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21. Oral, Linguistic, and Culturally Competent Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/cultural-competence/index.html
    August 01, 2019 - individuals of limited English proficiency (LEP) typically experience less adequate access to care, lower … and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care , states that: "Racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive a lower

22. Blood Pressure Control Evidence and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/evidence/blood-pressure.html
    March 01, 2021 - issued a dissenting opinion , and results from a more recent PCOR study called SPRINT  supported lower … DASH) eating plan, an evidence-based plan designed to reduce intake of salt, sugar, and fat to help lower … eating plan, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products, and other steps to help lower

23. Biden Administration Tackles Financial Strains on Healthcare Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2023 - address the misaligned incentives across the healthcare ecosystem to improve the quality of care and lower … Although financial strain is most prevalent among lower-income families, every sector of society experiences

24. Study Finds Evidence of Intentional Inappropriate Painkiller Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/846.html
    January 01, 2023 - Physicians Who Don’t Work in Teams, “Teamlets” Have Lower Burnout Rates . … Physicians Who Don’t Work in Teams, “Teamlets” Have Lower Burnout Rates Working in a team or collaboratively … Contrary to expectations, physicians who practiced independently had significantly lower rates of burnout

25. Reducing Disparities in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/persell_cvd_disparities.pdf
    September 18, 2014 - Will patients who receive outreach from care managers seek out and obtain statin treatment to lower … aimed at patients, as was done in this study) may more effectively increase appropriate statin use and lower

26. Hospital Admissions for Uncontrolled Diabetes Improving (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/dataspotlight-aian-diabetes.pdf
    December 01, 2018 - Lower rates are better. … Lower rates are better.

27. NQMC Measure Domain Framework | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2018 - In practical terms, the criterion of quality determines whether a higher or lower score for a measure … evidence must indicate whether the higher of the two results represents better or worse quality than the lower

28. What To Learn About the Audience for a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/your-audience/what-to-know.html
    November 01, 2018 - However, studies indicate that some older audiences have substantially lower literacy skills, which can … Those with lower incomes, for instance, may feel unable to consider factors beyond the costs of coverage

29. Understanding and Reducing Overuse of Potentially Harmful Screening Tests (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/sheridan_screening_overuse.pdf
    January 01, 2014 - strongly endorse the benefits of screening than the harms of screening, and this is correlated with lower … education and lower numeracy

30. Blacks Experiencing Fast-Rising Rates of Overdose Deaths Involving Synthetic Opioids Other Than Methadone (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/dataspotlight-opioid.pdf
    February 20, 2020 - Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.

31. 2014-Women-Chartbook (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/2014-women-chartbook.pdf
    January 01, 2014 - Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … For this measure, lower rates are better. … For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.

32. Explain Whether a High or Low Health Care Quality Score Is Better | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2016 - When you are choosing a hospital, you should look for the hospital that has a lower number of deaths … A lower number is shown by a shorter bar on the graph below.

33. USER GUIDE: Hand Hygiene Observational Audit Data Tracking Tool for Use in Skilled Nursing Facilities (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/hand-hygiene-audit-tool-userguide.pdf
    April 01, 2021 - your monthly observational audit data, begin on the first tab, labeled Instructions, located in the lower … Rates Tab All the data entered in each month is rolled up into the Summary Rates tab, located at the lower … the Summary Rates tab, the data entered each month is also rolled into multiple Rate tabs along the lower

34. An Update on the CAHPS Patient Narrative Item Sets - Martino (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-patient-narrative-martino.pdf
    June 01, 2021 - Control Sites Sites 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% Middle Income Lower … Income Middle Income Lower Income NEP Sites Control SitesNIS Sites Sample size (# of surveys): Intervention

35. Section 5: Determining Where To Focus Efforts To Improve Patient Experience (Page 1 of 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2020 - mean for the medical group (3.44), yet its mean score for the Provider Rating (8.21) is significantly lower … shown for the 75th percentile is the score where 75 percent of the sites or plans scored the same or lower … 25th percentile score of 52%, suggesting the need to investigate factors that may be influencing this lower … The correlations for the three PCMH supplemental composites are much lower than those for the core composites … The vertical line at 0.6 illustrates one way to differentiate higher and lower correlations, as correlations

36. EXCEL WORKSHEETS FOR CHARTS ON DATA, TRENDS, AND RATES TO POPULATE THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b3a_combo_chartinstructions.pdf
    June 05, 2016 - • The confidence interval of the risk-adjusted rate is identified in the SAS output as the lower … CL (lower confidence limit) and upper CL (upper confidence limit).

37. Why Does the Writing in a Health Care Quality Report Matter? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/writing/good-writing.html
    July 01, 2011 - People in Medicaid programs, for example, tend to read at the fifth grade level or lower, while literacy … skills for people age 65 and older are substantially lower than for the population as a whole. [3]

38. Transitioning to the SOPS™ Hospital Survey Version 2.0: What’s Different and What To Expect, Part I: Main Report (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/hsops2-pt1-transition-updated.pdf
    June 01, 2022 - HSOPS 1.0 for 9 out of 10 composite measures (2 to 18 percentage points higher on HSOPS 2.0) but were lower … on Hospital Management Support for Patient Safety (2 percentage points lower on HSOPS 2.0). … than scores on HSOPS 1.0 for 19 survey items (2 to 16 percentage points higher on HSOPS 2.0) but were lower … on 4 survey items (2 to 11 percentage points lower on HSOPS 2.0). … Six composite measures had smaller differences in scores (5 percentage points or lower on HSOPS 2.0)

39. The SHARE Approach—Achieving Patient-Centered Care with Shared Decisionmaking: A Brief for Administrators and Practice Leaders | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/shared-decision/tool/resource-9.html
    September 01, 2020 - Lower costs. … will help organizations in their efforts to achieve the Triple Aim of better care, better health, and lower … Lumbar spine surgery for lower back pain. Mastectomy for early breast cancer.

40. 2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Executive Summary (pdf file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2021qdr-final-es.pdf
    January 01, 2021 - these measures by insurance status showed that over time, people with public insurance experienced lower … by people under age 65 with public insurance reflect difficulty arranging a usual source of care, lower … quality communication from providers, and lower quality care for breast cancer. … reside in micropolitan and noncore counties (i.e., small towns and rural areas) had significantly lower