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241. Help People Use Health Care Quality Information To Make Decisions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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 .

242. Home and Community-based Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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.

243. Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and Sample Size Do Studies Need? | PCMH Resource Center
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     October 01, 2011 - View table 3 in new window If researchers measure effects on cost and service use among a subset of … While researchers may need to measure effects on continuous variables (such as cost and service use) … be categorical or binary variables; for example, for hospitalizations, a continuous measure would be … ) than on continuous health care cost and service use measures. … process measures (e.g., whether a patient received a vaccine) or satisfaction measures.

244. Operational Measurement of Diagnostic Safety: State of the Science (pdf file)
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     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.

245. Advancing the Impact of Consumer Experience of Care Measurement: What’s Next? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

246. Development of the CAHPS Health Plan Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

247. AHRQ Releases Primer for Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

248. Choosing a Comparator for Health Care Quality Scores | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

249. Comparing Health Plan and Provider Quality Scores to Each Other | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

250. AHRQ's Support for Decarbonization in Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

251. EvidenceNOW: Northwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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."

252. Key Driver 2: Implement a Data-driven Quality Improvement Process to Integrate Evidence into Practice Procedures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2018 - A key step is to choose QI measures that provide information to guide implementation, and to collect … Select internal QI measures, collect data, compare with goals and benchmarks, and act on data regularly … When selecting quality improvement measures, practices will want to remember that, unlike accountability … Experienced practice facilitators report that using QI measures help practices make decisions on more … Practices should also regularly compare quality measures to practice-level goals and external benchmarks

253. EvidenceNOW: Southwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - and population management and to link practices with a central data aggregation system for quality measures … care practices with practice transformation and technical support to document, report, and analyze measures … As of June 2017, 190 practices had reported at least one ABCS measure. … Nine- and 15-month survey data collection as well as ABCS measure submissions from the practices are … for practices that have completed the full 15-month study period but are unable to produce all ABCS measures

254. 2022 Updated Results for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - The survey items use 5- point agreement scales (“Strongly disagree” to “Strongly agree”), 5-point frequency … scales (“Never” to “Always”) and include a “Does not apply or Don’t know” response option. … SOPS Workplace Safety Composite Measures Workplace Safety Composite Measures Definition: The extent … safety composite measures and the composite measure average. … Composite Measure Percent Positive Response The six workplace safety culture composite measures are

255. Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2023 - Survey Items and Composite Measures Medical Office Items and Composite Measures—English (PDF, 165  … Medical Office Items and Composite Measures—Spanish (PDF, 244 KB).

256. CAHPS Emergency Department Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - Quality Measures from the CAHPS Emergency Department Survey The Emergency Department Survey produces … the following measures of patient experience: Getting Timely Care. … Measure testing with consumers.

257. The End of the Public Health Emergency Refocuses the Urgency to Improve Healthcare Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2023 - The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2023 Hospital Safety Grade , one of many indicators that measure healthcare … The decline in patient experience is equally alarming, as captured in Leapfrog’s communication measures … They report five measures: nurse communication, physician communication, staff responsiveness, communication … Nationally, these measures, on average, also declined compared to pre-pandemic times.

258. Introducing the CAHPS Child Hospital Survey_Transcript (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - CAHPS surveys don’t measure satisfaction, per se. … They measure patients’ reports and ratings of their experiences. … And so we don’t want to actually measure peoples’ satisfaction, we want to measure what actually happened … And we also looked to existing measures -- existing adult measures and existing child measures from … efforts of these units that were rounding, but also truthfully have some accountability for another measure

259. How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices
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     December 03, 2012 - How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention … Practices ADD Hospital Name Here Module 5 Basic Quality Improvement Principle If you can’t measure … Will you use NDNQI’s definition to measure and monitor falls? … This measure considers if the unit census is running high or low. … Measure Fall Prevention Practices Key indicator Who is responsible?

260. Preparing a Questionnaire Using the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2021 - to measure respondents’ assessments of their own or their child’s provider. … When reporting single-item measures, it is important to indicate that the measure reflects performance … Descriptions of these measures and lists of the survey questions included in each measure are provided … Review the items in the composite measure from the Health Literacy Item Set. … from the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey Types of Measures Measures from Core Survey Items Measures