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181. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response_Deprescribing To Reduce Medication Harms in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2024 - Committee for Quality Assurance patient safety–related measures. … Director Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Healthcare Research and Quality Jennifer Eskandari Task Order Officer Center for Quality Improvement … Development of High-Risk Geriatric Polypharmacy Electronic Clinical Quality Measures and a Pilot Test … of EHR Nudges Based on These Measures.

182. Research Protocol: Care Interventions for PeopleWith Dementia (PWD) and Their Caregivers (pdf file)
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     February 22, 2019 - Actual outcome measures will be defined by study authors. … Common measures are provided in Appendix B. … We will assess strength of evidence for key final health outcomes measured with validated scales. … Common Outcome Measures Test Name Domain Data Source Reference BEHAVE-AD General behavior scales … How rigorous are measures to increase adherence?

183. Assessing the Quality of Individual Studies (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2010 - Assessing the Quality of Individual Studies Assessing the Quality of Individual Studies Agency for … Result from problems in data analysis and interpretation, such as choice of the wrong statistical measure … Did investigators concurrently measure intervention and exposure status for intervention and comparison … Did investigators concurrently measure outcomes for intervention and comparison groups? … rating Reporting Quality Ratings Key Messages (I): Definition of Quality Assessment Quality assessment

184. Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Initial data abstraction was quality checked by a second investigator. 5 Quality (Risk of Bias) … neuropsychological tests for extraction and analysis by their purpose and/or what they attempt to measure … Although no one measure is adequate for all applications, movement towards the use of batteries with … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2012. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2011.

185. Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Initial data abstraction was quality checked by a second investigator. 5 Quality (Risk of Bias) … neuropsychological tests for extraction and analysis by their purpose and/or what they attempt to measure … Although no one measure is adequate for all applications, movement towards the use of batteries with … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2012. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2011.

186. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - patient-centered outcomes including activities of daily living, walking on different surfaces/terrains, quality … What tests and measures have been used to determine outcomes (e.g., for strength – manual muscle test … What are the psychometric properties of these tests and measures (reliability, validity, minimal clinically … treatment are to reduce or control pain, improve physical function, prevent disability, and enhance quality

187. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 44: Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending (pdf file)
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     May 17, 2024 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2024. … of primary care spending, not just more standardized measures. … It might be worth explicitly calling out the possibility of gaming different measures, and which measure … and extent of variation in the decisions made for each of those dimensions in existing measures. … Different measures simply reflect that primary care means different things to different people Our

188. Disposition of Comments for Psychological Treatments and Pharmacological Treatments for Adults With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (pdf file)
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     April 03, 2013 - different ages, you are not only taking a weighted average of those incidences at different ages, but the weights … on different scales. … scales or with different reliabilities. … The distinction of whether a measure is measuring quality of life or functioning should not be based … We included data from general quality of life measures, such as the SF-36 and SF-12, in the quality

189. Community Forum Deliberative Methods Demonstration: Evaluating Effectiveness and Eliciting Public Views on Use of Evidence--Executive Summary (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2013 - greater acceptance or greater doubt about one’s convictions.1 Although we used attitude change as a measure … After completing a factor analysis using the attitude items, our final attitude measures included six … group, all four deliberative methods showed significant change on at least one knowledge or attitude measure … control group, each of the four deliberative methods shifted participants’ attitudes for at least one measure … control that used reading materials only on the basis of change on at least one knowledge or attitude measure

190. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program Research Gaps Summary: Primary Care (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - • Research focused on developing tools to help measure patient trust in the healthcare system and … Outcomes • Studies that measure sleep and mental health outcomes, in addition to pain, function, … - based care using clinical quality measures in improving preventive care in patient populations Study … • Most systematic reviews report pain outcomes using scales that measure only pain intensity, while … outcomes reporting, including pain and its impact on function and recovery as measured by multidomain scales

191. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     September 19, 2023 - What patient safety measures or indicators have been used to examine the harms associated with this … for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) patient safety measures, AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators ( … PSIs), or the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) patient safety related measures. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. July 2023. … R Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Rockville, MD: 2014.

192. final Fibromyalgia CER protocol_3-31-14 (pdf file)
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     April 03, 2014 - the ACR that eliminated the tender point examination, but relied on physician-rated severity in two scales … Clinical applications of visual analogue scales: a critical review. … Psychometric properties of the Medical Outcomes Study Sleep measure. … Yes Valid measures, groups ~equivalent No Non-validated measures or non- equivalent groups … Yes Measures were valid and reliable (i.e. objective measure, validated scale/tool); consistent

193. Mass-Casualty-Events-Scarce-Resources Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2012 - Triage systems and explicit triage acuity scales have been used in emergency departments for many years … Several studies did not measure health outcomes or even the most relevant process outcomes. … Instead, most of the studies focused on measures of throughput. … further broaden our coverage of the topic, we included in a separate section studies that had some measure … There was some degree of subjectivity in assigning scores to each item in our quality assessment scales

194. Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Update of the PTSD Repository Evidence Base (pdf file)
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     December 07, 2024 - Symptoms and subjective quality of life in post-traumatic stress disorder: a longitudinal study. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2018. doi: 10.23970/AHRQEPCCER207. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2019. doi: 10.23970/AHRQEPCTB32. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Month 2024. doi: XX. PMID: XX. 16. … have been selected, on the basis of the results, from multiple eligible outcome measurements (e.g. scales

195. Arthritis-Knee-Physical-Therapy Executive (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - outcomes as measurements of gait, strength, balance, transfers, endurance, joint function, or composite measure … Evidence Database; RCT = randomized controlled trials 8 Because the studies used different tools to measure … , or quality of life. … PASS is available for three scales: WOMAC, VAS for pain, and the Patient Global Assessment. … disability measures

196. Case-Management Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Quality of care, as indicated by disease-specific process measures, receipt of recommended health care … Ability To Remain at Home One measure of the clinical significance of improvements in functioning for … Most studies did not carefully measure the amount of effort case managers devoted to different functions … those measures (1 study). … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies.

197. Untitled (pdf file)
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     February 25, 2016 - Performance of the scales also may vary across different types or mechanisms of injury. … characteristics of risk assessment instruments,20,21 including GCS,4 but these can be difficult to measure … Scientific Information Packets: Not applicable for this topic, which addresses non-proprietary assessment scales … comparison groups clear reporting of missing data; apply appropriate means to prevent; and appropriately measure … the Glasgow coma scale (mGCS) to the prehospital total GCS (tGCS) as a prehospital risk adjustment measure

198. Quantitative Synthesis: Chapter 5. Network Meta-Analysis (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2018 - Rating the quality of evidence—inconsistency. J Clin Epidemiol. 2011;64(12):1294-302. … • Meta-regression uses contrast-level data and can be extended to RRs, RDs, SMDs, and other effect measures … • 2 broad types of methods exist for evaluating consistency: ► Overall consistency measures for the … Single measures for consistency • These approaches use a single measure to represent consistency within … one agent above others, the absolute difference might be trivial.15 − Converting relative effect measure

199. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - ability of test, final testicular size and location, fertility/infertility/subfertility (including measures … of semen count/quality, paternity, and other measures), incidence of testicular cancer, informed decision-making … A high-quality, detailed systematic review could be a valuable resource for improving effectiveness

200. Ch 10-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - Instrumental variables, which are measures that are causally related to exposure but only affect the … Repeated measures per study subject can be collapsed to a single summary measure per subject. … Number of Followup Measures and Time Intervals Outcome Measure Single Measure Repeated Measure, … and nature of the followup measures or assessments. … A difficulty of this approach is identifying a high- quality instrument.