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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/index.html
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Data & Measures … End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Clinics
Pharmacy
Multiple Settings
Quality Measures … CAHPS ® Clinician & Group Survey was developed by AHRQ and designed to measure patients’ experiences … The surveys are developed from the patient’s perspective on what’s important to measure.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/hospitals/databases.html
January 01, 2023 - Used for Hospital Quality Measures … To Report
Domains of Healthcare Quality
Types of Quality Measures
Data Sources … Key Questions About Measures
Measures in Different Settings
Measuring Hospital Quality … Hospital Measure Examples
Hospital Measurement Sets
Databases Used for Hospital Quality … Many hospital quality measures are created using hospital administrative discharge data.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/Tackling_Low_Health_Literacy_Among_PCP_2012_05_01_Transcript.pdf
January 01, 2012 - So how are you going to measure this broader definition of
health literacy or the broader concept of … You know, one of the limitations is being able to measure this and right now the CAHPS Health Literacy … physicians and clinicians and things may think they’re doing well at health literacy, if they don’t
really measure … those patient perceptions, they’re not going to really get a true measure and know that. … As far as
we’re concerned, there’s no better way to measure the patient experience than through using
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/presentation.html
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Data & Measures … topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … Organizing Quality Measures
Choosing Point of Comparison
Displaying Data
Using … Consumers must figure out:
What each measure tells them about the quality of care
Whether that information … value of making sure people can easily and quickly identify the high and low performers on any quality measure
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/index.html
February 01, 2018 - A first step toward developing and refining measures for use with APCD data is the development of an … inventory of price, utilization, and potentially, quality and episode of care measures. … Develop an inventory and assemble initial specifications for specific APCD-based measures. … Related Content
APCD Measure Inventory
Expanding and Enhancing All Payer Claims Database System Capacity … To Support the Growing Effort in Transparency Using All-Payer Claims Databases
Measure Inventory for
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/events/2020-meeting-summary.html
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Data & Measures … focus on improving customer service by oversampling plan members, analyzing trends in CAHPS composite measures … Based on a trend analysis, Kaiser Permanente identified the CAHPS “medication communication” composite measure … result of these efforts, Kaiser Permanente’s scores for the HCAHPS medication communication composite measure … identified the need to improve scores on the “listening carefully regarding care problems” composite measure
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/burnout-in-primary-care-guide.html
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Data & Measures … For example, for practices wishing to measure staff burnout, the tool offers a variety of survey instruments … work of grantee Mark Linzer, M.D. , who developed a tool used by thousands of medical providers to measure
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module1/module1_pu-whychange.docx
July 12, 2017 - outcome measures from the beginning, which is your baseline. … These measures tell the story of your prevention efforts. … You absolutely need to collect baseline measures. … If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. … How often are you going to measure?
Who will collect the data?
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/methods.html
December 01, 2017 - Collectively, 28 specific measures are used: 14 measures to generate rates for the 9 specific PFP HACs … The measures are shown in Table 1 below.
Table 1. … Conditions
Source
Measure
Adverse Drug Event (ADE)
MPSMS
ADE Associated With Digoxin
MPSMS … Summary of Ratio Calculations
PFP HAC Category
MPSMS Measure
Rate per 1,000 Discharges in FFS Medicare … It makes sense to think, for example, that because many of the adverse events we measure are less common
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/types.html
July 01, 2015 - as either a structure, process, or outcome measure. … Structural Measures
Structural measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity … The majority of health care quality measures used for public reporting are process measures. … Outcome Measures
Outcome measures reflect the impact of the health care service or intervention on … Also in "Select Measures to Report"
The Six Domains of Health Care Quality
Types of Measures You
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/index.html
January 01, 2023 - To Report
Measures in Different Settings … To Report
Domains of Healthcare Quality
Types of Quality Measures
Data Sources … Key Questions About Measures
Measures in Different Settings
Measuring Hospital Quality … Measures of Hospital Quality
Measures of Health Plan Quality
Measures of Physician Quality
Measures … Types of Measures You Can Report
Understanding Data Sources
Selecting the Right Measures for Your
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/data-resources/index.html
January 01, 2024 - Needs
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Data & Measures … CAHPS surveys measure what actually happened, or how often something happened to the patient in a healthcare … For additional information about MEPS and its use to measure primary care spending in the U.S. population
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/diagnostic-safety-tops-the-list.html
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Data & Measures … Ten Diagnostic Safety Centers of Excellence are working to better characterize, understand, and measure … are increasingly recognized as a significant source of morbidity and mortality but are challenging to measure
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/consumer-experience-measurement.html
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Data & Measures … Too often we measure patient experience for a single transaction, rather than an episode of care or longitudinally … Patient- experience measures to assess these innovations would be helpful to ensure the innovations are … AHRQ’s CAHPS® Program is an initiative created to standardize how healthcare providers measure patients
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sops/about/index.html
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Data & Measures … The SOPS Program is a full-service program designed to understand, measure, and improve patient safety … Hosting voluntary databases to help organizations measure and track improvements in patient safety culture
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science.pdf
April 02, 2020 - Although a coordinated
national strategy to measure
diagnostic safety remains
an aspirational goal … Currently, measures of
diagnostic performance and safety are not among these required measures, and … The current lack of incentives and models to measure diagnostic
safety can make it difficult to get … Measures to improve diagnostic safety in clinical practice. … Patient safety: let’s measure what matters.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/847.html
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Data & Measures … He has developed methods to measure and prevent errors in health information technology systems, including … development of the Wrong-Patient Retract-and-Reorder (RAR) Measure that detects wrong patient orders … The RAR Measure has facilitated a large body of patient safety research, including medication errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/engaging-patients-improve.html
July 01, 2022 - Needs
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Data & Measures … on Diagnostic Safety and Quality
Tools To Improve Diagnostic Safety
Calibrate Dx
Measure … Evaluation Planning Tool (PDF, 205 KB) provides several recommended approaches to measure success of
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/organize/quality-domain.html
December 01, 2022 - Organizing Quality Measures
Composite Measures
Measures by Quality Domain
Measures … by Disease or Condition
Measures by Type
Measures by Data Source
Choosing Point … in the Select Measures section of this site uses this framework; to read this discussion, go to: Measures … It is relatively easy to “map” measures into these categories. … Measures by Disease or Condition
Organizing Measures by Type
Organizing Measures by Data Source
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/organize/disease.html
May 01, 2019 - Organizing Quality Measures
Composite Measures
Measures by Quality Domain
Measures … by Disease or Condition
Measures by Type
Measures by Data Source
Choosing Point … that are cross-cutting, such as patient experience measures. … Also in "Organizing Measures To Reduce Information Overload"
Using Composites
Organizing Measures … by Quality Domain
Organizing Measures by Disease or Condition
Organizing Measures by Type
Organizing