KHC and KHA to Release Issue Briefs on Emergency Department Visits

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KHC and KHA to Release Issue Briefs on Emergency Department Visits

(Oct. 18, 2024) – The Kansas Healthcare Collaborative and the Kansas Hospital Association are partnering to release a series of issue briefs on Emergency Department visits in Kansas, using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Emergency Department Prevention Quality Indicators. In September 2023, AHRQ released a new group of area-based quality measures called Emergency Department Prevention Quality Indicators. Five PQE measures reflect ED visit rates for potentially preventable ED visits. The PQEs are area-based measures, meaning they are evaluated and reported for geographic areas, usually counties. The PQEs are "avoidable use" measures in that they identify conditions sensitive to the health status of a county's population (or other area) and the availability and quality of health care services in the county. PQEs are not used to measure quality at the hospital level. KHA and KHC hope the results in the issue briefs will be useful to hospitals and other organizations planning population health improvement activities, community health needs assessments or other health improvement efforts.
--Karen Braman

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