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21. Executive Summary of SNAC Healthcare Quality Measurement Report (pdf file)
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    November 17, 2021 - - 7 - Section 2.2 Emphasize the Importance of Data, Data Standards, and Definitions The … NAC emphasized the SNAC report’s discussion on the data standardization and definitions, noting the … To date, standardized definitions regarding what data should be collected for quality measurement and … In agreement with the SNAC report, the NAC discussed the opportunity to standardize definitions across … Additionally, NAC members noted that if AHRQ were to establish standardized definitions, the Agency

22. Snapshot: The IHA Bundled Episode Payment and Gainsharing Demonstration (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2015 - ■ Keep initial bundle definition simple: As noted, creating bundle definitions proved to be a complicated … While simple definitions may be less satisfying conceptually, they provide a realistic, achievable … Health plans generally wanted inclusive definitions that covered most if not all patients and made providers … For orthopedic procedures, the resulting definitions proved too narrow to capture enough volume to make … For example, participating stakeholders ultimately came to consensus on 10 episode definitions that

23. The IHA Bundled Episode Payment and Gainsharing Demonstration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/bozicstudysnapshots/index.html
    August 01, 2018 - Health plans generally wanted inclusive definitions that covered most if not all patients and made providers … For orthopedic procedures, the resulting definitions proved too narrow to capture enough volume to make … For example, participating stakeholders ultimately came to consensus on 10 episode definitions that can … Keep initial bundle definition simple: As noted, creating bundle definitions proved to be a complicated … While simple definitions may be less satisfying conceptually, they provide a realistic, achievable starting

24. Snapshot: The IHA Bundled Episode Payment and Gainsharing Demonstration (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/system/delivery-system-initiative/bozicstudysnapshot/bozicstudysnapshot.pdf
    February 01, 2015 - ■ Keep initial bundle definition simple: As noted, creating bundle definitions proved to be a complicated … While simple definitions may be less satisfying conceptually, they provide a realistic, achievable … Health plans generally wanted inclusive definitions that covered most if not all patients and made providers … For orthopedic procedures, the resulting definitions proved too narrow to capture enough volume to make … For example, participating stakeholders ultimately came to consensus on 10 episode definitions that

25. Overuse of Imaging - Measure 5: Policy for ALARA Specific to Imaging Children (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - of Imaging Measure 5: Policy for ALARA Specific to Imaging Children Description Calculation Definitions … Overuse of ImagingMeasure 5: Policy for ALARA Specific to Imaging Children Description Calculation Definitions

26. Sickle Cell Disease Measure 16: Appropriate Emergency Department Pain Assessment for Children With Sickle Cell Disease (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - Definitions Intake period: January 1 to December 31 of the measurement year Pain Assessment: A … Table 16-A: Pain assessments for children with sickle cell disease Definitions Procedure Code Short … Pain Assessment G8512 Pain sev quant present Pain severity quantified; pain present 2 Definitions … variant listed in Table 16-B. 3 Table 16-C: Excluded pain assessment procedure codes Definitions

27. 43-Pathway-Worksheet (doc file)
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    June 01, 2023 - It may be helpful to record your definitions here. … It may be helpful to record your definitions here. … It may be helpful to record your definitions here. … It may be helpful to record your definitions here. … It may be helpful to record your definitions here.

28. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2024 - Data Files Data Briefs Definitions of Health Systems Many of the Compendium files are available for multiple … Health Systems, 2018  (PDF, 451 KB)  More information about the definition of health systems: Other definitions

29. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) Training—Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) UTI Module Part 2 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Facility (LTCF) UTI Module Part 2 This presentation discusses in detail the methodology, protocols, and definitions

30. Guideline and Measure Summaries | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2018 - Domain Framework Explains the classification of measures in the NQMC Domain Definitions List of … definitions of terms in the NQMC domain framework

31. 2. Study Methods | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2020 - We first present the definitions of HSR and PCR that were used to identify relevant federally supported … Definitions of HSR and PCR The study team worked iteratively with AHRQ and the study’s TEPs to develop … and operationalize definitions of HSR and PCR based on concepts in the literature but tailored to the … Likewise, per the research definitions presented previously in the chapter, the scan excludes service … For detailed definitions, coding specifications, and adjudication procedures for research domains and

32. Appendix B. Detailed Research Domain Framework Definitions and Classification Rules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2020 - Detailed Research Domain Framework Definitions and Classification Rules Health Services and Primary … on the research domain framework and environmental scan and portfolio analysis results: Detailed definitions … Detailed Definitions of Research Domains and Categories Chapter 2 presented the research domain framework … Here we provide detailed definitions of these domains and categories, which include four domains of health … Some of our domain definitions make distinctions between studies that examine health service delivery

33. Monitoring Ventilator-Associated Events: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2017 - Prior to 2013, such surveillance focused solely on VAP and definitions were considered to be subjective … The new definitions, broken down into tiers, are objective, streamlined, potentially automatable with … Slide 11: VAE Definition Tiers Say: Here you see the VAE definitions tiers. … You can see that all these definitions are different. … to tell us if one of these definitions is more accurate than another.

34. Documentation of Mandated Discharge Summary Components in Transitions from Acute to Subacute Care (pdf file)
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    March 31, 2008 - Therefore, to increase abstraction reliability for this project, specific definitions for each component … An abstraction manual was created and included sample eligibility criteria and specific definitions … Definitions were created using common terms found in medical documentation (Table 2): 1. … Our component definitions were based on input from a consensus panel of physicians and one geriatric … Inclusion of additional multidisciplinary viewpoints may result in some alteration of the definitions

35. Briefing and Debriefing Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - surgical procedures in the United States in 2010. 1 Using National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions … point-prevalence survey of HAIs across 10 States showed that 4 percent of patients had 1 or more HAIs by NHSN definitions

36. Priority Areas Identified by the U.S.-Mexico Border Commission: Summary & Definitions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part4-summ.html
    October 01, 2015 - -Mexico Border Commission: Summary & Definitions Previous Page   Table of Contents … Return to Contents Definitions Conditions of Interest Cancers: Any Dx v in CCS 24 (breast),

37. Defining Diagnostic Error: A Scoping Review to Assess the Impact of the National Academies’ Report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care (pdf file)
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    April 27, 2022 - Of those, 5 studies also operationalized with existing definitions proposed be- From the *Center for … Three studies operationalized error using existing definitions only. … In recent peer-reviewed literature, most researchers continue to use pre-NASEM report definitions to … .4,8,10–13 Use of different definitions can make it difficult to compare outcomes across studies and … Three studies21,31,34 operation- alized error using existing definitions, and 4 studies22,25,27,28 op

38. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2023 - diagnostic issues using broad language, rather than trying to give patients and families more precise definitions … Although patient and family conceptions of adverse events do not always conform to clinical definitions

39. NQMC Measure Domain Framework | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2018 - The type of evidence on which this criterion is based varies by domain as described in the definitions … [link to Domain Definitions page]. … health quality measures incorporate a criterion of quality, which differs by domain as described in the definitions

40. 017-Ss-Importance-Ssi-Mrsa-Prevention-Fg (doc file)
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    April 01, 2025 - Surveillance definitions allow the same definition to be used consistently both over time and across … Some professional organizations also have their own surveillance definitions, such as the Society for … This presentation and the toolkit use NHSN definitions for SSIs and as well as using the definitions … The slide includes a schematic from NHSN describing the depths of infections, per NHSN definitions. … As recently mentioned, surveillance definitions need to be established and consistently applied to allow