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1. A Review of Quality of Care Evaluation for the Palliation of Dyspnea | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   June 16, 2010 - Part 1: Quality Measures of the Palliative Dyspnea Care Experience A dyspnea quality measure review … Similar to intensity and activity impact dyspnea scales, correlations among HRQoL measures are high, … Which measurement scales should we use to measure breathlessness in palliative care? … Quality Measure A quality measure is a fully specified or employed quality metric that is used to assess … Structural Measure Structural measures of quality refer to the innate characteristics of a system and

2. Dyspnea DEcIDE (pdf file)
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   April 01, 2010 - Part 1: Quality Measures of the Palliative Dyspnea Care Experience A dyspnea quality measure review … Similar to intensity and activity impact dyspnea scales, correlations among HRQoL measures are high, … Which measurement scales should we use to measure breathlessness in palliative care? … Quality Measure A quality measure is a fully specified or employed quality metric that is used to assess … Structural Measure Structural measures of quality refer to the innate characteristics of a system and

3. Measures for Primary Healthcare Spending (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2023 - Measures for Primary Healthcare Spending Evidence-based Practice Center Technical Brief Protocol … Project Title: Measures for Primary Healthcare Spending I. … Background and Objectives for the Technical Brief The capacity to measure primary care spending is essential … consensus, which we will use to inform our search strategy and guide us in assessing whether a standard measure … researchers, payers, health systems, and policymakers can employ to develop and implement a standardized measure

4. Standardized Library of Asthma Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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   April 01, 2019 - Outcome Measures Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center for Outcomes … iaa=2481 2 Approach to Representing an Outcome Definition For each measure, the accompanying … Harmonized Definitions for Asthma Outcome Measures OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION MEASUREMENT … Patient Reported General quality of life General quality of life should be measured using a quality of … A-6 OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION MEASUREMENT NOTES Resource Utilization Missed

5. Standardized Library of Asthma Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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   April 01, 2019 - Outcome Measures Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center for Outcomes … iaa=2481 2 Approach to Representing an Outcome Definition For each measure, the accompanying … Harmonized Definitions for Asthma Outcome Measures OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION MEASUREMENT … Patient Reported General quality of life General quality of life should be measured using a quality of … A-6 OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION MEASUREMENT NOTES Resource Utilization Missed

6. Ch 6-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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   October 30, 2012 - of life measures, such as the EQ-5D and the SF-36; or disease-specific scales, like the uterine fibroid … Overall quality of life Summary measure of quality of life Although all preceding levels contribute … This section deals with measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and the range of measures … Health-Related Quality of Life Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures the impact of disease … PRO measures may be designed to measure the current state of health of an individual or to measure

7. Relationship Between Use of Quality Measures and Improved Outcomes in Serious Mental Illness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   January 15, 2015 - measures (QMs) to evaluate the quality of health care programs, services, and outcomes. … Outcomes against which to evaluate the effectiveness of QMs are difficult to measure. … Of note, evidence does not exist that indicates that certain measures often used as proxies for quality … of care actually measure quality of care or improve outcomes. … SMI population, and the outcomes against which to assess the effectiveness of QMs are challenging to measure

8. Public Reporting of Cost Measures in Health | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   January 13, 2014 - on cost and quality. … of measures, as well as research on public reporting (James, 2012). … Cost measure : A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses … Cost measure : A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses … / quality-performance-measures/ quality-performance-measures Massachusetts Hospital Association Massachusetts

9. Public-Reporting-Cost-Measures Technical-Brief (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2015 - Second-phase screening  Cost measures met the following definition: A financial measure of cost, … We tightened our definition of “cost measure” to include only those Web sites reporting financial measures … Representative cost measures and definitions extracted from Web sites Measure Definition Source Charges … http://www.mhaonline.org/quality/quality-performance-measures/quality- performance-measures RWJF Excluded … /quality-performance-measures/quality-performance-measures http://www.mhaonline.org/quality/quality-performance-measures

10. Standardized Library of Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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    November 15, 2018 - Quality U.S. … Quality measures generally look to the EHR problem list for an assertion that an outcome exists and generally … For example, considering transient ischemic attack (TIA), quality measures will look for the presence … Quality measures do create value sets (e.g., for TIA), and we did identify several overlapping value … Harmonized Definitions for Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION

11. Standardized Library of Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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    November 15, 2018 - Quality U.S. … Quality measures generally look to the EHR problem list for an assertion that an outcome exists and generally … For example, considering transient ischemic attack (TIA), quality measures will look for the presence … Quality measures do create value sets (e.g., for TIA), and we did identify several overlapping value … Harmonized Definitions for Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION

12. Standardized Library of Lung Cancer Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2021 - Library of Lung Cancer Outcome Measures Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … domains as supplemental measures. … Harmonized Definitions for Lung Cancer Outcome Measures OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION … Notes: RECIST cannot be used to measure radiated lesions. … is not recommended for the minimum measure set.

13. Standardized Library of Lung Cancer Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2021 - Library of Lung Cancer Outcome Measures Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … domains as supplemental measures. … Harmonized Definitions for Lung Cancer Outcome Measures OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION … Notes: RECIST cannot be used to measure radiated lesions. … is not recommended for the minimum measure set.

14. Public-Reporting-Cost-Measures Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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    January 13, 2014 - on cost and quality. … Cost measure: A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of- pocket expenses … Cost measure: A financial measure of cost, charge, reimbursement, payment, or out-of-pocket expenses … /quality-performance- measures/quality-performance-measures Massachusetts Hospital Association Massachusetts … -140113 public-reporting-cost-measures-protocol-140113.2

15. Standardized Library of Lung Cancer Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2021 - Library of Lung Cancer Outcome Measures Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … domains as supplemental measures. … Harmonized Definitions for Lung Cancer Outcome Measures OMF CATEGORY OUTCOME MEASURE DEFINITION … Notes: RECIST cannot be used to measure radiated lesions. … is not recommended for the minimum measure set.

16. Development of Harmonized Outcome Measures for Use in Patient Registries and Clinical Practice: Methods and Lessons Learned (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2019 - Quality measures, Measure development Electronic Health Record Developers EHR development, Data integration … Additionally, rather than asking about specific tools or scales, we asked workgroup members about measure … Measures, Reports, & Tools. National Quality Forum. … Improvement eCQM Electronic Clinical Quality Measure EHR Electronic Health Record FDA U.S. … Depression measure scales include: PARS, MADRS, HAM-D, CGI-S, CDRS-R, PHQ-9 Other outcomes measures

17. Development of Harmonized Outcome Measures for Use in Patient Registries and Clinical Practice: Methods and Lessons Learned (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2019 - Quality measures, Measure development Electronic Health Record Developers EHR development, Data integration … Additionally, rather than asking about specific tools or scales, we asked workgroup members about measure … Measures, Reports, & Tools. National Quality Forum. … Improvement eCQM Electronic Clinical Quality Measure EHR Electronic Health Record FDA U.S. … Depression measure scales include: PARS, MADRS, HAM-D, CGI-S, CDRS-R, PHQ-9 Other outcomes measures

18. Quantitative Synthesis: Chapter 2. Presenting Different Effects for Different Data Types (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2018 - • The 3 most common effect measures in meta-analysis are: ► Risk difference (RD, absolute measure) … ► Risk ratio* (RR, relative measure) ► Odds ratio* (OR, relative measure) *Formulas for calculating … difference ► May be computed when all studies in the meta-analysis report outcome on the same scale or scales … outcome on scales that cannot be converted (e.g., differing Quality of Life measurement scales) • … Standardized mean difference • Standardized mean difference (SMD) is used for outcomes measured on different scales

19. Development of Harmonized Outcome Measures for Use in Patient Registries and Clinical Practice: Methods and Lessons Learned | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    February 11, 2019 - To address these limitations, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed the Outcome … range of populations and care settings, different treatment modalities, and varying levels of existing measure … registries often have limited funding and resources that prevent retroactively adopting harmonized measure … However, the development of the value proposition of adopting such a measure set would be beneficial … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; February 2019.

20. Assessing the Impact of Indexing Performance Measure Codes on the Perceived Value of EPC Reports to Health Systems (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2018 - This facilitates the acquisition of quality measures but after they benchmark and identify measures … or would inform an aspect of a quality measure. … measure tables hyperlinked to the pages of the executive summaries where those quality measures are … Quality measures addressed in the urinary incontinence report QM# Title Developer/ Steward Measure … Assurance; NQMC = National Quality Measure Clearinghouse; QM = Quality Measure; UI = urinary incontinence