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March 01, 2021 - their management of patients at risk for CVD events, especially methods such as smoking cessation, blood … pressure control, statins, and low-dose aspirin. … Community-level interventions, such as smoking quit line referral and blood pressure medication assistance … A second randomization assigns practices to work first on either smoking cessation and blood pressure
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June 05, 2016 - C2 Prioritization Worksheet Example
AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit
Prepared by RAND and UHC for AHRQ Tool C.1
Volume of
Cases at
Risk
Cost of Single
Event
Total Cost
Cost To
Implement
Penalties and
Incentives
Proxies for Cost
Strategic
Alignment
External
Mandates
Public
Perception
Executive-
Lev…
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December 01, 2012 - Substance Use/Abuse
0044
Assessment of smoking and substance use in the family (CAHMI).
6,1
Blood … Pressure
0060
Blood pressure screening by age 18 (NCQA)
7,3
7,3.5
Dental
0032
Children
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March 01, 2024 - A 1.6% increase in blood pressure control—an important finding, given decreasing national rates of … blood pressure control.
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April 01, 2015 - improvement from baseline to 18 months on three diabetes measures (glycated hemoglobin
concentration <7%, blood … pressure <130/80 mm Hg, and low-density lipoprotein [LDL] cholesterol <100
mg/dL). … practices, the percentage of
patients who met target values for glycated hemoglobin, LDL cholesterol, and blood … pressure
increased by 8.8, 14.9, and 19.4 percent, respectively.
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February 01, 2023 - primary care practices can improve heart health by counseling patients on aspirin use, focusing on blood … pressure control, improving cholesterol management, and continuing the push against smoking. … interviewing training to help primary care practices improve the use of patient self-monitoring of blood … pressure and encourage greater use of state quit-smoking phone lines and other smoking cessation supports
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November 01, 2022 - Blood pressure control rose 1.6 percent, despite a national decline in blood pressure control over this
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May 20, 2016 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
1 Tool D.4g
Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
PSI 10: Postoperative Physiologic and Metabolic Derangement
Why Focus on Postoperative Phys…
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December 01, 2018 - 42%
produced quality measure
reports on smoking cessation
59%
produced quality measure
reports on blood … pressure
control
55%
RELATING TO HEART HEALTH
27%
had 3 or fewer years of experience with an EHR
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April 01, 2016 - Aspirin Use in Primary Care
Aspirin Use in Primary Care
Aspirin when appropriate
Blood pressure control
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June 01, 2018 - pressure (hypotension), as children often
maintain normal blood pressure until the advanced stages of … diminished pulses, mottled
cool extremities, flash capillary refill, bounding peripheral pulses, or wide pulse … Because children often maintain their blood pressure
until they are severely ill, systemic hypotension … For severe sepsis, one abstractor indicated that there was a low systolic blood pressure despite the … The other discrepancy was due to one abstractor recording a
systolic blood pressure reading of 79, despite
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August 01, 2023 - postpartum care recently included:
A study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology on postpartum home blood … pressure monitoring, also based on the systematic review, found postpartum home monitoring significantly … reduced the risk of unplanned hypertension-related hospital admissions and cut racial disparities in blood … pressure data collection by nearly half.
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October 01, 2016 - Over the last 3 days, her diastolic blood pressure (BP) has ranged between 62 and 78. … Over the last 2 days, his diastolic blood pressure (BP) has ranged between 82 and 96. … Her blood pressure (BP) was 132/86 this afternoon.
· Criteria were met for this resident.
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January 01, 2012 - Consider specifically including the following in organizational protocols:
o Pediatric blood pressure
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June 15, 2018 - years
>110 NA >14 >11 or <4.5 <117
Note: lower values for heart rate, leukocyte count, and systolic blood … pressure are for the 5th percentile;
upper values for heart rate, respiration rate, or leukocyte count
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June 05, 2016 - Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
i Tool D.4
Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool
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March 01, 2021 - Heart Health
Evidence for Advancing Heart Health
Aspirin Use Evidence and Resources
Blood … Pressure Control Evidence and Resources
Cholesterol Management Evidence and Resources
Smoking
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April 02, 2018 - pressure (hypotension), as children often maintain normal blood pressure
until the advanced stages of … diminished pulses, mottled
cool extremities, flash capillary refill, bounding peripheral pulses, or wide pulse … Because children often maintain their blood pressure
until they are severely ill, systemic hypotension … For severe sepsis, one abstractor indicated that there was a low systolic blood pressure despite the … The other discrepancy was due to one abstractor recording a
systolic blood pressure reading of 79, despite
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August 01, 2018 - Heart Health
Evidence for Advancing Heart Health
Aspirin Use Evidence and Resources
Blood … Pressure Control Evidence and Resources
Cholesterol Management Evidence and Resources
Smoking