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Request for comments on the proposed measures and 2020 targets for the National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention: inpatient and outpatient measures for reduction of adverse drug events from anticoagulants, diabetes agents, and opioid analgesics. | PSNet

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September 24, 2014 - Press Release/Announcement Request for comments on the proposed measures and 2020 … targets for the National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention: inpatient and outpatient measures … Measures Report. … July 10, 2015 Move toward full use of metric dosing: eliminate dosage cups that measure … Use cups that measure mL.

Prospective daily review of discharge medications by pharmacists: effects on measures of safety and efficiency. | PSNet

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September 23, 2020 - Commentary Prospective daily review of discharge medications by pharmacists: effects on measures … Prospective daily review of discharge medications by pharmacists: Effects on measures of safety and efficiency … Prospective daily review of discharge medications by pharmacists: Effects on measures of safety and efficiency … of a statewide perinatal hypertension quality improvement initiative implemented during the COVID-19 … June 22, 2011 HIM functions in healthcare quality and patient safety.

Public reporting of antibiotic timing in patients with pneumonia: lessons from a flawed performance measure. | PSNet

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May 04, 2016 - Public reporting of antibiotic timing in patients with pneumonia: lessons from a flawed performance measure … commentary shares the potential for the unintended consequences of reporting on flawed performance measures … The authors discuss the background data for this particular quality measure, how it was translated into … July 11, 2012 Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association … September 15, 2010 Accountability measures—using measurement to promote quality improvement

Relationship between preventable hospital deaths and other measures of safety: an exploratory study. | PSNet

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November 12, 2014 - Study Relationship between preventable hospital deaths and other measures of safety … Relationship between preventable hospital deaths and other measures of safety: an exploratory study. … According to this follow-up investigation, there was little relationship between other measures of safety … Relationship between preventable hospital deaths and other measures of safety: an exploratory study. … May 25, 2016 Identifying and mapping measures of medication safety during transfer of

The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures in a community hospital. | PSNet

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October 19, 2022 - Study The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures in a … The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures in a community hospital. … The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures in a community hospital. … February 11, 2015 A systematic review of patient safety measures in adult primary care … March 15, 2017 Quality gaps identified through mortality review.

Inpatient Quality Indicators. | PSNet

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December 16, 2015 - Multi-use Website Inpatient Quality Indicators. … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) represent quality measures … August 17, 2022 Measure Dx: A Resource to Identify, Analyze, and Learn from Diagnostic … September 22, 2010 Selecting Quality and Resource Use Measures: A Decision Guide for … Community Quality Collaboratives.

America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety: The Joint Commission's Annual Report 2017. | PSNet

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August 06, 2014 - annual report provides performance data for United States hospitals across a range of accountability measures … In 2016, hospital performance on accountability measures remained strong. … reporting of electronic clinical quality measures. … In 2016, 470 hospitals reported electronic clinical quality measure data compared to only 34 in 2015. … Individual Clinician Performance Issues September 7, 2019 The STOP Measure

In Conversation With... Libby Hoy and Stephen Hoy | PSNet

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March 10, 2021 - Since then we have expanded into Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) , research teams, measure … A more direct link to patient engagement is the Patient Activation Measure (PAM). … development of clinical measures to ensure that measures are meaningful to patients. … Per the Measures Management System Blueprint , CMS would like measure developers to actively engage … if the measure will be calculated using patient-reported data.

Full implementation of computerized physician order entry and medication-related quality outcomes: a study of 3364 hospitals. | PSNet

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April 26, 2006 - measures. … This study compared quality of care measures for hospitals with and without CPOE systems. … Investigators found that CPOE-driven hospitals performed better on 5 of 11 measures related to medication … ordering and on 1 of 9 non–medication-related quality measures. … Speaking up' about patient safety concerns and unprofessional behaviour among residents: validation of two scales

A review of patient safety measures based on routinely collected hospital data. | PSNet

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September 21, 2011 - Review A review of patient safety measures based on routinely collected hospital … A review of patient safety measures based on routinely collected hospital data. … A review of patient safety measures based on routinely collected hospital data. … June 22, 2016 Staff perceptions of quality of care: an observational study of the NHS … December 18, 2013 Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns

