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8721. Information Requirements (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/resource/davidson.pdf
      June 16, 2021 - Laboratory Test Result Measurement Value Varchar 255 No Laboratory Test Result Unit of Measure … Test Result Measurement Value Same SQL as in MFHC OBSERV_VALUE Laboratory Test Result Unit of Measure … Master LOINC Code Short Name Long Common Name LOINC Synonym Description Related Names Unit of Measure … Test Identifier LOINC Code (FK) Test Description Result Received Datetime Result Value Unit of Measure … Master LOINC Code Short Name Long Common Name LOINC Synonym Description Related Names Unit of Measure

8722. Race and Ethnicity Data Improvement Toolkit
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/raceethnicitytoolkit/about_grants_re.jsp
      July 01, 2016 - Procedure Classes for ICD-9-CM Surgery Flags for ICD-9-CM HCUP Supplemental Files NIS-Trend Weights … Data Improvement through Data Linkages and Data Validation New Measures to Access the Quality of Race … State Databases ( PDF file, 170 KB; HTML ) A presentation on a project to develop validated audit measures … of a project to link death certificate data with the NTR to examine the underestimation of mortality measures

8723. Qi-Strategies-Practices (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/qi-strategies-practices.pdf
      March 01, 2015 - Chief Operating Officer, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative performance measure sets used … by 23 health plans and found that they used 546 distinct measures, with widespread variation in both … While practice facilitators cannot necessarily align performance measures, understanding this context … As another alternative, payers could choose to offer practices some flexibility in the measures they … are required to report to allow practices to report those measures most applicable to their patient

8724. Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical Site Infections in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpra.pdf
      March 01, 2012 - Importance Measures Importance measures are used to rank the most significant individual risks, based … , and Fussell–Vesely measures.8 These measures anchor an individual risk estimate within the context … For example, the Birnbaum measure ranks the risks based upon the relative contribution of individual … On the other hand, the criticality measure is a measure of absolute risk, which identifies the independent … For this study, we focused on the criticality measure, because this measure permitted the rank ordering

8725. Patient-Centered Postoperative Wound Surveillance Using Current Technology - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs023395-kent-final-report-2017.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - Gwet AC is a statistical measure of inter-rater agreement for qualitative and categorical items when … Measures and Analysis We consulted ISO 9241-11 in designing the format for formal usability testing … training, participants or their caregiver completed the System Usability Scale, a validated scale to measure … Measures The primary endpoints of this pilot trial were participant adherence to and satisfaction with … A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educ Psychol Meas 1960;20:37-46. 34. Gwet KL.

8726. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights: Improving Healthcare Safety by Enhancing Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/highlights/ps-project-highlights-hit-hie-2025.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - maturity study found statistically significant correlations between IT sophistication and quality measures … of Missouri Columbia, Missouri R01 HS022497 [Grant] A National Report of Nursing Home Quality Measures … grant resulted in 23 publications to date, primarily focused on information technology and quality measures … and maturity stages have not been measured previously or linked with national nursing home quality measures … Report Purpose: To assess the impact of prescriptions incorporating patient medications, allergies, weights

8727. Implementation Guide for the CANDOR Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/impguide.html
      August 01, 2022 - ACTIVITY: Identifying Data and Outcome Measures The Gap Analysis can be used to help you establish … a baseline from which to measure change over time. … During Phase II, the organization should begin to collect data on process and outcome measures. … Data collection during this phase includes collection of CANDOR process measures related to patient safety … organization continue to train and educate staff and to evaluate success through data collection and outcome measures

8728. BLUES project list of refined metrics | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/ahrq-funded-project-resources-archives/blues-project-list-refined
      January 01, 2023 - list of refined metrics Description A list of clinical outcome and process measures

8729. Final Progress Report: The National Quality Forum Fall Policy Conference 2008 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/mcneil-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - ACOVE measures were developed in response to a dearth of measurement tools aimed at the medical care … areas of care in need of improvement • ACOVE quality indicators were the first set of healthcare measures

8730. 6. Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata6.html
      May 01, 2018 - potential to reduce repetitive collection and to facilitate the linkage of demographics to some quality measures … Initiative (PQRI) The Medicare PQRI establishes incentive payments for physicians who report on quality measures … Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) has extended PQRI but not its funding indefinitely, 10 increased the measure … set to 153 individual measures, and added a whole array of different reporting options that interface … National Healthcare Quality Reports show that even as quality of care improves overall on specific measures

8731. Disposition of Comments for CER 195 Management of Uterine Fibroids (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-195-disposition-comments-uterine-fibroids.pdf
      December 14, 2017 - As above, change is a type of outcome measure. … Reviewer (Allergen) Methods Quality of Life (pg. 11) – AHRQ’s Current Symptom Severity Scale Does Not Measure … In fact, the intent of the Symptom Severity Scale is not to measure the “variability and severity of … It measures the “distress due to the frequency and severity of uterine leimyomata symptoms”. … Instead, item response choices are presented as five-level Likert scales ranging from ‘not at all’

8732. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37152/psn-pdf
      September 05, 2007 - this op-ed piece, the author discusses why this new rule will drive hospitals to implement safety measures

8733. Lung-Cancer-Nonsurgical-Therapies Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/lung-cancer-nonsurgical-therapies_executive.pdf
      June 01, 2013 - secondary to an inoperable obstructive endoluminal NSCLC Treatment and Evidence Base Outcome Unit of Measure … • LCT is of interest to patients because it measures the effectiveness of an intervention in disease … Although OS is the primary direct outcome for any cancer intervention study, it may not be the best measure … These measures include generic measures such as SF-36 and EQ-5D and lung cancer–specific measures such … Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ) modules C30 and LC13 and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung (FACT-L) to measure

8734. Achieving Excellence Across All CG-CAHPS Core Measures: Lessons from Top-Performing Medical Practices (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20141022_cg/3_julie_susi.pdf
      April 01, 2014 - Achieving Excellence Across All CG-CAHPS Core Measures: Lessons from Top-Performing Medical Practices

8735. Achieving Excellence Across All CG-CAHPS Core Measures: Lessons from Top-Performing Medical Practices (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20141022_cg/2_mon_yee.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - Achieving Excellence Across All CG-CAHPS Core Measures: Lessons from Top-Performing Medical Practices

8736. Achieving Excellence Across All CG-CAHPS Core Measures: Lessons from Top-Performing Medical Practices (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20141022_cg/4_dale-shaller_closing.pdf
      June 12, 2015 - Achieving Excellence Across All CG-CAHPS Core Measures: Lessons from Top-Performing Medical Practices

8737. Friedman R et al. 1996 "A telecommunications system for monitoring and counseling patients with hypertension: impact on medication adherence and blood pressure control." | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/friedman-r-et-al-1996
      January 01, 1996 - The main study outcome measures were change in antihypertensive medication adherence, SBP and DBP during

8738. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0272_03-06-2008.pdf
      January 01, 2008 - Outcome measures include mortality reduction, quality of life (objectively measured), functional improvement

8739. Development of the CAHPS Surgical Care Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/surgical/about/Development-of-the-CAHPS-Surgical-Care-Survey.html
      February 01, 2018 - questionnaire; they also did additional testing and analyses that resulted in changes to the reporting measures

8740. Novel IT to Create Patient-Integrated Quality Improvement - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024553-bardach-final-report-2018.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - Methods (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures, Limitations) Aims 1 and 2. … The relationship between commercial website ratings and traditional hospital performance measures in … Associations Between Web-Based Patient Ratings and Objective Measures of Hospital Quality. … Participants, Incidence, Prevalence) Methods (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures