NationalPoor Quality Measures Compared to Achievable Benchmarks

The quality measures specific to Poor are compared to achievable benchmarks, which are derived from the top-performing States. Better performance of a State can mean higher or lower values of a measure, depending on the desired outcome. For example, low values are desirable for measures such as infant mortality, whereas high values are desirable for measures such as preventative screening. The categories of achievement have been standardized across the measure definitions so that:

Far away from benchmark - the value for a measure has not achieved 50% of the benchmark.

Close to benchmark - the value for a measure is between 50% and 90% of a benchmark (i.e., worse than the benchmark but has achieved at least half of the benchmark but not as much as 90% of a benchmark).

Achieved benchmark or better - the value for a measure is no worse than 90% of the benchmark value, the measure has achieved the benchmark. This category also includes the case in which the measure’s value is equal to or better than the benchmark.

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Benchmarks are available for 52 measures including 16 measures that are far away from the benchmark, 20 measures that are close to the benchmark, and 16 measures that achieved the benchmark or better.
Benchmarks are unavailable for 85 measures (62 percent of all measures).

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