All Payer Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI) Area Measures by Patient County (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.

该数据集包含了由美国医疗研究与质量局（AHRQ）开发的方法论生成的医院出院统计数据（分子、分母、总体计数），包括观察值、预期值及经过风险调整后的比率，以及相应的95%置信区间。这些指标（IQIs）构成一套衡量标准，旨在通过医院行政数据展现医院的护理质量。这些指标反映了医院内部护理质量，包括某些手术和医疗状况的住院死亡率；对于存在过度使用、不足使用和误用疑问的手术利用率；以及某些证据表明手术数量增加与死亡率降低相关的手术数量。所有IQI指标均采用始于2009年的州级规划与研究合作系统（SPARCS）住院数据进行计算。为推导县级行政区域（地区级）IQI指标的分母，使用了由AHRQ提供的美国人口普查数据文件。死亡率、手术量和利用率指标以比率或计数的形式按医院展示，而地区级利用率指标则以县为单位以比率形式展示。