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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/936.html
November 01, 2024 - for Engaging Patients To Improve Diagnostic Safety as well as resources such as Calibrate Dx and Measure … AHRQ in the Professional Literature Rate of change in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging measures is
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/088-or-traffic.pptx
April 01, 2025 - Measure OR traffic weekly at varied times.
Support from leadership to support staff to speak up. … Cardiac surgical theatre traffic: time for traffic calming measures?
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www.ahrq.gov/chsp/events/coe-workshopissuebrief.html
January 01, 2017 - agreed that tax identification numbers, or TINs, would be the main linking variable to other datasets to measure … Given that the purpose of identifying health systems in secondary data sources is to ultimately measure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/teamwork-ptsafety-norms-slides.pdf
June 30, 2025 - accomplished that day to safely move the patient closer to transfer out of the ICU
or discharge home
• Measure … effectiveness of rounds—team dynamics, communication, quality
measure compliance, LOS
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Evidence
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/040-mrsa-surveillance-notes.docx
October 01, 2024 - This shift away from active MRSA surveillance reduces units’ ability to accurately measure the prevalence … community-acquired MRSA burden is present at the time of patients’ admission to the hospital, to monitor and measure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications2/files/dx-issue-brief-20-brazil-health-system.pdf
August 01, 2024 - The survey included 12 questions (Table 1) that cover the following composite
measure domains: Time … Figure 1 shows the percent positive
responses for each composite measure domain.
Figure 1.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/opt-briefings-slides.html
December 01, 2017 - Reducing SSIs, and TRIP:
ADAPTIVE WORK:
Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) :
Prework: Measure … Measure performance.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/027-cusp-program-sustainability-fg.docx
April 01, 2025 - established sustainable data collection process and ongoing evaluation and feedback are essential to measure … Check in routinely with the team to measure engagement and continued participation.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/webinar02/spc_slides.pptx
June 04, 2013 - Significance in an SPC Chart: Examples
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Uses of Control Charts
Monitor process measures … interventions
Monitor changes in individual patients (e.g., clinical outcomes, patient experience, financial measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/chart-abstraction-tracking-form.pdf
December 31, 2017 - Chart Audit Tracking Form
H2N Chart Abstraction
Protocol
iod
…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/workforce-financing/case_example_2.pdf
October 01, 2016 - clinical and IT background, to be shared with other health centers to
help with EHR design and quality-measure … historically supported QI
efforts to improve patient outcomes, support staff development, and meet quality measure … Despite providing the quality of care needed to meet measure requirements, not all
data are sufficiently … across the State has been a resource for
improving quality measurement, helping THC’s HIT workgroup measure … Comparing quality measures across payers will allow THC to ensure all data is recorded and data
entry
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/workforce-financing/case-example-2.html
July 01, 2019 - clinical and IT background, to be shared with other health centers to help with EHR design and quality-measure … historically supported QI efforts to improve patient outcomes, support staff development, and meet quality measure … Despite providing the quality of care needed to meet measure requirements, not all data are sufficiently … across the State has been a resource for improving quality measurement, helping THC's HIT workgroup measure … Comparing quality measures across payers will allow THC to ensure all data is recorded and data entry
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/nac/snac-romano.html
December 01, 2021 - he has published more than 220 peer-reviewed papers on developing, validating, and applying quality measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2023-nhqdr-es.pdf
January 01, 2023 - The overall pattern of nursing home quality measures suggests
that long-stay nursing home residents … • In contrast, measures that assess the effects of limiting interventions on residents or
limiting … The tables summarize each measure, and each table shows (1) key details about
the measure; (2) the nation … ’s overall performance (quality) on the measure; and (3) difference in
performance for priority populations … • Although racial and ethnic disparities for this measure narrowed between 2000 and 2019,
the percentage
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2023-nhqdr-es-rev.pdf
January 01, 2023 - The overall pattern of nursing home quality measures suggests
that long-stay nursing home residents … • In contrast, measures that assess the effects of limiting interventions on residents or
limiting … The tables summarize each measure, and each table shows (1) key details about
the measure; (2) the nation … ’s overall performance (quality) on the measure; and (3) difference in
performance for priority populations … • Although racial and ethnic disparities for this measure narrowed between 2000 and 2019,
the percentage
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/asc/composite-measures-spanish.pdf
January 01, 2015 - Spanish survey items are grouped according to the patient safety culture composites they are
intended to measure
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/explain.html
March 01, 2016 - Ideally, all your measures would be in the same direction, but sometimes that is just not possible. … When you cannot show all measures in the same direction, you need to indicate clearly whether to look
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/services/quality/patientsftyupdate/ptsafetysum.pdf
March 01, 2013 - Constructs about the PSP, its components, context
factors, outcomes, and ways to accurately measure … Note:
Rating Scales:
Scope of the problem targeted by the PSP (frequency/severity): frequency = rare … number of areas, including the
following: “Basic” patient safety research to develop
new tools and measures … , and research to ensure that the
tool matches the problem
• A larger number of valid measures of … patient safety
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• Better methods to measure context and how an
intervention was implemented
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/5-sops101-webcast-2023-kirchner.pdf
January 01, 2023 - Instruments & Supplemental
Item Sets
► English and Spanish
► PDF and Word
• Survey Items and Composite Measures … Community Pharmacies (8)
Ambulatory Surgery Centers (2)
Topics
Analyses Linking Composite
Measures
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/index.html
March 01, 2017 - Guidance that can be used to improve pediatric quality in hospitals using the PDIs or other quality measures … The QI Toolkit supports improvement of the AHRQ QIs as well as other hospital quality measures. … Project Charter
Includes a charter to help you define the implementation team, goals, and measures … quality indicators
Case study: Hospital Expands Use of AHRQ’s QI Toolkit To Improve Patient Safety Measures