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Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators - A “How to” Guide for Improving Hospital Quality and Safety

Slide presentation of the webinar held on August 1, 2016

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) held a Webinar on August 1, 2016, to provide an overview of the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) and the updated QI toolkit.

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Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
A "How to" Guide for Improving Hospital Quality and Safety

Webinar Monday,
August 1, 2016
1:00-‐2:30 pm ET

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Agenda

Welcome
Overview of the AHRQ QIs
Q&A
A tour of the QI Toolkit
A conversation with a Toolkit user
–Q&A

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Accessing the QI Toolkit

Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety

Available on the AHRQ Web site at http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/index.html

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AHRQ puts quality improvement tools in the hands of hospital leaders

Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators™
How to Improve Hospital Quality and Safety

TeamSTEPPS®: Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety

Selecting Quality and Resource Use Measures: A Decision Guide

Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) Toolkit

Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections

Improving the Emergency Department Discharge Process

Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions

Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals

Confidential Physician Feedback Reports: Designing for Optimal Impact on Performance

NICU Toolkit

Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals

Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety

Preventing Falls in Hospitals

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture

Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Toolkit

Visit us at www.ahrq.gov

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Who You Are

Registrant Data	Number	Percent
Total Registrants	1,100
Organization Type
Hospital/health system	845	76%
Consultant	84	8%
State agency	40	4%
Other	130	12%

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Today's Speakers

Pamela Owens, PhD
Senior Research
Scientist
AHRQ

Peter Hussey, PhD
Senior Policy
Researcher
RAND Corporation

Courtney Gidengil, MD, MPH
Physician Scientist
RAND Corporation

Ellen Robinson, PT
Clinical Quality Specialist
Harborview Medical Center
Seattle, Washington

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Overview of the AHRQ QIs

Pam Owens, PhD, Senior Research Scientist
AHRQ

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AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs)

AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital inpatient administrative data
- For use with readily available administrative data
- Based on ICD-9-CM (and now ICD-10-CM) diagnosis and procedure codes
- Risk adjusted
- Developed and refined annually using universe of all-payer hospital discharge data in 47 states
- Rigorous validity and reliability testing
Over 101 QIs across 4 modules
40 AHRQ QIs plus 2 composites are currently endorsed by National Quality Forum (NQF)

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Origins of the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs)

Developed initially at the request of the state organizations and hospital associations as a quality improvement tool
Developed using all-payer Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) data
Developed and maintained through contracts since 1999

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Quality Indicator Modules

Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs)

Quality of care inside the hospital
Rates of mortality for adult medical conditions and surgical procedures
Rates/counts of utilization that may indicate overuse, underuse or misuse of various treatments
Provider-level (and area-level*) indicators
Risk-adjusted (age, sex, APR-DRG, comorbidities)

Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs)

Rates of potentially avoidable complications and adverse events following adult surgeries and procedures performed in the hospitals
Provider-level (and area-level*) indicators
Risk-adjusted (age, sex, comorbidities, MS-DRGs, MDCs)

Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs)

Rates of mortality for pediatric surgical procedures
Rates of potentially avoidable complications and adverse events in the hospitals
Rates of potentially preventable hospitalizations
Provider-level (and area-level*) indicators
Risk-adjusted (age, sex, birth weight, MS-DRG, MDCs, CCS)

Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs)*

Rates of potentially preventable hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions; admissions that may be avoided, at least in part, through high-quality outpatient care.
Area-level indicators
Risk-adjusted (age, sex,poverty)

*Not included in the AHRQ QI Toolkit

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Ensuring Quality of the Quality Indicators

Annual updates to align with coding changes
Rigorous testing with every annual update to assess:
- Reliability
- Validity
- Alignment with evolving evidence base
NQF endorsement for many QIs
- Additional testing performed
- Extensive review of testing, feasibility, use
- http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Modules/list_ahrq_qi.aspx
Improvements to QIs driven by
- Testing
- NQF, other expert feedback
- User feedback
- Evolving evidence base

