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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/medication-monitoring-vulnerable-populations-information-technology-mmiti/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - The quality and safety measures evaluated were developed for ambulatory care by the National Committee … An automated query that used the BMS EHR to find eligible patients for the measures was developed. … Data to fulfill the measures were collected by a newly-developed, bidirectional interface and patient … Complex eligibility rules for quality measures may limit the usefulness of human EHR reviewers. … able to measure provider responses to other quality improvement or practice management interventions
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs025638-yazdany-final-report-2022.pdf
January 01, 2022 - have validated the use of Patient-Reported
Outcome Measurement System (PROMIS®) physical function scales … status using a validated
measure, 2) documentation of RA disease activity using a validated measure … , and 3) achievement of low or
moderate RA disease activity based on a validated measure. … For each PRO, the current quality
measure permits the use of several measurement tools. … These measures form the basis for a
RA PRO functional status quality measure in rheumatology that is
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/bringing-high-performing-systems-small-practices
January 01, 2023 - systems, and pay-for-quality programs on the performance of cardiovascular health clinical quality measures … Practice exposure to CDS was not associated with improved performance on ABCS or non-ABCS measures. … Receipt of technical assistance was associated with higher performance on quality measures. … 2010
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Quality measure … Quality measure performance in small practices before and after electronic health record adoption.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/advancing-collection-and-use-patient-reported-outcomes-through-health
January 01, 2023 - Health, supported the development of electronic applications that enable the collection of diverse PRO measures … This app allows patients to complete PROMIS physical function measures and other PROMIS measures. … PROMIS measures are a set of person-centered measures that evaluate and monitor physical, mental, and … This research supported the development of standards for electronic applications that collect PRO measures … The team also pilot tested an app that allows patients to complete a set of person-centered measures
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/asthma-measurement-development-asthma-outcomes-workshop
January 01, 2023 - An asthma outcomes workshop was held in order to establish standards and identity outcomes measures for … were to:
Establish standard definitions and data collection methodologies for validated outcome measures … Identify promising outcome measures for asthma clinical research and comment on their status and further
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digital.ahrq.gov/population/surgeon
January 01, 2024 - Optimizing the Value of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Improving Care Delivery through Health Information … What do orthopaedists believe is needed for incorporating patient-reported outcome measures … What do orthopaedists believe is needed for incorporating patient-reported outcome measures into clinical … Information Technology
Adjusting for variation in patient-reported outcome measures … Adjusting for variation in patient-reported outcome measures is needed to improve care after total knee
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/rheumatology-informatics-system-effectiveness-patient-reported-outcome-rise-pro
January 01, 2024 - EHR) data from participating practices, analyzes these data centrally, and feeds quality performance measures … increase the use of RA PROs, developed a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm to abstract PRO measures … Develop and scale an NLP system to extract PRO measures from clinical notes in the EHR. … Significant gains in rheumatoid arthritis quality measures among RISE registry practices. … ; how to benchmark PRO quality measures through the RISE registry; and a nursing staff training guide
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/implementation-and-evaluation-standing-orders-using-health-information
January 01, 2023 - There were 15 outcome measures utilized in this study which included: four screening measures (total … cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, mammograms, and osteoporosis); six adult immunization measures (tetanus … , zoster, and two measures each for influenza and pneumonia); and five diabetes measures (HbA1c, urinary … Quantitative data measures were calculated from quarterly extracts from the EMR, and qualitative data … Improvements in template presence, template use, and QI performance were found for 14 measures across
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digital.ahrq.gov/developing-and-testing-quality-measures-interoperable-electronic-health-records
January 01, 2023 - Developing and Testing Quality Measures for Interoperable Electronic Health Records … Rainu Kaushal and her team to generate and test the reliability of prioritized quality measures from … Fifteen of these measures were subsequently included in Meaningful Use 1.
