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401. CHIPRA Activities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - CHIPRA Activities As a followup to identifying the initial core measure set of children's health … Select for the candidate measure submission form (CPCF) used by COEs to submit measures and by the … Subcommittee on Quality Measures for Children's Healthcare (SNAC) to assess submitted measures. … : Measure Retirement and Update to the Child Core Set In 2013, AHRQ, CMS, and the 2013 AHRQ SNAC … for retirement, as well as the discussion and rationale related to each measure.

402. Develop Your Own (doc file)
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     January 01, 2003 - Undertaking to develop your own quality measure is a significant venture. … A "valid" measure will be reliable and will also measure the intended aspect. … They will put the measure to use and report on how it works. … Requirements, which include a measure of lead screening. … Developing a clinical performance measure. Am J Prev Med 1998;14:14-21.

403. AcademyHealth State-University Partnership Learning Network (SUPLN) Web Conference | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2016 - (24 measures in 2015) Annual updates to measures based on review and public comment Measure areas … Slide 17 2015 Child Core Set (2) NQF # Measure Steward Measure Name Maternal and … Slide 19 Measure Specifications Measures that states report to CMS should include data on entire … Slide 23 For Measure Results Child Core Set measures are publicly reported annually by HHS http … Slide 35 States' Quality Measure and Reporting Strategies Calculate measures ↓ Use measures

404. Timeliness of Confirmatory Testing for Sickle Cell Disease: Timeliness of Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Children with Sickle Cell Anemia (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2015 - Measure Fact Sheet – The AHRQ-CMS Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) 2 Measure Importance … Reliability and Validity of the Measures ● These measures are based on the gold standard data source … require the calculation of measure reliability. 3 ● The face validity of these measures was ranked … Measure Development and Testing These measures of timeliness used newborn screening results from the … Applicable to the Measures9 Reliability and Validity of the Measures Measure Development and Testing

405. Chapter 1: Background | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2014 - Measure Mapping Chapter 6. Measure Maps and Profile Appendix I. … Measure Mapping Strategy Appendix II. Identifying Measures Appendix III. … Care Coordination Measure Instruments Investigation into care coordination definitions … high-value, high-quality care, the health care community is currently struggling to determine how to measure … Use of EHRs both to carry out and to measure care coordination is central to the Centers for Medicare

406. Publications and Additional Materials | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2014 - Keywords: Quality measure Developing Measures for Pediatric Quality: Methods and Experiences of … Developing measures for pediatric quality: methods and experiences of the CHIPRA pediatric quality measures … Keywords: Quality measure Quality Measures and the Practicing Pediatrician: Perspectives From … Keywords: Quality measure The Importance of the Family Voice in Quality Measure Development for … Keywords: Quality measure Using Computer-Extracted Data from Electronic Health Records to Measure

407. Executive Summary of SNAC Healthcare Quality Measurement Report (pdf file)
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     November 17, 2021 - adequately emphasized in the SNAC report; consumers should be a prioritized stakeholder across all quality measure … standards for data needed for quality measurement would ensure the impact and actionability of the measure … definitions, the Agency would be well positioned to develop further innovations, such as toolkits for measure … When quality measure priorities across agencies are aligned, there is opportunity for AHRQ to develop … AHRQ should develop national standards regarding data collection, measure reporting, and endorsement

408. State at a Glance: Maine | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2019 - Using Health IT to Improve Child Health Care Quality Maine is using health IT to improve measure reporting … and other quality measures. … and other immunization measures. … from the IHOC Master List of Pediatric Measures that are not CHIPRA measures for 2009-2012. … reports evaluate First STEPS (Strengthening Together Early Preventive Services), an initiative to support measure-driven

409. Title of Presentation: (pdf file)
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     September 21, 2015 - grantees* and partnering states implemented 52 projects across 5 topic areas 7 7 States’ Quality Measure … – Budget adequate resources to adjust specifications for practice-level reporting “Measure … • Disseminated annual reports on statewide performance on child-focused measures • Encouraged measure … per measure $180,000 per provider Any Child Core Set measure Subsequent years Demonstrate … improvement $5,000 per percentage point improvement $25,000 per measure; $100,000 per provider

410. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) Ultrasonography Screening for Children with SCD; and Appropriate Antibiotic Prophylaxis (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2015 - Measure Fact Sheet – The AHRQ-CMS Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) 2 Measure Importance … ● This measure was also tested using administrative claims acquired directly from the respective … Measure Development and Testing These measures were tested in six States using 5 years of Medicaid Analytic … Freed, MD, MPH gfreed@med.umich.edu ● Coming soon: Link to measure details on the AHRQ Web site. … Applicable to the Measures8 Reliability and Validity of the Measures Measure Development and Testing

