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21. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Measuring Outcomes of Care for Persons With Disabilities | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 03, 2011 - strategies was developed for the original CQG series. 1 These quality improvement strategies are: … alluded to above and their characteristics rather than the results of their use in specific quality improvement … Our KQs focus on the quality assessment component of quality improvement. … Quality improvement as a field and the science of quality measurement had formed by this time, and the … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies.

22. Quality-Gap-Palliative-Hospice Executive (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2012 - , and moderate for improvement in patient and family satisfaction. … improvement models within any of the targets. … Strength of evidence was moderate for improvement in pain and low for improvement in quality of life … a statistically significant improvement with the intervention. … Strength of evidence was low for improvement in satisfaction and moderate for improvement in health

23. Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality Improvement Intervention Evaluations (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2012 - Identifying continuous quality improvement publications: what makes an improvement intervention ‗ … (IHI or (Institute adj Healthcare adj Improvement)).mp. … ((process adj improvement) or (improvement adj collaborative*)).mp. 177. … DESIGN: Longitudinal quality improvement study. … There was a corresponding improvement in quantitative IQ.

24. Health Information Technology | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    April 24, 2019 - September 27, 2016 Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality Improvement

25. Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality Improvement Intervention Evaluations | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    September 21, 2012 - Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality Improvement Intervention Evaluations … This is of particular relevance in complex research fields such as quality improvement. … different prediction algorithms and tested results against reference samples screened by experts in quality improvement … screening process in systematic reviews of complex, steadily expanding research fields such as quality improvement

26. Quality of Life | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 08, 2018 - Synthesizing Evidence for Quality Improvement Abstract August 8, 2018 Long-Term

27. Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality Improvement Intervention Evaluations | Effective Health Care Program
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    September 21, 2012 - Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality Improvement Intervention Evaluations … Research Report Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality Improvement

28. Disposition of Comments for Quality Improvement Interventions To Address Health Disparities (pdf file)
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    August 27, 2012 - Disposition of Comments for Quality Improvement Interventions To Address Health Disparities Source … An example is you cite a 6.9 percent absolute improvement when in fact it is 8.2 percent. … The several studies that showed greater improvement in the disparate group, with improvement making … For quality improvement, however, that could be difficult. Agreed. … back and forth between QI and quality improvement.

29. 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

30. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    February 23, 2012 - interventions and to inform the development of novel quality improvement frameworks. …  Interventions: Interventions will include quality improvement strategies. … Other quality improvement strategies will also be identified through the literature search. … Seminal publications in quality improvement were published in the 1980s. … Policy 2: Definition of Clinical Quality Improvement. [cited February 2011].

31. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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    October 15, 2012 - Quality Improvement Measurement of Outcomes for People With Disabilities Draft review available for … Quality Improvement Measurement of Outcomes for People With Disabilities. … The importance of maintaining function in working age people (critical to policy improvement). 2- Conceptual … While such studies may lead eventually to quality improvement, we did not include them here as they … were not aimed at quality improvement nor necessarily aimed at the disabled population.

32. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    August 03, 2011 - Research and Quality (AHRQ) to assemble a critical analysis of the existing literature on quality improvement … strategies was developed for the original CQG series. 1 These quality improvement strategies are: … Our KQs focus on the quality assessment component of quality improvement. … Quality improvement as a field and the science of quality measurement had formed by this time, and … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies.

33. Systematic Review on Noninvasive Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 2 (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2022 - improvement No change in conclusions Function, long term Small improvement SOE: Moderate … improvement No change in conclusions Pain, intermediate term Small improvement SOE: Moderate … improvement No change in conclusions LBP: Psychological therapies vs. … improvement SOE: Low Pain, short term No evidence 1 fair-quality RCT (N=42)16 Large improvement … 2 RCTs (N=109) *1 good-quality RCT (N=84)20 Small improvement Small improvement SOE: Low

34. Systematic Review on Noninvasive Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 2 (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2022 - improvement No change in conclusions Function, long term Small improvement SOE: Moderate … improvement No change in conclusions Pain, intermediate term Small improvement SOE: Moderate … improvement No change in conclusions LBP: Psychological therapies vs. … improvement SOE: Low Pain, short term No evidence 1 fair-quality RCT (N=42)16 Large improvement … 2 RCTs (N=109) *1 good-quality RCT (N=84)20 Small improvement Small improvement SOE: Low

35. Improving Health Care and Palliative Care for Advanced and Serious Illness Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2012 - most of the quality improvement-oriented studies, and in the discussion as well - Expanded the … most of the quality improvement-oriented studies, and in the discussion as well - Expanded the … Quality improvement? … Equally difficult for me was whether this was a report of quality improvement interventions. … IRBs and local process improvement teams will get mixed up based upon this language.

36. Summary Report Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Strategies, to bring data to bear on quality improvement opportunities. … PCMH as a quality improvement approach is still in its infancy. … Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement. … Quality Improvement Interventions To Address Health Disparities. … Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy.

37. Management of Infantile Hemangioma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    June 21, 2016 - not applicable; SOE = strength of evidence BETA-BLOCKERS Propranolol vs. observation or placebo Improvement … studies 100 Equivalent response [evidence low] Topical timolol vs. placebo or observation Improvement … 188 Timolol more effective [evidence low] STEROIDS Oral steroids vs. observation or placebo Improvement … effective [evidence medium] Intralesional steroids (triamcinolone) vs. observation or placebo Improvement … significant difference [evidence low] Long-pulse dye laser vs. other laser types and protocols Improvement

38. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2023 - operative morbidity and mortality by providing usable clinical data to highlight areas in need of improvement … surgical outcomes in the U.S. is the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement … This served as a stimulus for quality improvement and increased patient safety. … such as the Society of Thoracic Surgeon (STS) national databases, the VASQIP, the Trauma Quality Improvement … the American College of Surgeons 4 Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement

39. Systematic Review on Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2021 - o Pain severity is the assessment of improvement in pain from baseline as a continuous measure. … (e.g., 30% improvement). … Desipramine vs. active placebo short-term No overall improvement in pain with desipramine, but … (47.5% vs. 32.7%, p=0.004) and 50 percent or more pain improvement (27.2% vs. 17.0%, p=0.019) versus … Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency

40. Management of Infantile Hemangioma (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2016 - further treatment in propranolol arm (fewer than 15% of children) ��� Propranolol vs. steroids Improvement … in IH 3 studies 100 Equivalent response ��� Topical timolol vs. placebo or observation Improvement … additional studies 188 Timolol more effective ��� STEROIDS Oral steroids vs. observation or placebo Improvement … observation or placebo Improvement in IH Network meta-analysis N/A Intralesional steroids more effective … ��� LASER TREATMENTS Pulse dye laser vs. observation Improvement in IH 2 studies 143 Pulse dye laser