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Using AHRQ Quality Indicators for Hospital-level Reporting and Payment

Slide Presentation by Debra Ness

On October 27, 2004, Debra Ness made a presentation in a Web Conference entitled Using AHRQ Quality Indicators for Hospital-level Reporting and Payment.

This is the text version of her slide presentation. Select to access the PowerPoint® slides (430 KB).

Reasons for Consumer Demand

Debra Ness
President
National Partnership For Women and Families

Slide 1

Reasons for Consumer Demand

Patient centered healthcare requires:
- Information to make informed decisions.
- Information to ask informed questions.
Consumer-directed health plans require more consumer information.

Slide 2

Ongoing Public Reporting Activities

Niagara Coalition.
Leapfrog Group.
Bridges to Excellence.
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners.
Wisconsin Health Care Collaborative.
Care Focused Purchasing.
Human Resource Policy Associates.
State Initiatives in CA (Healthscope), TX, IL, MD, FL, etc.

Slide 3

Challenges Facing Consumers:

Many dimensions of quality.
Many different ways the information is displayed.
Many different ways that similar information is measured.

Slide 4

Helping Consumers Compare Quality

Standardized, validated measures.
Standardized, consumer friendly data displays.
Comprehensive measurement of all dimensions of care.

Slide 5

Using Public Reporting to Improve Quality

Report must be widely disseminated.
Date display must be clear.
Consumers play a key role.

Slide 6

Three Drivers of Healthcare System Improvement

Purchasers/Payers through contracts they negotiate.
Consumers through information guiding informed choice.
Providers wanting to improve quality.

Current as of March 2005

Internet Citation:

Reasons for Consumer Demand. Text version of a slide presentation at a Web conference. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/news/ulp/buyright/nesstxt.htm

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