411. Publications and Additional Materials | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 24, 2018 - Keywords: Antipsychotics, Medicaid and CHIP, Quality measure Effectiveness of Pediatric Asthma … Keywords: Quality measure, Measure development, Medical complexity, Care coordination Antibiotic … PMID: 29496546 Keywords: Measure development, Medical complexity Health Care Quality Measures … Keywords: Quality measure, Electronic health records, Measure development Successful Integration … Keywords: Behavioral health, Quality measure In-Hospital Quality-of-Care Measures for Pediatric

412. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2013 - National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ Data Sources Appendix C. … Step 3: Examine the CCRM Mapping Table The Master Measure Mapping Table is used to link measures to … Step 4: Follow the Measure Selection Guide This guide will walk you through the steps of identifying … Step 5: Review the Profiles of Identified Measures Once you have identified measures that may meet … your needs, review the details of measure development, testing, and application.

413. Appendix VII: Public Comments Submitted Between March 7 and March 21, 2008 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2010 - submit uSPEQ® Consumer Experience Survey to the national HCBS (home- and community-based services) Measure … Some performance measures that are included in widely used measure sets are not appropriate for persons … Measures: Ideal measure that should be developed and validated: proportion of persons whose cognitive … Measures: Ideal measure that should be developed and evaluated: persons with dementia who live alone … Measures: Ideal measure to be developed and validated: the eligibility criteria for Medicaid HCBS

414. Figure 1. Numeric Scoring for Evaluation Criteria | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2010 - in the Scan Client Functioning Measures and Gaps Client Experience Measures and Gaps Program Performance … and Tools Appendix IV: List of Measures Appendix V: Tested Measures by DRA Domain Appendix VI: … Content validity: Documented evidence (in the public domain) that the measure was developed in collaboration … Reliability and/or validity testing: Testing results reported as a quantifiable statistical measure. … If this type of testing was conducted, but the actual statistical measure was not reported, it would

415. National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Program: Evaluation Highlight No.1 (pdf file)
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     September 30, 2015 - This category of activities will help CMS identify technical assistance needs and improve measure sets … For example, the Initial Core Set measure for Chlamydia screening is valid only for girls who are … These tools allow providers to indicate if a child should be excluded from a measure denominator if … How involved the practices are in data collection depends on the measure. … reports within their EHR systems that meet measure specifications.

416. Lessons from the Field: Identifying Measurement Challenges and Successes (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2019 - In order to calculate measures such that the results are comparable, entities need to have clear measure … Damberg et al. (2011) refer to “measure fatigue” in which the preponderance of measures and lack of … measures were used in more than one measure set, and many were used in a single state. … To ensure measures are comparable, data collection must be clearly delineated so that measures represent … Digital measures include use of standard terminologies and specific codes with the logic of the measure

417. Lessons from the Field: Measuring Intermediate Progress (pdf file)
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     November 04, 2018 - Healthcare Research and Quality by L&M Policy Research, LLC with guidance from the Pediatric Quality Measure … Program PQMP-LC Pediatric Quality Measure Program Learning Collaborative QI Quality Improvement … inform long-term outcome measures. … Time interval needs can also vary by context of measure use. … From a process of care to a measure: the development and testing of a quality indicator .

418. 2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Executive Summary
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     January 01, 2018 - One-third of access measures did not show improvement. … Healthy Living: Almost 60% of measures were improving. … Disparities were improving for only 4 measures for Blacks, 2 measures for AI/ANs, and 1 measure for NHPIs … of quality measures. … More than 250 measures that span structure, process, and outcome measures for which existing national

419. Quality Indicators Sensitive to Nurse Staffing in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2004 - • Evidence for the indicator as a measure of safe nursing care. … We see virtually no direct overlap in these measure sets, with the exception of decubitus/pressure ulcer … Caution should be taken since the measure intent is similar but definitions of these indicators vary … emerging from our comparative analysis, two issues were noted in examining measure standardization: … ,25 nursing intensity weights,21 and probability of an adverse event.26 Discussion The results of

420. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2010 - Studies of illness in the aged: the Index of ADL: a standardized measure of biological and psychosocial … Combining Activities of Daily Living with Instrumental Activities of Daily Living to measure functional … The full methodology for the measure scan is described in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services … Measure Scan: Project Methodology , available at . … AHRQ'S proprietary measure request was articulated in the formal Call for Measures referenced above (