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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017167-kopal-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - Process measures also improved significantly. … Measures. … For existing patients with paper charts, only the
last BP measure was entered in the patient's newly … Measures: Provider and Key Informant Interviews. … to produce clean and reliable “provider report cards” as
well as the data the researchers used to measure
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digital.ahrq.gov/funding-mechanism/utilizing-health-information-technology-scale-and-spread-successful-practice
January 01, 2023 - Scaling and Spreading Electronic Capture of Patient-Reported Outcomes Leveraging a National Surgical Quality … This project demonstrated that the large-scale electronic collection of patient-reported outcome measures … in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program is not only feasible but is also a notable step … patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in primary care, with findings revealing an improvement in patient quality … patient-reported outcomes (PROs), developed a natural language processing algorithm to abstract PRO measures
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-improved-chronic-disease-management
January 01, 2023 - Nurse Educator: One project sought to improve the project site's performance on CMS core measures for … Aligning HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) and CMS measures with health IT projects … allowed several grants to demonstrate that health IT systems can impact these measures to improve health … care quality. … dashboard for chronic diseases can help providers and payors to measure the quality of care provided
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digital.ahrq.gov/funding-mechanism/policy-relevant-evaluations-inform-development-health-it-meaningful-use-objectives
January 01, 2023 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2015. … Learning from Primary Care Meaningful Use Exemplars
"Meaningful" clinical quality … measures for primary care physicians. … "Meaningful" clinical quality measures for primary care physicians.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/forging-pathway-for-electronic-prescribing-of-controlled-substances.pdf
March 01, 2014 - Prescribing of Controlled Substances
1
AHRQ Health Information Technology
Ambulatory Safety and Quality … to be prescribed
electronically nationwide for the first time.2
The IFR requires rigorous security measures … Providers’ initial expectations of EPCS secu-
rity measures were that they would be burdensome.4
However … , after having had experience with EPCS,
providers found the security measures to be less bur-
densome … are compliant with
DEA regulations.
2
AHRQ Health Information Technology
Ambulatory Safety and Quality
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/supporting-health-systems-advancing-care-delivery
January 01, 2023 - learning has the potential to improve predictions around patient health severity, leading to safer, higher quality … Previous Research Stories
Automated Retract-and-Reorder Measures to Improve Medication … Safety New measures to identify near-miss medication errors are a major advancement in patient safety … virtual pharmacists in palliative care teams can reduce adverse drug interactions and increase the quality
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/it-systems-rural-indian-clinic-health-care
January 01, 2023 - Improvement
Quality Measurement
An areawide tribal health board in California partnered … Quality improvement of performance measures with extraction and reporting of the measures was successfully … All THP achieved extraction and reporting of performance measures and other population data. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2007. … The system revealed gaps in care for these patients, which led to quality improvement changes at the
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/9_26ahrq_ExSum_2011_508.pdf
January 01, 2011 - Information Technology Portfolio in 2011
Research funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Health IT grant initiative, one of four Ambulatory
Safety and Quality (ASQ) RFAs, concluded. … measures in
ambulatory care settings, automating quality measurement, demonstrating the ability of … electronic
data systems to expand potential safety and quality measures, and demonstrating improved … ability to
export data for reporting performance on measures and improvement
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/Tennessee%204-VI.ppt
August 18, 2004 - Hospital, Shelby County/Health Loop, UTMG, LabCorp, Memphis Managed Care-TLC, Omnicare
Financial Measures … , creating a measure that is highly reliable across many types of interfaces.
08-18-04-Working-Group … QUIS Details
Six scales
Eleven interface factors
Screen
Terminology/system feedback
learning … RHIO in versus RHIO out)
Usage statistics
Latency
Downtime
08-18-04-Working-Group
Content Quality … and activity costing
System content quality
Disease-specific hypotheses
08-18-04-Working-Group
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/Johnson%205-V.ppt
August 18, 2004 - Hospital, Shelby County/Health Loop, UTMG, LabCorp, Memphis Managed Care-TLC, Omnicare
Financial Measures … , creating a measure that is highly reliable across many types of interfaces.