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Timeline: Conversion to ICD-10

Pre-2011

Began mapping clinical concepts

2011-2012

Created automated mapping tool called MapIT
Review by expert workgroups (> 80 coding experts and clinicians)

2013

Posted draft maps of numerators and denominators in Federal Register for public comment

2015

Released alpha versions (v4.5, v5.0) of ICD-10 AHRQ QIs
Preliminary testing with limited state dual-coded data

2016

Released v6.0 of ICD-10 AHRQ QIs

2017

Obtain nationally representative reference population data

2018

Release all components of all-payer ICD-10 software

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ICD-10 Software

Observed rates reported
No risk adjustment or smoothing in ICD-10 v6.0 software
- Requires reference population data - 1 full year of nationally representative ICD-10 data
  - Used to calculate indirectly standardized risk-adjusted rates
  - Used to calculate smoothed rates
  - Anticipate a full-year of all-payer ICD-10 data in mid-2017
Expect risk adjustment in ICD-10 software packages in 2018
AHRQ does NOT recommend deriving risk-adjusted estimates by applying ICD-9 parameter estimates

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ICD-10 Software and Provider-Level Composites

No provider-level composite indicators based on risk- and reliability-adjusted component indicator ratios in ICD-10 software
- IQI 90 (Mortality for Selected Procedures)
- IQI 91 (Mortality for Selected Conditions)
- PSI 90 (Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite)
- PDI 19 (Pediatric Patient Safety for Selected Indicators) are not in ICD-10 v6.0 software
Further information about forthcoming updated ICD-9 PSI 90 composite (Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite): http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/News/PSI90_Factsheet_FAQ.pdf

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AHRQ QI Version Releases

Version ICD-10-CM/PCS
- All modules – Now Available!
Version ICD-9-CM
- PSIs - Posted August 2016
- PQIs – Posted August 2016
- IQIs – Posted January 2017
- PDIs – Posted Spring 2017

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Questions and Comments on AHRQ Quality Indicators

Please email all additional inquiries to qisupport@ahrq.hhs.gov

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A Tour of the QI Toolkit

Courtney Gidengil, MD, MPH, Physician Scientist
RAND Corporation

Peter Hussey, PhD, Senior Policy Researcher
RAND Corporation

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What is the AHRQ QI Toolkit?

Set of tools that hospitals can use to help improve performance in quality and patient safety
Toolkit designed for use with the AHRQ QIs, but could be used with other quality measures
Applicable for hospitals with differing quality improvement infrastructures, knowledge and skills

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Toolkit Development

AHRQ QI Toolkit first released in 2011, and updated in 2014–
2016 version expanded to include PDIs, and the change from ICD-‐9 to ICD-‐10
2016 version tested with 20 hospitals –
- In-depth evaluation with 6 hospitals

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How Can Hospitals Use the Toolkit?

Serves as a "resource inventory" from which hospitals can select tools
Different audiences for each tool (e.g., quality officer, finance officer, programmer)

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Structure of the QI Toolkit

Assessing Readiness to Change
Applying the AHRQ QIs to Your Hospital's Data
Identifying Priorities for Quality Improvement
Implementing Evidence-‐Based Strategies to Improve Clinical Care
Monitoring Progress and Sustainability of Improvements
Analyzing Return on Investment
Other Quality Improvement Resources

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A. Readiness to Change

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Introduction (Tool A.1)

Serves as a navigational guide
Describes format for each tool, which includes: –
- Action steps
- Brief description of the tool
- Target users
For Pediatric QI Toolkit, explains unique issues in pediatric QI

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Fact Sheets on AHRQ Quality Indicators (Tools A.1.a-c)

Introduces the AHRQ QIs (PSIs, IQIs, PDIs) –
- Provides 2012 national rates for each indicator, if available [based on Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), State Inpatient Databases]
- Indicates National Quality Forum endorsement status for each indicator

