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  1. Final Progress Report: Detection, Education, Research, and Decolonization without Isolation in Long-term Care (DERAIL MRSA) (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/peterson-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - effectiveness of a hospital infection control program that applies standard surveillance and control measures … , but there is no SENIC-equivalent study documenting the efficacy of infection control measures in … controlled investigations have analyzed the efficacy or cost effectiveness of any specific control measures … Statistical Considerations: The primary outcome measure was MRSA colonization prevalence at the time … Distributions and link functions were specified as appropriate for the scale of each outcome measure

  2. HIT for Medication Safety in Critical Access Hospitals - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/p20hs015325-hartzema-final-report-2005.pdf
    January 01, 2005 - recommendations: (1) implementation of standard processes for medication doses, dose timing, and dose scales … What are the outcome measures you would like to improve upon in your facility? … Errors of omission and delay are an important component to measure for CQI. … Similar CQI measures can be incorporated as listed above. … It can measure a number of items such as administration times allowing for measures of medication omissions

  3. Improving Rural Healthcare Transitions through Health Information Exchange Final Progress Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs018865-wood-final-report-2015.pdf
    January 01, 2015 - We sought to measure and report on who uses the exchange, what information is accessed, and for which … Methods (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures, Limitations) The KeyHIE evaluation … In the first part of the evaluation, we planned to measure and report on who uses the exchange, what … This limited our ability to calculate rigorous outcome measures such as all-hospital readmissions, … Methods (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures, Limitations) 1) Verifying

  4. EvidenceNOW: Data Submission Form | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/submission-form-nw.html
    March 01, 2021 - submission form was used by an EvidenceNOW Cooperative to standardize manual chart audits for blood pressure measure

  5. Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 137 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/autism-update_disposition-comments.pdf
    August 06, 2014 - (Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness) General Are there tools that you recommend to measure … View to the scope expected outcomes domains, measurements and tools utilized to measure response to … Outcome measures appropriate. Thank you for your comment. … reported in studies of ASD interventions, it is not feasible to pre-specify each individual outcome measure … Methods I am looking right past a comment on the validity of the tools being used by each study to measure

  6. Disposition of Comments Report for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: A Comparative Effectiveness Review and Meta-Analysis (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/obesity-child_disposition-comments.pdf
    June 10, 2013 - state this, and is it possible to present the mean effect size for studies that used same outcome measure … There are no consistent standards on how to measure physical activity, especially spontaneous activity … This is partially due to the complexity of adiposity measures in children. … For example, many different measures have been used to measure adiposity and childhood obesity although … BMI is the most widely used measure.

  7. Implementing the _x000b_SPPC-II Teamwork Toolkit - PowerPoint Presentation

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/perinatal-care-2/hemorrhage_7-implementation.pptx
    July 01, 2023 - performance and safety data Incident reports AHRQ patient safety survey Clinical process and outcome measures … reports, the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, and site-specific process and outcome measures … rollout (link to Step 1 B)  8 ✓ Step 3B: Establish a Plan To Evaluate Your Success Key Actions: Identify measures … Measure before and after you implement  What will you measure? … Key considerations for step 3 include: Knowing what you are going to measure, and for whom.

  8. Implementing the SPPC-II Teamwork Toolkit - PowerPoint Presentation

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/perinatal-care-2/hypertension_7-implementation.pptx
    July 01, 2023 - performance and safety data Incident reports AHRQ patient safety survey Clinical process and outcome measures … reports, the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, and site-specific process and outcome measures … rollout (link to Step 1 B)  8 ✓ Step 3B: Establish a Plan To Evaluate Your Success Key Actions: Identify measures … Measure before and after you implement  What will you measure? … Key considerations for step 3 include: Knowing what you are going to measure, and for whom.

  9. Automating Assessment of Obesity Care Quality - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018157-hazlehurst-final-report-2013.pdf
    January 01, 2013 - Performance of automated measures compared to chart review Measure delivered per Comparison … For measures 2-8, these prevalences are very consistent with those observed in the EMR-measure validation … Table 4 Prevalence of OCQ measures during selected visits in 2007 OCQ Measure OCHIN KPNW Total n … 17 measures, as only two occurrences of this measure were noted, but was included in the summary … Second, because not all patients had a follow-up visit within the window in which final weights were

  10. Automating Assessment of Asthma Care Quality - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/automating-assessment-asthma-care-quality/activity/automating-assessment-asthma/annual-summary/2010
    January 01, 2010 - false positive and negative rates, and 95-percent confidence intervals (CIs) were computed for each measure … the automated measurement method was refined and applied to the target population for each quality measure … only. ( Achieved ) 2010 Activities: The process for development and refinement of the ACQ measure … Data for the theophylline measure was too sparse to evaluate adequately. … except the theophylline lab measure, for which the data were to sparse to evaluate.

  11. Cardio-HIT Phase II - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017160-kmetik-final-report-2009.pdf
    January 01, 2009 - The integration of the performance measures involved the translation and mapping of the measure specifications … Measures The performance measures used in this project focused on CAD and HF. … Measure Met Findings. … The rate for each quality measure was lower than the rate reported for similar measures used in the … Measure.

  12. Measuring Quality in Physicians’ Practices in Southwestern Missouri Using an Electronic Health Record (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/McColmSuccessStory2009_0.pdf
    December 01, 2009 - coding (i.e., by EHR software) compared to manual coding (i.e., by an individual) of health data to measure … and Report on Quality of Clinical Care A quality measure is a standardized assessment that quantifies … PQRI measure (e.g., diabetic patients) was available in the demographic and diagnosis/procedure codes … For one measure, the additional requirement was found in the medication list; the other 11 measures … • All of the quality measure exclusions were captured using queries.

