| Number (percent) of interviewees
making the recommendation |
Recommendation |
| 10 |
(19%) |
Provide a template and guidance for using the QIs for public reporting |
| 10 |
(19%) |
Provide guidance on next steps for improving quality once a potential
opportunity for improvement is flagged by the QIs |
| 8 |
(15%) |
Collaborate with other organizations to create a national standard set
of measures |
| 8 |
(15%) |
Make QIs more user-friendly (such as simpler indicator names) |
| 7 |
(13%) |
Increase responsiveness and speed of user support |
| 6 |
(11%) |
Expand outreach and marketing to more people and more audiences |
| 6 |
(11%) |
Provide guidance for how consumers should interpret values of QIs |
| 5 |
(9%) |
Provide benchmark QI values for various populations |
| 4 |
(7%) |
Add a greater educational component to outreach and user support |
| 4 |
(7%) |
Develop a comprehensive list of who is using the QIs, how they are using
them, and impact they are having |
| 4 |
(7%) |
Provide funding for research studies using the QIs |
| 3 |
(6%) |
Improve the process of incorporating feedback from users on the QIs |
| 3 |
(6%) |
Provide guidance on how coding of discharge data can be improved |
| 2 |
(4%) |
Choose 1 statistical software package (SAS or SPSS) and drop the other;
also drop/cut back on the PC application |
| 2 |
(4%) |
Contract with other organizations to provide outreach, education, user
support, and to disseminate information |
| 2 |
(4%) |
Make the Fact book series more accessible |
| 1 |
(2%) |
AHRQ staff should do communication and relationship-building directly
with state agencies rather than using a contractor |
| 1 |
(2%) |
Develop basic educational materials appropriate for local/hospital level
(QI director) rather than a researcher, who is already familiar with material,
and disseminate them widely |
| 1 |
(2%) |
Develop something like the Dartmouth Atlas charts showing geographic
variations in QIs – would help choose which QIs to report |
| 1 |
(2%) |
Make formulas easier to access – some formulas are buried in documents
and SAS code and some are missing from documentation |
| 1 |
(2%) |
Provide code for STATA |
| 1 |
(2%) |
Provide FAQs, list of questions already answered, for quick reference |
| 1 |
(2%) |
Provide outreach to promote use of PQIs |
| 1 |
(2%) |
Provide print outreach materials, not just email |
| 1 |
(2%) |
Provide software for Macintosh computers |
| 1 |
(2%) |
Standardize the layout/organization of documentation across measure sets |
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