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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/ruralhealth/index.html
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Data & Measures … This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of healthcare in rural areas from the NHQDR … and figures illustrating select measures of healthcare in rural areas.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/data/qualityindicators/index.html
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Data & Measures … Tools for Data Analytics
AHRQ Quality Indicators (AHRQ QIs) are standardized, evidence-based measures … of healthcare quality that can be used to measure and track clinical performance and outcomes. … AHRQ Quality Indicators (AHRQ QIs ) are standardized, evidence-based measures of healthcare quality … that can be used with readily available hospital inpatient administrative data to measure and track clinical
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/rice/index.html
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Data & Measures … cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses, as well as publications on related topics such as outcome measures … healtheconomics.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/cear4/Home.aspx
Top of Page
Outcomes Measurement
Preference weights … for community-based measures of health-related quality of life derived from U.S. populations. … Measures of health benefit for use in cost-effectiveness analysis of regulatory activities affecting
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/index.html
March 01, 2023 - Crosswalk of Patient Experience Domains and Survey Measures
The tables below list composite measures … The tables do not include the global rating measures.
Table 6-2. … **Health Status/Functional Status is not included as a composite measure for the purposes of this table … of quality, including but not limited to CAHPS survey measures. … , including CAHPS measures.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/presentation.html
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Data & Measures … topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … Organizing Quality Measures
Choosing Point of Comparison
Displaying Data
Using … Consumers must figure out:
What each measure tells them about the quality of care
Whether that information … value of making sure people can easily and quickly identify the high and low performers on any quality measure
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/index.html
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
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/workshop/module-5/guide.html
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Data & Measures … Fall rates are outcome measures. … Tracking process measures helps us assess if we are making the changes we intended to make in our Action … How to measure fall and fall-related injury rates.
How to measure fall prevention practices. … Action Plan Tool To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices
Measure Fall Rates
Key indicator
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/824.html
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Data & Measures … Identifies Issues Around Social Care Efforts To Improve Health Outcomes
AHRQ-Led Pediatric Quality Measures … . 1 will highlight AHRQ’s new Measure Dx diagnostic safety tool . … AHRQ-Led Pediatric Quality Measures Program 2.0 Tests Usability and Feasibility of Measure Use in Quality … Measures in version 2.0 focus on a broad range of clinical care domains of key importance to children
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/Updated-hacreportFInal2017data.pdf
July 01, 2020 - Measures used to estimate the national HAC rate
HAC Type Source Measure
Adverse Drug
Event
MPSMS … The weights follow, based on their percentage8 of the inpatient population:
• AMI: 2.15%,
• CHF: … surgeries: 19.17%,
• Global: 71.03%.
8 These weights … The change in weights to incorporate newer information is the reason that the HAC
rate calculated in … for 201511 (9 months), and each ICD-10-dependent measure for
2016,12 and 201713
Measure Name
2015
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/data/state-snapshots.html
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Data & Measures … State leaders can use this tool to measure their State's healthcare quality performance. … The easy access to the individual measures helps States more accurately identify their strengths and … These data are updated annually, allowing States to track their yearly progress on the various measures … The State Snapshots include more than 250 quality measures, which are grouped into the following categories
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/elicitation/cahps-infographic-v7.pdf
June 01, 2021 - Clinician & Group
Composite Measures
Getting Timely Appointments,
Care, and Information
How Well … 2 How does your provider measure up?
3 What has gone well?
4 What hasn’t gone well? … What You Gain from These Questions
CAHPS
Clinician &
Group
Composite
Measures
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Actionable … information
that offers
insights into
scores for
CAHPS
measures
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Information
about
aspects … of
experience
related to
CAHPS
measures
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Information
about aspects of
experience
not
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/hospital/about/dev_child_hp_survey.html
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Data & Measures … Home Health Care
Hospice
Hospital
Adult Survey
Child Survey
Survey Measures … The survey development team conducted a comprehensive review of existing patient experience measures … and the Washington, D.C., area to test the understandability and usefulness of preliminary composite measure … The final Child HCAHPS Survey of 62 items was submitted to the CHIPRA Pediatric Quality Measures Program
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2023-hp-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2023 - composite measure, the four ratings, HEDIS
questions, and Children with Chronic Conditions measures … CHIP Composite Measures Top Box by General Child and Children with Chronic Conditions
Composite Measure … The CAHPS
Health Plan Survey uses several different response scales. … Table H-1 displays the different response scales and
how the options are categorized for top box and … Top Box and Proportional Score Crosswalk to CAHPS Response Scales
Response Scale Lower Proportion
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/updatedhacrateinfo.pdf
June 01, 2014 - Collectively, 28 specific measures are used: 14 measures to generate rates
for the 9 specific PFP HACs … and 14 measures to generate a summary rate for “all other” HACs. … Information on 2012
Measured HACs
Partnership
for Patients
Hospital-
Acquired
Condition Source Measure … Information on 2012
Measured HACs
Partnership
for Patients
Hospital-
Acquired
Condition Source Measure … Information on 2012
Measured HACs
Partnership
for Patients
Hospital-
Acquired
Condition Source Measure
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/scores/adjustment-scoring.html
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Data & Measures … Adjusting Scores
Combining Measures
Positive or Negative Framing
Describing … Quality Measures
Organizing Quality Measures
Choosing Point of Comparison
Displaying … When presenting mortality and other health outcome measures, such adjustments are considered critical … This can lead to a situation in which the number of observations for a given measure can also vary, with
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/ich/index.html
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Data & Measures … Dialysis facilities and End-Stage Renal Disease Networks (known simply as Networks) use this tool to measure … Quality Measures from the CAHPS In-Center Hemodialysis Survey
The In-Center Hemodialysis Survey produces … the following measures of patient experience:
Nephrologists' communication and caring
Quality of … the Networks and grantees, the facilities implemented appropriate quality improvement programs and measures
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/gain-trust.html
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Data & Measures … Reasons for their suspicion include the following:
Debate continues about the “right” way to measure … Be prepared to provide a justification for the measures and reporting strategies you want to use. … Possibilities include the following:
Use publicly available data and measures. … (Learn more about sources of data and measures in Measures of Quality for Different Health Care Settings
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/dental/index.html
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Data & Measures … survey:
CAHPS Dental Plan Survey ( PDF , 608 KB; Word , 99 KB)—English only
Patient Experience Measures … From the Dental Plan Survey
The Dental Plan Survey produces the following measures of patient experience … of Ease of Finding a Dentist
Overall Rating of the Dental Plan
Review CAHPS Dental Plan Survey Measures … Department of Defense's health plan for military personnel and their dependents, developed this survey to measure
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/hp/index.html
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Data & Measures … Emergency Department
Health Plan
Using CAHPS Health Plan Survey Data
Survey Measures … Review measures from the CAHPS Health Plan Survey . … NCQA asks all plans seeking accreditation or providing quality measures (HEDIS) for public reporting … The National Quality Forum (NQF) first endorsed the CAHPS Health Plan Survey as a measure of health plan
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module5/module5_pu_measurement.docx
January 01, 2016 - Module Goals
The goals of Module 5 are to have the Implementation Team agree on and develop a plan for measures … Slide 17
SAY: Incidence and prevalence measures are used in monitoring pressure injury rates. … Incidence measures hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs). … In November, staff began a biweekly audit of intervention performance measures. … Slide 42
SAY: What if you are not doing well on your measures of pressure injury prevention practices