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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/2019-nhsops-dbreport-partii.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Staffing 53% 47% 42% 36%
Average Across Composite Measures 71% 68% 66% 63%
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Table A-2. … Staffing 45% 46%
Average Across Composite Measures 65% 69%
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Table A-6. … Staffing 44% 46% 45% 45%
Average Across Composite Measures 65% 68% 68% 67%
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Table B-6. … Staffing 44% 52%
Average Across Composite Measures 66% 74%
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Table B-10. … Staffing 48% 46% 43%
Average Across Composite Measures 70% 68% 63%
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Table B-14.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/state-of-science-1.html
June 01, 2020 - diagnostic errors and near misses in a timely fashion.” 3
Although a coordinated national strategy to measure … While numerous healthcare performance measures exist (the National Quality Forum [NQF] currently endorses … hundreds of measures), 4,5 none is being used routinely to assess and address diagnostic errors. … It is thus reasonable to expect that HCOs will face increasing expectations to measure and improve diagnostic … are uncovered, analysis and learning are limited. 17
Although a coordinated national strategy to measure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/apcd/apcd-inventory.xlsx
October 01, 2015 - Sheet1
Measure Characteristics Overall Measure Inventory Details Deep Dive Measure Inventory … Details
Condition of Focus Measure Condition Subcategory Measure Type (Cost, Quality, or Utilization … Other measures in the Blueprint included clinical data (e.g., HbA1c control). … Other measures in the Blueprint included clinical data (e.g., HbA1c control). … The two measures complement each other.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool-other.html
March 01, 2013 - Additional self-report surveys, such as the 3-Item Care Transition Measure (CTM-3), may be considered … Expected rates of improvement
Measure
Expected Improvement
30-day readmissions
2 percentage … percent of transitions
It appears that 30-day all-cause rehospitalization rates will be a key measure … If readmission rates are to be a key measure, then it is important that the definition be clear and the … Using current risk-standardized measures (go to How CMS Measures the "30-Day All Cause Rehospitalization
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/amplify-impact-webinar.html
October 01, 2020 - It reads from left to right: from calculate quality measure, to use measures to drive quality improvement … Quality measures
Adjusting measure specifications for practice-level reporting. … Quality measures
Adjusting measure specifications for practice-level reporting. … , actionable measures. … Quality measures
Adjusting measure specifications for practice-level reporting.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/medical-office/2022-MOSOPS-Database-Report-Part-II-508.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Database
SOPS Composite Measures
Number of Providers
1 2 3 4 to 9 10 to 13 14 to 19 20 or More … Multispecialty – 2022 SOPS Medical Office Database
SOPS Composite Measures
Single Specialty vs. … Database
SOPS Composite Measures
Primary Care Specialties
Family Pract./
Family Med./
General … SOPS Composite Measures
Ownership
Community
Health Center
Hospital or
Health System
Provider … SOPS Composite Measures
Staff Position
Admin./
Clerical
Staff Mgmt.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/patient-safety-technology-resources.pdf
May 01, 2023 - Contents
Resources by Composite Measure 3
Composite Measure 1. … EHR System Training 3
Composite Measure 2. … Composite Measure 1. EHR System Training
1. … Resources by Additional Measures
EHR Patient Safety and Quality Issues
1. … Contents
Resources by Composite Measure
Composite Measure 1. EHR System Training
1.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/find6.html
December 01, 2012 - Rates of potentially avoidable hospital admissions that are captured in the measures vary dramatically … These measures are not intended to measure the performance of HCBS providers or policy but rather to … These patterns tend to hold across measures even though each measure has a different average rate. … The findings may be explained by the choice of measures, because the outcome indicators tend to relate … These findings suggest that these indicators may be useful measures of health disparities, further work
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www.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/hspc-research-study/appendix-b.html
June 01, 2020 - a process measure, but a measure of patient referrals would count. … It includes measures of drug shortages (which is also an access measure). … It includes measures of insurer coverage decisions. … Patient satisfaction measures are sometimes counted as measures of Personal Preferences, according to … the following rules: (a) if the patient satisfaction measure is solely used as a measure of health service
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201511.html
May 01, 2015 - Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS®), a standardized survey that measures … discharge orders
"Our hospital began implementing the HCAHPS survey in 2010 to improve three key measures … To address the "response of hospital staff" measure, St. Joseph's developed diverse strategies. … For the "communication with doctors" measure, the hospital began using HCAHPS survey scores to develop … Finally, to address the measure related to improving patient discharges, the hospital used AHRQ's RED
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/system/delivery-system-initiative/casalino/casalino.ppt
February 16, 2011 - hard to improve what you can’t measure
we often measure less, rather than more, important things
increased … P4P, public reporting, “shared savings”) measures had better be good
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Examples of research questions … at what level is it desirable and feasible to measure quality (e.g. individual MD, medical group, accountable … how can electronic medical records be used to measure performance?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/a1b_combo_psifactsheet.pdf
October 01, 2015 - PSI 90 is a composite measure that is intended to reflect the safety climate of the hospital by
providing … A detailed list of indicator specifications, software for calculating the measures, and software
documentation … is based on a count of events.