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Board/Senior Leadership PowerPoint® Presentation on the Quality Indicators (Tool A.2)

Helps Board members and senior leadership understand clinical and financial implications of improving performance on the AHRQ QIs
The "notes" view in PowerPoint® has additional instructions for using this tool

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Board/Senior Leadership PowerPoint® Presentation on the Quality Indicators (Tool A.2)

Leadership is key to improvement

Hospital boards and senior leadership are increasingly turning to the AHRQ QIs as a tool for monitoring performance, particularly on patient safety.
To be successful, improvement efforts within hospitals need to have attention and active support from boards and senior hospital leadership.
Your active support will demonstrate that the hospital has made it a priority to improve quality and patient safety.
This support will help to motivate our staff to engage fully in improvement activities.

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Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment (Tool A.3)

Provides a survey template to assess capabilities that should be in place before implementing improvement efforts
Senior hospital executives (e.g. CMO, chief quality officer, nursingleadership, and members of hospital's quality committee) independently self-‐assess, then meet as a group to discuss

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Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment (Tool A.3)

This figure shows section one of the Getting Ready for Change Self-Assessment. It includes several statements, and the user is instructed to choose the extent to which each statement characterizes their hospital. The choices are "Not at all," "To some extent," and "To a great extent."
1a. Quality and Safety as Priorities
We have a shared sense of purpose that quality and safety are our highest priorities (not at all, to some extent and to a great extent)
Quality and patient safety are included in our hospital's main goals or pillars of performance (not at all, to some extent and to a great extent)
The governing board is actively involved reviewing our hospital's performance on quality and patient safety measures (not at all, to some extent and to a great extent)
We have open communication among physicians, staff, and patients about quality and patient safety (not at all, to some extent and to a great extent).

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Case Studies of Improvement Implementation (Tool A.4)

Two hospital case studies demonstrating use of the QI Toolkit for improvement
Describes tools used by the hospitals to improve performance on selected indicators
Presents pre/post data showing impact
Shares lessons learned

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B. Applying QIs to Hospital Data

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Applying the AHRQ Quality Indicators to Hospital Data(Tool B.1)

Overview of the AHRQ QIs and data requirements
Descriptions of the rates calculated for the QIs and how to work with them
Example of how to interpret a hospital's QI rates
Limited by available software (no risk-adjustment for ICD-10 data)

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QI Rates Generated by the AHRQ Software (Tools B.2.a and B.2.b)

Support for both the AHRQ SAS Programs (Tool B.2a) and Windows QI Software (Tool B.2b) –
- Outline of the steps and programs used to calculate rates for the QIs
- Notes for analysts and programmers on potential issues when working with the SAS programs/Windows software
- Example of the output from the SAS program/Windows software

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Displaying and Sharing QI Trends and Rates (Tools B.3.a and B.3.b)

Excel® worksheets (Tool B.3a) generate charts on AHRQ QI data, trends, and rates to populate the companion PowerPoint® Presentation
Companion PowerPoint® presentation (Tool B.3b) is a template for sharing AHRQ QI results and discussion of data analysis

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Documentation and Coding for Quality Indicators (Tool B.4)

Designed to facilitate improvements to documentation and coding processes to ensure QI rates are accurate
- Describes procedures to address problems with documentation and coding practices
- Illustrates issues that can arise when documenting and coding each QI
Updated for ICD-‐10 as feasible

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Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends and Comparators (Tool B.5)

Supports hospitals' understanding of how their QI rates compare to: –
- performance in previous years (trends)
- similar hospitals if available
Can help identify which QIs the hospital may need to address for quality improvement

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C. Identifying Priorities for Quality Improvement

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Prioritization Worksheet and Example (Tools C.1 and C.2)

This is an example of the prioritzation worksheet. It contains Section 1: Own Rate and National Comparator, Section 2: Estimate Annual Cost and Cost to Implement, Section 3: Rate Strategic Alignment and Regulatory Mandates, and Section 4: Barrier Assessment.

