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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/nac/snac.html
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Data & Measures … What are the current measure related activities that AHRQ is engaged in that should be considered for
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/confrpt.html
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Data & Measures … Measures and Reporting
States are seeking to enhance the analytic capability of their APCDs and to … Barriers
Solutions
Funding of data collection at the expense of analytics
Open source measures … from existing reports and Web sites (e.g., measures reported on individual State APCD Web sites) to … derive a starter set of measures.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/index.html
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Data & Measures … Consensus Organizational Health Literacy Quality Improvement Measures
Quality improvement measures … obtained consensus from experts on the usefulness, meaningfulness, feasibility, and face validity of 22 measures
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/qualityindicators.html
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Data & Measures … Contacts
AHRQuality Indicators™
Mission
The Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/pediatric.html
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Data & Measures … End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Clinics
Pharmacy
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Quality Measures … This new Pediatric QI Toolkit can be used to improve performance on the PDIs as well as other measures … Project Charter
Includes a charter to help you define the implementation team, goals, and measures
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/slides.html
October 01, 2020 - Slide 29: Build a Measurement System
Choose who, what, when, and how to measure
– WHO will measure … tree
Slide 30: Family of Measures (FOM) Example 5
Measure Type
Description
Surgical Safety … What happened to the system as we improved the outcome and process measures? … when to measure. … – Ongoing evaluation and transparency of measures.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/tpcbib/index.html
May 01, 2015 - Based on testing this measure on a large sample of primary care practices in Michigan, the measure adequately … measure and the users, and that attempts to develop a one-size-fits-all approach may not be successful … The authors used a one-group, 48-month interrupted time series design to measure annual differences in … Seniors in the PCMH clinic reported higher ratings on three out of seven patient experience scales compared … After adjusting for baseline, PCMH patients reported higher ratings on six of seven patient experience scales
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/research/index.html
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Data & Measures … diagnostic performance, as well as identify the research and evidence, tools and training, and data and measures … of their health care team; a deeper understanding of diagnostic errors and how to most effectively measure … which may include the establishment of Research Centers of Diagnostic Excellence to develop systems, measures
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/toolkit/orthostatic-vital-sign.html
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Data & Measures … End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Clinics
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Quality Measures … How do you measure fall rates and fall prevention practices?
6. … Measure the blood pressure and the pulse while the patient is supine. … Measure the blood pressure and pulse immediately after patient has stood up, and then repeat the measurements
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/hspc-research-study/research-gaps.html
June 01, 2020 - Participants called for research around prioritization of measures and greater harmonization of measures … funding to create measures is lacking: “We currently don’t have valid measures of quality that everybody … We know how to create good measures. … , which have lagged behind quality measures for adults; (2) patient safety measures that look at all … measures) have been developed, more research is needed on the practicality and feasibility of such measures
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/related-reports.html
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Data & Measures … topics in this section
Talking Quality
Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … Related Resources on Healthcare Quality Reporting
From AHRQ
Public Reporting of Cost Measures … Health —This technical brief documents current practices for public reporting Web sites that include measures
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/explain.html
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Data & Measures … topics in this section
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Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures … Organizing Quality Measures
Choosing Point of Comparison
High and Low Performance … Ideally, all your measures would be in the same direction, but sometimes that is just not possible. … When you cannot show all measures in the same direction, you need to indicate clearly whether to look
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/natlhacratereport-rebaselining2014-2016_0.pdf
January 01, 2016 - Clostridium difficile infections were previously tracked in the “All Other
HACs” measure, which is a … Collectively, 28 specific measures are used
(Exhibit A1a): 15 measures to generate rates for the 10 … Measures used to estimate the national HAC rate
HAC Type Source Measure
Adverse Drug
Event
MPSMS … The weights follow, based on their percentage of the inpatient population:
• AMI: 1.95%,
• CHF: 3.10% … the 21 measures.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/index.html
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Data & Measures … These reports may be used for informing and developing coverage decisions, quality measures, educational
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/events/webinar-federal-agency-alignment-to-the-six-priorities.html
November 01, 2016 - I'll share a little bit about the measure set we use for all health plans. … Within our measure set, we put the hypertension control measure at the top, and we rate all health plans … in use in other contexts was the number of measures available and the so-called measures fog that everyone … We are constantly curating our measure set because when our plans achieve success on one measure we want … We would consider a Medicare benchmark, and we will take the measures they benchmark from any measures
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/communicate/trust.html
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Data & Measures … topics in this section
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Select Measures … been to support reports on various CAHPS surveys, on the AHRQ Quality Indicators, on hospice quality measures … , and on nursing quality measures.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/eliminate-diagnostic-errors.html
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Data & Measures … AHRQ’s newest clinical tool – Measure Dx – is an essential addition to the inventory of resources that … Measure Dx is available to any healthcare organization interested in promoting diagnostic excellence … Measure Dx exemplifies AHRQ’s continued commitment to diagnostic excellence. … Measure Dx recommends using these standard formats for case analysis.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-team-assessment-scale-jtcommjqualpatsaf.pdf
February 01, 2024 - However, few valid and reli-
able teamwork measures exist in health care. 6 Teamwork in-
terventions … TAT’s structure (in other
words, high correlations between corresponding domains
of the equivalent scales … These are two fundamental at-
tributes of a high-quality measure. … Best practices for developing and vali-
dating scales for health, social, and behavioral research: a … Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales
and Questionnaires. 3rd ed.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/elicitation/index.html
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Data & Measures … The CAHPS narrative items generate insights into the topics addressed by the survey’s measures as well … But narratives can also reduce consumers’ attention to standardized measures and lead to suboptimal doctor … choices based on those measures. … How patient comments affect consumers’ use of physician performance measures.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/hsops2-pt2_transition_apx.pdf
September 01, 2019 - HSOPS 1.0 Composite Measures and Associated Items Dropped From
HSOPS 2.0 .......................... … Average percent positive scores for composite measures and items on HSOPS 2.0 and
HSOPS 1.0 from the … Table A-3 displays the two HSOPS 1.0 composite measures and associated survey items that
were dropped … and Transitions, so items similar in content to both of these composite measures
were included in a … 2.0 and 1.0
Composite Measures
2019 Pilot
Hospital Average
% Positive Difference: HSOPS 2.0 –