Adherence to simple and effective measures reduces the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia: [L'observation de mesures simples et efficaces reduit l'incidence de pneumonie associee a la ventilation mecanique]. | PSNet

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November 16, 2011 - Study Adherence to simple and effective measures reduces the incidence of ventilator-associated … Adherence to simple and effective measures reduces the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. … Adherence to simple and effective measures reduces the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. … March 13, 2019 How best to measure surgical quality? … April 19, 2023 An examination of Leapfrog safety measures and Magnet designation.

Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care. | PSNet

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September 26, 2012 - Study Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care. … Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care. … Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care. … July 18, 2012 Repurposing clinical decision support system data to measure dosing errors … December 11, 2013 A systematic review of patient safety measures in adult primary care

AHRQ Quality Indicators. | PSNet

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March 27, 2005 - Measurement Tool/Indicator AHRQ Quality Indicators. … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) represent quality … measures that make use of a hospital's available administrative data to inform improvement. … April 3, 2019 Patient Safety and Quality Improvement; Final Rule. … August 17, 2022 Measure Dx: A Resource to Identify, Analyze, and Learn from Diagnostic

In Conversation With… Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH | PSNet

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May 01, 2013 - Some measures are more problematic, the biggest one being the readmissions measure. … RW : One of the tensions between safety and quality is that while it's relatively easy to measure mortality … and maybe case-mix adjust mortality and certain process measures, it's pretty hard to measure diagnostic … And do you worry that because it's easier to measure quality we'll take our eye off the safety ball? … Hospital quality for acute myocardial infarction: correlation among process measures and relationship

Hospital inpatients' experiences: percentage of parents who reported how often providers prevented mistakes and helped them to report concerns. | PSNet

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February 14, 2023 - Citation Text: National Quality Measures Clearinghouse; NQMC. … Measures Clearinghouse; NQMC. … This quality measure has been developed to assist hospitals in tracking how often clinicians prevent … Measures Clearinghouse; NQMC. … January 10, 2023 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports.

In Conversation With... Jack Westfall, MD, MPH | PSNet

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April 24, 2024 - JW: How do we measure high quality? … Oftentimes, quality metrics and measures are taken out of context, so they’re isolated into one condition … This sort of dichotomy exists between the overall quality measures and the individual quality measures … So rather than trying to measure 100 things, we wonder how to determine a parsimonious group of measures … that are proxies for individual measures but serve as a primary-care-centric, whole-person measure of

Repurposing clinical decision support system data to measure dosing errors and clinician-level quality of care. | PSNet

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September 23, 2020 - Repurposing clinical decision support system data to measure dosing errors and clinician-level quality … Repurposing clinical decision support system data to measure dosing errors and clinician-level quality … and measure diagnostic errors. … measure. … November 9, 2022 Methods used to obtain pediatric patient weights, their accuracy and

Medication safety in the neonatal intensive care unit: big measures for our smallest patients. | PSNet

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July 20, 2022 - Commentary Medication safety in the neonatal intensive care unit: big measures for … Medication Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Big Measures for Our Smallest Patients. … Medication Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Big Measures for Our Smallest Patients. … May 10, 2023 Does racism impact healthcare quality? … improvement measures.

Toward a safer health care system: the critical need to improve measurement. | PSNet

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March 11, 2015 - The commentary emphasizes the need for valid patient safety measures and mentions the Surgeon Scorecard … The authors suggest that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) focus on measures of the … A recent PSNet interview discussed AHRQ's efforts to develop patient safety measures and improvement … quality? … Underreporting of patient safety incidents reduces health care's ability to quantify and accurately measure

Obstetric safety and quality. | PSNet

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June 25, 2014 - Obstetric Safety and Quality. … Obstetric Safety and Quality. … valid measures of hospital safety? … February 14, 2024 Strength of safety measures introduced by medical practices to prevent … Speaking up' about patient safety concerns and unprofessional behaviour among residents: validation of two scales

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