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Staff Engagement Presentation (Tool C.3)

Presentation template to engage staff after a QI has been chosen before implementation begins

Why your voice is important

You know our hospital and our patients best!
Your involvement is critical to help us ensure that: we design an intervention that we can effectively implement together, we provide appropriate training and support for you to implement the intervention, and we take into account the demands on your time and minimize disruption to your workflow.

Example of a patient from your hospital

Personalized patient stories often bring home the importance of improving performance on a measure.
Consider inserting here the deidentified story of a patient who suffered the adverse event captured by your indicator.
Include the impact on the patient, family, and staff and how it could have been prevented.

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D. Implementation Methods

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Improvement Methods Overview (Tool D.1.)

Provides framework to evaluate current systems in place, and promote development of new systems and processes of care

This figure shows the five steps in the Performance Improvement Model Framework.

Step 1: Diagnose the Problem
Step 2: Plan and Implement Best Practices
Step 3: Measure Results and Analyze (Improvement? Yes/No)
Step 4: Evaluate Effectiveness of Actions Taken
Step 5: Evaluate, Standardize, and Communicate

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Project Charter Template (Tool D.2)

Charter template to describe the performance improvement rationale, goals, barriers, and anticipated resources required

The Project Plan Template is a form with four different elements. The first element is the project description or scope. It asks whether it is a pilot unit or housewide project, whether there is a specific patient population, and if certain service lines are included. The second element is the case for change, or potential return on investment. Here the user can describe the business reasons for initiating the project, and specifically state the business problem. The third element is for performance measures, where the user can set the baseline and goal for each measure. The fourth and final element is a space for the user to list the milestones and the evaluation date for each.

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Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (Tool D.4)

Begins with an introduction to the clinical best practices (Tool D.4)
Tools D4.a through D4.y outline best practices for selected PSIs, IQIs, and PDIs

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PSI and IQI Best Practices (Tools D.4.a-‐n)

PSI 03: Pressure Ulcer*
PSI 05: Retained Surgical item or Unretrieved Device Fragment
PSI 06: Iatrogenic Pneumothorax*
PSI 07: Central Venous Catheter-‐Related Bloodstream Infection
PSI 08: In-‐Hospital Fall With Hip Fracture*
PSI 09: Perioperative Hemorrhage or Hematoma
PSI 10: Postoperative Physiologic and Metabolic Derangement
PSI 11: Postoperative Respiratory Failure
PSI 12: Perioperative Pulmonary Embolism or Deep Vein Thrombosis Rate*
PSI 13: Postoperative Sepsis*
PSI 14: Postoperative Wound Dehiscence*
PSI 15: Unrecognized Abdominopelvic Accidental Puncture or Laceration*
PSI 18-‐19: Obstetric Trauma Rate – Vaginal Delivery With/Without Instrument
IQIs: Mortality Review for Selected Procedures and Conditions

*Component of PSI 90

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PDI Best Practices (Tools D.4.o-y)

PDI 01: Accidental Puncture or Laceration
PDI 02: Pressure Ulcer
PDI 03: Retained Surgical item or Unretrieved Device Fragment
PDI 05/NQI 01: Iatrogenic Pneumothorax
PDI 06: Pediatric Heart Surgery Mortality*
PDI 08: Perioperative Hemorrhage or Hematoma
PDI 09: Postoperative Respiratory Failure
PDI 10: Postoperative Sepsis
PDI 11: Postoperative Wound Dehiscence
PDI 12: Central Venous Catheter-‐Related Bloodstream Infection
NQI 03: Neonatal Bloodstream Infection

* PDI 06 is not yet available in ICD-‐10

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Best Practices Components

"Why Focus on…."
High-level summary of best practices
Recommended practices
- Staff required–
- Equipment
- Communication
- Authority/Accountability
References

