The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces a minor release of the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI) software version v2019.0.1 for SAS QI and WinQI software released in August 2019. This minor release updates three of the recently identified software discrepancies.
(1) Updates to AHRQ QI Software
- Inconsistencies were identified between the PSI 90 Component weight in the technical specification document and what was implemented in AHRQ QI software programs (SAS QI and WinQI). The average change in PSI 90 rate was at the 4th decimal. Further investigation identified variances in smooth rate for PSI 03 (9th decimal, on average), PSI 04 risk-adjusted and smoothed rates (6th decimal, on average) and small variances in PSI 13. The updated v2019.1for SAS and WinQi fixes this minor discrepancy for the PSI module. This does not impact any other modules, such as, PQI, IQI, and PDI.
- Update to the data export function in WinQI v2019. In the exported file (.csv, .xlsx, .json, .tfs), one of the columns, “Expected Rate” was missing the data. This issue is now fixed, and the calculated “Expected Rate” values is now correctly included in the exported file.
- For some users, having v36 as the DRG version showed import related error. WinQI version v2019 supports DRG version v36 and this issue is now resolved in this release and importing input file with DRG version v36 works as expected.
(2) Release of Empirical Methods Document
The latest version, v2019 of the Empirical Methods document is now published and available on the website at: https://www.qualityindicators.
The software is available for download at: https://www.qualityindicators.
If you have any questions or would like to talk with a member of the AHRQ QI Support Team, please contact us at QISupport@ahrq.hhs.gov.
Sincerely,
The AHRQ QI Team
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