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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiapv.html
April 01, 2018 - We supplemented these data with VA enterprise-wide microbiology, laboratory, admission/discharge/transfer … leukocyte count, temperature, the sending of a culture, the administration of a systemic antibiotic (inpatient … All data necessary to make an SSI diagnosis occurred after discharge from the initial surgery. … The simple rule was not sensitive enough in hospitals where all prescriptions (inpatient and outpatient … Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among inpatients.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/cox-carayon-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The intervention has the potential to impact family engagement and safety for pediatric 
inpatients. … Overall, 298 families of children hospitalized on one of 
the four inpatient services (two general pediatric … These interviews were 
conducted with 22 HCT members and 15 parents and children from four inpatient … Most family-initiated 
dialogue focused on inpatient medications (65%), with home medications comprising … Prevention of medication errors in the pediatric inpatient setting.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/impact/index.html
April 01, 2017 - Nation’s leading tools for hospitals to reduce avoidable readmission rates, the RED (Re-Engineered Discharge … RED (Re-Engineered Discharge) Toolkit 
 Initially developed through research conducted by AHRQ grantee … Jack, M.D., of the Boston University Medical Center, the RED toolkit is a standardized approach to discharge … HCUP analyses have also tracked trends in readmission rates by payer type; inpatient versus outpatient … The State Health Access Data Assistance Center also recently used MEPS Insurance Component data—the only
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/strom2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Data were collected  from each of four sources: baseline and follow-up telephone 
interviews, inpatient … Validity of discharge diagnoses for identifying  adverse drug events. … identify systems factors associated with the  development of acute  renal failure 
(ARF) in hospital inpatients … consecutive days of intravenous  aminoglycosides (gentamicin, 
tobramycin, streptomycin, or amikacin) as inpatients … source of medical errors and largest proportion of 
medication errors, causing ill effects in 1% of inpatients
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/gam/summaries/domain-definitions/index.html
July 01, 2018 - Example: The risk-adjusted rate of in-hospital hip fracture among acute care inpatients aged 65 years … Example: The percentage of patients in a health plan with an inpatient admission in the prior twelve … Cost measures are computed from data in monetary or resource units. … Example: Hospital net inpatient revenue per discharge. … Cost measures are computed from data in monetary or resource units.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/gurwitz2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - .22
Among studies not limited to older patients, some have suggested medication safety benefits from inpatient … medications as discrete data. … Upon receipt of these data 
at the time of hospital discharge, the medical group’s EHR was configured … Study Design
Study data were collected and managed using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted … 1) an intuitive interface for 
validated data capture; 2) audit trails for tracking data manipulation
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part2-cvd.html
June 01, 2018 - Inpatient Deaths Among Adult Admissions With Heart Attack 
 Inpatient deaths per 1,000 adult hospital … a non-Federal community hospital in the United States with acute myocardial infarction as principal discharge … Trends:  From 2001 to 2013, the risk-adjusted inpatient mortality rate for hospital admissions with heart … attack decreased significantly overall (data not shown) and for all racial/ethnic groups. … Achievable Benchmark: 
 
 The 2008 top 4 State achievable benchmark for inpatient heart attack mortality
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-209-fullreport.pdf
June 01, 2019 - This measure fills the gap of assessing NICU-specific inpatient care measures. … Care Setting – inpatient: Yes. 
c. Care Setting – other – please specify: No. 
d. … CPT codes allow for the identification of all inpatient admissions, whether to the NICU or to the 
general … State hospital administrative 
records identify inpatient admissions both during the birth hospitalization … and after discharge.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/holland-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Community hospitals are smaller, usually with a 
focus on primary outpatient care, limited inpatient … The sample was accrued from inpatients receiving care in Mayo Clinic Health System-Eau Claire 
(MCHS-EC … Data Sources/Collection Procedures. … Data Collection Procedures. … Data Analysis.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/module-3-implementation-guide.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Secondary audience: Non-team cardiac clinicians, discharge planners, care coordinators, hospital 
leadership … to outpatient CR 
• Data collection processes from inpatient/procedures to outpatient CR 
STEP 1: … o Map data processes to show what data is collected and how and where it is stored, 
what reports and … o Design processes to collect inpatient referral metrics. … Data 
Where does your data reside? 
What does it take to capture the data you need?
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science-2b.html
June 01, 2020 - Valuable information can be gleaned from even limited data sources so long as those who use the data … , and improvement. 42  Similarly, autopsy reports, 43  diagnostic discrepancies at admission versus discharge … Improvement’s Global Trigger Tools, 79  which include both manual and electronic trigger tools to detect inpatient … incorrect diagnosis during initial office visit 
 
