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41. Physiologic Predictors of Severe Injury: Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - Included measures have: Low sensitivities, so normal values on the physiologic measure (a negative … High specificities, meaning abnormal values on the physiologic measure (positive test) are unlikely in … Combinations of physiologic measures with measures of consciousness may perform better than physiologic … shock index, 0.77 for lactate, 0.70 for respiratory rate, and 0.89 for Revised Trauma Score combination measure … level considered excellent was for the Glasgow Coma Scale, age, and arterial pressure (GAP) combination measure

42. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-quantitative-synthesis_methods.pdf
    October 01, 2010 - The reported measures or study design could prescribe the choice of effect measures. … Investigators can combine mean differences if multiple trials report results using the same or similar scales … Standardized mean difference (SMD) is typically used when the outcome is measured using different scales … continuous outcomes, mean difference should be used if results are reported using the same or similar scales … and standardized mean difference should be used when results are reported in different scales. 7.

43. Conducting Quantitative Synthesis when Comparing Medical Interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguide_conductingquantitativesynthesis.pdf
    October 01, 2010 - The reported measures or study design could prescribe the choice of effect measures. … Investigators can combine mean differences if multiple trials report results using the same or similar scales … Standardized mean difference (SMD) is typically used when the outcome is measured using different scales … continuous outcomes, mean difference should be used if results are reported using the same or similar scales … and standardized mean difference should be used when results are reported in different scales. 7.

44. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 44: Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending (pdf file)
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    May 17, 2024 - of primary care spending, not just more standardized measures. … and different measure features with outcomes. … It might be worth explicitly calling out the possibility of gaming different measures, and which measure … and extent of variation in the decisions made for each of those dimensions in existing measures. … Different measures simply reflect that primary care means different things to different people Our

45. Disposition of Comments Report for Relationship Between Use of Quality Measures and Improved Outcomes in Serious Mental Illness (pdf file)
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    January 15, 2015 - We have to use process measures because we can’t measure outcomes; but use of these measures has not … development through creation of a virtual “measure incubator.” … The goal is not a single measure or metric, but rather a list of potentially relevant QMs. … In a few situations, it wasn’t clear to me why a measure was listed as outcome vs a proxy measure. … Challenges with patient rated scales being used for mandated quality measures due to factors that make

46. Thyroid Tests | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 10, 2010 - Blood tests for your thyroid include TSH - measures thyroid-stimulating hormone. … It is the most accurate measure of thyroid activity. … T3 and T4 - measure different thyroid hormones. … TSI - measures thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulin. … Antithyroid antibody test - measures antibodies (markers in the blood).

47. Respectful Maternity Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    October 01, 2024 - Components of tools identified as having good validity to measure RMC incorporated themes of privacy, … the urgent need to implement RMC, goals for RMC must include further testing of reliable performance measures … Tools that measured RMC performed well based on psychometric measures, but no single tool stood out as … the best measure of RMC. … Validated tools to measure RMC performed well based on psychometric measures but have been subject to

48. Effects of Dietary Sodium and Potassium Intake on Chronic Disease Outcomes and Related Risk Factors | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/sodium-potassium/research-protocol
    January 01, 2019 - Valid assessment measures will be selected together with input from the Technical Expert Panel (TEP) … amounts of sodium and sodium chloride [salt] or sodium-to-potassium ratio) with validated measures or … amounts of sodium and sodium chloride [salt] or sodium-to-potassium ratio) with validated measures or … , and use of compatible outcome measures. … or similar magnitude of effect, within and across study designs), directness (i.e., of study outcome measures

49. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2023 - III report also found moderate strength of evidence linking manual screening tool use to process measure … All the multicomponent sepsis intervention PSPs reported improvement in at least one process measure … , however, only two showed improvements in outcome measures. … (NCQA) patient safety related measures. … SEP-1—Taking the Measure of a Measure.

50. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Sepsis Prediction, Recognition, and Intervention | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    September 01, 2023 - , and there are conflicting results from studies assessing the association of the SEP-1 performance measure … All the multicomponent sepsis intervention PSPs reported improvement in at least one process measure, … however, only two showed improvements in outcome measures. … safety related measures. … SEP-1—Taking the Measure of a Measure.

