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pcmh.ahrq.gov/gam/updates/index.html
October 01, 2023 - SHARE:
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Guidelines and Measures … About NGC and NQMC
Guideline and Measure Summaries
Updates
Guidelines … and Measures Updates
Information about the National Guideline Clearinghouse
Since the National … reviewed October 2023
Page originally created July 2018
Internet Citation: Guidelines and Measures
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/organize/index.html
March 01, 2016 - topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … Organizing Quality Measures
Composite Measures
Measures by Quality Domain
Measures … by Disease or Condition
Measures by Type
Measures by Data Source
Choosing Point … One goal of the report designer is to organize the measures so that people have an intuitive sense of … Measures by Type (e.g., structure, process, outcome, patient experience)
Organizing Measures by Data
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/pqmp/publications/index.html
July 01, 2022 - More topics in this section
Pediatric Quality Measures … Program
About the PQMP
PQMP Measures
PQMP-Related Publications
PQMP 1.0 Journal … Supplement
PQMP 2.0 Journal Supplement
All Publications
Measure Implementation … and then six COEs to implement, field test, and disseminate evidence-based consensus quality measures … Public dissemination of key scientific findings and lessons learned concerning pediatric measures and
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/long-term-care/nursing-home/measurement-sets.html
November 01, 2018 - To Report
Domains of Healthcare Quality
Types of Quality Measures
Data Sources … Key Questions About Measures
Measures in Different Settings
Measuring Hospital Quality … Quality
Measuring Long-term Care Quality
Measuring Nursing Home Quality
Nursing Home Measure … and for the collection of data for those measures. … The NQF-endorsed measures for nursing homes are all derived from the MDS.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/physician/measurement-sets.html
January 01, 2023 - Measuring Health Plan Quality
Measuring Physician Quality
Physician Measure Examples … The measure sets listed here have been endorsed, in whole or in part, by the National Quality Forum … Implemented in the early 1990s to measure health plan performance, HEDIS incorporated physician-level … measures in 2006. … Many of the measures have NQF's endorsement.
Learn more about HEDIS measures .
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/timely-blood-culture.html
August 01, 2021 - More topics in this section
Pediatric Quality Measures … Program
About the PQMP
PQMP Measures
PQMP-Related Publications
Measure Implementation … PQMP Grantees
Timely blood culture for children with sepsis syndrome
Measure … Domain: Management of Acute Conditions Measure Sub-Domain: Pediatric Sepsis Syndrome PQMP COE: Q-METRIC … https://www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/timely-blood-culture.html
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/hospital/about/child_hp_survey.html
February 01, 2024 - Information about the survey measures. … Quality Measures from the Child Hospital Survey
The Child Hospital Survey produces 18 measures of patient … experience: 10 composite measures and 8 single-item measures, including an overall rating of the hospital … with your child (composite measure)
Involving teens in their care (composite measure)
Attention … Overall rating (single-item measure)
Recommend hospital (single-item measure)
Review measures
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/labels/limit-info.html
November 01, 2018 - Plain English Measure Labels
Why Quality Measure Matters
What a Plan or Provider Can … Events
There is one exception to the rule of not presenting caveats within a data display: when the measure … For example, a report on a measure of hip fracture mortality in the hospital may say:
“It is very rare … Also in "Describing Measures in User-Friendly Ways"
Label Measures in Plain English
Explain Why the … Information Matters
Describe How the Plan or Provider Can Influence the Measure
Explain What’s Better
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/web/pathways/composites.html
May 01, 2019 - topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … Organizing Quality Measures
Choosing Point of Comparison
Displaying Data
Using … reduce the burden on users and help them decide what plan or provider to choose, go to:
Combining Measures … The first layer could offer a small number of categories of measures while the second layer could include … or Measure Categories To Compare
Drill Down to Items Included in Composites and Summary Scores
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/long-term-care/hospice.html
January 01, 2023 - topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … To Report
Domains of Healthcare Quality
Types of Quality Measures
Data Sources … Key Questions About Measures
Measures in Different Settings
Measuring Hospital Quality … Examples of Hospice Quality Measures for Consumers
Measures of hospice quality are relatively new. … Descriptive Measures: While not associated with any particular IOM domain, descriptive measures can
