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181. Peer Review at AHRQ - Study Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2025 - 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

182. Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and SampleSize Do Studies Need? (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2011 - As discussed in the next section, continuous service use and cost measures could also be redefined to … Nonetheless, even though the study population for cost analyses must be limited to high-risk patients … Cost analysis of the Geriatric Resources for Assessment and Care of Elders care management intervention … , NDE in years increased costs 1 and 2 28% in year 1, 14% in year 2, cost neutral in year 3. … GRACE (Counsell et al. 2007) Chronically Ill, Medicare Cost neutral in years 1 and 2, reduced costs

183. Info FAQs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 20, 2012 - in mind, because the total costs awarded to the “new” institution, combined with the total costs that … What is the difference between a consortium agreement, contractual costs, and consultant costs? … indirect cost rate agreement. … includes both direct costs and indirect costs. … in the total cost cap.

184. The Effects of Out-of-Pocket Costs on Enrollees' Experiences With Health Plans: Implications for Consumer Reporting (pdf file)
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     January 23, 2012 - The Effects of Out-of-Pocket Costs on Enrollees' Experiences With Health Plans: Implications for Consumer … Reporting Transcript release date 1/1/12 www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov The Effects of Out-of-Pocket Costs … http://www.opa.ca.gov/ http://www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/ Podcast: The Effects of Out-of-Pocket Costs … , clearly their care was being influenced by their out-of-pocket costs. … Whether that’s, “I have tiering of my drug costs for generics and brand and formulas and so forth,”

185. Discussion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2017 - control for confounding and, therefore, possibly better estimate excess or attributable mortality and costs … CAUTI also shows a similar pattern of higher costs alongside comparable excess mortality. … As such, much of the current literature tends to overstate attributable costs and mortality associated … These charges are converted to costs using cost-to-charge ratios. … Of course, a more accurate method would be to estimate costs directly using hospital records; however

186. Oregon Approves Use of AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicators for its Medicaid Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Diagnostic Tools for States project—Oregon officials decided to use the Preventable Hospitalization Costs … Assistance Programs for the Oregon Department of Human Services, and his office the task of determining the cost … In addition to generating maps, Gallia took the SAS codes from the Preventable Hospitalizations Cost … the use of AHRQ's PQIs for benchmarking as part of Oregon's overall effort to provide high-quality, cost-effective … KT-CDOM-20 AHRQ Product(s): HCUP-Prevention Quality Indicators, Healthcare Cost

187. 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

188. Executive Briefing
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     January 01, 2013 - Cost of TeamSTEPPS is minimal compared with savings Annual cost is approximately 98,000 lives and $17 … Consider: Cost of one lawsuit vs. implementation of TeamSTEPPS; recent data on the cost or number of … The cost required to implement TeamSTEPPS is minimal compared with the cost of medical errors. … 05.2 Mod 1 2.0 Page ‹#› 13 What Does Training Cost? … (You may want to report total costs and/or costs in phases.)

189. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - in Medicare: local referrals to low-cost hospitals. … It was found that high-cost hospitals had higher complication and readmission rates than their lower-cost … Medicare expenditures at the high-cost hospitals were $4424 to $10,417 higher than the lowest-cost hospitals … Strategies for reducing population surgical costs in Medicare: local referrals to low-cost hospitals. … cost by setting and facility characteristics, and ascertain the proportion of costs that are direct and

190. 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

191. Discussion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2017 - control for confounding and, therefore, possibly better estimate excess or attributable mortality and costs … CAUTI also shows a similar pattern of higher costs alongside comparable excess mortality. … As such, much of the current literature tends to overstate attributable costs and mortality associated … These charges are converted to costs using cost-to-charge ratios. … Of course, a more accurate method would be to estimate costs directly using hospital records; however

192. 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

193. 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? … 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?

194. Alabama Medicaid Reduces Costs for Asthma Care With AHRQ Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Alabama Medicaid Reduces Costs for Asthma Care With AHRQ Tool Search All Impact Case Studies … throughout 2009 to determine what information would capture variables such as asthma-related ancillary costs … primary user of the tool, says, "Once we determined the procedure codes, the National Drug Codes, and the costs … This figure led staff to look for ways to reduce this cost. … According to Alabama Medicaid estimates, a reduction in cost of 30 percent could result in a return on

195. New Chartbook Compares Quality of Healthcare for Veterans With Other Populations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2020 - Healthcare Costs for Seniors Who Experience Falls Exceed $26,000 . … Healthcare Costs for Seniors Who Experience Falls Exceed $26,000 Healthcare costs for seniors who needed … Those costs significantly exceeded the average $8,642 in healthcare costs in the year prior to the event … Higher baseline costs, older age, comorbidities, arm and leg fractures, noninjury diagnoses and surgical … interventions were all associated with higher costs.

196. Meeting Minutes, March 27, 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2015 - Regarding the HHS evaluation of effects of cost-sharing on utilization and outcomes, Dr. … Financing, Access and Cost Trends Dr. … Marginal costs were very low and even zero for State and local government employees. … Rexford suggested that the data do not account for all costs that the patients pay. … will be generating evidence on the health insurance coverage expansion, will be working to understand pricing

197. AHRQ Resource Guide Aids Alaska Diabetes Self-Management Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - AHRQ research was instrumental in convincing Alaska health planners that diabetes costs could be reduced … care materials in early 2005, Barbara Stillwater, PhD, RN, compiled a data set related to diabetes costs … source of background data, and second, it provided formulas for calculating the direct and indirect costs … Diabetes costs are primarily driven by the treatment of complications, which are largely preventable … Health care costs are disproportionately high in Alaska.

198. One-Third of Patients Discharged From Hospitals for Sickle Cell Disease Are Readmitted Within 30 Days | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2019 - (Source: AHRQ, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #250: Costs of Pediatric Hospital … of 95,600 hospital stays specifically for sickle cell disease had a readmission within 30 days and cost … hospitalizations unrelated to the disease, according to the statistical brief from AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost … During the same period, 60 percent of patient safety measures improved while care affordability measures … Evaluating surgeons on intraoperative disposable supply costs: details matter.

199. AHRQ Tool Helps Connecticut Assess Health Care Quality, Access | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Department of Public Health, Office of Health Care Access (OHCA) used the Preventable Hospitalization Costs … The Preventable Hospitalization Costs and Mapping Tool is a software program that shows selected AHRQ … Quality Indicators for individual States by county and estimates cost savings associated with reducing … where interventions may have the biggest impact in reducing PQI admissions and maximizing potential cost … KT-CDOM-49 AHRQ Product(s): HCUP-Prevention Quality Indicators, Healthcare Cost

200. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide (pdf file)
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     October 18, 2012 - To estimate the excess costs averted, the mean cost per CLABSI (using CPI inpatient hospital service … after missing value imputation (“estimated”) Assumed Cost Excess Costs Averted Mean Two … Does not pertain to CLABSI specific HAI Luce B, 1996 Estimating costs in cost-effectiveness analysis … Published before 2002 McCollum M, 2003 Cost analysis of switching from IV vancomycin to PO linezolid … Pertains to hospital(s) not within the United States Turpin, RS 2011 Nutrition therapy cost analysis