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2781. Obesity (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/obesity-horizon-scan-high-impact-1506.pdf
      June 01, 2015 - Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of an individual’s weight relative to his or her height (kg/m2). … BMI is significantly correlated to an individual’s body-fat percentage and is used as a measure to …  Key Expert Comments: Most experts acknowledged that a treatment gap exists between conservative measures … other obesity drugs are available, several experts cited liraglutide’s potential to improve some measures … Quality of life measures improved in the REDUCE pivotal trial.

2782. Obesity (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/obesity-horizon-scan-high-impact-1506.pdf
      June 01, 2015 - Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of an individual’s weight relative to his or her height (kg/m2). … BMI is significantly correlated to an individual’s body-fat percentage and is used as a measure to …  Key Expert Comments: Most experts acknowledged that a treatment gap exists between conservative measures … other obesity drugs are available, several experts cited liraglutide’s potential to improve some measures … Quality of life measures improved in the REDUCE pivotal trial.

2783. Options for Developing a Repository of Expired Patient Registries | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
      effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/registry-of-patient-registries/research-2012
      September 01, 2019 - Registries collect additional information that is typically not contained in claims records, such as measures … Information should be available in the repository as to whether the data were subject to quality measures … and, if so, what measures. … An important point to include in dataset information is what quality control measures, if any, were used … In addition, storing registry data requires appropriate levels of security measures based on the types

2784. Collaborative EHR Implementation to Bridge the Continuum of Care in Rural Iowa (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs016156-obrien-final-report-2009.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - Process measures related to implementation success were collected. … One of the primary process measures was the extent of use of the CPOE system.

2785. Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Clinical Network for Safe Pediatric Emergency Transfers (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/woods-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - This assessment provided a measure of the quality of communication regarding the transfer patient’s … effectiveness of communication, decision making, and placement in the context of both simulation and actual measures

2786. Understanding Clinical Information Needs and health Care Decision Making Processes in the Context of Health Information Technology - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs022087-singh-final-report-2018.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - In Step 2 we assessed potential measures of “alert fatigue” within the EHR. … Measures … In Aim 3 the measures for the fault tree analysis were the specific actions described by the participant … Design Aim 1 Aim 2 Aim 3 Data Sources/Collection Aim 1 Aim 2 Aim 3 Interventions Measures

2787. The Impact of Health Information Technology on Demand for Inpatient Services - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r36hs018272-barrette-final-report-2011.pdf
      January 01, 2011 - diffusion process, develop standards for the integration of systems, fund demonstration projects and measure … Measures Identification. … Policies such as the implementation of health IT may be evaluated by comparing expected CS measures … Unfortunately, calculation of the expected CS measure requires an estimate of the marginal utility … I measure distance in the data as one way (from the patient to the hospital) but most people return

2788. Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/system/files/docs/topic-brief-hospital-length-of-stay.pdf
      November 01, 2019 - Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay 1 Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay Date: 8/6/2019 Nomination Number: 866 Purpose: This document summarizes the information addressing a nomination submitted on 6/28/2019 through the Effective Health Care Web…

2789. WP200001 Utilization Undercounting 06.02.2020 (pdf file)
      meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/workingpapers/wp_20001.pdf
      June 01, 2020 - Weights were then assigned to each model based on its accuracy. … Accuracy measures how well the model that is developed using the training data correctly identifies … The area under the ROC curve (AUC) provides a composite measure of the tradeoff between the true positive … Split by HC = 0 and HC > 0 Table 10 provides the accuracy and AUC measures for the separate models … For instance, there are likely residual errors in the MPC count measure pertaining to how certain events

2790. Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/system/files/docs/topic-brief-hospital-length-of-stay.pdf
      November 01, 2019 - Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay 1 Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay Date: 8/6/2019 Nomination Number: 866 Purpose: This document summarizes the information addressing a nomination submitted on 6/28/2019 through the Effective Health Care Web…

2791. Methodology Report #13: Projecting National Medical Expenditure Survey Data: A Framework for MEPS Projections (pdf file)
      meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/mr13/mr13.pdf
      February 01, 2002 - sum of the NMES weights for that cell. … No adjustment was made to the weights for those outside this population. … This produced the weights for each year from 1997 through 2005. … attributable to the alignment methodology and to sampling and nonsampling errors in both the NMES data and the measures … unemployed using the “full year” definition of unemployment in CPS, not the “part year” (or round) measure

2792. Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2022 - measures and measure sets. … and thus are a potential source of measures for the measure inventory. … * These papers provide measures or potential measures by describing one measure specific to the study … evidence-based health care quality measures and measure sets. … Additional barriers exist in terms of developing measure specifications for cost measures.

