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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/state-compare-text.html
April 01, 2018 - Needs
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Data & Measures … more than 250 statistical measures to offer state-by-state summaries of health care quality. … The tool, based on AHRQ's 2015 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, analyzes quality in … Comparison of the 50 States and the District of Columbia Across All Health Care Quality Measures (Text … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/your-audience/index.html
December 01, 2022 - Needs
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Data & Measures … Measures
Determine How To Pay
Manage the Project
Gain Trust of Providers
Test … Your Report
Prepare To Distribute/Promote
Prepare for an Evaluation
Select Measures … But many sponsors start with the data they have or can obtain (e.g., measures of patients’ experiences … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports/nursing-homes.html
October 01, 2022 - on health inspections, staffing ratings, quality measures, COVID-19 vaccination and booster rates, fire … Nursing homes are assigned scores on the following quality measures: resident satisfaction and quality … The measures that are reported include facility measures, such as number of beds and skilled beds, secure … dementia unit, and Medicare and Medicaid certifications; and quality measures, such as staffing, health … Performance on quality measures is scored using a five-star rating, with one star for much below average
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2022qdr-mepsmethods.pdf
December 01, 2022 - CAHPS is an AHRQ-sponsored family of survey instruments designed to measure
quality of care from the … Person-level weights,
specific to the SAQ and DCS, were used for measures derived with data from these … Measures dropped beginning in the 2021 NHQDR
Note Measure Measure Type
Dropped from
2021 NHQDR … CAHPS and CIS measures asked in odd years only starting in 2018
Measure Measure Type
Adults who had … Child Preventive Care measures asked in even years only starting in 2018
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Children
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/communicate/introduce.html
November 01, 2018 - Needs
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Data & Measures … Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures To Report
Translate Data Into Information … Specify whether the report focuses on one condition or several, on a narrow set of measures or a broad … Make the list of measure types short (hopefully no more than five items), easy to understand, and in … Learn more about alternative ways to organize data into topics in Organizing Measures to Reduce Information
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2021qdr-final-es.pdf
January 01, 2021 - to access to
health insurance, two measures assessing timely access to care, and one measure assessing … Quality of Care
• Person-Centered Care: More than half (14 of 26) of Person-Centered Care measures were … Only
one measure worsened. … Number and percentage of quality measures for which selected racial or ethnic
groups experienced better … Since 2000, disparities have increased
on approximately 5% of quality measures, including measures related
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2023qdr-meps-methods.pdf
December 01, 2023 - Person-level weights,
specific to the SAQ and DCS, were used for measures derived with data from these … Measures dropped beginning in the 2021 NHQDR
Note Measure Measure Type
Dropped from 2021
NHQDR … CAHPS and CIS measures asked in odd years only starting in 2018
Measure Measure Type
Adults who had … and Disparities Report
2023 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report 13
Measure Measure … Child Preventive Care measures asked in even years only starting in 2018
Measure Measure Type
Children
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2021qdr-mepsmethods.pdf
December 01, 2021 - Person-level weights,
specific to the SAQ and DCS, were used for measures derived with data from these … Measures dropped from the 2021 NHQDR or to be dropped in the 2022 NHQDR
Note Measure
Measure
type … Quality and Disparities Report: Detailed Methods for MEPS 11
Note Measure
Measure
type
Converted … National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Detailed Methods for MEPS 12
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Measure … Measure Measure
Type
2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Detailed Methods for
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/home-health-quality-improvement.html
December 01, 2022 - Needs
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Data & Measures … The quality improvement (QI) challenges around home healthcare are myriad. … As usual, we start with the traditional forms of measurement—measures of structure, process, outcome, … For instance, the expected home healthcare results we can measure include fewer hospitalizations, rehospitalizations … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/choose/average.html
March 01, 2016 - Needs
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Data & Measures … Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures To Report
Translate Data Into Information … Why Presentation Matters
Showing Differences in Performance
Describing Quality Measures … Organizing Quality Measures
Choosing Point of Comparison
High and Low Performance … Measuring the Quality of Pennsylvania's Commercial HMOs.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/research/publications/search.html?page=8
May 01, 2016 - Needs
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Data & Measures … This chartbook includes a summary of disparities across measures of access to healthcare and figures … illustrating select measures of access to healthcare.A PowerPoint version is also available that users … select measures of healthy living. … of patient safety from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of patient safety.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/e1_combo_monitorprogress.pdf
June 05, 2016 - The
measures you monitor after implementation will include rates for the AHRQ Inpatient Quality
Indicators … a list of candidate measures, with a rationale for the importance of each
measure … You can draw on the measures you used for evaluating progress in
implementing your quality improvement … on a measure. … For example, a measure you think will change slowly could be tracked annually, and
a measure that you
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/2014-women-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Patient Safety measures: Quality of care for women was improving for 43% of the
measures, not changing … Person-Centered care measures: Quality of care for women was improving for 76% of the
measures … Effective Treatment measures: Quality of care for women was improving for 52% of the
measures, … Access measures: Quality of care for women was improving for 20% of the measures, not
changing … Trends in measures of quality for females, by 4 NQS priorities and Access
Key: n = number of measures
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/placement/index.html
January 01, 2023 - Needs
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Data & Measures … Distribute Your Quality Report
Placement of a Quality Report … Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures To Report
Translate Data Into Information … As one experienced quality reporter noted,
“…We believe we’re reporting measures that consumers want … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/hospital/about/adult_hp_survey.html
November 01, 2023 - Quality Measures From the Adult Hospital Survey
The Adult version of HCAHPS produces ten measures of … The measures are as follows:
Communication with nurses (composite measure)
Communication with doctors … (composite measure)
Communication about medicines (composite measure)
Responsiveness of hospital … staff (composite measure)
Discharge information (composite measure)
Patients understood their care … ; single-item measure)
Willingness to recommend the hospital (global rating; single-item measure)
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/index.html
September 01, 2019 - Needs
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Data & Measures … Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures To Report
Translate Data Into Information … Explain and Motivate Use
Distribute Your Quality Report
Promote Your Quality Report … involved in efforts to measure, report, and improve the quality of healthcare. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2024-hcbs-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The HCBS CAHPS Survey contains 19 measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum, a
consensus-based … HCBS CAHPS Consensus-Based Entity Endorsed Measures
HCBS Measure Number of Items
Composite Measures … The CMS CBE endorses quality measures through a transparent,
consensus-based process that incorporates … Single Item Measure Results—2024 HCBS CAHPS Survey Database
Single-Item Measures Bottom Box Top Box … The HCBS
CAHPS Survey uses several different response scales.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/gain-trust.html
November 01, 2018 - Reasons for their suspicion include the following:
Debate continues about the “right” way to measure … provider quality. … Be prepared to provide a justification for the measures and reporting strategies you want to use. … Possibilities include the following:
Use publicly available data and measures. … (Learn more about sources of data and measures in Measures of Quality for Different Health Care Settings
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/index.html
March 01, 2017 - Needs
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Data & Measures … Measures
Reports
Engaging Patients and Families
About AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety … Guidance that can be used to improve pediatric quality in hospitals using the PDIs or other quality measures … The QI Toolkit supports improvement of the AHRQ QIs as well as other hospital quality measures. … Project Charter
Includes a charter to help you define the implementation team, goals, and measures
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/ltc-quality-measures.html
December 01, 2022 - Needs
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Data & Measures … Measures should be implemented that evaluate whether access gaps are reduced and whether these gaps are … How do we measure what matters? … Defining a valuable set of quality measures for long-term care is the starting point for collecting data … involving patients, families, and staff, we can get to the heart of what outcomes matter most and how to measure