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121. Assessing the validity of national quality measures for coronary artery disease using an electronic health record | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     Assessing the validity of national quality measures for coronary artery disease using an electronic health … record Nationally endorsed, clinical performance measures are available that allow for quality … reporting using electronic health records (EHRs), but how well they reflect actual quality of care has … There were 7 performance measures included the following: antiplatelet drug, lipid-lowering drug, beta-blocker … measures for coronary artery disease using an electronic health record Category:  Quality Measurement

122. Using electronic health records to measure physician performance for acute conditions in primary care: empirical evaluation of the community-acquired pneumonia clinical quality measure set | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     : empirical evaluation of the community-acquired pneumonia clinical quality measure set This … (1) encounter was a visit for acute pneumonia; (2) documentation existed for each of 12 performance measures … Measure performance ranged from 10% to 91%, averaging 52% across all 12 measures. … acute conditions in primary care: empirical evaluation of the community-acquired pneumonia clinical quality … measure set Category:  Quality Measurement and Improvement

123. Comparing manual and automated coding of physicians quality reporting initiative measures in an ambulatory EHR. | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2022 - Comparing manual and automated coding of physicians quality reporting initiative measures in an ambulatory … Comparing manual and automated coding of physicians quality reporting initiative measures in an ambulatory … Investigator McColm, Denni Project Name Standardization and Automatic Extraction of Quality … Measures in an Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Technology Computerized

124. A National Web Conference on the Use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to Improve Quality Improvement (pdf file)
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     April 11, 2012 - Asthma Care Quality Measure Set (partial) Quality Measure Denominator criteria [Index Date] Numerator … (AHRQ) mailto:Brian.Hazlehurst@kpchr.org NLP to Measure Quality of Care in Diabetes: Lessons … MEDIcal Record CLASSifier Asthma Care Quality Measure Set (partial) Clinical Events Dataset File … Results of Asthma Care Quality Measurement Outcomes Related to ACQ Measures Ongoing Work CER HUB … Asthma Care Quality (ACQ) Study NLP to Measure Quality of Care in Diabetes: Lessons Learned Project

125. Automating Assessment of Obesity Care Quality - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2012 - using measures from comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) data based upon the National Heart … Measures to evaluate the association include reasons for visit; orders; referrals; diagnosis codes; vital … The project team is using percent-change in body weight as the primary outcome measure. … Specific Aims: Develop obesity care quality measures based on updated NHLBI guidelines to evaluate … (Ongoing) Evaluate the association between measures of obesity guideline adherence to recommended obesity

126. Cardio-HIT Phase II - 2009 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2009 - The quality measure and EHR collaboration, known as Cardio-HIT, explored analysis of exception reporting … This project was a 2-year, observational study of quality measure exception reporting on the feasibility … A manuscript on the CAD findings, Exceptions to Outpatient Quality Measures for Coronary Artery Disease … of the EHR found the measure was not met and no acceptable exception was identified. … Physicians are more likely to accept the quality measure results as valid if they can account for exceptions

127. Using health information technology-related performance measures and tools to improve chronic care | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     Using health information technology-related performance measures and tools to improve chronic care … American Medical Association led a collaborative initiative to explore opportunities for improving the quality … Several conclusions and recommendations include: improving the quality of chronic care through clinical … for both internal quality improvement and pay-for-performance; integrating electronic health records … and tools to improve chronic care Category:  Quality Measurement and Improvement

128. Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness Patient-Reported Outcome (RISE PRO) Dissemination Project – Final Report (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2022 - Forum-endorsed quality measure. … by national guidelines and quality measures. … For each PRO, the current quality measure permits the use of several measurement tools. … These measures form the basis for a RA PRO functional status quality measure in rheumatology that is … endorsement for PRO quality measures (CMS, NQF) Implement PRO quality measures in national Qualified

129. Using Precision Performance Measurement to Conduct Focused Quality Improvement - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2010 - A quality measure may be recorded as not having been met because a patient was incorrectly considered … The project uses previously developed quality measurement programs that examine EHR data to measure quality … Exception codes are being introduced into the EHR for 18 national quality measures. … For four other measures, quality improved, but the rate of improvement did not differ significantly from … One measure improved at a significantly slower rate, and the performance of mammography declined due

