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121. All-Payer Claims Databases | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

122. Dramatic Rise in Opioid-Related Deaths, Especially Among Blacks (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.

123. The TeamSTEPPS for Improving Diagnosis Team Assessment Tool: Scale Development and Psychometric Evaluation (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2024 - However, few valid and reli- able teamwork measures exist in health care. 6 Teamwork in- terventions … TAT’s structure (in other words, high correlations between corresponding domains of the equivalent scales … These are two fundamental at- tributes of a high-quality measure. … Best practices for developing and vali- dating scales for health, social, and behavioral research: a … Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires. 3rd ed.

124. Clinical Recommendation: Statins in Primary Prevention of CVD | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2018 - Needs Women Programs Featured Clinicians & Providers Data & Measures … Resource description: This clinical recommendation summarizes the use of statins as a preventive measure

125. Methods To Estimate the Baseline 2010 PFP National Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

126. Types of Health Care Quality Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

127. Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2008 - Both process and outcome measures can demonstrate how the organization has met its goals for involving … Suggested process measures include: • Number of project teams that include patients as team members … Suggested outcome measures include: • Evaluation scores from each patient advisory council meeting that … Two post-intervention measures at 6 and 12 months following the implementation of specific strategies … Measure council members’ satisfaction with the project. b.

128. Measures of Quality for Different Health Care Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

129. When It Comes to High-Quality Healthcare, Diagnostic Safety Tops the List | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Needs Women Programs Featured Clinicians & Providers 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

130. About SOPS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - Needs Women Programs Featured Clinicians & Providers 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

131. Systemic and Public Policy Changes Needed To Improve Care for Patients With Psychiatric Conditions and Substance Use Disorders | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2023 - Needs Women Programs Featured Clinicians & Providers 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

132. Toolkit for Engaging Patients To Improve Diagnostic Safety  | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2022 - Needs Women Programs Featured Clinicians & Providers 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

133. Organizing Quality Measures by Domains of Health Care Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

134. Iowa’s Waverly Health Center Uses AHRQ Tools to Improve Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2018 - Needs Women Programs Featured Clinicians & Providers Data & Measures … implementation, AHRQ's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture was administered as a benchmark measure … A 2012 survey conducted after implementation of the AHRQ resources showed the measure for "Improvement

135. Fall Prevention Program Implementation Guide (doc file)
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     September 01, 2017 - Has your hospital done baseline measurement of at least two fall process measures on your target units … If no, will you be able to measure two process measures monthly throughout your improvement efforts? … Collect process and outcome measures and feedback on new procedures. Communicate results. … What performance measures do you plan to continue collecting that will provide information for continuous … What You Can Do: Monitor process and outcome measures to determine what processes can be improved to

136. AHRQ Hospital Survey 2.0 User's Guide (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2021 - Patient Safety Culture, Version 2.0 User’s Guide 3 Most of the survey items use 5-point agreement scales … (“Strongly disagree” to “Strongly agree”) or frequency scales (“Never” to “Always”) and also include … • Composite measure results—do not report results for a composite measure if any item within that … The midpoints of the scales are reported as a separate category (Neither Agree nor Disagree or Sometimes … Table 8 shows an example of computing a percent positive composite measure score for the composite measure

137. LTC Data Collection Tool (xls file)
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     March 01, 2017 - 1,000 resident days) (Number of collected urine cultures / Number of resident days ) x 10,000 0 Measure

138. 20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2011 - Ask your pharmacist for the best device to measure your liquid medicine. … Special devices, like marked syringes, help people measure the right dose.

139. AHRQ Views: A Unique Effort To Advance Care for People Living With Long COVID | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Its review of NHQDR priority areas describes quality measure trends between 2002 and 2022 in several … areas, including: Patient-centeredness, in which 11 measures improved and six did not change. … Healthy living, in which 26 measures improved, 25 did not change, and four worsened. … Care coordination, in which 11 measures improved, 14 did not change, and three worsened. … Truth of colorectal enhanced recovery programs: process measure compliance in 151 hospitals.

140. AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - Needs Women Programs Featured Clinicians & Providers Data & Measures … Standardized Quality Measures . Conducting a "Last 10 Patients" Chart Audit . … administer a practice assessment, create surveys, and use survey results to generate improvement ideas and measure … Standardized Quality Measures – Learn how to determine which measures a practice is reporting on, find … measure specifications, calculate and benchmark performance, conduct a fall-out analysis, and create