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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/events/2020-meeting-summary.html
December 01, 2020 - Needs
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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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talkingquality.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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talkingquality.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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talkingquality.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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talkingquality.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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talkingquality.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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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/diagnostic-safety-tops-the-list.html
March 01, 2024 - Needs
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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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talkingquality.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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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/consumer-experience-measurement.html
September 01, 2023 - Needs
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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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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sops/about/index.html
November 01, 2023 - Needs
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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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talkingquality.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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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/847.html
January 01, 2023 - Needs
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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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talkingquality.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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talkingquality.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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talkingquality.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
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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/high-quality-behavioral-healthcare.html
December 01, 2022 - Needs
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Data & Measures … AHRQ National Advisory Council recognizes that the country is at a critical juncture to define and measure … Early efforts at quality measurement in behavioral healthcare have focused on a few screening measures … and measures of follow-up after inpatient psychiatric care or starting medications. … However, the evidence base supporting specific time frames for follow-up and the “right” way to measure
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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/mosaly-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - requires
participants to perform 15 pairwise comparisons between dimensions to derive their relative weights … The ratings are then combined to calculate a measure of
participants’ mental WL as a composite NASA-TLX … including radiation oncology.6,7,12-13
Application: In the current study, NASA-TLX was administered to measure … in pupil diameter and blink frequency have been suggested to provide an
objective (physiological) measure … resources (D), availability of attentional supply (S), and understanding of the situation
(U) -- to measure
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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/905.html
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.
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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/modules/index.html
April 01, 2022 - Needs
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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
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talkingquality.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/organize/index.html
March 01, 2016 - Organizing Quality Measures
Composite Measures
Measures by Quality Domain
Measures … by Disease or Condition
Measures by Type
Measures by Data Source
Choosing Point … One goal of the report designer is to organize the measures so that people have an intuitive sense of … Using Composites
Organizing Measures by Quality Domain (e.g., safety, effectiveness, timeliness) … Measures by Type (e.g., structure, process, outcome, patient experience)
Organizing Measures by Data