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pbrn.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr22/index.html
July 01, 2023 - The report is based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities covering a broad array of healthcare … Measures Used in State Maps
Appendix D. Quality and Disparities Summary Charts
Appendix E. … Quality Trends and Disparities Tables (PDF, 21 MB)
Data Sources (PDF, 913 KB)
Measure Specifications
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August 01, 2023 - In-Center Hemodialysis
Mental Health Care
Nursing Home
Family Member Survey Measures … Quality Measures From the Family Member Survey
The Nursing Home Family Member Survey produces the following … measures of patient experience:
Meeting Basic Needs: Help with Eating, Drinking, and Toileting
Nurses … Cleanliness
Overall Rating of Care at Nursing Home
Review CAHPS Nursing Home Family Member Survey Measures
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/sops_101_webcast-2022-hare.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Example of Composite Measure Results
Patient Safety Culture Composite Measures Average % Positive Response … Hospital 2.0 User Database Report
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Customized Feedback Reports
Patient Safety Culture Composite Measures … Comparative Results
Composite Measures Results
Item Results
Patient Safety Rating
Number of Events … listed in alphabetical order, organized by the Surveys on Pat ient ·safety Culture
(SOPS) composite measures … areas of organizational
culture assessed by the composite measures included in the AHRQ Diagnostic
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March 01, 2021 - In addition, connecting to the HIEO is more complicated than initially anticipated and the measures from … This difficulty necessitated greater reliance on EHR-generated measures. … Additionally, when neither the EHR nor the HIEO could generate satisfactory measures, the Cooperative … relied on manual chart abstraction to augment missing or obviously flawed measures. … HIEO highlight the importance of developing national standards for health IT and, ideally, providing measure
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/ltc-quality-measures.html
December 01, 2022 - Measures should be implemented that evaluate whether access gaps are reduced and whether these gaps are … How do we measure what matters? … Defining a valuable set of quality measures for long-term care is the starting point for collecting data … involving patients, families, and staff, we can get to the heart of what outcomes matter most and how to measure
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April 01, 2019 - 79 percent of practices incorporated lab results to generate reports.
71 percent reported quality measures … at the practice level.
72 percent reported quality measures at the clinician level. … In relation to use of EHRs for heart health:
42 percent produced quality measure reports on aspirin … .
55 percent produced quality measure reports on blood pressure control.
59 percent produced quality … measure reports on smoking cessation.
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March 01, 2023 - Literacy
Quality Improvement
Patient Experience and Satisfaction
Guidelines
Guidelines and Measures … ) , was set up by AHRQ to provide users a place to find information about its legacy guidelines and measures … clearinghouses, National Guideline Clearinghouse TM (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse … Guidelines and Measures (GAM) , was set up by AHRQ to provide users a place to find information about … Quality Measures Clearinghouse TM (NQMC).
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/oas/index.html
November 01, 2023 - Quality Measures from the CAHPS OAS Survey
OAS Survey results are reported for three composite measures … and two global items:
Composite Measures
About Facilities and Staff
Communications About Your … This process included:
Reviewing surveys submitted as a result of a public call for measures.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cahps/consumer-reporting/guidelines/contents/index.html
March 01, 2016 - CAHPS Databases
Webcasts & Recent Events
Reporting Results to Consumers
CAHPS Measures … you have time to gather any non-CAHPS information you may want to include, such as clinical quality measures … Optional Elements
Other Measures of Quality. … You may want to provide your audience with other kinds of performance information, such as measures of … Educational Information About CAHPS Measures.
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November 01, 2018 - Find Potential Partners
Identify the Subject
Decide on Your Role
Choose Quality Measures … Test Your Report
Prepare To Distribute/Promote
Prepare for an Evaluation
Select Measures … decisions you can make during the planning process is to determine whether, when, and how you will measure … Determine what information you need now (or soon) in order to measure change later. … audience's awareness of differences in quality among health plans, you may want to field a survey to measure
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November 01, 2018 - topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … Faced with more options or measures than they can handle, people will often narrow their choices on their … Reducing the number of measures on which they compare them. … Summary scores and visual displays that help people see the “big picture” across many measures can be … Learn about using summary scores in Combining Measures Into Composites or Summary Scores .
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/index.html
March 01, 2017 - End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Clinics
Pharmacy
Multiple Settings
Quality Measures … Environmental Scan of Measures for Medicaid Title XIX Home and Community-Based Services
AHRQ is releasing … this environmental scan of existing and potential measures as a first step in fulfilling the directive … to develop home and community-based services (HCBS) quality measures for the Medicaid program.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science.pdf
April 02, 2020 - Although a coordinated
national strategy to measure
diagnostic safety remains
an aspirational goal … Currently, measures of
diagnostic performance and safety are not among these required measures, and … The current lack of incentives and models to measure diagnostic
safety can make it difficult to get … Measures to improve diagnostic safety in clinical practice. … Patient safety: let’s measure what matters.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/consumer-experience-measurement.html
September 01, 2023 - Too often we measure patient experience for a single transaction, rather than an episode of care or longitudinally … Patient- experience measures to assess these innovations would be helpful to ensure the innovations are … AHRQ’s CAHPS® Program is an initiative created to standardize how healthcare providers measure patients
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May 01, 2022 - Emergency Department
Health Plan
Using CAHPS Health Plan Survey Data
Survey Measures … various stakeholders asking for their input on domains, topics within domains, item content, and response scales … version of the CAHPS Health Plan Survey in January 2015 through its Person and Family Centered Care Measures
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/carbon-emissions.html
September 01, 2022 - In alignment with HHS goals, Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions … to Mitigate Climate Change features a prioritized set of measures and potential interventions to reduce … Building on this framework, the primer identifies core (fundamental) and elective measures to track progress … Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions to Mitigate Climate Change was
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December 01, 2022 - topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … Information
Why Presentation Matters
Showing Differences in Performance
Describing Quality Measures … Organizing Quality Measures
Choosing Point of Comparison
High and Low Performance
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January 01, 2023 - topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … Information
Why Presentation Matters
Showing Differences in Performance
Describing Quality Measures … Organizing Quality Measures
Choosing Point of Comparison
High and Low Performance
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/decarbonization/support.html
May 01, 2023 - the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to develop a primer that offers guidance on high-priority measures … Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions for Healthcare Organizations to … pharmaceuticals, and chemicals
Medical devices and supplies
Food
The primer identifies core and elective measures
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March 01, 2021 - relevant to aspirin use, blood pressure and cholesterol control, and smoking cessation (ABCS) quality measures … The Cooperative helps the practices improve PQRS reporting of ABCS measures with a tailored Action Plan … It is associated with ABCS clinical quality measures and tracks closely with observed improvements in … We have observed many practices consumed with just creating and reporting clinical quality measures, … The impact was larger than the cardiovascular measures; it changed the culture of the clinic."