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81. End of Life Issues | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    May 17, 2010 - Testing Cancer Quality Measures for End-of-Life Care Research Report Archived May 17, … Preferences in Decision Making (Session II) White Paper September 30, 2011 Developing Quality … Advanced Care Planning Research Protocol Archived December 10, 2013 Closing the Quality … Supportive Oncology Quality Indicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity Testing Research … Palliation of Dyspnea Research Report June 16, 2010 A Framework for Assessing Quality

82. 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.

83. 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.

84. 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

85. 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.

86. Assessment Tools for Palliative Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    April 14, 2016 - Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End of Life Care (TIME). … Quality measures for palliative care in patients with cancer: a systematic review. … PEACE Hospice and Palliative Care Quality Measures. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. National Quality Measures Clearinghouse. … indicator: a population-based measure that enables users to quantify the quality of a specific aspect

87. Meditation Programs for Stress and Well-Being | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    October 17, 2012 - The PEDro scale provides a more comprehensive measure of methodological quality than the Jadad scale … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2011. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2007. … 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

88. Pediatric Quality Measures Program 3.0: An Evidence Map of Measures for Vision, Hearing, and Developmental Screening and Followup | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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89. 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.

90. 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.

91. 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

92. Closing the Quality Gap Series. Through the Quality Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Science and Practice of Improving Health Care Quality | Effective Health Care Program
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    February 20, 2013 - Closing the Quality Gap Series. … Through the Quality Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Science and Practice of Improving Health Care Quality … In 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality launched a collection of evidence reports on … challenges, including difficulty in synthesizing the evidence due to heterogeneity in choice of outcomes measures … Future research will be strengthened by consistent use of a core set of outcomes measures, more robust

93. A Framework for Assessing Quality Indicators for Cancer Care at the End-of-Life | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    May 13, 2010 - 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.

94. 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

95. Disposition of Comments Report for Assessment and Management of Chronic Cough (pdf file)
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    January 07, 2013 - other dimensions of cough Peer Reviewer #3 General The comments about Visual Analogue Scales are … Such studies suggest to me that VAS measures still perform better than many other subjective scales … For each of these measures we sought to measure the validity, reliability, and Source: http: … Lastly, Visual Analogue Scales are reported very unfavourably. … besides cough counting (i.e. other QOL scores, VAS scales) may be more effective tools to evaluate

96. Health Information Technology | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    April 24, 2019 - Potential High Impact Reports Potential High Impact Report January 7, 2016 Outcome Measures … September 27, 2016 Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality

97. Disparities-Quality-Improvement Executive (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2012 - the State of the Science Executive Summary 2 and rehabilitative measures to maintain, restore, … To measure potential changes in disparity between patient groups, studies had to include a target and … Paper Selection Process We included studies that captured health outcome measures and/or process measures … Inclusion of a target group and an internal or external referent group to measure changes in disparities … In addition, they were required to provide data that could be used to measure a disparity before and

98. Rapid Evidence Product Addressing Social Isolation To Improve the Health of Older Adults A Rapid Review (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2019 - intervention included two-hour sessions once a week of physical activity (e.g., walking, stretching, and weights … When studies reported overall results of scales (such as the SF-36) that also had subscales (such as … We extracted reported measures of social isolation and included measures of social capital, social networks … isolation data Intervention • Program consisted of physical activity (walking, stretching and weights … Measures of social isolation and loneliness Study Construct: Measure Measure Explanation/Questions

99. Diagnosis and Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2016 - These included studies using self-reported symptom scales (the artificial neural network test, the … Schedule of Fatigue and Anergia for CFS scale, subscales of the SF-36, and other scales) and various … (Low strength of evidence) Improvement on work and social adjustment scales in 2 trials. … Studies used a variety of methods to measure outcomes, limiting comparisons across studies. … Reliability and validity of Short Form 36 Version 2 to measure health perceptions in a sub- group of

100. OUTLINE (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - 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. 22.