Health Care Quality Measures 
Publications

2022

Minnesota Health Care Markets Chartbook Section 9: Statewide Quality Reporting and Measurement System (PDF) 

This chartbook section provides an overview of summary results for selected physician clinic quality measures. It includes trends over time, and results stratified by health insurance type, patient gender, and patient race/ethnicity. (April 2022)

2019

A Measurement Framework for a Healthier Minnesota (PDF)

This legislatively required report presents results from the foundational first phase of MDH’s work toward completing a quality measurement framework. MDH had rich conversations with a wide range of stakeholders that helped lay the groundwork for a new vision of quality measurement for Minnesota. There is widespread enthusiasm for evolving our current quality measurement system and creating a stronger focus on improvement, as well as for widening the scope of measurement beyond health care to health broadly. This report contains comprehensive findings from the first phase of framework development, including a roadmap that is to guide the remaining work during 2019 and its implementation beginning in 2020. (February 2019)

2017

Quality Reporting System Risk Adjustment Assessment (PDF)

This legislatively required report examines the need and opportunity for refining risk adjustment for the Quality Reporting System and the market more generally. It explores the complex relationships between patient socio-demographic factors and provider performance, and lays out a series of policy options that offer ways to minimize harms to providers who serve patients that experience health disparities while allowing us to continue to identify and reduce disparities in patient outcomes. (March 2017)

2016

Advancing Health Equity by Sharing Data from the Minnesota Statewide Quality Reporting and Measurement System - Supplemental Information (PDF)

Voices for Racial Justice (VRJ) and MDH worked together on a project related to reporting stratified results from the Quality Reporting System. VRJ engaged with members of communities disproportionally impacted by health inequities and community-based organizations to develop findings and recommendations—including feedback on the broader topic of government data. (November 2016)

2015

Stratifying Health Care Quality Measures Using Socio-demographic Factors (PDF)

This report presents findings from MDH's study of stratifying Quality Reporting System measures based on race, ethnicity, language, and other socio-demographic factors that are correlated with health disparities and impact performance on quality measures as required by 2014 Minnesota Laws. 
(March 2015)

2010 Minnesota Health Care Quality Report

The 2010 Minnesota health care quality report is organized by region.

Region One - Northwest and West Central

Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail, Pennington, Polk, Pope, Red Lake, Roseau, Stevens, Traverse and Wilkin counties

• Region One Full Report (PDF) 
  Individual report sections (for easier downloading):
  • Region One - Introduction (PDF)
  • Region One - Physician Clinic Section (PDF)
  • Region One - Hospital Section (PDF)
  • Region One - Appendices (PDF)

Region Two - Northeast and Central

Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chisago, Cook, Crow Wing, Isanti, Itasca, Kanabec, Koochiching, Lake, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Pine, Sherburne, St. Louis, Stearns, Todd, Wadena and Wright counties

• Region Two Full Report (PDF) 
  Individual report sections (for easier downloading):
  • Region Two - Introduction (PDF)
  • Region Two - Physician Clinic Section (PDF)
  • Region Two - Hospital Section (PDF)
  • Region Two - Appendices (PDF)

Region Three - Metro

Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington counties

• Region Three Full Report (PDF) 
  Individual report sections (for easier downloading):
  • Region Three - Introduction (PDF)
  • Region Three - Physician Clinic Section (PDF)
  • Region Three - Hospital Section (PDF)
  • Region Three - Physician Clinic Appendices (PDF)
  • Region Three - Hospital Appendices (PDF)

Region Four - Southwest, Southeast and South Central

Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin, McLeod, Meeker, Mower, Murray, Nicollet, Nobles, Olmsted, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rice, Rock, Sibley, Steele, Swift, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonwan, Winona and Yellow Medicine counties

• Region Four Full Report (PDF) 
  Individual report sections (for easier downloading):
  • Region Four - Introduction (PDF)
  • Region Four - Physician Clinic Section (PDF)
  • Region Four - Hospital Section (PDF)
  • Region Four - Appendices (PDF)