Know About Ambulatory-Care-Sensitive Admissions or PQI

Ambulatory-Care-Sensitive Admissions (ACSAs) are those that can be prevented. This is also commonly known as Prevention Quality Indicators or in short ‘PQI’.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) are
one Agency response to this need for a multidimensional, accessible family of quality indicators.
They include a family of measures that providers, policy makers, and researchers can use with
inpatient data to identify apparent variations in the quality of either inpatient or outpatient care.

The PQI composites provide:
-Provide assessment of quality and disparity
-Provide baselines to track progress
-Identify information gaps
-Emphasize interdependence of quality and disparities
-Promote awareness and change

What AHRQ PQI Composite Measure:
PQI #01 Diabetes Short-Term Complications Admission Rate
PQI #03 Diabetes Long-Term Complications Admission Rate
PQI #05 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or Asthma in Older Adults Admission Rate
PQI #07 Hypertension Admission Rate
PQI #08 Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Admission Rate
PQI #10 Dehydration Admission Rate
PQI #11 Bacterial Pneumonia Admission Rate
PQI #12 Urinary Tract Infection Admission Rate
PQI #13 Angina without Procedure Admission Rate
PQI #14 Uncontrolled Diabetes Admission Rate
PQI #15 Asthma in Younger Adults Admission Rate
PQI #16 Rate of Lower-Extremity Amputation Among Patients With Diabetes

Acute Composite (PQI #91)
PQI #10 Dehydration Admission Rate
PQI #11 Bacterial Pneumonia Admission Rate
PQI #12 Urinary Tract Infection Admission Rate

Chronic Composite (PQI #92)
PQI #01 Diabetes Short-Term Complications Admission Rate
PQI #03 Diabetes Long-Term Complications Admission Rate
PQI #05 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or Asthma in Older Adults Admission Rate
PQI #07 Hypertension Admission Rate
PQI #08 Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Admission Rate
PQI #13 Angina without Procedure Admission Rate
PQI #14 Uncontrolled Diabetes Admission Rate
PQI #15 Asthma in Younger Adults Admission Rate
PQI #16 Rate of Lower-Extremity Amputation Among Patients With Diabetes