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1861. Archived: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening-2002
      December 01, 2002 - vs 21 percent) than patients receiving watchful waiting, but both groupsreported similar outcomes on measures … (Executive Director, National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, Boston, MA); Mark S.

1862. Statistical Brief #147
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb147.jsp
      January 01, 2013 - Procedure Classes for ICD-9-CM Surgery Flags for ICD-9-CM HCUP Supplemental Files NIS-Trend Weights … publication who are interested in obtaining more information about access, cost, use, financing, and quality … of healthcare in the United States.

1863. Decision Support to Improve Dental Care for Medically Compromised Patients - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs020846-fricton-final-report-2016.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - Clinicians and organizations who want to improve the quality of care and reduce health … Most physicians (76%) felt that reminders improved quality of care. 52 In Dentistry, some CDS tools … of care for these patients. … A randomized trial of electronic clinical reminders to improve quality of care for diabetes and coronary … Impact of an electronic medical record on diabetes quality of care.

1864. Automated Notification for Follow-Up Testing Recommendations Across Care Settings - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs022586-lacson-final-report-2017.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - & Quality (AHRQ) grant number R21HS22586 under the Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health … Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) initiative. … We measure the proportion of reports with critical and clinically significant results among all radiology … In addition, we did not evaluate patient comprehension of ED discharge instructions and we did not measure … Emergency Department patient discharge instructions completeness and performance on a national quality measure

1865. Trends in Hospital Readmissions for Four High-Volume Conditions, 2009-2013 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb196-Readmissions-Trends-High-Volume-Conditions.pdf
      December 01, 2014 - /HospitalQualityInits/Measure-Methodology.html. … NHEA spending or revenue measures the amount of income received by the hospital for treatment and other … of care, access to care, medical conditions, procedures, patient populations, and other topics. … Discharge weights for national estimates are developed using the target universe of community hospitals … of health care in the United States.

1866. peds20151711 1..8 (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2015 - Although the USPSTF found evidence that interventions improve some measures of speech and language for … individual screening tools across populations because individual studies used different tools and outcome measures … following: suboptimal rates of screening and low retention of trial subjects, reliance on indirect measures … speech and language outcomes.9 The majority of the trials reported improvements in speech and language measures … found adequate evidence that treatment is associated with improvements in some speech and language measures

1867. Evidence Summary: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/vision-in-children-ages-6-months-to-5-years-screening
      September 05, 2017 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Visual acuity, amblyopia, school performance, functioning, quality of life … To provide a consistent metric for visual acuity outcome measures, results were converted to logarithm … of the minimal angle of resolution (logMAR) measurements using established conversion charts. 31 Measures … of visual acuity are generally reported as Snellen (eg, 20/20, 20/25, 20/30, 20/40, 20/50) or logMAR scales … Improving the reliability of visual acuity measures in young children. 

1868. Internal Medicine | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - interoperable health information exchange and an electronic health record to provide useful quality and safety measures … Impact of Health Information Technology Implementation on Diabetes Process and Outcome Measures … quality of diabetes care as measured by compliance with recommended processes of care and patient outcome measures … Description This study explored whether a health information technology-enabled strategy could improve quality … of care for chronic conditions and preventive services.

1869. untitled (pdf file)
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      August 09, 2016 - inadequate evidence on the associa- tion between changes in intermediate lipid outcomes or noninva- sive measures … longitudinal studies have docu- mented an association between childhood lipid levels in this range and measures … hypercholesterolemia with stat- ins substantially lowers LDL-C levels and, based on 1 study, improves measures … good-quality trial demonstrated no harms in anthropometric, laboratory, psychosocial, or sexual maturation measures … evidence on the association be- tween changes in intermediate outcomes (eg, lipid levels or nonin- vasive measures

1870. Core Functionality for Pediatric EHRs | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - and maintain patient safety; and (3) the increasing presence of pediatric-specific clinical quality measures

1871. HEALTHCARE COST AND UTILIZATION PROJECT — HCUP (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/KID_2009_Introduction.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - a wide range of topics including the economic burden of pediatric conditions, access to services, quality … of care and patient safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … sets of disease severity measures. … for all States in the 2009 KID Disease Severity Measures Files. … measure: Valvular disease CM_WGHTLOSS 2003, 2006, 2009 AHRQ comorbidity measure: Weight loss

