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21. Updating the Framework for AHRQ’s National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    October 01, 2023 - brief is to support an update the 2010 NASEM framework to better align with current focus and priority areas … Furthermore, AHRQ has identified new priority areas 1 of health and access to care, i.e., patient safety … We selected five areas of interest (with the option of expanding to further content areas) for which … 2010 NASEM framework What are key areas where the existing framework needs updating? … What areas are missing in the existing framework?

22. Data Points 13: Use of Preoperative Breast MRI among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and locally invasive breast cancer (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2012 - MRI use varied across geographic areas and demographic characteristics, with higher use in urban areas … “Metro” refers to other counties in metro areas. … “Urban” refers to coun- ties not in metro areas with at least 20,000 people. … in non- metropolitan areas (DCIS: 9.6%; inva- sive:10.7%; Table 1). … MRI use did not increase uniformly across geographic areas.

23. Data Points #13: Use of preoperative MRI among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and locally invasive breast cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - MRI use varied across geographic areas and demographic characteristics, with higher use in urban areas … Rates varied strongly by location (residence in big metropolitan areas and certain registries), race,

24. 15 Crosscutting Potential High Impact June 2012 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - Overall High Impact Potential: Community paramedicine to improve care access in rural areas ....... … AHRQ makes those investments in 14 priority areas. … *Community paramedicine to improve care access in rural areas High 3. … compared with other areas. … Community paramedics widen medical services in rural areas. [internet].

25. 15 Crosscutting Potential High Impact 2012-12-11 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - Overall high-impact potential: community paramedicine to improve care access in rural areas ....... … AHRQ makes those investments in 14 priority areas. … Community Paramedicine to Improve Care Access in Rural Areas  Key Facts: For many reasons, primary … compared with other areas. … Community paramedics widen medical services in rural areas. [internet].

26. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2023 - Identify which barriers and facilitators of provider-to-provider telehealth in rural areas may be present … result in changing the clinical practice or care plan for the patient) and varied across clinical areas … . 26 Background Rural Health Disparities • 1/5 of US population in rural areas … What is the uptake of different types of provider-to-provider telehealth in rural areas? … and facilitators to implementation and sustainability of provider-to-provider telehealth in rural areas

27. Goal Setting (pdf file)
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    January 11, 2017 - Discussion materials framed for deliberation  Facilitators trained  Ground rules established  Areas … of common ground, areas of disagreement and open questions or information needs identified  Participant

28. Updating the Framework and Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    October 01, 2023 - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine framework to better align with current focus areas … (equity and social determinants of health) and incorporate current NHQDR priority areas (Affordable

29. Interventions-Horizon-Scan-High-Impact-1306 (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2013 - Overall high-impact potential: community paramedicine to improve care access in rural areas........ … AHRQ makes those investments in 14 priority areas. … *Community paramedicine to improve care access in rural areas High 2. … ES-3 Community Paramedicine to Improve Care Access in Rural Areas  Key Facts: For many reasons, … Community paramedics widen medical services in rural areas. [internet].

30. AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Center Program Synthesizing evidence to improve health care practice and delivery (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2020 - Areas of interest include complex interventions; tools to improve the efficiency of reviews, such as … principles for assessing treatments to issues and challenges in assessing medical tests, and highlights areas

31. Advancing Registry Methodology and Transparency | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 01, 2022 - intended to serve as a content model for developing harmonized outcome measures in specific disease areas … Building on this, AHRQ developed standardized libraries of outcome measures in five clinical areas—atrial

32. Updating the Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    February 01, 2025 - and Disparities Report (NHQDR) assesses the performance of the U.S. healthcare system and identifies areas … of strengths and weaknesses using measures related to priority areas of healthcare quality that include … to support an update of the criteria and process for selecting measures to align with these priority areas … as well as focus areas of equity and social determinant of health. … only discussing the importance of selecting measures, suggesting measures only for individual clinical areas

33. Future Research Needs for Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs), Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonists (ARBs), or Direct Renin Inhibitors (DRIs) for Treating Hypertension (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2012 - Future research areas are linked to the framework using numbers which link the research areas in Table … Not all areas were considered within the scope of the 2011 CER; these out-of-scope areas are highlighted … High-priority research areas and possible study designs Research area RCT? … High-priority research areas and possible study designs (continued) Research area RCT? … High-priority research areas and possible study designs (continued) Research area RCT?

34. Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - A UV-C system cannot disinfect areas without a direct or indirect line of sight, and both UV-C and “fogging … multi-component HAI reduction interventions movement of pathogens across surfaces and hospital areas … Discussions with Key Informants The KIs will have expertise in one or more of the following areas: … What areas of improvement would you like to see in currently marketed technologies? … What areas of improvement would you like to see in currently marketed technologies?

35. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 27 Patient Safety (pdf file)
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    October 19, 2016 - The identification of a limited number of key ambulatory patient safety areas from a larger potential … Overall, I think the report “gets it right” in terms of identifying key safety areas and key issues, … and in highlighting the lack of research in virtually all the key areas. … In the summary and implications, would focus on the five specific areas as well as on infrastructure … I don't see adequate discussion of these areas.

36. Measure Criteria for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2024 - The review aimed to ensure that the criteria align with current focus and priority areas. … alternative approaches documenting similarities and differences and assessed additional criteria to identify areas

37. Interventions to Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer's-Type Dementia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    April 01, 2020 - adults with normal cognition, but little evidence supports transfer of benefits to other cognitive areas … of physical activity, and vitamin B 12 plus folic acid, may benefit cognitive performance in some areas … domain trained (memory, reasoning, or processing speed), but not transfer of benefits to other cognitive areas

38. Outcome Measures Framework: Literature Review Findings and Implications (pdf file)
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    April 15, 2019 - The literature review focused on four major areas: harmonizing data elements, key components of outcome … working groups of clinical experts to develop standardized outcome measures in specific condition areas … Several articles focused on the lack of harmonized data elements for specific areas.66-70 In contrast … and driving adoption of the standards, has published standard sets for multiple condition areas.35 … the efforts encompass multiple condition areas.

39. Closing the Quality Gap Series: End-of-Life and Hospice Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - literature on quality improvement (QI) strategies for a selection of disease and practice priority areas … The 2011 CQG series continues this work with reviews in a new set of priority areas for improving quality … For the purpose of this review, we will address the three interrelated areas of palliative care, end-of-life … We discussed areas of focus, which included a number of stakeholder perspectives, with the Technical … Underlined areas show where we will prioritize the searches and review, but all areas in the framework

40. Future Research Needs for Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs), Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonists (ARBs), or Direct Renin Inhibitors (DRIs) for Treating Hypertension | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 01, 2020 - and economic importance of these medications, the ongoing investment in research, and the remaining areas … research agenda representing the interests of diverse stakeholders in order to address the remaining areas