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/long-term-care/index.html
January 01, 2023 - topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … To Report
Domains of Healthcare Quality
Types of Quality Measures
Data Sources … Key Questions About Measures
Measures in Different Settings
Measuring Hospital Quality … This section reviews measures of quality for nursing homes, home health agencies, and hospice services … and suggests where and how you can get information about the measures.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/emerging/index.html
June 01, 2020 - Organized and funded quality measure development activities are ongoing. … An expert advisory group has been working to guide the development of a measure and technical specifications … , and to work with survey sponsors to identify gaps in available data to construct an "ideal" measure … Models for analyzing CAHPS® data to measure mental and behavioral health for children and adolescents … Children's asthma care is under consideration as a candidate core measure set.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/vae.html
December 01, 2017 - slide sets to help units accomplish three goals:
Monitor ventilator-associated events and outcome measures … Data Measures Guide ( PDF , 945 KB)
The Data Measures Guide provides data definitions and equations … Tools To Support Monitoring VAEs and Outcome Measures
Ventilator-Associated Event Data Collection Tool … Outcomes Data Collection Tool ( Word , 1.58 MB)
This data collection tool tracks monthly outcome measures … Educational Slide Sets for VAE and Objective Outcome Measures
These slide sets can be viewed by individual
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Guidelines and Measures … Inclusion Criteria
View the criteria guidelines and measures had to meet to be included … Domain Framework
Learn how measures were classified according to the domain framework … Areas of Interest
About Guidelines and Measures
Find information on the legacy … National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC).
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2023-child-hcahps-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2023 - Top Box and Proportional Score Crosswalk to Child HCAHPS Response Scales C-1
Table C-2. … measure, and the single-item measures. … Measures
Composite Measure/Item Name
Communication Between You and
Your Child’s Nurses
Nurses … The Child
HCAHPS Survey uses several different response scales. … In the Child HCAHPS Survey, there are composite measures that have items on two different response scales
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/decarbonization/index.html
January 01, 2023 - Decarbonization in Healthcare
Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures … the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to develop a primer that offers guidance on high-priority measures … Download the Primer
Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions for Healthcare … Building on this framework, the primer identifies core and elective measures to track progress and critical … Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions for Healthcare Organizations to
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/health-plan/measurement-sets.html
December 01, 2022 - Key Questions About Measures
Measures in Different Settings
Measuring Hospital Quality … Measuring Health Plan Quality
Health Plan Measure Examples
Health Plan Measurement … Sets
Health Plan Measure Databases
Measuring Physician Quality
Measuring Long-term … More than 90 percent of health plans—HMOs, POS plans, and PPOs—use HEDIS to measure performance. … Also in "Measures of Health Plan Quality"
Examples of Health Plan Quality Measures for Consumers
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/gam/about/index.html
July 01, 2018 - SHARE:
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Guidelines and Measures … About NGC and NQMC
Guideline and Measure Summaries
Updates
About … NGC and NQMC
This resource, Guidelines and Measures, was set up by AHRQ to provide users a place … (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC). … National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC)
NQMC was an initiative of AHRQ, U.S.
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March 01, 2013 - caregivers, and 3 of 6 measures among low-intensity caregivers 18 months: Caregiver burden among … of caregiver experience with quality of care provided to patients among all caregivers, 2 of 6 measures … of caregiver burden among nonterminal patients 12 months: Improved 6 of 8 SF-36 scales among nonterminal … patients 12 months: 1 of 2 measures of caregiver burden among nonterminal patients 12 months: … 2 of 8 SF-36 scales among nonterminal patients
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June 01, 2016 - Quality Measures
Organizing Quality Measures
Choosing Point of Comparison
Displaying … The scores you present in your report depend in large part on the kind of measure(s) you are … Organization-Level “Yes or No”
The simplest kind of measure involves a “yes or no” question. … Since this measure is collected about many individuals, you need to summarize the results. … The choice of reporting only “yes” or “no” answers can be tricky if your measure captures a negative