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421. Quality and Safety Review System (QSRS) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-measures/qsrs/index.html
     April 01, 2025 - The report examines 41 types of AEs and composite measures, with comparative analyses conducted by sex

422. Physician Quality Reporting and Patient Outcomes in Medicare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/abstract-dowd.html
     December 01, 2017 - PQRS enables individual physicians and other eligible professionals to voluntarily select the measures … The study examined the effect of the onset of PQRS reporting on various measures of utilization and cost … , including newly developed measures of inappropriate emergency department (ED) utilization and overuse … The study examined selected health outcome measures for which physicians used PQRS to report good, fair … Using a composite measure of hemoglobin A1c, low-density lipoprotein, and blood pressure for a sample

423. Module Menus | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/modules/menus.html
     February 01, 2022 - Step 2: Determine how to measure improvement. … Re-administer practice assessments to measure progress. … to standardized quality measures: What are standardized quality measures? … When do practices use standardized measures? Similar standardized measures. Payment methods. … Learning about measure specifications. Finding standardized measures.

424. Let Consumers Drill Down to Components of Roll-Up Scores | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/web/pathways/composites.html
     May 01, 2019 - reduce the burden on users and help them decide what plan or provider to choose, go to: Combining Measures … Composite Scores In the case of a composite, you can let people see scores on all the individual measures … The first layer could offer a small number of categories of measures while the second layer could include … Improving patients' choice of clinician by including roll-up measures in public healthcare quality reports … or Measure Categories To Compare Drill Down to Items Included in Composites and Summary Scores

425. Project Context | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/envscan/context.html
     June 01, 2017 - and grey literature, and examined gaps and potential barriers to measure use. … provided in response to a specific request by the patient or other relevant entity. 12 , 13 Cost measure … : A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses associated with … What important measure gaps have been noted in relation to transparency initiatives? … Have APCD-specific measure concepts been proposed to fill these gaps (even if no fully specified measures

426. Part Two: Design of Physician Feedback Reporting Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2016 - Matrix of quality measure typologies, illustrated with measure examples IOM Domains Donabedian … domains Structure measures Process measures Outcome Measures Effective care measures … Physician feedback reports are usually more effective when: The targeted clinical measure or suite … inconsistent use of benchmarks across performance measures (e.g., using one type of benchmark for measure … A and another type for measure B).

427. Slide 1
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     September 01, 2016 - Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. White and Black are non-Hispanic. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. White and Black are non-Hispanic. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.

428. About the CAHPS Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Item Set (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/PCMH/about-pcmh-item-set-cg20.pdf
     May 22, 2014 - your mental or emotional health” (Adult only) • Self-management support: Includes the composite measure … believe that the measure is important to their audience and the data for those items are sufficiently … Because a public report would include both the core survey measures as well as the composite measures … For more information about the PCMH composites and related measures, please see Patient Experience Measures … the Adult PCMH Item Set Number in the Child PCMH Item Set Short Item Title PCMH Item Set Measure

429. CAHPS Dental Plan Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2025 - this survey: CAHPS Dental Plan Survey ( PDF , 608 KB; Word , 99 KB)—English only Patient Experience Measures … Administration   Translating surveys and other materials CAHPS survey design and administration Quality Measures … from the Dental Plan Survey The Dental Plan Survey produces the following measures of patient experience … Review CAHPS Dental Plan Survey Measures . … Department of Defense's health plan for military personnel and their dependents, developed this survey to measure

430. Learning from Patient Narratives Through Innovative Feedback Reporting Methods Webcast - Welcome from AHRQ (pdf file)
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     April 02, 2025 - ► Data & Analytics: Generate measures and data to track and improve performance and evaluate progress … and methods for measuring patient experience of care ► Strategies for reporting patient experience measures … for using CAHPS surveys are established by other organizations 7 CAHPS Surveys • CAHPS surveys measure … ► Patient experience of care ≠ patient satisfaction • CAHPS measures encompass the range of interactions … patients have with the healthcare system • Measures include: ► Communication with providers ► Access

