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201. Improving Quality Care for Children with Special Needs - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-quality-care-children-special-needs/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - Outcome measures included rates of CSHCN identification from NBS and NHS, tracking of diagnosis, and … children. ( Achieved ) 2010 Activities:  The project team conducted statistical analysis of outcome measures … a mean lag time from date of birth to first report that is nearly five days longer than babies with weights … from 1,500-2,500 grams, and more than 9.0 days longer than babies with weights greater or equal to 2,500 … from 1,500-2,500 grams, and 7.3 days longer than babies with weights greater than or equal to 2,500

202. Connected Cancer Care: EHR Communication Networks in Virtual Cancer Care Teams - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs026075-zhu-final-report-2022.pdf
     January 01, 2022 - uniform graph (CUG) quantile33 for each measure and used these values rather than the raw measures … The CUG quantile acts as a measure of how much non-random structure exists in the network. … Network Structural Measures Measure Description Mean (SD) Size Number of nodes. 96.69 (83.30) Density … We adapted this approach to our study context by constructing weights for each directed communication … Sample, and Data Sources Measures and Analyses Limitations 5.

203. Family Medicine | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - certification portal and found that the availability of that data did not result in improvement of quality measures … interoperable health information exchange and an electronic health record to provide useful quality and safety measures … Impact of Health Information Technology Implementation on Diabetes Process and Outcome Measures … quality of diabetes care as measured by compliance with recommended processes of care and patient outcome measures

204. Integrating the Patient Voice in Patient-Reported Health Outcomes | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Challenges to using patient-reported outcome measures Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are designed … Use of patient-reported outcome measures in orthopedic care Dr. … It’s not good enough just to use wonderful quantitative measures; they need to be supplemented with personalized … Organization HealthPartners Institute Research Profile Optimizing the Value of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

205. A Rural Health Information Technology Cooperative to Promote Clinical Improvement - 2008 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/rural-health-information-technology-cooperative-promote-clinical-improvement/annual-summary/2008
     January 01, 2008 - an intervention to improve adherence to best practice guidelines. ( Achieved ) Develop a survey to measure … site—library resources, training resources, staff-to-staff communications, and the repository of quality measures … intervention, there were substantial, statistically significant improvements in several selected quality measures … to a number of delays, dedicated efforts by hospitals to improve performance on the selected quality measures … Selected Outputs Measures: Adapted measures for AMI and CAP best practice guidelines suitable for small

206. Enhancing Patient Safety through a Universal EMR System | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - The study was designed to examine various measures in the areas of organizational finance, workflow impact … , and clinical processes, to determine what effects the EMR had on these measures. … However, isolating the effects on some of the other measures proved quite elusive.

207. Enhancing Complex Care Through an Integrated Care Coordination Information System - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/enhancing-complex-care-through-integrated-care-coordination-information-system/annual-summary/2012
     January 01, 2012 - The ICCIS incorporates population management techniques, patient-centered goals, quality measures, and … Measures included indicators of patient engagement, clinic-level quality of care, clinic-level process … In the quality improvement arm, quality measures improved by 14.2 percent as compared to 8.9 percent

208. ED Disability Diagnostic Tool: An HIT Feasibility Study - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs018420-post-final-report-2016.pdf
     January 01, 2016 - Rasch analyses to establish which sets of information were in fact unidimensional and formed usable scales … We compared how each measure predicted disability and health outcomes. … We increased reliability over existing measures. … Primary Outcome Measures 8. … Construction of scales and preliminary tests of reliability and validity.

209. Pharmaceutical Safety Tracking (PhaST): Managing Medications for Patient Safety - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/pharmaceutical-safety-tracking-phast-managing-medications-patient-safety/annual-summary/2011
     January 01, 2011 - This project compared PhaST to usual care on measures of patient and provider satisfaction, patient outcomes … , and measures of the quality of medication management, such as rates of patient medication non-adherence … Specific Aims: Determine whether PhaST is superior to usual care on measures of system process. … (Achieved) Determine whether PhaST is superior to usual care on measures of patient and provider outcomes … , and measures of the quality of medication management such as rates of patient medication non-adherence

210. Asthma Measurement Development – Asthma Outcomes Workshop - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/asthma-measurement-development-asthma-outcomes-workshop/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - NIH) Institutes and Centers considered endorsing a selective set of core outcomes as required outcome measures … It is anticipated that the required outcome measures will accelerate the widespread use of the data produced … Objective: Establish standard definitions and data collection methodologies for validated outcome measures … in asthma clinical research. ( Ongoing** ) Identify promising outcome measures for asthma clinical

211. Conducting Measurement Activities for Health Information Technology Initiative - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/conducting-measurement-activities-health-information-technology-initiative/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - After clarifying constructs and assessing the availability and quality of data, selected measures were … Project Objectives: Develop reliable, valid, useful, timely, and cost-efficient measures and national … estimates for four key measures of health IT progress: Reduction in medication errors due to adoption … The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) determined that developing measures or estimates for the number … Business Goal: Knowledge Creation * OMB determined that developing measures or estimates for the

212. Learning from Primary Care Meaningful Use Exemplars | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - The MU program was implemented in three stages; for each stage, submission of clinical quality measures … Calculate practice and provider level performance, achievable benchmarks of care, and a summary measure … "Meaningful" clinical quality measures for primary care physicians. … "Meaningful" clinical quality measures for primary care physicians.

213. EHR Use and Care Coordination - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-health-record-use-and-care-coordination/annual-summary/2011
     January 01, 2011 - use of a newly-implemented, certified EHR system at Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) on measures … Measures of care coordination and team climate are being captured using existing self-administered survey … Quality and clinical outcome measures are captured using the health system's automated databases. … This study uses existing data, including survey responses that capture detailed measures of clinician-reported … data sets obtained from Kaiser Permanente to examine the relation of EHR use and process and outcome measures

214. The Bettering Lives Utilizing Electronic Systems (BLUES) Project: Improving Diabetes Outcomes in Mississippi with Health Information Technology | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - EHRs combined with adequate training and tools result in improved process of care measures, such as timely … BLUES project list of refined metrics Description: A list of clinical outcome and process measures … BLUES) Project: Improving Diabetes Outcomes in Mississippi with Health Information Technology Measures … of Impact for BLUES project Description: A list of clinical outcome measures chosen for an AHRQ … Link: Measures of Impact for BLUES project Project Name: The Bettering Lives Utilizing Electronic

215. Feedback of Treatment Intensification Data to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/feedback-treatment-intensification-data-reduce-cardiovascular-disease-risk/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - clinicians appropriately increase pharmacotherapy in the face of poor control, has been proposed as a new measure … The linkage of process measures, such as treatment intensification to clinical benefit, is often supported … Such measures could also be more useful than reports of risk-factor control because the actions needed … to improve control are implicit in the measures and because concerns about case-mix differences are … However, there is little empirical evidence that reporting and improving these process measures can lead

216. Monitoring Intensification of Treatment for Hyperglycemia and Hyperlipidemia in Patients with Diabetes (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017030-turchin-final-report-2011.pdf
     January 01, 2011 - Final Report Purpose This research project was funded to evaluate novel electronic process measures … and hyperlipidemia is more strongly associated with clinical outcomes than currently used process measures … It is therefore important to know which measures are best associated with clinical outcomes. … The most widely used process measures of diabetes quality-of-care, A1C and LDL screening rates, have … However, the evidence that better adherence to the currently used process measures is associated with

217. Using a Telemedicine System to Promote Patient Care Among Underserved Individuals | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - The project incorporated hypertension treatment guidelines and quality measures, as well as automated … Measure telemedicine utilization. … Populations × Disclaimer Disclaimer details Close Quality Measures … Practice Summary Description: This is a sample report that tracks quality measures for Hypertension … Link: Quality Measures Practice Summary Project Name: Using a Telemedicine System to Promote

218. Assessing the Impact of the Patient-Centered Medical Home | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - The main objectives of the project were to: Determine the associations between PCMH measures and … that while there was substantial variation among the clinics on a variety of satisfaction and quality measures … the overall and component scores from the Physician Practice Connections-Readiness Survey (PPC-RS) measure … annual increase in patient satisfaction and a 1 to 4 percent annual increase in adherence to quality measures … the average for other medical groups in the region, these increases were greater for only some of the measures

219. Health IT-Enabled Quality Measurement (2012-2013) | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/past-initiatives/health-it-enabled-quality-measurement
     January 01, 2023 - strategies, a health services infrastructure, and research issues related to health IT-enabled quality measures … the prioritization of activities and an overview of recurring topics that emerged, including -- (a) Measure

220. CHOICE: Coalition of Hospices Organized to Investigate Comparative Effectiveness | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/choice-coalition-hospices-organized-investigate-comparative-effectiveness
     January 01, 2023 - This project studied the feasibility of abstracting quality measures from the electronic medical record … aims of this project were as follows: Evaluate the feasibility and validity of abstracting quality measures … Assess whether the measures that are abstracted are associated with families' perceptions of care.  … Identify which quality measures hospice stakeholders identify as the highest priority for use in performance