References other Quality Management Resources. Medicare Provider Certification Program. Anti Dumping, Hospices, Community Mental Health Centers, End Stage Renal Disease, Re-Invention of Medicare Accredited Hospital Validation Project, Medicare Psychiatric Hospital Program, other Providers. MQIS has developed an instructional manual to the approach of QI measurements and tools. Indicators are disease specific and address care given.
Indicators focus on processes as targets for improvement activities.
Compilation of indicators judged to have face validity, organized by accreditation program. Standard profile for each measure, identifying which indicators are appropriate for different healthcare delivery settings and which conditions, procedures, or domains of performance are covered. Provides list of more than 60 approved performance measurement systems and types of measures. Supports the routine measurement of health outcomes by gathering information from both patients and providers. Maintains Health Outcomes Question Database, including HOI assessment instruments and other publicly available outcomes assessment tools, available in hard copy printed version only.