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1441. Using Health Information Technology to Perform Medication Reconciliation (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/lesson/10-0051-ef-medication-reconciliation.pdf
      February 01, 2010 - Findings from the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio Prepared for: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. February 2010. … this article should be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … following discharge � Use medication reconciliation to improve patient status on certain preventive measures … measures.

1442. The Virtual Patient for Improving Quality of Care in Primary Healthcare - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs020323-mollica-final-report-2014.pdf
      January 01, 2014 - Similar to Phase 1, participants completed measures, used the VP β prototype, then completed measures … After the informational meeting, participants received Paper Case 1 and the KI-VP-LEQ pre measure via … (Available upon request) Measures: The study applied three different instruments to measure possible … (Both scales available upon request). … Measures: 5.

1443. CPOE Implementation in ICUs - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs015274-carayon-final-report-2009.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - The Quality of Care measures are monthly data series, which were regularly compiled at GMC. … are scales combining 2 to 8 items and range from 1 (low) to 100 (high). … Specific Aim 3: Principal Findings Like the analyses for the quality of care measures, we performed … Responses to survey questions were based on 5-point Likert scales (e.g., 1 = poor; 5 = excellent). … Selection of an instrument to measure end-user satisfaction.

1444. Registry-Assisted Dissemination of Mobile Pain Management for Youth with Arthritis - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs023980-connelly-final-report-2018.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - Overview of app dissemination procedures. 4.2.1 Feasibility outcome measures. … clinical data on the patient and has extensive security safeguards in place. 4.2 Data Sources and Measures … These outcome measures included the following: complete joint count (an indicator of disease activity … Overview of app dissemination procedures. 4.2 Data Sources and Measures. 4.2.1 Feasibility outcome … measures.

1445. Data Flow & Clinical Outcomes in a Perinatal Continuum of Care System - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018649-levick-final-report-2014.pdf
      January 01, 2014 - Finally, we triangulated the quantitative measures of improved outcomes with process changes made at … The primary aim of the research was to measure the impact of the on maternal and fetal outcomes, clinician … Often, data requirements specific to these measures could only be captured by the clinician. … where k is the individual physician, i is the primary care practice site, t is month, and Ykit is a measure … Our measures of the quality of obstetric services are based on a cardinal index of 10 pre-­‐identified

1446. Berner ES et al. 1999 "Effects of a decision support system on physicians' diagnostic performance." | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/berner-es-et-al-1999
      January 01, 1999 - eight cases, stratified by diagnostic difficulty and the potential of [the system] to produce high-quality … The effects of using [the system] on three measures of physicians' diagnostic performance were analyzed … Conclusions: Physicians' diagnostic performance can be strongly influenced by the quality of information … "The quality of the information displayed by the DDSS influenced physicians' performance." … Performance was likely to be better for cases where the DDSS was displaying higher quality information

1447. Appendix A to the Final Report Barriers to Meaningful Use in Medicaid: Analysis and Recommendations (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/BarrierstoMeaningfulUseAppendixA.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - Recommendations A-1 Appendix A Stage 1 Meaningful Use Objectives for Eligible Professionals Objective Measure … implement security updates as necessary, and correct identified security deficiencies Report clinical quality … measures to CMS or States Provide aggregate numerator and denominator through attestation (continued … ) Barriers to Meaningful Use in Medicaid A-2 Objective Measure Menu Set Implement drug … incorporated into EHRs as structured data Generate lists of patients by specific conditions to use for quality

1448. Value of Health Information Exchange in Ambulatory Care - 2009 | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/value-health-information-exchange-ambulatory-care/annual-summary/2009
      January 01, 2009 - To measure the value of making data available from the HIE, access to these data was randomly allocated … Claims data were used to measure any reduction in charges that result from the intervention. … the value of HIE. ( Achieved ) Conduct a randomized, controlled trial to measure the value of HIE … (value to be measured in terms of reduced costs of care and selected quality measures). ( Achieved ) … across transitions in care settings, and the use of electronic exchange of health information to improve quality

1449. Improving Adherence and Outcomes by Artificial Intelligence-Adapted Text Messages - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs022336-farris-final-report-2017.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - Research in this report was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality under award … be a measure of the system’s success in adaptation and will provide unprecedented information about … We will use generalized estimating equations (GEE) with repeated measures. … Figure 3 shows some of the weights learned by the agent. … Two measures of medication adherence were examined as outcomes for this study.

