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141. Improving Diagnostic Quality and Safety Final Report. | PSNet
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     September 06, 2011 - outlines 3 domains and 11 subdomains for measuring diagnostic quality and safety as well as 62 prioritized measure … High-priority areas for measure development include timeliness of diagnosis , timely follow-up of test … identified several cross-cutting themes and makes recommendations for researchers seeking to develop measures … August 2, 2017 Identification and Prioritization of Health IT Patient Safety Measures

142. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     July 17, 2024 - Development of patient safety measures to identify inappropriate diagnosis of common infections. … Development of patient safety measures to identify inappropriate diagnosis of common infections. … This article describes the development of two National Quality Forum (NQF)-endorsed measures of inappropriate … Both measures demonstrated strong validity and reliability through testing with patient focus groups … significant decreases in inappropriate diagnoses of UTI and CAP, indicating broad usability of these measures

143. Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012. | PSNet
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     November 02, 2012 - annual Joint Commission report summarizes the performance of hospitals across 45 accountability measures … This year's calculation for identifying "Top Performers" included three new accountability measure sets … last year and now accounts for about 18% of all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals that report core measure … April 24, 2013 National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Patient Safety Measures: A

144. In Conversation With... Libby Hoy and Stephen Hoy | PSNet
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     March 10, 2021 - A more direct link to patient engagement is the Patient Activation Measure (PAM). … development of clinical measures to ensure that measures are meaningful to patients. … Per the Measures Management System Blueprint , CMS would like measure developers to actively engage … if the measure will be calculated using patient-reported data. … Why process measures are often more important than outcome measures in healthcare. HealthCatalyst.

145. Defining and measuring patient safety. | PSNet
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     June 16, 2011 - safety and quality measurement while also sharing the challenges in choosing process versus outcome measures … March 11, 2020 Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins … June 28, 2010 Linking Joint Commission inpatient core measures and National Patient Safety

146. Spotlight Case [MONTH] 2003 (ppt file)
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     November 01, 2006 - HQA: Current Measure Set Heart Attack (Acute Myocardial Infarction or AMI) • Aspirin at arrival • Aspirin … HQA: Current Measure Set (cont.) … HQA: Current Measure Set (cont.) … HQA: Current Measure Set (cont.) … instead of process outcomes: if the association between the process measure and the desired outcome

147. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Identifying and mapping measures of medication safety during transfer of care in a digital era: a scoping … Identifying and mapping measures of medication safety during transfer of care in a digital era: a scoping … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/identifying-and-mapping-measures-medication-safety-during-transfer-care- … Measures were mapped to frameworks (e.g., Donabedian) and whether measures were reactive, proactive, … The authors describe ways technology can improve how the measures are implemented.

148. From board to bedside: how the application of financial structures to safety and quality can drive accountability in a large health care system. | PSNet
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     January 29, 2015 - article described Johns Hopkins' success at achieving consistently high performance on accountability measures … January 29, 2015 Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins … January 27, 2016 Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns … August 8, 2018 Developing a measure of value in health care. … November 29, 2017 Effect of a hospital-wide measure on the readmissions reduction program

149. Alternative medications for medications in the Use of High-Risk Medications in the Elderly and Potentially Harmful Drug–Disease Interactions in the Elderly quality measures. | PSNet
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     April 27, 2011 - Medications in the Elderly and Potentially Harmful Drug–Disease Interactions in the Elderly quality measures … Medications in the Elderly and Potentially Harmful Drug-Disease Interactions in the Elderly Quality Measures … Because avoiding these medications is a quality measure, it is a priority for health systems to employ … Medications in the Elderly and Potentially Harmful Drug-Disease Interactions in the Elderly Quality Measures

150. Discharging Our Responsibility | PSNet
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     January 16, 2019 - patients and the opportunity to implement, manage, and measure intervention strategies. … To be counted as conforming to the performance measure, hospitals are required to provide instructions … Over the 2-year study period, the discharge instruction HF performance measure improved significantly … Joint Commission/CMS Heart Failure Inpatient Performance Measure Descriptions. … Performance Measure Name Measure Description Discharge instructions Heart failure patients

151. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 18, 2024 - Achieving diagnostic excellence: roadmaps to develop and use patient-reported measures with an equity … Achieving diagnostic excellence: roadmaps to develop and use patient-reported measures with an equity … ://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/achieving-diagnostic-excellence-roadmaps-develop-and-use-patient-reported- measures-equity … Patient-reported measures (PRM) can improve the diagnostic process by incorporating perspectives from … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/achieving-diagnostic-excellence-roadmaps-develop-and-use-patient-reported-measures-equity

152. Intraoperative surgical performance measurement and outcomes: choose your tools carefully. | PSNet
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     June 17, 2015 - awareness can affect surgical performance, this commentary highlights the challenges to aligning rating scales … with surgical outcome measures.

153. Organizational factors associated with high performance in quality and safety in academic medical centers. | PSNet
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     January 03, 2017 - This study examined discharge data from 79 AMCs to generate a scoring method for measures of safety, … July 19, 2010 The reliability of AHRQ Common Format Harm Scales in rating patient safety … April 6, 2011 The Safety Organizing Scale: development and validation of a behavioral measure

154. Failure to rescue as a patient safety indicator for neurosurgical patients: are we there yet? | PSNet
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     August 04, 2021 - Failure to rescue (FTR) quality metrics measure the ability of healthcare teams and hospitals to prevent … modifications to existing FTR definitions to better suit neurosurgical patients, such as incorporating measures … October 30, 2019 Performance measures in neurosurgical patient care: differing applications

155. Are the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality obstetric trauma indicators valid measures of hospital safety? | PSNet
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     April 30, 2014 - Are the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality obstetric trauma indicators valid measures … Are the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality obstetric trauma indicators valid measures of hospital … Are the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality obstetric trauma indicators valid measures of hospital … January 18, 2017 Failure to rescue as a process measure to evaluate fetal safety during

156. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     October 02, 2024 - New Analysis Shows Hospitals Improving Performance on Key Patient Safety Measures Surpassing Pre- pandemic … October 2, 2024 New Analysis Shows Hospitals Improving Performance On Key Patient Safety Measures Surpassing … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/new-analysis-shows-hospitals-improving-performance-key-patient-safety- measures-surpassing-pre … This report analyzed a set of patient safety measures in 1,300 hospitals and found that in the first … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/new-analysis-shows-hospitals-improving-performance-key-patient-safety-measures-surpassing-pre

157. Measuring perinatal patient safety: review of current methods. | PSNet
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     October 19, 2022 - The author discusses four methods for measuring patient safety—structure measures, process measures, … outcome measures, and safety attitude and climate surveys.

158. Defining patient safety in hospice: principles to guide measurement and public reporting. | PSNet
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     September 23, 2020 - Detailing how safety measures for hospitals can result in unintended consequences when implemented in … hospice care , this commentary recommends developing hospice-specific safety measures. … November 16, 2022 Expert consensus on currently accepted measures of harm.

159. Ranking hospitals based on preventable hospital death rates: a systematic review with implications for both direct measurement and indirect measurement through standardized mortality rates. | PSNet
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     April 22, 2017 - This systematic review examined whether preventable death rates could be used as a measure of hospital … The authors conclude that preventable death rates would not be a valid or reliable measure of patient … From the Same Author(s) Reviewing deaths in British and US hospitals: a study of two scales

160. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 24, 2018 - annual report provides performance data for United States hospitals across a range of accountability measures … In 2016, hospital performance on accountability measures remained strong. … composite accountability score decreased slightly, this result is thought to be due to the fact that measures … Quality program, which was designed to facilitate hospital reporting of electronic clinical quality measures … In 2016, 470 hospitals reported electronic clinical quality measure data compared to only 34 in 2015