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Sample Best Practices

Pressure ulcers represent an important patient adverse event that is associated with significant patient and economic burden. The number of hospitalizations involving pressure ulcers increased by about 80% between 1993 and 2006. Acute care hospitals treat about 2.5 million pressure ulcers each year, and as many as 15% of hospital patients may have pressure ulcers at any one time. Hospital-acquired pressure ulcer complications are associated with up to 60,000 deaths each year in the United States. A pressure ulcer diagnosis may extend the typical hospital stay from 5 to 14 days and costs between $16,755 and $20,430, depending on the circumstances. At least part of this cost is likely to be shouldered by hospitals. In 2008 the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) identified stage III and IV pressure ulcers as one of a number of conditions for which hospitals do not receive the higher payment for cases when the condition was acquired during hospitalization. Starting in 2015, the pressure ulcer PSI will be one of the measures used for Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (as part of a composite indicator) that links quality to payment.

Skin Assessment at Admission and Daily, with documentation of lesions. Complete total skin assessment every 24 hours, with special attention to bony prominences, especially the coccygeal/sacral skin, heels and skin adjacent to external devices. Include in the medical record complete documentation of any pressure ulcer found. Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment at Admission and Daily: Evaluate all patients for pressure ulcers and pressure ulcer risk (using Braden Scale or other tool) upon admission and every 24 hours thereafter, using valid risk assessment, with results documented in the patient's chart.

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Gap Analysis (Tool D.5)

Understand the extent to which current practices align with best practices

This is a form for performing gap analyses. It contains places to list the project, the individual completing this form, and the quality indicator. The form includes 4 columns, including best practice strategies, how your practices differ from best practices, barriers to best practice implementation, and if the user will implement best practices.

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ImplementationPlan (Tool D.6)

Assign team responsibilities and set timeline

This figure includes the team responsibilities section of the implementation plan. These columns include detailed tasks associated with the implementation of the best practice, team members assigned to each task, target implementation start date, if communication or training is required, communication or training scheduled dates, and actual implementation start date.

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Implementation Measurement (Tool D.7)

Supports the measurement of progress in improving work and clinical care processes
Includes an example of how to monitor progress once implementation has begun

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Project Evaluation and Debriefing (Tool D.8)

Understand what worked in the implementation process and what needs improvement –
- Identify barriers and contributors to success
- Identify additional clinical areas for spread of best practices
- Identify follow-up work
- Determine how to communicate results of project

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E. Monitoring Progress and Sustainability of Improvements

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Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement (Tool E.1)

What is involved in ongoing monitoring?
Establish a schedule for regular reporting
Develop report formats to communicate clearly
Establish procedures for acting on problems identified
Assess sustainability on a periodic basis

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F. Return-on-Investment Analysis

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Return on Investment Estimation (Tool F.1)

Step-by-step guide to calculating ROI
Worksheets for calculating net costs and returns
Case study for ROI calculation
Additional guidance for effective ROI calculation
Resources and information sources

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G. Additional Quality Improvement Resources

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Comprehensive QI Guides and Specific Tools to Support Change (Tools G.1 and G2)

Available Comprehensive Quality Improvement Guides (Tool G.1) –
- e.g., Overview of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Tools
Specific Tools To Support Change (Tool G.2)
- e.g., AHRQ's Confidential Physician Feedback Reports: Designing for Optimal Impact on Performance

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Summary of the AHRQ QI Toolkit

Supports hospitals with differing quality infrastructures, knowledge, and skills in making quality and patient safety improvements
Addresses all stages of improvement, from self-‐assessment to ongoing monitoring
Includes tools that are practical, easy to use, and for a wide variety of audiences
Serves as a "resource inventory" from which hospitals can pick and choose tools to meet their needs
Stand-‐alone Pediatric QI Toolkit also available

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Harborview's Experience with the AHRQ QI Toolkit

Ellen Robinson, PT, clinical quality specialist, UW Medicine at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle

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Harborview's Story

Please tell us about your hospital and how you started looking at the AHRQ QIs.

