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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-evaluation-toolkit
January 01, 2023 - Health IT Evaluation Toolkit and Evaluation Measures Quick Reference Guides … , and how to measure those items. … Section II includes a list of measures that are often employed in health IT projects. … Each of the provided tables includes a list of possible measures, suggestions on data sources that can … Each guide includes a brief description of the measure, summary of current literature on the measure,
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/cardio-hit-phase-ii/citation/exceptions-outpatient-quality-measures-coronary
January 01, 2023 - Exceptions to outpatient quality measures for coronary artery disease in electronic health records. … Exceptions to outpatient quality measures for coronary artery disease in electronic health records.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-precision-performance-measurement-conduct-focused-quality-improvement-4
January 01, 2023 - Frequency of inappropriate medical exceptions to quality measures. … Frequency of inappropriate medical exceptions to quality measures.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/learning-primary-care-meaningful-use-exemplars/citation/meaningful-clinical
January 01, 2023 - "Meaningful" clinical quality measures for primary care physicians. … "Meaningful" clinical quality measures for primary care physicians.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017018-lehmann-final-report-2010.pdf
January 01, 2010 - exploratory factor analysis to assess feasibility
(preliminary convergent and discriminate validity) of scales … Teamwork climate and safety climate are psychometrically validated scales from
the Safety Attitudes … Related to the EHR based Quality Measure. … Factor analysis suggested the proposed scales required modification
from the intended scales. … The final overall scales and subscales had Cronbach’s alphas ranging
from 0.51 (timeliness) to 0.88
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/automating-assessment-obesity-care-quality/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - Measures to evaluate the association include: reasons for visit; orders; referrals; diagnosis codes; … The project team is using percent change in body weight as the primary outcome measure. … knowledge base of the automated program that identifies the relevant clinical events of the quality measure … An abstraction form and process were developed to enable chart review to validate the measures. … the project team was able to view patient data and begin the key tasks of chart review and quality measure
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/biblio/AHRQ_Webinar_July_2008_Edited_3_26_2009_Schneider.pdf
January 01, 2009 - Massachuesetts Quality e-Measure Validation Study (MQeVS)
Massachusetts Quality
e-Measure Validation … Presentation
• Background
• Translating Community Health
Information Exchange data into
quality measure … for ~500K
patients…
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Translating Community Health
Information Exchange data into
quality measure … – Community 1: 7 of 20 measures
– Community 2: 18 of 20 measures
– Community 3: in progress
• Data … Sample
– Aim 1: 2100 patients recruited from MAeHC communities via
patient survey
– Aim 2: All “measure
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/patient-engagement-reporting-medication-events-during-transitions-care/citation/selecting
January 01, 2023 - Selecting patient-reported outcome measures for a patient-facing technology. … Selecting patient-reported outcome measures for a patient-facing technology.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluating-electronic-health-record-data-use-diabetes-quality-reporting/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - are expanding their use of EHR data, which may be a particular concern given that existing quality measures … are often perceived by physicians to not measure quality accurately. … used a mixed-method approach to investigate the validity of using EHR data for diabetes performance measures … (Achieved)
Determine the impact of utilizing different EHR criteria on existing quality measures for … The method of identifying patients with diabetes did not have an impact on the performance measures.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/monitoring-intensification-treatment-hyperglycemia-and-hyperlipidemia/citatio-6
January 01, 2023 - Performance of primary care physicians and other providers on key process measures in the treatment of … Performance of primary care physicians and other providers on key process measures in the treatment of
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/health-information-technology-value-rural-hospitals/citation/myocardial
January 01, 2023 - Myocardial infarction mortality in rural and urban hospitals: rethinking measures of quality of care. … Myocardial infarction mortality in rural and urban hospitals: rethinking measures of quality of care.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/developing-and-using-valid-clinical-quality-metrics-health-information/citation/mu
January 01, 2023 - Accuracy of electronically reported "meaningful use" clinical quality measures: a cross-sectional study … Accuracy of electronically reported "meaningful use" clinical quality measures: a cross-sectional study
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-precision-performance-measurement-conduct-focused-quality-improvement-2
January 01, 2023 - Actionable Reminders and Performance Feedback Improve Physician Performance on Standardized Quality Measures … Actionable Reminders and Performance Feedback Improve Physician Performance on Standardized Quality Measures
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/final-logan-story-7-2-12.pdf
July 02, 2012 - Using Electronic Health Records to Measure and Improve Quality for Colonoscopy Procedures
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AHRQ Health … Information Technology
Ambulatory Safety and Quality | EQM
Using Electronic Health Records
To Measure … These measures covered areas such as—
• Quality of bowel preparation (Documentation
quality measure … Process quality measure).
• Polyp detection and retrieval (Process quality measure).
• Intra and postprocedural … complication rate
(Clinical outcome quality measures).
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/rheumatology-informatics-system-effectiveness-patient-reported-outcome-rise-pro/citation/significant
January 01, 2023 - Significant gains in rheumatoid arthritis quality measures among RISE registry practices. … Significant gains in rheumatoid arthritis quality measures among RISE registry practices.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/massachusetts_quality_e_measure_validation_study_2010_pdf__2.pdf
January 01, 2010 - Massachusetts Quality E-Measure Validation Study
1 | Massachusetts Quality e-Measure Validation study … Target Population: Adults
Summary: Although the National Quality Forum has endorsed 26 standardized measures … (EHRs) could revolutionize ambulatory quality measurement by increasing the validity of clinical
measures … extraction logic for the AQA ambulatory quality measure
set. … other
study measures.
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digital.ahrq.gov/funding-mechanism/voluntary-consensus-development-standardized-measures
January 01, 2023 - Voluntary Consensus Development of Standardized Measures, Reports, Common Formats, and other Products … refine clinical workflow maps, focusing on care processes related to the previously prioritized set of measures
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/clinical-decision-support-optimizing-necrotizing-enterocolitis-prevention/citation/prediction
January 01, 2023 - Prediction of GutCheck NEC and its relation to severity of illness and measures of deterioration in necrotizing … Prediction of GutCheck NEC and its relation to severity of illness and measures of deterioration in necrotizing
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/health-information-technology-supported-process-preventing-and-managing-venous-thromboembolism/citation/role
January 01, 2023 - Role network measures to assess healthcare team adaptation to complex situations: the case of venous … Role network measures to assess healthcare team adaptation to complex situations: the case of venous
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/automating-assessment-obesity-care-quality
January 01, 2023 - This project developed a set of nine quality measures to evaluate obesity care based on the National … The specific aims of this project were as follows:
Develop obesity care quality measures based on … Evaluate the association between measures of obesity guideline adherence to recommended obesity care … The measures were compared against chart review of more than 900 patients to assess accuracy. … will need further work to resolve discrepancies between the EMR and chart review measures.