2793. Project Summaries for ACTION III Projects Awarded in 2015 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/factsheets/translating/action3/2015_action_projects.pdf
      January 01, 2015 - It also will measure the impact of training and other factors that influenced the implementation of … are to identify and begin to fill current gaps in our knowledge about how medical groups define and measure … that reflects patient priorities and has expert support that can be recommended for more formal measure … Measure performance, here to be assessed through feasibility evaluations (i.e., identifying barriers … Most importantly, the standardized definitions and algorithms provide the ability to measure all-cause

2794. Systematic Review on Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 2 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/opioid-chronic-pain-surveillance-report-2.pdf
      April 01, 2022 - chronic pain, what is the comparative effectiveness of different tapering protocols and strategies on measures … Predictors of long-term use of prescription opioids in the community- dwelling population of adults … Prolonged Opioid Use After Lumbar Fusion and the Effects of Opioid Use on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures … A systematic review of the evidence for the efficacy of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain in community-dwelling … Opioid-Related Risk Screening Measures for the Emergency Care Setting.

2795. Systematic Review on Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 2 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/opioid-chronic-pain-surveillance-report-2.pdf
      April 01, 2022 - chronic pain, what is the comparative effectiveness of different tapering protocols and strategies on measures … Predictors of long-term use of prescription opioids in the community- dwelling population of adults … Prolonged Opioid Use After Lumbar Fusion and the Effects of Opioid Use on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures … A systematic review of the evidence for the efficacy of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain in community-dwelling … Opioid-Related Risk Screening Measures for the Emergency Care Setting.

2796. Systematic Review on Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 2 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/opioid-chronic-pain-surveillance-report-2.pdf
      April 01, 2022 - chronic pain, what is the comparative effectiveness of different tapering protocols and strategies on measures … Predictors of long-term use of prescription opioids in the community- dwelling population of adults … Prolonged Opioid Use After Lumbar Fusion and the Effects of Opioid Use on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures … A systematic review of the evidence for the efficacy of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain in community-dwelling … Opioid-Related Risk Screening Measures for the Emergency Care Setting.

2797. Appendixes (pdf file)
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      September 30, 2021 - chronic pain, what is the comparative effectiveness of different tapering protocols and strategies on measures … headache, fracture, motor vehicle accidents, cardiovascular events, endocrinological effects) KQ 4a: Measures … Predictors of long-term use of prescription opioids in the community- dwelling population of adults … Prolonged Opioid Use After Lumbar Fusion and the Effects of Opioid Use on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures … A systematic review of the evidence for the efficacy of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain in community-dwelling

2798. Behavioral Counseling to Prevent Skin Cancer: A Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2011 - measures of sun exposure; or total, which are cumulative estimates of sun exposure. … Six case–control studies included some measure of total sun exposure, either during childhood, during … Four of 5 studies used only a crude dichotomous measure of indoor tanning, and none of these studies … Most studies used crude measures of indoor tanning exposure. … Both of these studies, however, used only a crude dichotomous measure of sunscreen use.

2799. Screening for Unhealthy Drug Use: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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      June 09, 2020 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Sensitivity, specificity, drug use and other health, social, and legal outcomes … Drug use severity was analyzed as a standardized mean difference, given heterogeneity in measurement scales … Outcomes: No measure of drug use reported (KQs 1, 3, 4, 5); no measure related to sensitivity and specificity … Only 3 trials reported on a measure of global function or well-being with no clear effect. … Drug use during pregnancy: validating the Drug Abuse Screening Test against physiological measures.

2800. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Executive Summary (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/adhd_executive.pdf
      October 01, 2011 - showed clinically significant symptoms, defined by referral to treatment or high scores on screening measures … reported as standardized mean differences (SMDs) whereby the difference in outcome (using continuous measures … SMD is used as a summary statistic in meta­analysis when the studies use different instruments to measure … Only recently have investigations of PBT included direct measures of ADHD symptoms and associated functional … of justifying health services, the lack of quality control regarding reliability and validity of measures