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Reports and Other Publications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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February 01, 2024 - Communities Reports and Other Publications Primary Care Research Videos Estimating the Costs … to improve primary care organization, workforce, quality and safety, digital healthcare, finance and cost … and indirect costs of transforming primary care and the advantages and disadvantages of each method. … Projects estimated direct costs, such as staff time and equipment, and indirect costs, such as overhead … Many studies also estimated the costs of attaining and maintaining PCMH recognition.

University of Missouri Health Care Decreases Pressure Injuries and Saves in Avoidable Costs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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February 01, 2024 - University of Missouri Health Care Decreases Pressure Injuries and Saves in Avoidable Costs … to decrease PSI-03 (reportable pressure injuries) by 92% and save an estimated $350,000 in avoidable costs … Internet Citation: University of Missouri Health Care Decreases Pressure Injuries and Saves in Avoidable Costs

First-of-Its-Kind Study Examines Disparities in Healthcare Costs and Outcomes of Cigarette Smoking in the United States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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December 01, 2023 - Now Events First-of-Its-Kind Study Examines Disparities in Healthcare Costs … Today's Headlines: First-of-Its-Kind Study Examines Disparities in Healthcare Costs and Outcomes of … First-of-Its-Kind Study Examines Disparities in Healthcare Costs and Outcomes of Cigarette Smoking in … President Biden’s April 2023 Executive Order calling for policymakers to examine distributional effects in cost-benefit … to decrease reportable pressure injuries by 92 percent and save an estimated $350,000 in avoidable costs

Primary Care Transformation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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September 01, 2015 - Estimating the Costs of Supporting Primary Care Practice Transformation grants were funded to provide … stakeholders with information about the costs of implementing and sustaining transformative primary … Grantees estimated the costs of primary care transformation using a variety of methods drawn from the … Projects estimated direct costs, such as staff time and equipment, and indirect costs, such as overhead … Many studies also estimated the costs of attaining and maintaining PCMH recognition.

Peer Review at AHRQ - Study Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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March 01, 2024 - This study section is aligned with the AHRQ priorities: Increase accessibility and improve health care affordability … , efficiency and cost transparency. … applications concerned with development of measures, data, tools, and strategies for reducing healthcare costs … Issues of health care markets, access, utilization, quality, cost and financing and the provider workforce … findings and products encompass providing information on the scope and impact of medical errors on costs

Peer Review: Study Section Descriptions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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July 01, 2017 - This study section is aligned with the AHRQ priorities: Increase accessibility and improve health care affordability … , efficiency and cost transparency. … applications concerned with development of measures, data, tools, and strategies for reducing healthcare costs … Issues of health care markets, access, utilization, quality, cost and financing and the provider workforce … findings and products encompass providing information on the scope and impact of medical errors on costs

TeamSTEPPS® 2.0 Leadership Briefing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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April 01, 2017 - Slide 13: What Does Training Cost? Slide 14: What Does Training Cost? Slide 15: How Do We Start? … Cost of TeamSTEPPS is minimal compared with savings. … Consider: Cost of one lawsuit vs. implementation of TeamSTEPPS; recent data on the cost or number of … (You may want to report total costs and/or costs in phases.) … Top of Page Slide 20: What Does it Cost?

HHS AHRQ Freedom of Information Annual Report - FY 2010 (3) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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October 01, 2014 - FOIA Personnel and Costs Component Personnel Costs Number of "Full-Time FOIA Employees" Number … of "Equivalent Full-Time FOIA Employees" Total Number of Full-Time FOIA Staff Processing Costs … Litigation-Related Costs Total Costs OS ACF … Collected for Processing Requests Component Total Amount of Fees Collected Percentage of Total Costs

How Learning Health Systems Learn: Lessons from the Field | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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May 01, 2019 - study quality; feasibility of implementation within the KPSC system; and improving health outcomes, affordability … VAR initially produced blinded reports to PCPs about the appropriateness and volume of high-cost imaging … application is in purchasing decisions for supplies and equipment, where evidence on effectiveness and cost … them make this transformation, and the external pressures on them to be accountable for managing the cost … Utilization Management of High-Cost Imaging in an Outpatient Setting in a Large Stable Patient and Provider

AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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July 01, 2020 - 2014 to 2017, HACs fell by 13 percent, saving about 20,700 lives and about $7.7 billion in healthcare costs … awarded a contract in 2016 that developed methods and estimated the incremental inpatient financial costs … Selct to read the final report of this project, Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and

