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101. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2023 - safety measures, AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators, or the National Committee for Quality Assurance … (NCQA) patient safety related measures. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. July 2023. … SEP-1—Taking the Measure of a Measure. … R Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Rockville, MD: 2014.

102. Updating the Framework for AHRQ’s National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) (pdf file)
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     September 06, 2023 - The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) presents trends for measures related … The report is based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities, based on dozens of data sources … of care is related to the measure criteria of susceptibility to being influenced by the health system … Any chosen framework will determine to a large extent which quality measures are prioritized, which … measures.

103. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 47: Measuring Documentation Burden in Healthcare (pdf file)
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     May 21, 2024 - The latter is harder to conceptualize and measure but is at the heart of high quality patient care … ” measures. … We can only improve what we measure. … We are evaluating how to measure documentation burden. … under the measure set.

104. Meditation Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     October 17, 2012 - will only combine studies using mean differences if multiple trial reports use the same or similar scales … The PEDro scale provides a more comprehensive measure of methodological quality than the Jadad scale … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2007. 30. … If a direct measure of negative affect is available, we will use that measure instead of any indirect … as indirect measures since they reflect a component of the outcome but there are more direct measures

105. A Framework for Assessing Quality Indicators for Cancer Care at the End-of-Life | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - indicators or quality measures. … A quality indicator or quality measure is an agreed-upon process or outcome measure that is used to … Cancer care quality measures: symptoms and end-of-life care. … Quality measures for supportive cancer care: The cancer quality-ASSIST (Assessing Symptoms Side Effects … National Quality Forum. Measure Evaluation Criteria. 2008: Washington, DC. 17.

106. Updating the Framework for AHRQ’s National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     October 01, 2023 - The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) presents trends for measures related to … The report is based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities, based on dozens of data sources … of care is related to the measure criteria of susceptibility to being influenced by the health system … Any chosen framework will determine to a large extent which quality measures are prioritized, which in … measures.

107. Research Protocol: Measuring Healthcare Organization Characteristics in Cancer Care Delivery Research (pdf file)
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     October 06, 2022 - KQ 2: What approaches have been used to measure or understand the organizational context and process … measures used in studies. … Evaluating the quality of medical care. … Care Coordination Measures Atlas Update. … Choose Measures.

108. Health Screening | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 07, 2025 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Source https://medlineplus.gov/healthscreening.html … Products Technical Brief April 7, 2025 Pediatric Quality Measures Program … 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup … Research Protocol August 2, 2024 Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map … of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup

109. REQUEST FOR TASK ORDER (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - Testing cancer quality measures for end-of-life care. … Benchmark Measures We defined benchmark measures of quality of cancer care at the end-of-life using … Our measure of chemotherapy toxicity may be a more specific measure of over-zealous chemotherapy use … Measures of the quality of end-of-life care can be divided into those that measure over-use of aggressive … Quality measures for symptoms and advance care planning in cancer: a systematic review.

110. Treatments for Fecal Incontinence | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - measures, a lack of measures for some patient-important outcomes (such as urgency), limited long-term … of Life (multiple scales, such as the Fecal Incontinence Quality of Life [FIQL], 25 Gastrointestinal … whether or not the measure provides a composite or subscale scores. 28,30,31,33 FI episode counts/ … Yes Valid measures, groups ~ equivalent   No Nonvalidated measures or nonequivalent groups … Yes Measures were valid and reliable (i.e., objective measure, validated scale/tool); consistent across

111. Effectiveness of Indoor Allergen Reduction in Management of Asthma - Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - (Secondary measure) KQ1 KQ1 KQ1 KQ=Key Question Dashed line indicates theoretical relationship … primary outcome measures. … , and quality of life were often unreported in the included studies. … of life, although results were inconclusive for validated measures of asthma control. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; February 2018.

112. Comparative Effectiveness Research Review Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     October 15, 2012 - Yet as you acknowledge when doing population surveillance we need to measure in a standard way drawing … ACSs as a quality measure for studying disparities among people with disabilities as you state is a … The measure was an open-ended qualitative response item for feedback from providers whose patients … The capability to measure and study outcomes over time with precision would mitigate the ceiling and … floor effect of other measures, specifically when studying pain, quality of life, or function.

113. Chronic-Cough Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2014 - questionnaires, visual analog scales, electronic recordings, and human counts. … of life instruments • Visual analog scales • Objective cough counting • Tussigenic challenge • Exhaled … different measurement scales were considered similar enough to combine using effect sizes. … r = 0.8–1.0 Insufficient SOE 1 study; 67 subjects Detected change with treatment Visual analog scales … Visual analog scales, although widely used both in research and practice, have little to no data to

114. Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Measures for Guiding Antibiotic Treatment for Nosocomial Pneumonia | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Abdul-Aziz and colleagues 26 did not appraise the quality of individual studies or grade the quality … sufficient data are available, meta-analyses and results will be stratified by (1) method of PK/PD measure … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Reseach and Quality; 2012:69-97. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2010. … Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) measures .

115. Advancing Measurement of Patient-Centered Communication in Cancer Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - Objectives The goal of Phase 2 was to refine the Phase 1 framework; identify, develop, and test PCC measures … Develop and Test Measures : We developed an inventory of PCC survey items by examining published literature … generally able to understand the questions, apply them to their own experiences, and use the response scales … followed by psychometric analysis, and finalizing the items and developing short and long-term versions of measures … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

116. Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment and Prevention: Comparative Effectiveness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - This report systematically reviews the evidence on (1) risk-assessment scales for identifying people … The quality of included studies was assessed, data were extracted, and results were summarized. … accuracy found that commonly used risk-assessment instruments (such as the Braden, Norton, and Waterlow scales … Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and … Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

117. Vision Impairment and Blindness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 07, 2025 - visionimpairmentandblindness.html Products Technical Brief April 7, 2025 Pediatric Quality … Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and … Followup Research Protocol August 2, 2024 Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: … An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

118. Hearing Problems in Children | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     April 07, 2025 - hearingproblemsinchildren.html Products Technical Brief April 7, 2025 Pediatric Quality … Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and … Followup Research Protocol August 2, 2024 Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: … An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup Research … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

119. A Primer for Systematic Reviewers on the Measurement of Functional Status and Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - the methods for assessing function and HRQL, and evidence on the measurement properties of prominent measures … Results Key measurement properties include construct validity (does the instrument measure what it … is supposed to measure?) … Conclusions While further study of the measurement properties of measures in older populations is needed … , studies of older adults should include measures of HRQL and function.

120. Topic Coming Back CER 28 DMARDs in Children with JIA NSD _SJ Clean (pdf file)
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     March 27, 2014 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. September 2011. … The outcome measures assessed were: Measures of disease activity: Active joint count (AJC) Physician … global assessment of disease activity (PGA) Parent/patient global assessment of well-being (PGW) Measure … quality of life: Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) 4.0 … Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Rheumatology Module (PedsQL-RM) Composite measures of response