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41. White Paper: Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2021 - Interagency Agreement #16-566R-16. 2 Approach to Representing an Outcome Definition For each measure … Harmonized Definitions for Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE … post-treatment • 1 year post-treatment Annual follow-up beyond 1 year is recommended as a supplemental measure … A-2 OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION Patient Reported Pain interference Pain interference … in an emergency room visit, new hospitalization, or new operation A-4 OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE

42. White Paper: Standardized Library of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2021 - Interagency Agreement #16-566R-16. 2 Approach to Representing an Outcome Definition For each measure … Harmonized Definitions for Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Outcome Measures OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE … post-treatment • 1 year post-treatment Annual follow-up beyond 1 year is recommended as a supplemental measure … A-2 OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION Patient Reported Pain interference Pain interference … in an emergency room visit, new hospitalization, or new operation A-4 OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE

43. Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures for Guiding Antibiotic Treatment for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 24, 2014 - 2014 Systematic Review Apr. 16, 2015 Disposition of Comments Report Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures … Objective To conduct a systematic review of the use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) measures … Evidence is insufficient to conclude whether using PK/PD measures to inform decisions about dosing or … One trial (rated high risk of bias) used PK/PD measures to study the impact of different antibiotic dosing

44. Research and Surveillance Methods for Improving Medication Safety Using Administrative Claims Databases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 01, 2005 - 2005 Topic Abstract The specific objective of the project is to establish an initial measure … We will consult with advisors to determine the integrity of the initial measure set selected and determine … We will assess the validity of the measure set using state Medicaid data. … and underuse of medications) and have developed an initial measure set, we will share this information … We will test the process measures using data from state Medicaid claims files.

45. Assessing the Impact of Indexing Performance Measure Codes on the Perceived Value of EPC Reports to Health Systems (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2018 - The first identified measures covered by the report with descriptive information on the measures. … This facilitates the acquisition of quality measures but after they benchmark and identify measures … measure number and the exact page number in the executive summary where that measure can be found. … would make the identification and specification of these measures very efficient. … Quality measures addressed in the urinary incontinence report QM# Title Developer/ Steward Measure

46. Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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47. Executive Summary: ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2024 - Diagnosis • Multiple approaches showed promising diagnostic performance (e.g., using parental rating scales … • Rating scales for parent, teacher, or self-assessment as a diagnostic tool for ADHD have high internal … rarely assessed test-retest reliability, no findings have been replicated prospectively using the same measure … Rating scales for parent, teacher, or self-assessment as a diagnostic tool for ADHD have high internal … rarely assessed test-retest reliability, no findings have been replicated prospectively using the same measure

48. Physiologic Predictors of the Need for Trauma Center Care: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    May 31, 2017 - This review will include any measure of circulatory or respiratory compromise or combination measures … interventions used for serious injury, or whether the injury is rated as severe using accepted rating scales … We will also abstract how the included studies evaluate the measures, the measure characteristics, and … trauma who are treated in the prehospital setting by EMS personnel, what is the evidence that scales … a circulatory measure and a respiratory measure and then the GCS is optional.

49. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    October 05, 2010 - reported outcome measures of Table 1 (page 17). … The names of the nine commonly used functional scales were not listed in the text in order to reduce … of the scales based on the citations provided. … Might it be a measure of scapular position? … Please define this measure, and clarify that this is a measure of function / disability.

50. Developing and Testing a Framework for Cancer Quality Measures for End-of-Life Care | Effective Health Care Program
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    May 13, 2010 - Developing and Testing a Framework for Cancer Quality Measures for End-of-Life Care Timeline

51. A Framework for Assessing Quality Indicators for Cancer Care at the End-of-Life | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    May 13, 2010 - A quality indicator or quality measure is an agreed-upon process or outcome measure that is used to … That is, the first step identifies who to measure, steps 2-4 identify what to measure, and step 5 … This will require determining appropriate weights for individual components, as well as considering potential … Cancer care quality measures: symptoms and end-of-life care. … Outcomes assessment in cancer: Measures, methods, and applications.

