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December 15, 2011 - September 25, 2019
Using harm-based weights for the AHRQ Patient Safety for Selected … June 26, 2024
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Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns Hopkins
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February 19, 2010 - anesthesiology residents demonstrated that fatigue negatively impairs psychomotor
functioning and mood but not measures … fatigue can lead to errors as a result of impaired cognitive abilities even if the more difficult to
measure
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November 09, 2016 - offer recommendations to CMS to improve their comparison program, including reducing the number of
measures … rating-raters-inconsistent-quality-health-care-performance-measurement
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August 02, 2015 - this chart review study found that endovascular repair was safer, emphasizing the utility of these
measures … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-indicators-overview
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-best-measure-surgical-quality-comparison-agency-healthcare-research-and-quality-patient
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November 30, 2016 - comparing-nicu-teamwork-and-safety-climate-across-two-commonly-used-
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Health care organizations measure … They
found significant variation in safety and teamwork climate scales of both tools, indicating that
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May 01, 2012 - these patient safety
initiatives requires generally accepted, rigorous, standardized, and practical measures … different adverse event rates are identified
depending on the techniques being used to identify and measure … Occurrence reports: The most well known strategy to identify and measure patient safety in U.S. hospitals … events in VA inpatient care: reliability limits to
using Patient Safety Indicators as performance measures … "all cause" harm• Measures
total harm burden• Provides a rate (i.e.,
harms per 100 admissions or per
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April 24, 2018 - Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating
standard algorithms to measure patient safety. … Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard
algorithms to measure patient safety. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/navigating-ship-broken-compass-evaluating-standard-algorithms-measure- … patient-safety
The AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) represent quality measures derived from administrative … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/navigating-ship-broken-compass-evaluating-standard-algorithms-measure-patient-safety
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February 01, 2014 - For example, part of the challenge is how do you measure diagnostic errors? … "There are too many measures." … However, CMS and private payers were necessarily limited to choosing core measures from among the measures … In some of these areas, developing useful measures may be possible. … ability to measure much of what matters in medical care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43784/psn-pdf
December 17, 2014 - Reviewing the evidence on existing patient safety measures, this commentary explores
the accuracy, validity … measuring-preventable-harm-helping-science-keep-pace-policy
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-lets-measure-what-matters
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September 06, 2011 - May 11, 2017
Request for comments on the proposed measures and 2020 targets for the National … Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention: inpatient and outpatient measures for reduction of adverse
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May 07, 2014 - April 11, 2012
Selecting Quality and Resource Use Measures: A Decision Guide for Community … May 21, 2014
Selecting Quality and Resource Use Measures: A Decision Guide for Community
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February 01, 2011 - conceptual model to
guide organizations in developing their safety scorecard and understanding the measures … A worksheet is provided that focuses on three questions: Is the measure important? … , Is the
measure valid?, and Can this measure be used to improve safety in the organization?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46450/psn-pdf
August 20, 2018 - 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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44331/psn-pdf
September 09, 2015 - temporal-trends-patient-safety-netherlands-reductions-preventable-adverse-
events-or-end
Patient safety advocates recognize the lack of appropriate measures … authors also suggest that the
study findings highlight some of the limitations of adverse events as a measure … trends-adverse-events-over-time-why-are-we-not-improving
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-lets-measure-what-matters
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49711/psn-pdf
June 01, 2014 - Identify measures for reducing risks related to patient wandering. … patients at risk for wandering
are admitted to medical units not designed with these physical security measures … A more complete discussion of patient assessments and physical security measures can be found in a
previous … Some HCFs take added measures including issuing a specially colored "Patient Off Unit" hall pass to … Response procedures
Even if some preventive measures above are implemented, patients may still wander
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June 28, 2018 - Health care quality and safety in a correctional system: creating goals and performance measures … October 19, 2022
Measures and measurement of high-performance work systems in health
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April 01, 2014 - pressure (CPP, calculated as mean arterial pressure [MAP] – ICP).( 3 ) This CPP-driven strategy emphasizes measures … Management of increased ICP in patients with ICH should always begin with simple but effective measures … If ICP remains elevated clinically despite these simple measures, a more aggressive approach is indicated … ICP monitoring devices are small plastic catheters that are inserted into the brain to measure ICP. … In patients whose ICP remains refractory after the initial simple measures outlined above and osmotic
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June 25, 2014 - unexpectedly long
hospital stays varied widely between hospitals and were correlated with other quality measures … Although
much more work is required to validate this measure, it may fill a need as a measure of patient … unexpectedly-long-hospital-stays-indicator-risk-unsafe-care-exploratory-study
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-mortality-when-failure-not-good-measure-success … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-mortality-when-failure-not-good-measure-success
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May 18, 2011 - January 20, 2021
Reviewing deaths in British and US hospitals: a study of two scales … June 11, 2014
The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures
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September 10, 2014 - This observational study sought to develop a metric of hospital system
load—a multidimensional measure … The final system load metric included measures of census, length of stay,
and turnover for the emergency