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61. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2023 - III report also found moderate strength of evidence linking manual screening tool use to process measure … All the multicomponent sepsis intervention PSPs reported improvement in at least one process measure … , however, only two showed improvements in outcome measures. … (NCQA) patient safety related measures. … SEP-1—Taking the Measure of a Measure.

62. Research White Paper Registries in Accountable Care Addendum Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes Third Edition (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2018 - is a single measure plus a composite of five measures and the coronary artery disease metric is a composite … This model uses a five-step process to develop Resource Utilization Bands and Reference Concurrent Weights … The organization divides measures related to health into delivery measures and population health measures … efficiency measures. … Partnership and CheckQM, a private measure harmonization effort.

63. Table 1 (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2010 - Improving quality across domains of care requires good measures of quality and outcomes. … At a minimum, dyspnea assessment should include a measure of intensity plus at least one measure of … Where multiple reasonable measures are available, choosing the best measure is less important than measuring … Which measurement scales should we use to measure breathlessness in palliative care? … A systematic review of measures of end-of- life care and its outcomes.

64. 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.

65. 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

66. Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures for Guiding Antibiotic Treatment for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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67. 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

68. 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.

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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.

75. 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

76. Standardized Library of Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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77. 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?

78. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 18 Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health (pdf file)
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    March 05, 2015 - Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 18 Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health Technical … Another measure of comprehensive information that would be more specific to the consumers’ needs. … We use the summery measure to summarize and not to say they that are equally important. b. … In box 1 (on page 4) we define what we mean when we say a cost measure: A financial measure of cost … Taxonomy Table 3: Information on value – please include more discussion of how sites define and measure

79. Disposition of Comments for CER 204 Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2017 - The outcome measures are appropriate. … These measures are categorized based on the NCCOR Measures Registry. … We took these categories from the NCCOR Measure Registry. … You are correct, several studies used more than one method to measure outcomes. … Already stated that they all had only one pre- measure.

80. Relationship Between Use of Quality Measures and Improved Outcomes in Serious Mental Illness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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