52. Outcome Definition and Measurement in Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research
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    January 01, 2013 - what it is intended to measure Variability Distribution of values associated with an outcome measure … Validity, broadly speaking, is the degree to which a measure assesses what it is intended to measure; … is assessing what it is intended to measure), content validity (the extent to which a measure accurately … and comprehensively measures what it is intended to measure), and construct validity (the degree to … Some scales such as the SF-12 and SF-36 require payment of fees for scoring.

53. Outcomes of Serious Mental Illness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 03, 2014 - Although stakeholders have proposed a variety of quality measures (QMs), no single validated measure … Not surprisingly, although stakeholders have proposed a variety of such measures for SMI, no single measure … The technical brief will interview key informants—including quality measure developers, quality measure … and Psychosocial Instruments provide bibliographic access and descriptions of tests, manuals, rating scales … Definition of Terms Quality measure (QM) : Broadly defined, quality measures are tools that help measure

54. serious-mental-illness-outcomes-140303 (pdf file)
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    March 03, 2014 - Although stakeholders have proposed a variety of quality measures (QMs), no single validated measure … or identifies any existing measure that appears appropriate for use as a QM. … The technical brief will interview key informants—including quality measure developers, quality measure … and Psychosocial Instruments provide bibliographic access and descriptions of tests, manuals, rating scales … Definition of Terms Quality measure (QM): Broadly defined, quality measures are tools that help measure

55. Evidence Map on Home and Community-Based Services (pdf file)
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    December 07, 2023 - clinical outcomes (e.g., Disability Rating Scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale), or quality-of-life (QoL) scales … Name of Measure Developer Target Population Objectives Domains* HCBS Quality Measure Set Centers … of Measures for Medicaid Title XIX Home and Community- Based Services Measure Scan Agency for … in system Development measures • Freedom from abuse and neglect domain measure • Employment measures … Home and Community-Based Services Quality Measure Set Measure Summaries.

56. Testing Cancer Quality Measures for End-of-Life Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    May 17, 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.

57. Physical Therapy Interventions for Knee Pain Secondary to Osteoarthritis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 06, 2012 - Limited direct comparative effectiveness evidence demonstrated similar benefits in disability measures … Gait, mobility restrictions, muscle strength, and range-of-motion measures were associated with disability … measures in individual studies. … Minimum clinically important differences in scales were determined for 26 tools but have not been used … interventions were not consistently evaluated according to the clinical importance of improvement in scales

58. Physiologic Predictors of Severe Injury: Systematic Review, Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2018 - • Included measures have: – Low sensitivities, so normal values on the physiologic measure (a negative … – High specificities, meaning abnormal values on the physiologic measure (positive test) are unlikely … known or suspected trauma who are treated out-of-hospital by EMS personnel, what is the evidence that scales … Tables A, B, and C consolidate the key estimates of the predictive utility of each identified measure … There was also limited detail about how the physiologic measure data were collected.

59. Disabilities-Quality-Improvement-Outcomes Executive (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2012 - The research goals should drive the focus, content, and structure of the optimal measure. … Outcome measure list Study Domain Outcome Measure List Critical Evaluations of Available Outcome Measures … Outcome measure list (continued) Study Domain Outcome Measure List Vahle et al., 200024 Depression … Outcome measure list (continued) Study Domain Outcome Measure List Cohen and Marino, 200028 Functional … We found no measures that assessed changes in process measures of quality over time.

60. Advancing Measurement of Patient-Centered Communication in Cancer Care | Effective Health Care Program
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    March 28, 2013 - Objectives The goal of Phase 2 was to refine the Phase 1 framework; identify, develop, and test PCC measures … Develop and Test Measures : We developed an inventory of PCC survey items by examining published literature … generally able to understand the questions, apply them to their own experiences, and use the response scales … followed by psychometric analysis, and finalizing the items and developing short and long-term versions of measures