1872. Archived: Child Maltreatment: Primary Care Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/child-maltreatment-primary-care-interventions-2013
      June 15, 2013 - In all areas related to child maltreatment, more data are needed on how best to measure outcomes related … with the draft recommendation; several other comments noted the limitations of using CPS reports as a measure … The USPSTF recognizes the limitations of the evidence on child maltreatment measures and outcomes and

1873. Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer Prevention: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/skin-cancer-counseling
      March 20, 2018 - country, inclusion criteria, age, sex, race/ethnicity), intervention details, length of follow-up, measure … The individual items and scales measuring sun protection behaviors were variable across trials and make … Measures were heterogeneous enough to preclude pooling of results. … However, a more expansive measure of skin awareness did appear to be a significant independent predictor … Sunburn: Baseline rates low in some studies; heterogeneous self-reported measures.

1874. Potentially Preventable Pediatric Hospital Inpatient Stays for Asthma and Diabetes, 2003-2012 #192
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb192-Pediatric-Preventable-Hospitalizations-Asthma-Diabetes.jsp
      June 01, 2015 - Procedure Classes for ICD-9-CM Surgery Flags for ICD-9-CM HCUP Supplemental Files NIS-Trend Weights … Quality and Disparities Reports (NHQR/NHDR). … of care, access to care, medical conditions, procedures, patient populations, and other topics. … of healthcare in the United States. … Quality Report (NHQR) and National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR).

1875. Web-Based Intervention for Alcohol Use in Women of Childbearing Potential (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r36hs018071-delrahim-howlett-final-report-2010.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - Scope: More effective programs to accurately measure and reduce alcohol consumption among women before … The main outcome measure, reduction in number of risky drinking occasions, did not differ significantly … as described for the baseline measures. … behavior over a comparable time period as assessed in the screening and initial assessment, and to measure … In summary, we found no significant effect of treatment on any outcome measure.

1876. Screening and Routine for Iron Deficiency Anemia: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2015 - After 3 to 12 months, Bayley Scales of Infant Development scores were not significantly different in … Ten trials assessing iron supplementation in children reported inconsistent findings for hematologic measures … development.26,28 One trial of children potentially at higher risk for IDA used the Griffiths scale to measure … Based on this evidence, benefits were shown only for some iron status measures in the short term. … The Bayley-III cognitive and language scales: how do scores relate to the Bayley II?

1877. Z -5Hklbgepqpayfchveyf (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2013 - real-world primary care practice; incorporate longer-term outcomes; encourage equal baseline and outcome measures … smoking and nicotine dependence of a child or adolescent, reliability and validity of self- reported measures … Several studies did not report spe- cific measures but reported the number of children or ad- olescents … No studies used biochemical measures to confirm self-reported measures.

1878. A National Web Conference on the Use of Clinical Decision Support to Improve Medication Management (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/cds-medication-management-slides-012814.pdf
      January 28, 2014 - not, alert was presented to the clinician at the time of medication ordering Primary Outcome Measure … ) • For OME: ► 12% increase in adequate diagnostic evaluation (p=0.01) • Comprehensive quality measures … : ► For visits at which at least three quality measures were relevant, there was an increase in perfect … Background Background Objective Study Setting and Design Intervention Design Primary Outcome Measure

1879. Archived: Evidence Summary: Child Maltreatment: Counseling, 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/child-maltreatment-counseling-2004
      March 09, 2004 - study design, patient populations and settings, methods of assessment or intervention, and outcome measures … beginning during pregnancy that address behavioral and psychological factors indicated improved abuse measures … These outcomes should include not only measures of reduced violence, but also associated health outcomes … As part of a larger battery of measures, families completed the 10-item KFI including questions about … years of age using Bayley, Cattell, and Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Scales

1880. El Dorado County Safety Net Technology Project / ACCESS El Dorado (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs016129-bergner-final-report-2009.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - Measure 3 addresses progress made towards Goals 2 and 3. … Data for this measure were hand tallied by ACCEL participants and compiled by the Public Health Division … Within this framework, we used two measures to assess the effects of the pathway. … The frequent ED user measure accounts for the fact that almost half of the children only had one ED … Rogers G, Homer CJ (National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality).