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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-acquired-infections-surgical-patients-impact-covid-19-related-infection-prevention
March 17, 2021 - Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures … Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures … The COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in infection control and prevention measures to limit nosocomial … Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/implementation-world-health-organization-trauma-care-checklist-program-11-centers-across
November 16, 2022 - Trauma Care Checklist Program in 11 centers across multiple economic strata: effect on care process measures … Trauma Care Checklist Program in 11 Centers Across Multiple Economic Strata: Effect on Care Process Measures … Researchers found that adherence to 18 out of 19 care process measures improved after the checklist … Trauma Care Checklist Program in 11 Centers Across Multiple Economic Strata: Effect on Care Process Measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fostering-transparency-outcomes-quality-safety-and-costs
January 29, 2015 - The lack of effective quality and safety measures hinders health care improvement and transparency … This commentary recommends ways to enhance the use of quality and safety measures, including establishing … March 24, 2017
Developing a measure of value in health care. … February 10, 2021
Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins … October 31, 2014
Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/americas-hospitals-improving-quality-and-safety-joint-commissions-annual-report-2016
November 10, 2016 - report describes performance data for United States hospitals across a large number of evidence-based measures … , referred to as accountability measures . … The percent of hospitals that performed at 95% or above for all accountability measures declined from … However, the report emphasizes that many of the measures in which hospitals were performing extremely … Hospitals were also given the opportunity to submit electronic clinical quality measure data for the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/measurement-patient-safety
September 15, 2024 - analogy, an institution's view of its safety issues inevitably depends on the method being used to measure … Processes—what is done to the patient Outcomes—what ultimately happens to the patient A structural measure … Studies of medication reconciliation may measure processes (such as the proportion of patients for … adverse events, existing tools all have limitations , and controversy continues to plague efforts to measure … for use on a national basis (as well as retiring outdated measures), creating measures of patient safety
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/841567/psn-pdf
December 14, 2022 - Notifications and
trigger tools can also use EMR data to monitor harm and measure adverse events.7 … , a measure that was recently added
by CMS to its Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program. … By leveraging laboratory data, hospitals can measure the number of patients who
were administered at … will also continue to evolve and broaden to measure areas that are important to
individuals receiving … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/validation-primary-care-patient-measure-safety-pc-pmos-questionnaire
https
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-diagnostic-quality-safetyreducing-diagnostic-error-measurement-considerations
November 20, 2019 - Efforts to track, understand and measure diagnostic errors offer continuing challenges to designing … report updates an earlier environmental assessment on the validity and quality of diagnostic error measures … It identified new types of active measures and related concepts present in the evidence base. … Need
July 8, 2020
Identification and Prioritization of Health IT Patient Safety Measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/850910/psn-pdf
June 21, 2023 - Developing electronic clinical quality measures to assess
the cancer diagnostic process. … Developing electronic clinical quality measures to assess
the cancer diagnostic process. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/developing-electronic-clinical-quality-measures-assess-cancer-diagnostic … Each measure used data from the electronic health record
(EHR) to identify abnormal test results, evidence … The authors describe the measure testing results and outline the challenges in
working with unstructured
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/not-another-safety-culture-survey-using-canadian-patient-safety-climate-survey-can-pscs
February 14, 2015 - 'Not another safety culture survey': using the Canadian patient safety climate survey (Can-PSCS) to measure … 'Not another safety culture survey': using the Canadian patient safety climate survey (Can-PSCS) to measure … survey validation techniques to the Canadian patient safety climate survey and found that it reliably measures … 'Not another safety culture survey': using the Canadian patient safety climate survey (Can-PSCS) to measure … June 28, 2010
Development of a measure of patient safety event learning responses.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/international-review-patient-safety-measures-radiotherapy-practice
May 22, 2019 - Review
An international review of patient safety measures in radiotherapy practice … An international review of patient safety measures in radiotherapy practice. … An international review of patient safety measures in radiotherapy practice.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/concurrent-and-overlapping-surgeries-additional-measures-warranted
August 17, 2022 - Book/Report
Concurrent and Overlapping Surgeries: Additional Measures Warranted. … Citation Text:
Concurrent and Overlapping Surgeries: Additional Measures Warranted. … Cite
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Concurrent and Overlapping Surgeries: Additional Measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60530/psn-pdf
January 01, 2022 - A systematic review of patient-report safety climate
measures in health care. … A systematic review of patient-report safety climate measures in
health care. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/systematic-review-patient-report-safety-climate-measures-health-care
Patient … The authors
note that few measures report satisfactory validity and reliability, and few measures have … They suggest that future research focus on developing a stand-alone measure with high
validity and reliability
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/americas-hospitals-improving-quality-and-safety-joint-commissions-annual-report-2017
November 27, 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.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/exploring-relationship-between-hospital-patient-safety-culture-and-performance-measures
August 28, 2024 - Exploring the relationship between hospital patient safety culture and performance on measures … Exploring the relationship between hospital patient safety culture and performance on measures of hospital-acquired … Exploring the relationship between hospital patient safety culture and performance on measures of hospital-acquired … 1, 2017
Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard algorithms to measure
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/validation-teamwork-perceptions-measure-increase-patient-safety
March 20, 2014 - Study
Validation of a teamwork perceptions measure to increase patient safety. … Validation of a teamwork perceptions measure to increase patient safety. … TeamSTEPPS questionnaire—which explores perceptions of teamwork within health care settings—reliably measures … Validation of a teamwork perceptions measure to increase patient safety.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/841566/psn-pdf
December 14, 2022 - We develop or
maintain measures ourselves or utilize measures developed by other “measure stewards” … For example, AHRQ is an important measure steward
for some patient experience measures and the patient … Many people
look to our websites, including the Care Compare sites, which provide performance measure … We measure the glycated hemoglobin and control of blood sugar. … You have talked about the
interoperability of data and I am wondering what else is part of CMS’ measure
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/measuring-quality
June 21, 2017 - common preventable error and threat to patient safety - are not captured through existing quality measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866217/psn-pdf
July 10, 2024 - that change every year, including the weights and targets. … You touched a little on
specific health plan measures of patient safety. … Amy Helwig: We often refer to these as quality measures rather than patient safety measures. … that we use, including chronic care prevention measures, diabetes
measures, cardiac disease measures … These measures are similar to those used by providers.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-real-time-pediatric-icu-safety-bundle-dashboard-quality-improvement-measures
June 21, 2015 - Effect of a real-time pediatric ICU safety bundle dashboard on quality improvement measures … Effect of a Real-Time Pediatric ICU Safety Bundle Dashboard on Quality Improvement Measures. … Adherence to quality and safety measures (such as informed consent, presence of urinary catheters , … Effect of a Real-Time Pediatric ICU Safety Bundle Dashboard on Quality Improvement Measures.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/measuring-preventable-harm-helping-science-keep-pace-policy
December 29, 2014 - This commentary discusses the shortcomings in policy measures to improve patient safety. … To a large extent, policy measures are limited by an inability to distinguish between "inevitable" and … Policy measures should be informed by this research, so that payment policies appropriately incentivize … Trauma Care Checklist Program in 11 centers across multiple economic strata: effect on care process measures … Health care quality and safety in a correctional system: creating goals and performance measures