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digital.ahrq.gov/location/usa-ca-merced
January 01, 2023 - USA, CA, Merced
Quality Indicators Care Coordination Measures Project … Description
This project developed the Care Coordination Measures Atlas, which catalogues … 61 measures of care coordination, maps them to elements of a care coordination measurement framework, … and summarizes key measure properties.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/bringing-measurement-point-care/activity/bringing-measurement-point-care/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - , and automated reporting of these measures internally and to the DOHMH will be coordinated with the … Integrated decision support tools enable providers to take appropriate action to bring the measure into … The project also uses a pre- versus post- EHR survey to measure the impact of EHR adoption on provider … health issues. ( Achieved )
Characterize provider attitudes and measure provider satisfaction with … The research team worked with the EHR vendor to test and verify the automated calculation of measures
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/quality-metrics-slides-042811.pdf
January 01, 2011 - diagnoses entered…)
Numerator (e.g., satisfied measure): meds,
screening tests, blood pressure, … Hybrid Measurement
Quality measure Automated
%
After MD
review %
Percent
change
1. … in 1
patient skew the overall quality measure? … Improved More Rapidly After Intervention
Heart Failure Measures Improved More Rapidly
Diabetes Measures … Problems with current outcomes measures
Problems with current outcomes measures (cont'd.)
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs015431-brooks-final-report-2007.pdf
January 01, 2007 - measures as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
measures. … Three of these measures come from the AHRQ
Inpatient Quality Indicator (IQI) measure set: in-hospital … The questions contained rating scales and
opportunities for open-ended comments.
5. … AHRQ PSI
Table 4 – RCT group by time analysis of heart failure core measures
HF Measure
Table 5 … – RCT group by time analysis of the pneumonia core measures
PN Measure
Table 6 – RCT group by time
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017163-baker-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - Patients may
incorrectly be considered eligible for a measure; appear to fail a quality measure they … have truly
met because data satisfying the measure was not captured; or have reasons the measure was … Quality of Care Measures
Measure (Number of Eligible Patients) * Denominator criteria Numerator Satisfied … (p<0.001 for eight measures, p =0.02
for one measure) and of borderline significance for another (hemoglobin … Quality measures were calculated as the number who satisfied the measure / (number eligible –
number
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/structuring-care-recommendations-clinical-decision-support
January 01, 2023 - Recommendations
Historically, evidence-based clinical recommendations and performance measures … process for translating narrative, unstructured, evidence-based clinical recommendations and performance measures … This includes leveraging codes and structures used to express clinical performance measures in a computable … Preventive Services Task Force and 12 rules relevant to Stage 1 Meaningful Use measures.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/20130913-health-it-enabled-quality-measurement-presentation-slides.pdf
September 13, 2013 - can evolve as new data
becomes available
• Measures for public health and public
reporting should … for public health and public
reporting should be limited to measures
that can use data collected in … Development,
Implementation, and Testing
Increasing need for measure
users to help set the measure … ”
▪ Measures must matter to patients. … better engaged in the
measure development
and implementation
process.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/hit-eqm-slides-091313.pdf
September 13, 2013 - can evolve as new data
becomes available
• Measures for public health and public
reporting should … for public health and public
reporting should be limited to measures
that can use data collected in … Development,
Implementation, and Testing
Measures should be re-
evaluated regularly to
assess if … ”
▪ Measures must matter to patients. … better engaged in the
measure development
and implementation
process.
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digital.ahrq.gov/technology/administrative-system
January 01, 2023 - Principal Investigator(s)
Smith, Kipman
Quality Indicators Care Coordination Measures … Project
Description
This project developed the Care Coordination Measures Atlas, which catalogues … 61 measures of care coordination, maps them to elements of a care coordination measurement framework … , and summarizes key measure properties. … Defined quality measures for colonoscopy were used in individual quality report cards with 15 measures
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/nemeth-ls
January 01, 2023 - EHR data extracts were used to calculate the presence and use of these measures on health maintenance … RESULTS: Improvements in template presence, use, and performance were found for 14 measures across all … Two practices achieved significant improvement on 14 of the 15 measures. … All practices significantly improved on at least 3 of the measures. … and to determine barriers and facilitators to the use of electronic SOs in these practices; and to measure
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs022889-matthews-final-report-2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey: construction of scales and preliminary tests
of reliability and … Development and testing of a short form of the Patient Activation
Measure. … The PHQ-8 as a measure of current
depression in the general population. … The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive
Symptom Scales: a systematic review … A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-
7.