** Composite measure
Based on AHRQ QI software version 5.0 for ICD … coding with ICD-10 codes, there are no available
national data that allow hospitals to compare their measures … to national benchmarks; however,
future versions of the software will calculate risk-adjusted measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2021qdr-appendixes.pdf
December 01, 2021 - Sources Used for 2021 NHQDR
Appendix B: Definitions and Abbreviations Used in 2021 NHQDR
Appendix C: Measures … OASIS 2018
Home health care patients who had timely initiation of care OASIS 2018
Appendix C: Measures … MDS 2018
Home health care patients whose shortness of breath decreased OASIS 2018
Appendix C: Measures … or clinic visit in the
months, Medicare managed care
(best
last 12
NCBD 2019
Appendix C: Measures … OASIS 2018
Home health care patients who had timely initiation of care OASIS 2018
Appendix C: Measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cg/Comparison_of_CG-CAHPS_v3_and_v2.pdf
July 01, 2015 - This version of the survey adds one composite measure for care
coordination (“Providers’ Use of Information … A full list of the measures in the CG-CAHPS Survey is provided in the Appendix. … Comparison of Site-Level Top Box Scores
Composite Measure
Site-Level Top Box Scores
CG-CAHPS 2.0 … Comparison of Internal Consistency Reliability2
Composite Measure
Internal Consistency Reliability … Comparison of Site Reliability Based on Case-Mix Adjusted Means3
Composite Measure
Site Reliability
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/2014nhqdr-hispanichealth-pt2.pdf
July 01, 2015 - ■ About half of measures for diabetes care and maternity care were improving. … of the gap was observed for several measures of cancer and diabetes
care. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/h2h/overview.html
July 01, 2021 - Quality of Pediatric Hospital-to-Home Transitions Toolkit
Introduction
Overview
About the Measure … (COE4CCN) created Transitions of Care Quality Measures. … These quality measures used medical records as a data source. … Of the three measures developed, family/caregiver written discharge instructions content was selected … The measure was also selected due to high scores among a few teams.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/access/qdr2015-chartbook-access.pdf
January 01, 2020 - Figures illustrating select measures of access. … For most measures, data from 2013 are shown. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. White and Black are non-Hispanic. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/medical-office/2020_MOSOPS_Part_II_508.pdf
January 01, 2020 - Highlights
were based on results for the 10 SOPS composite measures. … Database
Number of Providers
SOPS Composite Measures 1 2 3 4 to 9 10 to 13 14 to 19 20 or More … Database
SOPS Composite Measures
Primary Care Specialties
Family Pract./
Family Med. … SOPS Composite Measures
Ownership
Community
Health Ctr./
Fed., State, or
Local Govt. … SOPS Composite Measures
Staff Position
Admin./
Clerical
Staff Mgmt.
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/evidence/aspirin.html
March 01, 2021 - The measure used by EvidenceNOW to evaluate aspirin use reflects the percentage of patients with heart … The National Quality Forum also endorsed this measure (NQF 0068), which is used by the Centers for Medicare … (Measure ID: CMS 164)
The EvidenceNOW goal for primary care practices in the study is to have at least … It also contains information on the use of performance measures.
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/literacy/index.html
December 01, 2022 - They are intended to serve as both a measure of whether health care professionals have succeeded in reducing … Users of these item sets can report the results for individual items as well as a few composite measures … Literacy Items to identify factors that may be affecting their scores on the survey's communication measure … Measure the effect of behaviors that promote effective communication (e.g., confirming understanding