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December 01, 2020 - National Quality Strategy Resources
Last Updated: December 2020
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Quality Improvement … stakeholders can use nine levers to align their core business or organizational functions to drive improvement … 2011-annual-report.html
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Learn more about the first-ever national strategy for health and health care quality improvement … nqsleverfactsheet.pdf
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Quality Improvement
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December 01, 2020 - Even areas with smaller disparities between populations may warrant quality improvement efforts if the … for CAHPS data
Quality improvement for CAHPS data
AHRQ
Quality improvement using SOPS data … Quality improvement using SOPS data
CDC
United States Cancer Statistics
The United States … Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action
Helps States assess the quality of asthma … care and create quality improvement strategies
NAM
Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health
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March 01, 2014 - National Quality Strategy, published in March 2011, established three aims and six priorities for quality improvement … these six priorities and established long-term goals and national tracking measures to monitor quality improvement … The 2012 report also identified three strategic opportunities for improvement, which cut across all six … The report also provides update on the progress on Federal and State Quality Improvement Efforts and … Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement .
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improved -10.0
Home health care patients whose bathing improved -9.9
Home health care patients who had improvement … Home health care patients whose surgical wound was improved -5.4
Home health care patients who had improvement … patients who stayed at home after an episode of home health care -3.5
Home health care patients who had improvement
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February 19, 2021 - received 3 or more doses of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine -7.8
Home health care patients who had improvement … in upper body dressing -7.3
Home health care patients who had improvement in toileting -5.1
Adolescents … patients who stayed at home after an episode of home health care -3.5
Home health care patients who had improvement
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vaccination during flu season
95.2
94.1
Achieved: 1% better
Home health care patients who had improvement … last 2 months of care
79.8
83.3
Achieved within: 4.2%
Home health care patients who had improvement … admitted to the hospital
11.5
10.5
Achieved within: 9.5%
Home health care patients who had improvement
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December 17, 2020 - filled an outpatient opioid prescription in the calendar year -7.8
Home health care patients who had improvement … residents with a catheter inserted and left in the bladder -5.1
Home health care patients who had improvement … patients who stayed at home after an episode of home health care -3.5
Home health care patients who had improvement
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February 19, 2021 - vaccination during flu season
95.2
94.1
Achieved: 1% better
Home health care patients who had improvement … of hepatitis B vaccine
92.1
96.4
Achieved within: 4.4%
Home health care patients who had improvement … meningococcal conjugate vaccine
86.2
95.4
Achieved within: 9.7%
Home health care patients who had improvement
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December 17, 2020 - shortness of breath decreased
80.3
78.4
Achieved: 2% better
Home health care patients who had improvement … in the calendar year
62.8
65.8
Achieved within: 4.6%
Home health care patients who had improvement … moderate to severe pain
11.3
10.5
Achieved within: 7.6%
Home health care patients who had improvement
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age 13 and over living with HIV who know their serostatus -5.9
Home health care patients who had improvement … recent viral load in the last 12 months was under 200 copies/mL -4.1
Home health care patients who had improvement … apart during the last year, among reporting jurisdictions -3.8
Home health care patients who had improvement
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Data on performance have become a quintessential tool for planning quality improvement strategies on … Researcher or Analyst
The field of health care quality improvement is calling for more and more evidence
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February 17, 2021 - Short-stay nursing home residents with moderate to severe pain -7.8
Home health care patients who had improvement … patients who stayed at home after an episode of home health care -4.7
Home health care patients who had improvement … arteriovenous fistulas as the primary mode of vascular access -2.7
Home health care patients who had improvement
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Non-Hispanic, NHPI
90.2
93.1
Achieved within: 3.1%
Home health care patients who had improvement … influenza vaccination
NHPI
88.7
96.6
Achieved within: 8.2%
Home health care patients who had improvement … Non-Hispanic, NHPI
72.3
78.9
Achieved within: 8.4%
Home health care patients who had improvement
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never got an appointment for routine care as soon as needed -6.2
Home health care patients who had improvement … under age 65 with any period of uninsurance during the year -4.3
Home health care patients who had improvement … a scale of 0-10 (where 0 is the worst and 10 is the best) -3.1
Home health care patients who had improvement
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care patients whose management of oral medications improved -7.2
Home health care patients who had improvement … assessed and appropriately given the seasonal influenza vaccine -4.4
Home health care patients who had improvement … -2.5
Lung cancer deaths per 100,000 population per year -2.4
Home health care patients who had improvement
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February 17, 2021 - AI/AN, single race
69.6
70.3
Achieved within: 1.0%
Home health care patients who had improvement … hospice care team
AI/AN
74.4
79.0
Achieved within: 5.8%
Home health care patients who had improvement … AI/AN, single race
88.5
95.9
Achieved within: 7.7%
Home health care patients who had improvement
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February 19, 2021 - Long-stay nursing home residents with moderate to severe pain -9.1
Home health care patients who had improvement … more outpatient opioid prescriptions in the calendar year -5.8
Home health care patients who had improvement … 3-5 who ever had their vision checked by a health provider -3.1
Home health care patients who had improvement
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February 19, 2021 - weight measured by a health provider within the past 2 years -4.3
Home health care patients who had improvement … sometimes or never explained things in a way they could understand -4.1
Home health care patients who had improvement … stage (all invasive tumors) per 100,000 women age 20 and over -3.0
Home health care patients who had improvement
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February 19, 2021 - home patients who had flu vaccination appropriately given -5.6
Home health care patients who had improvement … residents whose need for help with daily activities increased -3.7
Home health care patients who had improvement … definitely recommend this hospice to their friends and family -1.9
Home health care patients who had improvement
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June 01, 2013 - Calculated Format of Benchmarks -
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1001 ACCP Quality Improvement … Registry (AQuIRE) A web-based quality improvement registry including an interventional and a diagnostic … and 11 million covered lives since 1995 2013 Multiple times per year No No Yes
1030 Medical Quality Improvement … It is a risk-adjusted, outcomes-based, quality improvement program that focuses exclusively on high-risk … Opportunities for improvement are identified by combining patient encounter level and line-item transactional