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1. Hospital Deaths for Common Heart Conditions Increased While Hospitalizations Decreased During the First Year of COVID-19 (pdf file)
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   July 01, 2023 - 19 Deaths From Heart Disease Increased in 2020 Heart disease is the most common underlying cause of death … and Fetal Death Reporting defines an underlying cause of death as one that initiates the chain of … pathological events leading to death. 2 Figure 1 shows the 10 leading causes of death in the United … Age-adjusted rates of death from heart failure rose continuously between 2016 and 2020. … They may manifest as a variety of arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation, or as sudden cardiac death

2. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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   May 20, 2016 - sentinel events reported to the Joint Commission between 2004 and June 2013 resulted in a patient death … o Was the case an expected death?  Yes:  What was the condition on admission? … on admission but expected at the time of death? … associated with drug reaction ∗ Death associated with adverse drug reaction ∗ Death associated with … associated with drug reaction ∗ Death associated with adverse drug event ∗ Death related to medical

3. The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We Still Have Much Work to Do | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2022 - Between 2000 and 2020, the breast cancer death rate decreased by approximately 29 percent. … The fourth-leading cause of death in the United States in 2020, after heart disease, cancer, and COVID

4. Blacks Experiencing Fast-Rising Rates of Overdose Deaths Involving Synthetic Opioids Other Than Methadone (pdf file)
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   February 20, 2020 - Overdose Deaths Involving Synthetic Opioids Other Than Methadone Although opioid-related overdose death

5. 2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Executive Summary (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2021 - Findings include: • The leading causes of death in the United States are heart disease, cancer, and … • Death rates from unintentional injury have been rising, while deaths from heart disease and cancer … For example:  From 2000 to 2018, the HIV death rate decreased from 5.2 to 1.5 deaths per 100,000 …  Suicide death rates rose 23%, going from 14.0 deaths to 17.2 deaths per 100,000 population between … The decrease in suicide deaths occurred in White populations only, while death rates in Black populations

6. C1 Prioritization Worksheet (xls file)
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   July 01, 2016 - Trauma-Vaginal Delivery With Instrument   PSI 19 Obstetric Trauma-Vaginal Delivery Without Instrument   Death … PSI 02 Death in Low-Mortality DRGs   PSI 04 Death Among Surgical Inpatients   Sentinel Events (Adults

7. Advancing Diagnostic Equity Through Clinician Engagement, Community Partnerships, and Connected Care (pdf file)
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   November 15, 2022 - panic, and Asian patients experience significantly higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death … COVID-19 racial disparities in testing, infection, hospitalization, and death: analysis of Epic data … www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue- brief/covid-19-racial-disparities-testing-infection-hospitalization-death … www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-racial-disparities-testing-infection-hospitalization-death-analysis-epic-patient-data … www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-racial-disparities-testing-infection-hospitalization-death-analysis-epic-patient-data

8. Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital-Acquired Conditions Update | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2018 - The final cost savings and death reductions estimated for 2014 in Exhibit A2 are based on the measured

9. Final Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
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   December 01, 2016 - The final cost savings and death reductions estimated for 2014 in Exhibit A2 are based on the measured

10. About AHRQ's Work on Opioids and Substance Use Disorders | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2021 - drug overdoses have risen steadily over the past two decades and have become a leading cause of injury death

11. EvidenceNOW Building State Capacity Profile: Alabama Cooperative (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2021 - Alabama ranks 49th in the U.S. for heart disease and stroke as a cause of death. … Alabama has the highest rate of CVD events (death, hospitalizations, ED visits) among all 50 states

12. Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool (pdf file)
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    June 05, 2016 - forms are listed below, along with a rationale for why best practices were not developed: • PSI 02 Death … • PSI 04 Death Rate Among Surgical Inpatients With Serious Treatable Conditions: This PSI calculates … • NQI 02 Neonatal Mortality Rate: This PDI relates to the death rate for a number of ICD- 9 codes.

13. National Scorecard on Rates of Hospital-Acquired Conditions 2010 to 2015: Interim Data From National Efforts To Make Health Care Safer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2016 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health and Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Search all AHRQ sites Search small Search Menu …

14. Mourning the Loss of Deputy Director David Meyers, M.D. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - David Meyers, M.D., a treasured colleague and friend who served as AHRQ’s deputy director until his death … ethnic health disparities for heart disease persisted, with non-Hispanic Black people having the highest death

15. Data and Analytics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2023 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health and Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Search all AHRQ sites Search small Search Menu …

16. C1 Prioritization Matrix (xls file)
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    July 01, 2016 - Obstetric Trauma-Vaginal Delivery Without Instrument   17.0 17.9 5 $96,000 $ 480,000 N 2 3 8 Y Y Y Y Y Death … PSI 02 Death in Low-Mortality DRGs   0.4 0.0 1 $24,919 $ 24,919 N 6 2 5 Y Y Y Y Y PSI 04 Death

17. Explain Whether a High or Low Health Care Quality Score Is Better | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2016 - For example, a model report on the AHRQ Quality Indicators shows a bar graph about the death rate for … http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Modules/QI_Reporting/Model_Report_Composite.pdf Death

18. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - New York City Cooperative (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2017 - Hispanic, 25.5 percent African American, and 13 percent Asian).1 Heart disease is the primary cause of death … leadingcauses_death/nyc_by_year.htm Access August 17, 2017. 3 Health Disparities in Life Expectancy and Death … Reducing Health Disparities in New York City: Health Disparities in Life Expectancy and Death.

19. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - In comparison, reported COVID-19 death counts were greater than estimates of excess natural-cause deaths … Errors were found to have contributed to temporary harm, permanent harm, or death in nearly 18% of patients … ; among patients who died, diagnostic error was judged to have contributed to death in 6.6% of cases.

20. AHRQ Views Blog: Long COVID Is a Case Study of Our Fractured Healthcare System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - March 21, 2023 AHRQ Stats: Leading Causes of Death in 2020 Heart disease and cancer accounted for … 168.2 and 144.1 deaths per 100,000 individuals, respectively, in 2020, making them the leading cause of death