 
 ED/PC visit within 72 hours after ED or hospital discharge … of data in EHRs is unstructured and therefore inaccessible to e-triggers.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/care-transitions-1.pdf
March 01, 2020 - for the patient and 
promoting 
communication 
between inpatient and 
outpatient providers 
caring … Classifying and predicting errors of inpatient medication 
reconciliation. … Medical errors related to discontinuity of care from an 
inpatient to an outpatient setting. … Additionally, a BOOST Data Center allows users to store and benchmark data against control units and … data.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/overview/background/corebackgrnd.pdf
January 01, 2013 - Specifications are also available for using hospital discharge data.     
36 
 
 
Immunizations. … NICU placements are not recorded in hospital 
discharge data. … The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project’s (HCUP) Kids Inpatient Database 
(KID) procedures data … Accuracy of Medicaid payer coding in hospital patient 
discharge data: implications for Medicaid policy … iii  Birth certificate information plus enrollment data.   
iv Hospital discharge data.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b2a_combo_ratesgenbysas.pdf
March 01, 2016 - To work with the Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs), Patient 
Safety Indicators (PSIs), and Pediatric … Identify outcomes in inpatient records. 
2. Identify populations at risk. 
3. … SAS 
Processes hospital discharge abstract 
data and flags records if they contain 
the outcomes of … Getting Your Data Ready 
When preparing data for the SAS PSI, IQI, and PDI software programs, you should … The program was run on a large set of discharge records that 
would have the best chance of finding events
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/overview/background/next-steps.html
December 01, 2009 - across multiple settings (ambulatory [primary care, specialty care], emergency department (ED), and inpatient … certificate data, one uses survey data, and others use other combinations. … The SNAC noted in particular the need for additional measures of specialty care, inpatient care, substance … although some States link NVSS data to Medicaid enrollment data. … Specifications are also available for using hospital discharge data.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/blike-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - 322  
Stat airway  79  
Mortality, Percent 2.73% 
AHRQ Safety indicator PSI4:
Death among surgical
inpatients … In addition, all institutional performance data,
equipment inventories, and patient safety data were … Pilot data collected included before and after survey 
data as to acceptance and utility. … score 
Measurement 
of recovery
after 
anesthesia 
At arrival 
to PACU,
and every
15 minutes,
until 
discharge … These data
are available in a comparative data set using risk adjustment with an Observed-to-Expected
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2019qdr-core-measures-quality.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Hospital Measures 
Among the core Person-Centered Care measures, only one speaks to inpatient quality … Measures 
Among all Care Coordination core measures, one measure pertaining to communication about discharge … Patient Discharge Adult hospital patients who did not receive good 
communication about discharge information … Source) 
Baseline Rate 
and Year 
Current Rate and 
Year AAPC P Value 
Patient Discharge Adult hospital … preferences and 
those of their family and caregiver into account 
when deciding what the patient’s discharge
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/small-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Pilot data from  our institution 
revealed that, not infrequently, primary care internal medicine and … A number of important  themes emerged from  analysis of the data. … applications that would (1) create forcing functions at key 
times in patient transit (i.e., admission, pre-discharge … , and discharge) to  ensure 
P20 HS 6 PI: Stephen D. … communication, with clear instructions on how to complete communication; and (3) 
ensure closure on discharge
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/sills-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - groups of 
patients: inpatients (objectives 2.4 and 2.5) and ED patients (objective 2.6).
4.2. … Data Sources/Collection
4.2.1. … ED 
and inpatient data from 41 non-profit tertiary-care children’s hospitals in the US, with 23 
hospitals … Finally, our use of a discharge diagnosis-based definition of ILI rather than virologic 
confirmation … Recently discharged inpatients as a source of
emergency department overcrowding.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/survey-methods-research/summary-research-meeting.pdf
January 01, 2019 - The emergency department (ED) is a unique 
setting because it bridges inpatient and outpatient care. … Case Study: Findings from Administering Child HCAHPS on the Day of Discharge  
– Sara Toomey, MD, MPhil … Findings from the study suggested that administering patient experience surveys prior to discharge 
using … rolling data but feeding it back to providers quarterly. … surveys can be complemented by other 
approaches to getting real-time input from patients, such as inpatient