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pcmh.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/profile/video/meyers.html
February 01, 2022 - Mission and Budget
AHRQ’s Core Competencies
Health Equity
National Advisory Council for Healthcare … Testimonials
Organization & Contacts
David Meyers - Improving Health … Care Practice
In “Improving Health Care Practice,” Deputy Director David Meyers, M.D., discusses … Care Practice. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/questions/resources/index.html
November 01, 2020 - Research shows that patients who have a good relationship with their health care team receive better … Patients and families who engage with health care providers to ask good questions can help reduce the … care team. … care system and can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis, equipment, or lab reports. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/understand/index.html
July 01, 2018 - Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures To Report
Domains of Healthcare … Challenges of Patient Comments
Not an impartial assessment of health care quality because comments … Likely to have an undue influence on people’s health care decisionmaking. … Also in "Select Measures to Report"
The Six Domains of Health Care Quality
Types of Measures You … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/comparison.html
September 01, 2022 - Quality & Disparities Reports
Making Healthcare Safer Reports
Making Health Care Safer II … Making Healthcare Safer III
Making Healthcare Safer IV
Making Health Care Safer … for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Making Health Care Safer report . … system. … In 2013, AHRQ published a second edition of Making Health Care Safer .
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/types.html
July 01, 2015 - Care Quality Measures
Measures used to assess and compare the quality of health care organizations … Structural Measures
Structural measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity … For example:
Whether the health care organization uses electronic medical records or medication order … The majority of health care quality measures used for public reporting are process measures. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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January 01, 2023 - Reporting Project
Resources
About TalkingQuality
Making Adjustments to Health … Care Quality Scores
One of the most thorny topics in quality measurement is the adjustment … care disparities. … 2023
Page originally created February 2015
Internet Citation: Making Adjustments to Health … Care Quality Scores.
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May 01, 2019 - Learn about Generating Health Care Quality Scores That Show Differences . … Some quality-oriented organizations provide recognition awards to health care providers. … Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … care consumers. … Care Quality Report.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/patients-families/patient-family-engagement/index.html
April 01, 2018 - Councils can involve patients, consumers, and practitioners from health care and community organizations … Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training Modules for Health Care Leaders and Professionals … These training modules provide tools to hospital leaders and health care professionals to improve informed … Be More Involved In Your Health Care: Tips for Patients
This brochure gives patients tips to use before … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/chsp/data-resources/compendium-update-webinar.html
July 01, 2023 - delivery systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care. … Webinar Recordings
July 12, 2023: Dive into Health Care Delivery Trends with the Compendium of U.S. … Care Delivery Using the AHRQ Compendium of U.S. … Care Delivery Using the AHRQ Compendium of U.S. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/topics/individuals-special-healthcare-needs.html
Elderly
Low-Income
Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Rural/Inner-City Residents
Special Healthcare … Women
Information in Spanish
Topic: Individuals with Special Healthcare … by AHRQ, but research results lag in their ability to identify evidence-based solutions to improving healthcare … AHRQ's priority populations, specified by Congress in the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 … Public Law 106-129) include: women, children, racial and ethnic minorities, populations with special healthcare
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/coronavirus/practice-improvement.html
July 01, 2022 - has tools and resources that can help hospitals, ambulatory care practices, nursing homes, and other healthcare … Delivery and Pharmacists During the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19: Team and Human Factors to Improve … Systems Engineering Institute . … Clinical teams can employ the CUSP toolkit to build capacity to address healthcare safety issues. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/hai/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Over a million HAIs occur across the U.S. health care system every year, leading to the loss of tens … of thousands of lives and adding billions of dollars to health care costs. … care safer. … care facilities. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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December 01, 2022 - Care Quality Report to Consumers? … The idea that health care quality should be a concern of consumers and patients is new and unfamiliar … care:
Consumer Reports Auto Buying Guide. … Care Quality Report to Consumers?. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/organize/quality-domain.html
December 01, 2022 - model, for thinking about health care quality. … The IOM says health care should be safe, effective, timely, patient-centered, efficient and equitable … Care Settings . … Care Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/nofoguidance/index.html
January 01, 2024 - Research to improve healthcare delivery and practice improvement. … Research to enhance whole-person healthcare delivery. … Patient safety is the freedom from accidental or preventable injury produced by health care and the … Healthcare system use of digital healthcare data (clinical, contextual, and patient-generated), knowledge … Research to increase accessibility and affordability of health care by examining innovative approaches
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December 01, 2022 - Care Quality and Disparities Email updates
AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
AHRQ's … HAI program funds work to help frontline clinicians and other health care staff prevent HAIs by improving … care system, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sponsored the development of patient … Jeff Brady on Making Health Care Safer
Related Materials
World Alliance for Patient Safety
Patient … in health care delivery
Privacy and Related Considerations for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/impact/index.html
April 01, 2017 - care delivery is what AHRQ does—every day. … Develop data to track changes in the health care system. … care systems. … Goal: Develop Data to Track Changes in the Health Care System
As policymakers work toward finding the … best solutions for reforming health care, AHRQ data initiatives help identify priorities for health
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr21/index.html
July 01, 2023 - Quality & Disparities Reports
Data Spotlights
Making Healthcare Safer Reports … For the 19th year, AHRQ is reporting on healthcare quality and disparities. … our healthcare system and identifies areas of strengths and weaknesses, as well as disparities, for access … to healthcare and quality of healthcare. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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July 01, 2023 - Quality & Disparities Reports
Data Spotlights
Making Healthcare Safer Reports … For the 17th year in a row, AHRQ is reporting on healthcare quality and disparities. … healthcare system and identifies areas of strengths and weaknesses, as well as disparities, for access … to healthcare and quality of healthcare. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/index.html
January 01, 2020 - Although the current patchwork of measures has gaps and limitations, sponsors of health care quality … The Six Domains of Health Care Quality : Review the Institute of Medicine’s quality assessment framework … Measures of Quality for Different Health Care Settings : Review the most common standardized measurement … care settings. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.