130. Rural Hospital Collaborative for Excellence Using IT - Final Report (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2007 - Three of these measures come from the AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicator (IQI) measure set: in-hospital … CMS inpatient quality of care Core Measure and AHRQ patient safety and quality indicators considered … The questions contained rating scales and opportunities for open-ended comments. 5. … AHRQ PSI Table 4 – RCT group by time analysis of heart failure core measures HF Measure Table 5 … – RCT group by time analysis of the pneumonia core measures PN Measure Table 6 – RCT group by time

131. Enhancing Complex Care through an Integrated Care Coordination Information System - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2011 - ICCIS incorporates population management techniques, patient-centered goals, quality measures, and clinical … Measures include indicators of patient engagement, clinic-level quality of care, clinic-level process … From the end-user perspective, Version Two of ICCIS increased the speed of loading quality measure reports … In the quality improvement arm, clinics received reimbursement for meeting quality measure benchmarks … Overall, this arm demonstrated a doubling of achieved quality measures and achieved more consecutive

132. Improving the Quality of Pediatric Emergency Care Using an Electronic Medical Record Registry and Clinician Feedback (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - of care, performance measures, and patient outcome measures. … This project is developing a registry to collect and report quality measures of emergency care provided … outcomes by ED site and by individual clinicians; and 3) evaluate whether providing performance measure … Quality performance measure report cards (hereafter, report cards) will be developed for ED sites and … The site-level report cards will include the performance measure outcome results from the other sites

133. Cardio-HIT Phase II (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Organization: American Medical Association Mechanism: RFA: HS07-002: Ambulatory Safety and Quality … The quality measure and EHR collaboration, known as Cardio-HIT, explored analysis of exception reporting … This project was a 2-year, observational study of quality measure exception reporting on the feasibility … of the EHR found the measure was not met and no acceptable exception was identified. … Physicians are more likely to accept the quality measure results as valid if they can account for exceptions

134. Medication Safety in Primary Care Practice Translating Research into Practice (MS-TRIP) (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - medication-related quality measures and the functionality embedded in the decision support features … The purpose of the first meeting was to introduce the final MS-TRIP measure set, review initial audit … Results Medication safety measure development The medication safety measure set resulting from the … Quality improvement strategies The refined set of medication safety quality improvement strategies … Performance for 3 measure categories improved significantly (P < 8 0.05 for the trend):

135. AHRQ Presentation Template (pdf file)
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     June 03, 2010 - RAND assessment of quality (McGlynn et al, NEJM, June 2003)  Developed and applied 439 quality measures … Measure Implementation Data Extraction Clinical Event Identification Quality Measurement Clinical … outpatient asthma care quality  Measure obesity care quality in primary care Example: Assessing … Asthma Care Quality Measure Set (partial) Quality Measure Denominator criteria[Index Date] Numerator …  We need to demonstrate that we can assess/measure quality intervention efforts  Identifying new

136. Using Precision Performance Measurement to Conduct Focused Quality Improvement (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2011 - A quality measure may be recorded as not having been met because a patient was incorrectly considered … The project uses previously developed quality measurement programs that examine EHR data to measure … Exception codes are being introduced into the EHR for 18 national quality measures. … For four other measures, quality improved, but the rate of improvement did not differ significantly … One measure improved at a significantly slower rate, and the performance of mammography declined due

137. Improving Quality in Cancer Screening: The Excellence Report for Colonoscopy (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - and adherence to the quality measures. … • Quality control measures to ensure data integrity. … Users were able to link directly from their quality report card to this measure- specific documentation … Other proposed quality measures were not implemented, either because of vagueness in the measure as … Qualitative Analysis of the Perception and Effects of Quality Measure Reports Five practice sites

138. Health Information Technology Enablement of Quality Measurement: Health Information Technology Expert Panel - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2010 - The QDS is a classification system by which measure developers can offer and refine definitions. … measures. … The QDS aims to provide direction to measure developers, electronic health record vendors, and other … measures. … These elements will be used to construct, with measure-related logic, numerators and denominators.

139. Administrative System | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2022 - Indicators Care Coordination Measures Project Description This project developed … the Care Coordination Measures Atlas, which catalogues 61 measures of care coordination, maps them to … elements of a care coordination measurement framework, and summarizes key measure properties. … and evaluate its effects on patient safety and quality. … Defined quality measures for colonoscopy were used in individual quality report cards with 15 measures

140. Impact of Health Information Technology on Primary Care Workflow and Financial Measures | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2022 - Impact of Health Information Technology on Primary Care Workflow and Financial Measures … R03 HS018220 Funding Mechanism(s) Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality … Estimate the effect of the EHR on financial measures. … The impact of electronic health records on workflow and financial measures in primary care practices. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2011.