431. Appendix A. Detailed Literature Search Methodology | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2017 - were included to help shape the guiding questions for which there is more limited empirical data: Measure … that might be needed for a more focused topical review of quality measures using APCDs. … charges database AND (State) report price transparency measure price transparency … that was already endorsed nationally (and thus would form the basis for a measure in the environmental … empirical study that would have formed the basis for an APCD measure but also required non-claims data

432. Fiscal Year 2011 Research on Child and Adolescent Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - The researchers also will measure fatigue-related distress, perceived barriers to fatigue management, … Program (PQMP) to improve and strengthen the initial core set of measures and develop new measures as … measures, and measures of the quality of transitions between child-focused and adult-focused care settings … Other topics underway include a measure to assess the continuum of care and measures relevant to the … a measure to assess avoidance of systematic antimicrobial use.

433. Enhancing Surgical Team Communication: SOPS® and TeamSTEPPS®in Action Webcast - Bakdash (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - improvement of patient safety culture within healthcare settings • Develops validated surveys and measures … Department Unit 9 SOPS Hospital 2.0 Survey Topics Covered by the SOPS Hospital Survey 2.0 Composite Measures … : A composite measure is a grouping of two or more survey items that assess the same area of culture … The 10 composite measures and 32 survey items assessed in the SOPS Hospital Survey 2.0 are: • Teamwork … : in addition to the composite measures, single item measures included assess: • Number of events reported

434. Appendix B. Detailed Research Domain Framework Definitions and Classification Rules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2020 - a process measure, but a measure of patient referrals would count.  … It includes measures of drug shortages (which is also an access measure).  … It includes measures of insurer coverage decisions.  … Patient satisfaction measures are sometimes counted as measures of Personal Preferences, according to … the following rules: (a) if the patient satisfaction measure is solely used as a measure of health service

435. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2020 - diagnostic errors and near misses in a timely fashion.” 3 Although a coordinated national strategy to measure … While numerous healthcare performance measures exist (the National Quality Forum [NQF] currently endorses … hundreds of measures), 4,5 none is being used routinely to assess and address diagnostic errors. … It is thus reasonable to expect that HCOs will face increasing expectations to measure and improve diagnostic … are uncovered, analysis and learning are limited. 17 Although a coordinated national strategy to measure

436. Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2018 - These may include measures of patient safety or patient and family engagement tracked over time. … These would be conducted less regularly than process implementation measures. … These measures are often obtained through observation and self-report. … The surveys and measures provided here are recommendations. … These include: Primary Care Patient Measure of Safety (PC PMOS), discussed in an article in BMJ

437. 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Executive Summary (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2022 - Each measure is summarized in a table, and each table shows (1) key details about the measure; (2) the … Format of the NHQDR’s quality and disparities tables Measure Description (Measure title, data source … and better outcomes on only 12% of measures. … and better outcomes on 28% of measures. 8. … v The measure “hospital admissions for short-term complications of diabetes among adults age 18 years

438. Appendix B. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/measure_retirement/measure_retirementapb.html
     February 01, 2014 - Background Report on 2013 Retirement of Measures from the Child Core Set Appendix B. … Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Background Report on 2013 Retirement of Measures from … Initial Core Set Measures Considered for Retirement by 2013 SNAC Initial Core Set Measure NQF … # Measure Steward 1.

439. Taking Advantage of Web Functionalities in a Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2019 - For example, suppose you have a site with several different quality measures for local hospitals. … Compare a few local facilities across one measure. … Compare a few local facilities across all measures. … or Measure Categories To Compare Drill Down to Items Included in Composites and Summary Scores … “Compare a different set of measures.” “Compare measures in a different category.”

440. 2022 Updated Results for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - The survey items use 5- point agreement scales (“Strongly disagree” to “Strongly agree”), 5-point frequency … scales (“Never” to “Always”) and include a “Does not apply or Don’t know” response option. … SOPS Workplace Safety Composite Measures Workplace Safety Composite Measures Definition: The extent … safety composite measures and the composite measure average. … Composite Measure Percent Positive Response The six workplace safety culture composite measures are