Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI) composite of acute conditions per 100,000 population, ages 18 years and older. Includes hospitalisations with a principal diagnosis of one of the following conditions: bacterial pneumonia or urinary tract infection.

Hospital discharges, for patients ages 18 years and older, that meet the inclusion and exclusion rules for the numerator in any of the following PQIs: PQI 11 Community-Acquired Pneumonia Admission Rate, PQI 12 Urinary Tract Infection Admission Rate Discharges that meet the inclusion and exclusion rules for the numerator in more than one of the above PQIs are counted only once in the composite numerator.

Population ages 18 years and older in metropolitan area1 or county. Hospital discharges in the numerator are assigned to the denominator based on the metropolitan area or county of the patient residence, not the metropolitan area or county of the hospital where the discharge occurred.

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