Reporting CAHPS Survey Results to Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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May 01, 2022 - Comparative Reports Illustrative examples of web-based comparative reports for consumers on the quality and costs … are available in AHRQ's TalkingQuality: Profiles of Comparative Reports on Health Care Quality and Costs … The Effects of Out-of-Pocket Costs on Enrollees’ Experiences With Health Plans: Implications for Consumer

Permission To Bill Insurance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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March 01, 2024 - Community Referral Form Make Referrals Easy: Tool 21 Include Family and Friends: Tool 22 Talk About Costs … : Tool 23 Staff Survey About Cost Conversations (Toolkit 23a) Appendix Items List of Internet Resources … I must pay my share of the costs. … I must pay for the cost of the care I receive if my insurance company does not pay or I do not have insurance … I have the right to ask about costs before I am treated.

National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Chartbooks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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April 01, 2024 - 2 MB) Chartbook on Effective Treatment ( updated August 2016 ) ( PDF , 4.7 MB) Chartbook on Care Affordability … Chartbook on Hispanic Health Care ( September 2015 ) (PDF, 4.4 MB) RELATED CONTENT Care Affordability … : The National Academy for State Health Policy Hospital Cost Tool provides analytical insights into … how much hospitals spend on patient care services and how such costs relate to the hospital charges

EvidenceNOW: Cost Survey, National Evaluator | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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March 01, 2021 - Capacity Managing Urinary Incontinence Tools for Change EvidenceNOW: Cost … Survey, National Evaluator Oregon Cooperative Resource: EvidenceNOW: Cost Survey (PDF, 180.2 … collect data from each cooperative regarding personnel, consultant, subcontracting, and other direct costs … reviewed March 2021 Page originally created January 2019 Internet Citation: EvidenceNOW: Cost … https://www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/cost-survey.html

Data Infographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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March 01, 2024 - Visualizations Data Tools Data Innovations All-Payer Claims Databases Healthcare Cost … With the Largest Shares of 30-Day Readmissions, 2020 Hospital Admission Versus Readmission Costs … Treatment of Mental Disorders Eye Surgeries at Hospital-Owned Facilities Frequency and Cost … Costs for Spine Fusions Frequency of Cesarean Sections Adult Hospital Readmissions in 2018 … of Emergency Department Visits By Age Prevalence and Cost of Heart Disease Declining Hospital

APIC HAI Cost Calculator | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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April 01, 2022 - CLABSI/CAUTI Prevention CLABSI/CAUTI Playbook CLABSI/CAUTI Learning Tools APIC HAI Cost … Settings Telemedicine Universal ICU Decolonization Protocol APIC HAI Cost … Control and Epidemiology (APIC) healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) Calculator Tools help define the costs … reviewed April 2022 Page originally created February 2022 Internet Citation: APIC HAI Cost … https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/implement/apic-cost-calculator.html

With Guidance from the Field, AHRQ Launches an Ambitious Strategy for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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July 01, 2023 - Examples of feedback from the field: “We would support research on economic outcomes including costs … Issues of cost and affordability must be at the forefront. … Commenters encouraged ongoing transparency of healthcare costs among patients, providers, and payers

Dr. Joel Cohen | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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June 01, 2023 - Joel Cohen Director, Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends Joel E. … staff conducting intramural and supporting extramural research on issues related to health care access, costs … on analyses of financing and reimbursement methods and their effects on access to care, quality, and costs … physician services and nursing home quality, methods of predicting which individuals are likely to be high cost

Delivering Health Care Quality Reports on the Web | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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September 01, 2019 - HealthScores , which offers comparative information on clinics, medical groups, hospitals, and the costs … A Web report can offer links to relevant sites with information on quality, costs, or the prevention … Broad reach at a lower cost. … The Web allows report sponsors to get information to a large number of people without incurring the costs … While producing a Web site is not an insignificant expense, updating a Web report costs less than designing

AHRQ Stats | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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November 01, 2023 - Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Hospital Costs The cost of hospital stays among patients … (Source: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #250: Costs of Pediatric Hospital … (Source: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #250: Costs of Pediatric Hospital … (Source: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #250: Costs of Pediatric Hospital … substance use disorders cost $15.3 billion in 2016, or 3.6 percent of total U.S. hospital costs.

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