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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/objectives.html
November 01, 2018 - What Are the Objectives for Your Health Care Quality Report? … While all reporting projects aim to inform consumers about health care quality, each project may also … Sponsors of quality measurement projects need to be clear about what exactly you are trying to accomplish … Build awareness about specific quality issues, such as variations in the care. … Improvement :
Spur action—particularly quality improvement activities—on the part of health care
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports.html
December 01, 2016 - Profiles of Comparative Reports on Health Care Quality and Costs
This resource provides illustrative … examples of web-based comparative reports for consumers on the quality and costs of care from health … to ensure that they are designed for consumers, publicly available, and include comparative data on quality … exclude a report in this resource is not a judgment on the part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/web/index.html
May 01, 2019 - Taking Advantage of Web Functionalities in a Quality Report
The vast majority of health care … quality reports are available on the internet. … Learn more in First Design Decision for a Quality Report: Web, Paper, or Both . … How To Do Layering
Layering quality information takes thought and care. … For example, here’s the breadcrumb trail for this page of Talking Quality:
Home > Talking Quality >
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/promote/timing.html
March 01, 2016 - Timing Promotion of a Quality Report for Maximum Impact
As part of the initial planning of … Most health care decisions that can be influenced by comparative quality reports happen for different … describe how individual providers or plans are using, or planning to use, your report to help guide quality
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/assess/what-you-evaluate/cost-effectiveness.html
November 01, 2018 - Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of a Quality Reporting Project
Report sponsors often want to … While it is often difficult and inappropriate to try to justify the expense of an entire quality reporting
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www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/events/webinar-2014-qdr-working-together-to-improve-health-care.html
November 01, 2016 - Webinar Transcript - The 2014 Quality and Disparities Report and the National Quality Strategy: Working … Healthcare Research and Quality. … quality. … Here, you have this tracking of quality and we have the National Quality Strategy telling us what is … They shouldn't be just tracking overall quality but they should be looking at their quality as it relates
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/snac_members.html
November 01, 2013 - Subcommittee on Quality Measures for Children's Healthcare for Medicaid and CHIP
Members List … : 2013
List of 2013 members of the Subcommittee on Quality Measures for Children's Healthcare (SNAC … Medical Director for Ohio
Office of Medical Assistance
Columbus, OH
Louise Bannister, RN, JD
CHIPRA Quality … Drye, MD, SM
Director, Quality Measurement Programs
Yale/Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes … Roohan, MS
Director
Office of Quality and Patient Safety
New York State Department of Health
Albany
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/subject.html
December 01, 2022 - What Will Be the Subject of Your Health Care Quality Report? … Assurance’s Quality Compass sells HEDIS data on health plans through its Quality Compass. … The OPA offers reports on the quality of health plans and medical groups. … Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality : Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality offers … reports on the quality of health plans, hospitals and medical groups.
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/about/pediatric-quality-measurement-importance.html
June 01, 2018 - The Importance of Pediatric Quality Measurement and Improvement: The Role of the PQMP
Quality … Quality measurement is an important tool in meeting the aims of the National Quality Strategy. … Historically, quality measures have been focused on adults or the elderly, while existing child measures … Interest in pediatric quality measurement and quality improvement (QI) continues to grow. … , dissemination, and implementation of pediatric-specific quality measures.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/publications/ahrq-info-quality-gdlns-update.html
June 01, 2018 - Update to the "Guidelines for Ensuring the Quality of Information Disseminated to the Public" … In 2015, AHRQ issued an update to its Information Quality Guidelines of 2006 .
… The new mission statement is: The mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is … to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable … Section V, Agency Quality Assurance Policies, Standards and Processes for Ensuring the Quality of information
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight05.html
November 01, 2013 - How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States encouraging health care providers to put quality measures … Applying health information technology (IT) for quality improvement. … Assessing the utility of other innovative approaches to enhance quality. … The Highlight compares and contrasts two projects that use quality measures to drive quality improvement … Commitment to EHRs as the quality infrastructure.
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight11.html
April 01, 2015 - How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States using quality reports to drive health care improvements for … in the quality of care for children.
… To that end, CHIPRA quality demonstration staff formed workgroups charged with using data on the quality … and Provider Interviews and Maine’s Provider Survey on Quality Reports
State-level quality reports … /performance-measurement/adult-and-child-health-care-quality-measures/childrens-health-care-quality-measures
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www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/health-care-quality.html
September 01, 2018 - Health Care Quality: How Does Your State Compare? … Health Care Quality: How Does Your State Compare?
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www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/qdr-state-snapshots.html
August 01, 2018 - Health Care Quality: How Does Your State Compare? … Health Care Quality: How Does Your State Compare? (PDF, 132 KB)
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www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/state-compare-text.html
April 01, 2018 - Health Care Quality: How Does Your State Compare? … Text Description
The quality of health care varies widely across the nation. … State Snapshots, an interactive tool from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), uses … 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
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight13.html
June 01, 2015 - How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children’s health … care quality? … Applying health information technology (IT) for quality improvement. … Assessing the utility of other innovative approaches to enhance quality. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2014.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/facilitation/qi-tracking.html
April 01, 2021 - Primary Care Quality Improvement (QI) Tracking Worksheet
Resource: Clinic Intervention Tracking … Sheet
This quality improvement intervention tracking sheet helps primary care practices and practice … tracking interventions used as part of AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW , the worksheet can be adapted for other quality … File size and format: 57 KB, Word
# of pages: 3
Target audience(s): Practice Facilitators, Quality … Acknowledgements: Healthy Hearts in the Heartland, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality EvidenceNOW
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/long-term-care/home-health/measurement.html
December 01, 2022 - Major Home Health Care Quality Measurement Sets
NQF-Endorsed Measures
The National Quality … Forum (NQF), a multistakeholder organization established to standardize health care quality measurement … Also in "Measures of Quality in Nursing Homes, Home Health Agencies, and Hospice"
Home Health Care … Examples of Home Health Quality Measures for Consumers
Major Home Health Agency Measurement Sets
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/media/mass-media.html
December 01, 2022 - Delivering Healthcare Quality Reports Through Mass Media
Mass media—chiefly television, radio … newspapers, and magazines—can be used effectively to educate and promote awareness and use of comparative quality … experimented with using mass media, particularly magazines and newspapers, to deliver information on quality … It is unclear how well comparative quality information fits with the mentality of most of the press, … Also in "Media for a Quality Report"
Delivering Reports in Print
Delivering Reports on the Web
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/manage.html
November 01, 2018 - How Will You Manage a Health Care Quality Reporting Project? … Managing a quality reporting project requires forethought, patience, and creativity. … Establishing a Management Structure
Quality reporting projects do not happen by themselves. … After an initial round of hospital quality data in Rhode Island, for example, researchers found that … Using public reports of patient satisfaction for hospital quality improvement.