Development and Validation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Measures of Potentially Preventable Emergency Department (ED) Visits: The ED Prevention Quality Indicators for General Health Conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop and validate rates of potentially preventable emergency department (ED) visits as indicators of community health.

Data sources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2008-2010 State Inpatient Databases and State Emergency Department Databases.

Study design

Empirical analyses and structured panel reviews.

Methods

Panels of 14-17 clinicians and end users evaluated a set of ED Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) using a Modified Delphi process. Empirical analyses included assessing variation in ED PQI rates across counties and sensitivity of those rates to county-level poverty, uninsurance, and density of primary care physicians (PCPs).

Principal findings

ED PQI rates varied widely across U.

SUBMITTER: Davies S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5583364 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature