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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/monitoring-intensification-treatment-hyperglycemia-and-hyperlipidemia/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - Therefore, it is important to know which measures are best associated with clinical outcomes. … Turchin and his team developed a physician performance process measure using both structured and unstructured … Specific Aims:
Test the hypothesis that an accurate measure of treatment intensification in the management … computational analysis of the text of physician notes in the EHR. ( Achieved )
Test the hypothesis that the measure … treatment intensification at a given visit. ( Achieved )
Test the hypothesis that case mix-adjusted measure
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_017948_koopman_pdf_3.pdf
January 01, 2011 - To help examine the question of patient readiness, the
project team is developing a practical measure … Specific Aims:
• Develop a measure of the readiness (aptitude and desire) of patients with chronic conditions … This measure
will be called the Electronic Health Information Exchange Readiness Scale (E-HIERS). … frequency and type of use of Web-based health resources are associated with
improvements in clinical measures … These results were
used to inform development of the scale to measure patient readiness to use Internet
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/shoemaker-sarah
January 01, 2023 - Development of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT): A new measure … Development of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT): A new measure of understandability
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs015431-brooks-final-report-2007.pdf
January 01, 2007 - measures as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
measures. … Three of these measures come from the AHRQ
Inpatient Quality Indicator (IQI) measure set: in-hospital … The questions contained rating scales and
opportunities for open-ended comments.
5. … AHRQ PSI
Table 4 – RCT group by time analysis of heart failure core measures
HF Measure
Table 5 … – RCT group by time analysis of the pneumonia core measures
PN Measure
Table 6 – RCT group by time
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/ahrq-funded-project-resources-archives/mock-feedback-report
January 01, 2023 - Mock Feedback Report
Description
A sample Quality Measure Report for "Appropriate
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/phillips-robert
January 01, 2023 - Phillips, Robert
Clinical quality measure exchange is not easy. … Clinical quality measure exchange is not easy. … certification portal and found that the availability of that data did not result in improvement of quality measures
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/crossing_the_quality_assessment_chasm__aligning_measured_and_true_quality_of_care_2010_pdf__2.pdf
January 01, 2010 - University of Pennsylvania Health System’s (UPHS’s) ambulatory practices, where the current cross-
sectional measures … was able
to leverage detailed and discrete data from electronic medical records (EMRs) to develop measures … The result of the analysis is
intended to create a new set of quality measures that better reflects … structural and clinical issues that may affect the validity of comparisons made by providers
using quality measures … In 2006, there was a problem with the reagents used to
measure the HbA1c which artificially lowered
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs022701-ornstein-final-report-2014.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Second, the utility of this measure in improving
care was questioned. … impact performance on outcome measures. … on
outcome measures. … Included in Performance Assessment
Measure Title Measure Description Mean %
among
Practices
Standard … Included in Performance Assessment
Measure Title
Table 2.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-bibliography/quality-measurement-and-improvement/automated
This paper evaluated the accuracy of automated review of electronic medical record (EHR) data to measure … Automated review of EHR data to measure the quality of care of outpatients with heart failure missed … As a result, it sometimes underestimated performance on medication-based quality measures.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/quality-metrics-transcript-042811.pdf
December 31, 2007 - and multiple preventive care measures. … availability of
electronic health data, the data that was being incorporated into quality assessment scales … Or the
measure is not accounting for the fact that the patients are sicker by some measure, or it’s … Can a good or
poor measure in one patient in a panel skew the overall quality measure? … Regardless of these more general quality measures, the implication of this new quality measure are
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs020696-ballard-final-report-2013.pdf
January 01, 2013 - The
primary outcome was the HealthPartners’ “optimal care” measure: HbA1c ≤ 8%; LDL-
cholesterol <100 … and
outcome measures. … Measures
Our primary analysis assessed the HealthPartners Optimal Diabetes Care measure, adopted
by … Each outcome measure was summarized over all patient-years (annual
observations on a single patient) … The effect of DMF exposure on the outcome
measure was assessed by testing β1 = 0.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/biblio/Evaluation%20Teleconference-4-27-05.ppt
April 18, 2005 - General Approach to Evaluation
Deciding what to Measure
Study Design Types
Analytical issues in HIT … evaluations
Some practical advice on specific evaluation techniques
Why Measure Impact of HIT … associated measures:
Each step of the process above may have one or more associated measures
Some, … Identify measures
Process Measure
Data Presentation (Redundant test ordering)
ADE Alert Alert frequency … Process Measure
Stakeholder attitudes Attitude/Satisfaction surveys
Readiness Assessment
Staff
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-precision-performance-measurement-conduct-focused-quality-improvement/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - A quality measure may be recorded as not having been met because a patient was incorrectly considered … The project uses previously developed quality measurement programs that examine EHR data to measure quality … Exception codes are being introduced into the EHR for 18 national quality measures. … to assess changes in the primary outcome: the proportion of eligible patients who do not satisfy a measure … One measure improved at a significantly slower rate, and the performance of mammography declined due
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015234-thomas-final-report-2008.pdf
January 01, 2008 - The main outcome measures of the
chart review were ICU mortality, hospital mortality, ICU complications … Appendix 1) and an
additional eight teamwork items and six safety climate items that were not part of the scales … These two scales and items are
from the psychometrically validated Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ … Extensive exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses had
already been performed on these scales (13 … Measure Cost Effectiveness
Results
1.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs022166-beebe-final-report-2016.pdf
January 01, 2016 - measure at six months and 119 completed at least one measure at nine months. … Measures. … The MARS1 was used to measure self-
reported medication adherence. … at least one measure at 9 months. … Measures.
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digital.ahrq.gov/location/usa-ca-merced
January 01, 2023 - USA, CA, Merced
Quality Indicators Care Coordination Measures Project … Description
This project developed the Care Coordination Measures Atlas, which catalogues … 61 measures of care coordination, maps them to elements of a care coordination measurement framework, … and summarizes key measure properties.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/evaluating_health_it_projects___a_state_perspective_6.pdf
October 01, 2009 - And then some of the key measures that you’re looking at, clinical measures or
otherwise, might not … Finally, in looking for measures and things to measure, I strongly encourage teams to again pull
in … So measure by measure, you want to ask yourself, is this project
that we’re undertaking, is it going … of doing those measures. … And kind of the outline of how to do that, you list the first measure. You’ve got 3-5 measures.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/evaluating_health_it_projects___a_primer_for_medicaid_and_schip_6.pdf
October 01, 2009 - And then some of the key measures that you’re looking at, clinical measures or
otherwise, might not … Finally, in looking for measures and things to measure, I strongly encourage teams to again pull
in … So measure by measure, you want to ask yourself, is this project
that we’re undertaking, is it going … of doing those measures. … And kind of the outline of how to do that, you list the first measure. You’ve got 3-5 measures.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/using_precision_performance_measurement_to_conduct_focused_quality_improvement_2010pdf_2.pdf
August 01, 2011 - A quality measure may be recorded as not having been
met because a patient was incorrectly considered … The project uses
previously developed quality measurement programs that examine EHR data to measure … Exception codes are being introduced into the EHR for 18 national quality measures. … to assess changes in the primary outcome: the proportion of eligible patients
who do not satisfy a measure … One measure improved at a significantly slower rate, and the performance of mammography
declined due
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/monitoring_intensification_of_treatment_for_hyperglycemia_and_hyperlipidemia_2010_pdf__2.pdf
January 01, 2010 - Therefore, it is important to know which measures
are best associated with clinical outcomes. … Turchin and his team developed a physician performance process
measure using both structured and unstructured … HyperglyceMia and HyperlipideMia
2010 Grant Summary
Specific Aims:
• Test the hypothesis that an accurate measure … (Achieved)
• Test the hypothesis that the measure of treatment intensification developed in the first … (Achieved)
• Test the hypothesis that case mix-adjusted measure of intensification for treating hyperglycemia