08-18-04-Working-Group … QUIS Details
Six scales
Eleven interface factors
Screen
Terminology/system feedback
learning … RHIO in versus RHIO out)
Usage statistics
Latency
Downtime
08-18-04-Working-Group
Content Quality … and activity costing
System content quality
Disease-specific hypotheses
08-18-04-Working-Group
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/use-hit-increase-primary-care-access-medicaid-patients/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - Funding Mechanism
PAR: HS08-269: Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality … test whether the program makes a difference in quantitative and qualitative assessments, including measures … adaptation of both the client satisfaction questionnaire and multi-dimensional Health Locus of Control Scales … across transitions in care settings, and the use of electronic exchange of health information to improve quality
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-information-exchange-0
January 01, 2023 - Eighty-two percent of AHRQ's Transforming Healthcare Quality through IT (THQIT) projects cited staffing … Electronic Health Records in Four Community Physician Practices: Impact on Quality and Cost of Care - … Buy-in (Provider, Patient, Staff)
Constructing and fostering confidence in privacy and security measures … When used as designed, EMR technology with CPOE can improve performance as measured by certain quality … and financial measures.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs025136-ratwani-final-report-2024.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Christine Dymek
This work was supported by a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … A
systematic review of usability measures found that most measures were qualitative in nature and … into the usability categories of effectiveness,
efficiency, and satisfaction, and evaluated article quality … in
measures of effectiveness (n = 23, 52.3%) and satisfaction (n = 28, 62.2%) compared to
measures … The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
5.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/sequist-t-et-al-2005
January 01, 2005 - Sequist T et al. 2005 "A randomized trial of electronic clinical reminders to improve quality of care … summary outcome to assess the odds of increased compliance with overall diabetes care (based on five measures … ) and overall CAD care (based on four measures). … Results: Baseline adherence rates to all quality measures were low. … These improvements were often limited and quality gaps persist."
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/patient-centered-diabetes-education-integral-part-electronic-clinic-note
March 31, 2025 - HS028032
Funding Mechanism(s)
Health Information Technology (IT) to Improve Health Care Quality … SDM can improve glycemic control, patient satisfaction, quality of life, medication adherence, and trust … Patients will be given usual reminders for reviewing SEE-Diabetes modules and to complete self-reported measures … The primary outcome measures are the SDM-Q-9 (patient version) and the SDM-Q-Doc (provider version),
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs026565-bull-final-report-2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - The TUQ is a comprehensive questionnaire
that measures usability, acceptance, and satisfaction of a … PROMIS® - Emotional Distress – Anxiety and the PROMIS® - Emotional Distress – Depression
short form 8a scales … Each of these scales measures its respective symptoms through 8 Likert-type
questions, which are aggregated … Measures
To evaluate feasibility and usability of the telemedicine application incorporating a virtual … For both the PROMIS® Anxiety and PROMIS® Depression scales, T-scores in
the range of 60.0—69.9 indicate
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/turchin-alexander
October 14, 2020 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2019. … Hyperlipidemia
Performance of primary care physicians and other providers on key process measures … Performance of primary care physicians and other providers on key process measures in the treatment of … pneumococcal vaccination among immunosuppressed rheumatology outpatients: the first step in improving quality … pneumococcal vaccination among immunosuppressed rheumatology outpatients: the first step in improving quality
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/phr-impact-chronic-disease-slides-012512.pdf
January 25, 2012 - Disease
AHRQ
January 25, 2012
Moderator:
Angela Lavanderos
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality … Patient perception of chronic care
– Patient satisfaction with care
Results—Main Analysis
Outcome Measure … PHR No PHR P-value
SBP 129.7 129.3 0.62
DBP 77.3 75.6 0.288
Patient Activation Measure 71.4 69.1 … 114)
Mean ± SD P-value
Epworth
Sleepiness Scale
8.5 ± 5.4 8.9 ± 5.3 8.1 ± 5.5 NS
Sleep Apnea
Quality … Mean ± SD P-value
Epworth
Sleepiness Scale
6.5 ± 4.2 7.1 ± 4.5
5.7 ± 3.6 NS
Sleep Apnea
Quality
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs015339-aranaydo-final-report-2007.pdf
January 01, 2007 - Quality improvement of performance measures with extraction
and reporting of the measures was successfully … The IHS has repeatedly demonstrated improvements in quality of care with these measures for
Diabetes … The IHS developed a set of clinical
measures (IHS GPRA measures) to improve quality and safety of preventive … The GPRA clinical measures for IHS
Service Units vary and document the need for Quality Improvement … GPRA measures are aimed at improving safety as well as quality of care by
reducing potential system
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digital.ahrq.gov/location/usa-sc-charleston
January 01, 2023 - Learning from Primary Care Meaningful Use Exemplars
Description
This project assessed quality … Research into Practice (PPRNet-TRIP) project regarding how to use health information technology to improve quality … Research into Practice
Description
The project successfully developed a set of medication safety measures … relevant for primary care and incorporated these measures in quarterly performance reports sent to participating