1450. Medication Reconciliation Technology to Improve Quality of Transitional Care - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018183-weiner-final-report-2013.pdf
      January 01, 2013 - Medication Reconciliation Technology to Improve Quality of Transitional Care - Final Report Grant Final … Report Grant ID: R18HS018183 Medication Reconciliation Technology to Improve Quality of Transitional … Measures This project required matching pre-admission medications with those prescribed at hospital … The study team is completing statistical analysis of the quantitative measures. … Scope Background Context Setting Participants Methods Study design Data sources Interventions Measures

1451. Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Transmission of Discharge Medication Lists - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-prescribing-and-electronic-transmission-discharge-medication-lists/annual-summary/2010
      January 01, 2010 - Medical College of Cornell University Funding Mechanism RFA: HS07-006: Ambulatory Safety and Quality … Program: Improving Quality through Clinician Use of Health Information Technology (IQHIT) Grant … ambulatory visit following discharge; and 2) adverse drug events (ADEs) 30 days post-discharge as outcome measures … Specific Aims: Measure the effects on medication errors of transitioning from one e-prescribing system … to another in the ambulatory setting. ( Ongoing ) Measure the effects on human-computer interactions

1452. Prescribing Patterns of Cost-Effective Drugs (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/prescribing-patterns-of-cost-effective-drugs-quick-reference-guide.pdf
      April 01, 2009 - Measure Category: Financial Impact Quality Domain: Efficiency Current Findings in the Literature: … expenditures.1 As prescription drug costs continue to increase,2 medications are a focus of cost­containment measures … Source of Data for the Measure: Pharmacy claims or billing data. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov Health IT … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Choosing Non Opioid Analgesics for Osteoarthritis.

1453. Walton RT et al. 1997 "Evaluation of computer support for prescribing (CAPSULE) using simulated cases." | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/walton-rt-et-al-1997
      January 01, 1997 - Main outcome measures: Percentage of cases where doctors ignored a cheaper, equally effective drug; prescribing … score (a measure of how closely prescriptions matched expert recommendations); interview to elicit doctors … Results: Computer support significantly improved the quality of prescribing.

1454. Development of a Job Task Analysis Tool for Assessing the Work of Physicians in the Intensive Care Unit (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/KSchultzetal2006HFES_JobTaskAnalysis.pdf
      January 01, 2005 - Wood†, Pascale Carayon*~ *Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement ~Department of Industrial … Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI ±Center for Perioperative Research in Quality … The aim of the analysis was to quantify the tasks of the physicians, including measures of frequency … The aim of the analysis is to quantify the tasks of the physicians, including measures of frequency, … were to one another with respect to total time (in seconds) of tasks recorded – an important outcome measure

1455. Automated Notification for Follow-Up Testing Recommendations Across Care Settings - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs022586-lacson-final-report-2017.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - Methods: (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures, Limitations) Study … We measure the proportion of reports with critical and clinically significant results among all radiology … In addition, we did not evaluate patient comprehension of ED discharge instructions and we did not measure … measure: a quasi-experimental study. … , Limitations) Study Design Data Sources Interventions Measures Limitations Results:

1456. Closing the Feedback Loop to Improve Diagnostic Quality - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/closing-feedback-loop-improve-diagnostic-quality/annual-summary/2010
      January 01, 2010 - Closing the Feedback Loop to Improve Diagnostic Quality - 2010 Project Name Closing … the Feedback Loop to Improve Diagnostic Quality Principal Investigator Weiss, Eta … Program: Enabling Quality Through Health Information Technology (EQM) Grant Number R18 HS 017060 … A surrogate measure of diagnostic quality is whether the diagnosis appropriately resolves the reason … IVR and ED feedback systems, and the use of the feedback by physicians will be assessed as outcome measures

1457. R18Hs017233-Fox-Final-Report-2011 (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017233-fox-final-report-2011.pdf
      January 01, 2011 - Basu This project was supported by grant number R18 HS 017233 from the Agency for Healthcare Quality … Specific to the BLUES project was the collection of measures related to process and outcomes associated … Demographic Measures Site name UMC: Urban Non- EHR Beebe: Urban EHR Gorton: Rural Non-EHR … Blood Pressure Measures* Site name UMC: Urban Non-EHR Beebe: Urban EHR Gorton: Rural Non-EHR … LDL Measures Site name UMC: Urban Non-EHR Beebe: Urban EHR Gorton: Rural Non-EHR Greenville

1458. Title Page (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015009-ward-final-report-2008.pdf
      January 01, 2008 - We attended their meetings and surveyed participants using existing measures. … (IQI) software were used to examine measures where Iowa hospitals under-performed compared to national … primary goals was to identify patient safety 7 indicators that CAHs were willing and able to measure … First, a number of their quality initiatives were closely related to JCAHO safety measures, even among … We also attempted to use the findings from the HIT survey and the patient safety and quality measures

1459. El Dorado County Safety Net Technology Project / ACCESS El Dorado (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs016129-bergner-final-report-2009.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - Al Deal (Grants Management Specialist) Submitted to: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Measure 3 addresses progress made towards Goals 2 and 3. … Within this framework, we used two measures to assess the effects of the pathway. … The frequent ED user measure accounts for the fact that almost half of the children only had one ED … Rogers G, Homer CJ (National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality).

1460. Insights for Community Health - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs020982-schoenthaler-final-report-2015.pdf
      January 01, 2015 - This project was supported by grant number R21HS020982 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … The four open-ended questions are used to capture information on the overall portal quality. … (see Measures). … This process, called Data into Wisdom into Action is a version of cyclical quality improvement