所有IQI指标均采用始于2009年的全州规划与研究合作系统（SPARCS）住院数据计算得出。为推导县级（区域级）IQI指标的分母，使用了AHRQ提供的美国人口普查数据文件。死亡率、数量和利用率指标IQIs以医院为单位，以比率或计数形式呈现。区域级利用率指标则以县为单位，以比率形式呈现。