51. Educating Session Participants (pdf file)
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    January 11, 2017 - procedures usually inform, educate participants  Materials should be comprehensible, engaging o Can measure …  Measure perceived independence, adequacy of information

52. Slide 1 (pdf file)
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    May 18, 2012 - procedures usually inform, educate participants • Materials should be comprehensible, engaging – Can measure … • Measure perceived independence, adequacy of information 3 � �Educating Session Participants

53. Draft Comment Form for Measure Criteria for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2024 - SHARE: Draft Comment Form for Measure … for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review Technical Brief December 17, 2024 Measure … Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma Research Protocol August 2, 2024 Pediatric Quality Measures … Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup … Internet Citation: Draft Comments: Draft Comment Form for Measure

54. Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 01, 2024 - , which were endorsed nationally. 2 , 3 In the second phase, PQMP 2.0 focused on pediatric measure usability … groups have identified vision, hearing, and developmental screening and followup as areas for pediatric measure … of mapping existing evidence as part of the lifecycle of pediatric measure development for vision, hearing … , or pre-post comparisons of a single intervention or measure implemented over time. … "[tiab] OR "quality measures"[tiab] OR “process measure”[tiab] OR “process measures”[tiab] OR “quality

55. Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments for Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/pelvic-pain/research-protocol
    December 01, 2020 - Other treatment categories include behavioral, physical therapy, and integrative health measures. … use of validated outcome measures as an inclusion/exclusion criterion. … Therefore, we will not restrict this review to validated outcome measures. … Validated Outcome Measures: A Core Outcome Measure for chronic pain recommended by the Initiative … Core outcome measures for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations. Pain.

56. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Review: Use of Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Within-Unit Transitions (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2025 - available information and included author, year, study design, frequency and severity of the harms, measures … reported any of the outcomes of fidelity to SBAR, clarity of communication, clinical outcomes, or measures … Other measures of harmful and nonharmful errors also decreased. … Other measures of harm declined, but the rate of falls, medication errors, procedure-related errors, … Some studies did not use the same outcome measures as the original I-PASS study, and other clinical

57. Methods Research Report: Improving Health Systems' Access to High-Quality Evidence: AHRQ EPC 2018 Pilot Projects Summary (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2019 - Duke University, Minnesota EPC Web Interactive Presentation of EPC Reports and Mapping to Quality Measures … Investigators needed to perform a review to identify relevant quality measures as this information is … Interactive Data Visualization Products • Quality measure indexing. … development Identify and match AHRQ EPC evidence reports associated with quality improvement measures … information added None Contextual information Contextual information Relevant Quality Measures

58. Transparency of Reporting Requirements Project: Management of Infertility | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/transparency-infertility/research-protocol
    January 01, 2019 - Date of completion Number of study arms Intervention description Study design Outcomes measures … ] Methods: Primary outcome measure M/D/P [Primary outcome measure] Results: All planned timepoints … outcome measure] Results: secondary outcome-2 reported [Secondary outcome measure] Results … : secondary outcome-3 reported [Secondary outcome measure] Results: secondary outcome-4 reported … [Secondary outcome measure] Results: secondary outcome-5 reported [Secondary outcome measure

59. Effects of Dietary Sodium and Potassium Intake on Chronic Disease (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/sodium-potassium_research-protocol.pdf
    April 18, 2017 - Valid assessment measures will be selected together with input from the Technical Expert Panel (TEP) … amounts of sodium and sodium chloride [salt] or sodium-to-potassium ratio) with validated measures … amounts of sodium and sodium chloride [salt] or sodium-to-potassium ratio) with validated measures … , and use of compatible outcome measures. … similar magnitude of effect, within and across study designs), directness (i.e., of study outcome measures

60. Hibbard-notes-151007 copy - Teresa (pdf file)
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    November 11, 2015 - patient activation we spent a lot of time on definitions to be very clear what it was we were trying to measure … twenty-­‐fivepercent of the variation is accounted  for by thosesame variables. 4 Here’s the measure … We ended  up using a Rasch analysis to create the measure. … is more precise and  consistent than  most social-­‐science-­‐based measures. … to havecostly utilization and to havetheir clinical  indicators within  rangefor most of these measures