# Presentation: 772319

## Oregon Hospital Quality Indicators2004

- Presentation to the
- AHRQ QI User Meeting
- September, 2005

## Goals of the Project

**Provide public reporting of evidence-based health care quality indicators**
**Quality reporting to inform:**
_**Consumers**_** – decisions regarding hospital care**
_**Business Groups**_** – purchasing decisions**
_**Insurers**_** – purchasing, pay-for-performance**
_**Providers**_** – quality improvement activities**
**Maximize existing resources by using readily available data**

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- September, 2005

## Oregon Process

**Joint project of the Oregon Health Policy Commission and the Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research.**
**OHPR staff worked with the Quality and Transparency Workgroup of the Oregon Health Policy Commission, to work out clinical, communications and statistics issues. **
**Q&T Work Group included representatives of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS), Oregon Health Care Quality Corp., Oregon Health Policy Commission, OHPR staff and interested stakeholders.**

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- September, 2005

## Key Issues

**Stakeholder involvement**
**Audience**
**Indicator selection**
**Risk adjustment**
**Reference population**
**Confidence intervals**
**Definitional issues**
**Hospital review and comment**

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- September, 2005

## Clinical Indicators Working GroupSubset of 12 AHRQ Indicators Selected

**Volume:**
**Abdominal aortic aneurysm**
**Balloon angioplasty**
**Carotid artery plaque removal **
**Heart bypass surgery**
**Pediatric heart surgery**

**Death Rate:**
**Abdominal aortic aneurysm**
**Balloon angioplasty**
**Carotid artery plaque removal **
**Heart attack**
**Heart bypass surgery**
**Stroke**
**Pneumonia**

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- September, 2005

## The Website

**Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research**
**Oregon Hospital Quality Website**

**http://oregon.gov/das/ohpr/hq**

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- September, 2005

## Slide 7

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- September, 2005

## User Guide

**The data you’ll see **
**How to read & interpret the indicator **
**How you can use these reports  **
**Important cautions about these data  **
**A map of the Oregon regions and their hospitals **
**Glossary of frequently used terms**

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- September, 2005

## How Does Oregon Compare?

**How Does Oregon Compare?**
**2002 National and Regional Death Rate Comparisons**

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- September, 2005

## Slide 10

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## Slide 11

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## Slide 12

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## Contact Information

**Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research**
**Tina Edlund**
**Research and Data Manager**
**(503) 378-2422 x400**
**Tina.D.Edlund@state.or.us**

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- September, 2005