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Harborview's Interest in the AHRQ QIs

Harborview Project Goals

Understand our hospital's performance on AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators
Standardize our concurrent review process for potentially preventable harm events

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Harborview's Story

How did improving care for venous thromboembolism (VTE) become a priority?

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Initial Focus: Improving Care for VTE

VTE is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in US hospitals

Significant impact on patients' health, experience, follow-up, cost
Prophylaxis reduces risk, making VTE the most common preventable cause of in-hospital mortality (Chest 2012)

Useful Tools –

Applying the AHRQ QIs to Hospital Data (B.1)
Prioritization Worksheet (C.1)

This graph shows that VTE is the most common preventable cause of in-hospital mortality.

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Harborview's Story

How did you identify opportunities and solutions for improvement in care for VTEs?

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Harborview's Approach to Improvement

Evidence Based Guidelines
Practice standardization
Knowledge and practice variation
Leverage Information Technology

Useful Tools

Project Charter (D.2)

This flow chart displays the excellence in teamwork flow chart for patient-centered treatment. It flows down from the hospitalist co-chair and surgeon co-chair down to multidisciplinary subject matter experts to information technology analytical tools and back. Then it flows down and between physicians, pharmacists, clinical nurse specialists, and quality improvement.

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Looking Back and Looking Forward

Retrospective Reviews

Appropriate Risk Assessment
Chemical Prophylaxis drug timing, selection, dosing
Mechanical Prophylaxis when chemical contraindicated

Prospective Identification

Decision Support for physicians
Communication of held or missing chemical doses
Utilization of mechanical prophylaxis

Useful Tools

Improvement Methods (D.1)
Best Practices (D.4)
Gap Analysis (D.5)
Implementation Plan (D.6)

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Harborview's Story

What have been the biggest challenges in improving care for VTEs, and how did the QI Toolkit help you navigate those challenges?

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Harborview's Story

What is the impact of the changes you implemented?

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Impact of Our Improvement Efforts

Process Measures

Improved compliance with Core Measures VTE-1 and VTE-2
Improved compliance with Internal Guidelines across services

	Harborview Medical Center	WA State Average	National Average
Patients who got treatment to prevent blood clots on the day of or day after hospital admission or surgery (Higher percentages are better)	96%	91%	93%
Patients who got treatment to prevent blood clots on the day of or day after being admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) (Higher percentages are better)	98%	95%	97%

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Impact of Our Improvement Efforts

Outcome Measure

Zero "potentially preventable" VTE

	Harborview Medical Center	WA State Average	National Average
Patients who developed a blood clot while in the hospital who did not get treatment that could have prevented it (Lower percentages are better)	0%	3%	4%

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Changes in Scores Over Time

Measure	Baseline*	Post-intervention	Impact
Rate of DVT/PE among post-‐operative patients as measured by PSI 12	11.7/1000 in 2011	9.3/1000 in first 9 months of 2015**	Decreased by 21% over period of 3 years and 9 months.
Rate of hospital-acquired DVT/PE	7.5/1000 in 2011	6.4/1000 for the first 9 months of 2015**	Decreased by 15% over period of 3 years and 9 months.

(Lower percentages are better)

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Harborview's Story

What lessons or advice would you offer to other hospitals about using the QI Toolkit or improving patient safety more broadly?

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Lessons Learned by Harborview

Leadership Support
Physician champions
Patient Centered
Timely review
Bedside providers and staff input
Transparency of performance
Spread process across a System

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Questions and Comments for Panel

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Accessing the QI Toolkit

Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety

Available on the AHRQ Web site at http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/index.html

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Thank you

Please take several minutes to answer 3 evaluation questions.

Any suggestions for future quality improvement tools? Please contact us at: peggy.mcnamara@ahrq.hhs.gov

Page last reviewed August 2016

Internet Citation: Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators - A “How to” Guide for Improving Hospital Quality and Safety. Content last reviewed August 2016. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/webinar080116/index.html