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41. Strategies To Improve Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2016 - issues with access to care and the failure of systems and providers to adopt established quality improvement … changes in the organization and delivery of mental health services.13,14 They seek to improve the quality … of care and patient outcomes by closing the gap between research evidence and practice.15-17 The … the total sum of components used to target health care systems and/or practitioners to improve the quality … of care for children and adolescents with mental health problems.

42. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    August 26, 2011 - The implementation of quality improvement strategies for hand washing remains less developed, although … The first step in designing a quality improvement project is to identify a quality gap. … example: o Type of quality improvement strategy (see the bulleted list of strategies above) … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies. … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies.

43. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    December 16, 2024 - Unlike the traditional fee-for-service model, APMs link payment to outcomes and care quality. … of care for a defined patient population; bundled payments, where a single payment is made for all … of care, or changes in racial/ethnic disparities in the patient outcomes o Change/difference in … of care. … of care"[Title/Abstract] OR "Performance Measures"[Title/Abstract] OR Beneficiar*[Title/Abstract] OR

44. Disposition of Comments Report for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (pdf file)
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    November 30, 2012 - The intent is to assist in making well- informed decisions and thereby improve the quality of health … care services. … Strategy: A Systematic Review of the Multiple Pathways Public Reporting May Influence Quality of Health … Care. 62 Peer Reviewer #4 Introduction The introduction is written very well, and frames the discussion … A Systematic Review of the Multiple Pathways Public Reporting May Influence Quality of Health Care

45. Standardized Library of Asthma Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2019 - technology assessments to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality … of health care in the United States. … purchasers as well as the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help improve health … care quality. … Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

46. Understanding Health-Systems’ Use of and Need for Evidence To Inform Decisionmaking (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2017 - technology assessments to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality … of health care in the United States. … purchasers as well as the health care system as a whole by providing important information to help improve health … care quality. … Using centralized performance improvement processes.

47. AHRQ Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) Program Research Gaps Summary: Pain Management (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2023 - of research make well-informed decisions in designing and funding research and thereby improve the quality … of healthcare services. … of healthcare in the United States. … quality. … quality by providing the best available evidence on medications, devices, and healthcare services to

48. Bundled Payment: Effects on Health Care Spending and Quality (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2012 - of health care in the United States. … care quality. … The review focuses on “bundled payment,” a strategy for health care quality improvement and cost containment … Medicare prospective payment and quality of care for long-stay nursing facility residents. … of care.

49. Cancer Quality-ASSIST Supportive Oncology Quality Indicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity Testing (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2010 - of care and provide tools for targeting and evaluating quality improvement, quality indicators are … However, a similar quality indicator was successfully implemented in a study of quality of care for … of care, because lack of documentation could cause gaps in care processes or communication. … Aggressiveness of cancer care near the end of life: is it a quality-of-care issue? … Palliative Care Quality Measures Project (PEACE).

50. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - Comparator(s): Comparison between individual interventions or combinations of interventions Outcome(s): Improvement

51. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Review: Examining the Impact of Implementing High-Reliability Organization Principles on Patient Safety Outcomes (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2025 - The falls management program: A quality improvement initiative for nursing facilities. … system leaders, and policymakers, among others—make well-informed decisions and thereby improve the quality … of healthcare services. … Integrating quality improvement into healthcare operations: A system's approach. … Professional society leadership in health care quality: The society of thoracic surgeons experience

52. Untitled (pdf file)
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    December 11, 2015 - of care by closing the gap between research evidence and practice. 15,16 This review will focus on … of care.17,18 Some consider dissemination/implementation (D/I) strategies as a particular subset … of care for children and adolescents with mental health problems 1. … adolescents with the goal of improved quality of care. … The Model for Understanding Success in Quality (MUSIQ): building a theory of context in healthcare quality

53. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Improving Health Care and Palliative Care for Advanced and Serious Illness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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54. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - For treatment efficacy: improvement in cough symptoms; cough severity; cough counts; cough-related quality

55. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program Research Gaps Summary: Telehealth (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2023 - of research make well informed decisions in designing and funding research and thereby improve the quality … of healthcare services. … of healthcare in the United States. … of healthcare by providing the best available evidence on medications, devices, and healthcare services … It is a tool with the potential to increase access, improve the quality of care, increase patient satisfaction

56. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2009 - oophorectomy Comparator: Nonsurgical treatments including pharmacologic and behavioral Outcomes: Improvement

57. EHC Protocol: Updating the Measurement Criteria for AHRQ's National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (pdf file)
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    September 06, 2023 - Which prioritization criteria for health care quality measures have been proposed? … • What type of health care quality measures would help the NHQDR’s primary audience monitor the effectiveness … We will accept the authors’ definition of quality of care. … need for quality of care measures, only quality of care measures without describing the process of how … of care measures.

58. Noninvasive Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review Update - Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2020 - for short-term function and a moderate improvement for short-term pain (SOE: low). … or waitlist control at short-term (8 trials [2 new]), and small improvement at intermediate-term ( … (7 trials [2 new]), and a moderate improvement at intermediate- term (2 trials) followup (SOE: low … • Multidisciplinary rehabilitation was associated with a small improvement compared with exercise … Long term, exercise was associated with a small improvement in function (1 trial) but no improvement

59. Updating the Measurement Criteria for AHRQ’s National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) (pdf file)
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    December 28, 2023 - Which prioritization criteria for health care quality measures have been proposed? … • What type of health care quality measures would help the NHQDR’s primary audience monitor the effectiveness … We will accept the authors’ definition of quality of care. … the need for quality of care measures, only quality of care measures without describing the process … of care measures.

60. September 2021 Surveillance Report 1: Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 250: Living Systematic Review on Cannabis and Other Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2021 - system leaders, and policymakers, among others—make well-informed decisions and thereby improve the quality … of health care services. … systematic reviews to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality … of healthcare in the United States. … Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency