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101. Research Protocol: Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research (pdf file)
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     October 06, 2022 - KQ 2: What approaches have been used to measure or understand the organizational context and process … That assessment will focus on whether the measure is defined clearly (i.e., in a manner that can be … readily replicated), whether the measure can be classified as being nominal, ordinal or continuous; … Care Coordination Measures Atlas Update. … Choose Measures.

102. Advancing Registry Methodology and Transparency | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 06, 2019 - Outcome Measures Framework (OMF) The Outcome Measures Framework (OMF) is a conceptual model for classifying … The OMF is intended to serve as a content model for developing harmonized outcome measures in specific … AHRQ is now leading an effort to implement the standardized library of depression outcome measures in … Learn more about the new initiative to implement the depression outcome measures . … Learn more about the initiative to develop standardized libraries of outcome measures and access the

103. Measuring-Blood-Pressure Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Thus the strategies to measure and control elevated BP may need to differ based on an individual’s … Three studies reported some significantly better measures of adherence with SMBP (although not always … for all evaluated measures of adherence); the remaining 4 studies found no difference. … Both found no differences using any quality-of-life measure. … Using different measures in each study, none found a significant difference in medication adherence.

104. Test-Performance-Metrics Appendixes (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2005 - and their application can be confusing in practice.1 The basic measures are described briefly below … The quotation marks are retained to stress that, in the calculation of the basic measures reviewed here … The two measures have clear clinical interpretations, but are not as useful clinically as the positive … medical test can be used in different settings and roles, and different measures will best capture … Thus this single measure includes information about both sensitivity and specificity and tends to be

105. Diagnosis and Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2016 - These included studies using self-reported symptom scales (the artificial neural network test, the … Schedule of Fatigue and Anergia for CFS scale, subscales of the SF-36, and other scales) and various … (Low strength of evidence) Improvement on work and social adjustment scales in 2 trials. … Studies used a variety of methods to measure outcomes, limiting comparisons across studies. … Reliability and validity of Short Form 36 Version 2 to measure health perceptions in a sub- group of

106. REQUEST FOR TASK ORDER (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - Measures. … Therefore, the denominator for this benchmark measure included only those patients who had chemotherapy … Our measure of chemotherapy toxicity may be a more specific measure of over-zealous chemotherapy use … Measures of the quality of end-of-life care can be divided into those that measure over-use of aggressive … The benchmark measure for chemotherapy toxicity is also measured for this time period.

107. Topic Coming Back CER 28 DMARDs in Children with JIA NSD _SJ Clean (pdf file)
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     March 27, 2014 - conventional treatment (i.e., NSAIDs or corticosteroids) with or without methotrexate,d improve laboratory measures … h The outcomes measures assessed were those most commonly used in clinical trials and practice, as well … The outcome measures assessed were: Measures of disease activity: Active joint count (AJC) Physician … global assessment of disease activity (PGA) Parent/patient global assessment of well-being (PGW) Measure … of functional status/disability: Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) Measures of health-related

108. S58 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2007 - measures. … Nachega et al27 found a significant relationship between a claims-based measure of antiretroviral adherence … Construction of a refill persistence measure must also take into account the complexity of many treatment … Thus, researchers should be wary of simply selecting a single measure and mechanically applying the required … to control for co-occurring conditions.34,35 However, such indices may under-adjust, as they force weights

109. Effectiveness of Indoor Allergen Reduction in Management of Asthma - Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - Symptoms (not from validated instruments) Indoor allergen levels (Secondary measure) KQ1 KQ1 … We also found that few studies reported critical, discrete, validated outcome measures, which have … The relative paucity of studies using current, standardized measures limited our interpretation of the … primary outcome measures. … For example, important, standardized measures of asthma control, exacerbations, healthcare utilization

110. Disposition of Comments Report for Assessment and Management of Chronic Cough (pdf file)
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     January 07, 2013 - other dimensions of cough Peer Reviewer #3 General The comments about Visual Analogue Scales are … Such studies suggest to me that VAS measures still perform better than many other subjective scales … For each of these measures we sought to measure the validity, reliability, and Source: http: … Lastly, Visual Analogue Scales are reported very unfavourably. … besides cough counting (i.e. other QOL scores, VAS scales) may be more effective tools to evaluate

111. End of Life Issues | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 17, 2010 - Testing Cancer Quality Measures for End-of-Life Care Research Report Archived May 17,

112. palliative-care-protocol (pdf file)
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     April 14, 2016 - Questionnaire"[tiab] OR "self report"[tiab] OR instrument[tiab] OR instruments[tiab]  OR  scale[tiab]  OR  scales … Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End of Life Care (TIME). … PROMIS: Measures. … Grid-Enabled Measures Database. … National Quality Measures Clearinghouse.

113. Updating the Framework for AHRQ’s National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) (pdf file)
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     September 06, 2023 - The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) presents trends for measures related … measuring equity in recent years.4 2 Another key issue for quality of care is related to the measure … Any chosen framework will determine to a large extent which quality measures are prioritized, which … • How would existing AHRQ NHQDR measures be reorganized in the updated framework and domains? … • Are there available measures for new framework domains?

114. Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures for Guiding Antibiotic Treatment for Nosocomial Pneumonia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     July 19, 2013 - 2014 Systematic Review Apr. 16, 2015 Disposition of Comments Report Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures … Although existing guidance recommends using PK/PD measures to guide the treatment of individuals with … nosocomial pneumonia, previous reviews have not determined the impact of using these measures on the … sufficient data are available, meta-analyses and results will be stratified by (1) method of PK/PD measure … Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) measures .

115. Chronic-Cough Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2014 - used to assess cough frequency and severity, including quality-of-life questionnaires, visual analog scales … utilization and costs Final Outcomes • Health-related quality of life instruments • Visual analog scales … different measurement scales were considered similar enough to combine using effect sizes. … r = 0.8–1.0 Insufficient SOE 1 study; 67 subjects Detected change with treatment Visual analog scales … Visual analog scales, although widely used both in research and practice, have little to no data to

116. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     October 15, 2012 - Yet as you acknowledge when doing population surveillance we need to measure in a standard way drawing … ACSs as a quality measure for studying disparities among people with disabilities as you state is a … can be used to “identify needs, match patients to interventions, track functioning over time, and measure … The measure was an open-ended qualitative response item for feedback from providers whose patients … The capability to measure and study outcomes over time with precision would mitigate the ceiling and

117. Amended Protocol: Interventions for Breathlessness in Patients with Advanced Cancer (pdf file)
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     May 19, 2020 - This tool must include patient-or caregiver-reported measures of anxiety. … rate • Oxygen or carbon dioxide/ bicarbonate levels • Heart rate • Blood pressure • Objective measure … Which measurement scales should we use to measure breathlessness in palliative care? … Observational scales are used for patients unable to self-report and are validated against self-report … For the purposes of this report focusing on breathlessness, we wanted to focus on an objective measure

118. Topic Suggestion Description | Effective Health Care Program
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     October 01, 2011 - AHRQ is leading the improvement, enhancement, and development of core healthcare quality measures for … affecting child health. ( www.ahrq.gov/chipra ) Postpartum depression screening was not selected as a core measure … evidence base for postpartum screening and treatment for depression will help the AHRQ Pediatric Quality Measure … Program awardees enhance and improve existing measures (e.g., NCQA) or develop new measures for use … CHIPRA measures are required to be evidence-based, according to the law.

119. Observed Association Between Antidepressant Use and Pneumonia Risk Was Confounded by Comorbidity Measures (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2008 - Observed Association Between Antidepressant Use and Pneumonia Risk Was Confounded by Comorbidity Measures … After further adjustment for comorbidity measures, the OR was 0.89 (0.79 to 1.00). … It did not measure exposure to antidepressants or attempt to control for patient factors that may change … required at least six months of data prior to study eligibility to ensure an adequate period in which to measure … the goal of identifying a potential wide range of potential signals to be further tested, did not measure

120. Treatments for Fecal Incontinence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2014 - measures, a lack of measures for some patient-important outcomes (such as urgency), limited long-term … Outcomes measurement issues inherent in the psychometric properties of the questionnaires used to measure … whether or not the measure provides a composite or subscale scores. 28,30,31,33 FI episode counts/ … Yes Valid measures, groups ~ equivalent   No Nonvalidated measures or nonequivalent groups   … Yes Measures were valid and reliable (i.e., objective measure, validated scale/tool); consistent across