  13. Relieving Anxiety in Children Undergoing Radiation Therapy through Virtual Preparation - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs021799-cohen-final-report-2018.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - Data suggest that children as young as 4 years of age can report internal distress using face scales … and easy to use, and they do not result in clustering of scores as is common with categorical-type scales … The Simulation and Radiation Therapy Task Analysis is a measure established in a prior study of preparation … The TSI is a 10-item measure querying participants’ about their satisfaction with the procedural preparation … The TSI was based on the Treatment Evaluation Inventory – Short Form (TEI-SF), a validated measure of

  14. TRial of Aggregate Data Exchange for Maintenance of certification and Raising Quality (TRADEMaRQ) - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs022583-phillips-final-report-2018.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - measure results. … dashboards, time spent reviewing measures, selection of SAMs and IAs, and changes in quality measures … Measures Overlap in Quality Measures Used in TRADEMaRQ by Partner TRADEMaRQ Measures NQF # (description … dashboard populated with their own measure data (table 4). … This level of scrutiny may be required for maintaining measure accuracy.

  15. Kid 2019 Maskedstats Hospital V2 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/tools/stats/KID_2019_MaskedStats_Hospital_V2.PDF
    January 01, 2019 - Data Elements Variable: N_BRTH_U (Number of universe births in the stratum) Moments N 3998 Sum Weights … Elements Variable: N_DISC_U (Number of universe discharges in the stratum) Moments N 3998 Sum Weights … Data Elements Variable: N_HOSP_U (Number of universe hospitals in the stratum) Moments N 3998 Sum Weights … Elements Variable: S_CMPB_U (Number of sample sick newborns in the stratum) Moments N 3998 Sum Weights … Data Elements Variable: S_HOSP_U (Number of sample hospitals in the stratum) Moments N 3998 Sum Weights

  16. serious-mental-illness-outcomes-140303 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/mental-illness-outcomes_research-protocol.pdf
    March 03, 2014 - Although stakeholders have proposed a variety of quality measures (QMs), no single validated measure … or identifies any existing measure that appears appropriate for use as a QM. … The technical brief will interview key informants—including quality measure developers, quality measure … and Psychosocial Instruments provide bibliographic access and descriptions of tests, manuals, rating scales … Definition of Terms Quality measure (QM): Broadly defined, quality measures are tools that help measure

  17. Nass Summary Stats Hospital 2019 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nass/stats/nass_summary_stats_hospital_2019.pdf
    January 01, 2019 - Hospital File The UNIVARIATE Procedure Variable: DISCWT (Encounter Weight) Moments N 2958 Sum Weights … : N_DISC_U (Total Number of AS Encounters for all Hospitals in NASS_STRATUM) Moments N 2958 Sum Weights … S_DISC_U (Total Number of AS Encounters for Sampled Hospitals in NASS_STRATUM) Moments N 2958 Sum Weights … Procedure Variable: S_HOSP_U (Total Number of Sampled Hospitals in NASS_STRATUM) Moments N 2958 Sum Weights … Procedure Variable: TOTAL_AS_ENCOUNTERS (SASD encounters with >= 1 narrow surgery) Moments N 2958 Sum Weights

  18. Neds 2019 Hospital Maskedstats (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/stats/NEDS_2019_Hospital_MaskedStats.PDF
    January 01, 2019 - Continuous Data Elements Variable: DISCWT (Weight to ED Visits in AHA universe) Moments N 989 Sum Weights … Continuous Data Elements Variable: HOSPWT (Weight to hospitals in AHA universe) Moments N 989 Sum Weights … Elements Variable: N_DISC_U (Number of AHA universe ED visits in NEDS_STRATUM) Moments N 989 Sum Weights … Elements Variable: N_HOSP_U (Number of AHA universe hospitals in NEDS_STRATUM) Moments N 989 Sum Weights … Data Elements Variable: S_HOSP_U (Number of sample hospitals in NEDS_STRATUM) Moments N 989 Sum Weights

  19. Neds 2018 Hospital Maskedstats (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/stats/NEDS_2018_Hospital_MaskedStats.PDF
    January 01, 2018 - Continuous Data Elements Variable: DISCWT (Weight to ED Visits in AHA universe) Moments N 990 Sum Weights … Continuous Data Elements Variable: HOSPWT (Weight to hospitals in AHA universe) Moments N 990 Sum Weights … Elements Variable: N_DISC_U (Number of AHA universe ED visits in NEDS_STRATUM) Moments N 990 Sum Weights … Elements Variable: N_HOSP_U (Number of AHA universe hospitals in NEDS_STRATUM) Moments N 990 Sum Weights … Data Elements Variable: S_HOSP_U (Number of sample hospitals in NEDS_STRATUM) Moments N 990 Sum Weights

  20. Maskedstats Nrd 2019 Hospital V2 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/stats/MaskedStats_NRD_2019_Hospital_V2.PDF
    January 01, 2019 - Elements Variable: N_DISC_U (Number of universe discharges in NRD_STRATUM) Moments N 2507 Sum Weights … Data Elements Variable: N_HOSP_U (Number of universe hospitals in NRD_STRATUM) Moments N 2507 Sum Weights … Data Elements Variable: S_DISC_U (Number of sample discharges in NRD_STRATUM) Moments N 2507 Sum Weights … Data Elements Variable: S_HOSP_U (Number of sample hospitals in NRD_STRATUM) Moments N 2507 Sum Weights … Tests For Location Quantiles S_HOSP_U Moments Basic Measures of Location and Variability Tests
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