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pbrn.ahrq.gov/topics/disparities.html
Reports
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
The annual National Healthcare Quality … The report is based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities covering a broad array of health … investigating information presented in the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. … of trends across measures of health care from the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports … and figures illustrating select measures of health care.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/your-audience/index.html
December 01, 2022 - SHARE:
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Talking Quality … Measures
Determine How To Pay
Manage the Project
Gain Trust of Providers
Test … Your Report
Prepare To Distribute/Promote
Prepare for an Evaluation
Select Measures … But many sponsors start with the data they have or can obtain (e.g., measures of patients’ experiences … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/distribute-and-promote.html
May 01, 2019 - SHARE:
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Talking Quality … Measures
Determine How To Pay
Manage the Project
Gain Trust of Providers
Test … Your Report
Prepare To Distribute/Promote
Prepare for an Evaluation
Select Measures … Learn more:
Distribute Your Health Care Quality Report to Consumers
Promote Your Health Care Quality … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2022qdr-mepsmethods.pdf
December 01, 2022 - CAHPS is an AHRQ-sponsored family of survey instruments designed to measure
quality of care from the … Person-level weights,
specific to the SAQ and DCS, were used for measures derived with data from these … Measures dropped beginning in the 2021 NHQDR
Note Measure Measure Type
Dropped from
2021 NHQDR … CAHPS and CIS measures asked in odd years only starting in 2018
Measure Measure Type
Adults who had … Child Preventive Care measures asked in even years only starting in 2018
Measure
Measure
Type
Children
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/2014-women-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Patient Safety measures: Quality of care for women was improving for 43% of the
measures, not changing … Person-Centered care measures: Quality of care for women was improving for 76% of the
measures … Effective Treatment measures: Quality of care for women was improving for 52% of the
measures, … Access measures: Quality of care for women was improving for 20% of the measures, not
changing … Trends in measures of quality for females, by 4 NQS priorities and Access
Key: n = number of measures
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2024-hcbs-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The HCBS CAHPS Survey contains 19 measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum, a
consensus-based … HCBS CAHPS Consensus-Based Entity Endorsed Measures
HCBS Measure Number of Items
Composite Measures … The CMS CBE endorses quality measures through a transparent,
consensus-based process that incorporates … Single Item Measure Results—2024 HCBS CAHPS Survey Database
Single-Item Measures Bottom Box Top Box … The HCBS
CAHPS Survey uses several different response scales.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports/hospitals.html
December 01, 2022 - Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures To Report
Translate Data Into Information … Users can filter measures by angioplasty, blood clots, heart attack, heart failure, mother and baby, … Checkpoint includes clinical quality and safety indicators, as well as patient experience of care measures … Hospital performance on these measures is displayed using numeric data in table form. … Other measures reported on include hospital equity, hospitalizations for severe sepsis, coronary artery
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/teamstepps/simulation/simslides-update-62819.ppt
January 30, 2006 - Consider level of analysis
Clarify purpose
Decide what to measure
Select a measure
Phase 2
TEAMSTEPPS … Decide What to Measure
TEAMSTEPPS 05.2
Mod 1 05.2 Page *
Page *
Simulation
Outcomes
Sometimes … Numerical or descriptive judgment of how well a task was performed
Select a Measure
TEAMSTEPPS … Uses
Rating scales are good for assessing quality when it does not equate to a sum of quantity
Rating … scales are good for assessing tasks that are less procedural in nature
Rating scales are better to
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/hospital/about/dev_child_hp_survey.html
April 01, 2020 - Home Health Care
Hospice
Hospital
Adult Survey
Child Survey
Survey Measures … The survey development team conducted a comprehensive review of existing patient experience measures … and the Washington, D.C., area to test the understandability and usefulness of preliminary composite measure … The final Child HCAHPS Survey of 62 items was submitted to the CHIPRA Pediatric Quality Measures Program … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/research/index.html
March 01, 2024 - diagnostic performance, as well as identify the research and evidence, tools and training, and data and measures … of their health care team; a deeper understanding of diagnostic errors and how to most effectively measure … which may include the establishment of Research Centers of Diagnostic Excellence to develop systems, measures … , and new technology solutions to improve diagnostic safety and quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/ltc-quality-measures.html
December 01, 2022 - Measures should be implemented that evaluate whether access gaps are reduced and whether these gaps are … How do we measure what matters? … Defining a valuable set of quality measures for long-term care is the starting point for collecting data … involving patients, families, and staff, we can get to the heart of what outcomes matter most and how to measure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/communicate/reason.html
November 01, 2018 - Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures To Report
Translate Data Into Information … We know how to measure the health care different plans/providers deliver accurately and fairly. … choice found that while people said they preferred to make a decision based on positively oriented measures … services, their actual decisions, in a hypothetical situation, were more affected by results on negative measures … Framing Public Reporting: Determining whether publicly reported measures should be presented in a negative
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/placement/index.html
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Talking Quality … Plan Your Reporting Project
Select Measures To Report
Translate Data Into Information … Explain and Motivate Use
Distribute Your Quality Report
Media Options for Reports … As one experienced quality reporter noted,
“…We believe we’re reporting measures that consumers want … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/modules/index.html
April 01, 2022 - Standardized Quality Measures .
Conducting a "Last 10 Patients" Chart Audit . … administer a practice assessment, create surveys, and use survey results to generate improvement ideas and measure … Standardized Quality Measures – Learn how to determine which measures a practice is reporting on, find … measure specifications, calculate and benchmark performance, conduct a fall-out analysis, and create … Access additional resources and a table of contents for Standardized Quality Measures.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/enhanced-recovery/measuring.html
June 01, 2023 - to use data to monitor progress in achieving goals they have set for process improvement and outcome measures … Pathway Audit Tool (XLSX, 236 KB)
The Pathway Audit Tool can help teams collect and evaluate process measure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/assess.html
November 01, 2018 - Measures
Determine How To Pay
Manage the Project
Gain Trust of Providers
Test … Your Report
Prepare To Distribute/Promote
Prepare for an Evaluation
Select Measures … decisions you can make during the planning process is to determine whether, when, and how you will measure … Determine what information you need now (or soon) in order to measure change later. … plans, you may want to field a survey to measure their current level of awareness before you distribute
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cahps/about-cahps/patient-experience/index.html
September 01, 2023 - CAHPS Surveys Measure Patient Experience
While there are various ways to gather information on patient … Learn more: How CAHPS Surveys Measure Patient Experience — An interview of Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA, … Relating Patient Experience to Other Quality Measures
A positive patient experience is an important … This is part of the reason why combining patient experience measures with other measures of quality is … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/ich/index.html
November 01, 2023 - Dialysis facilities and End-Stage Renal Disease Networks (known simply as Networks) use this tool to measure … Quality Measures from the CAHPS In-Center Hemodialysis Survey
The In-Center Hemodialysis Survey produces … the following measures of patient experience:
Nephrologists' communication and caring
Quality of … kidney doctors
Rating of dialysis center staff
Rating of dialysis center
For information about the measures … programs and measures, and then resurveyed their patients in order to analyze the effectiveness of their
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/index.html
September 01, 2021 - Measures
Reports
Engaging Patients and Families
About AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety … Setting: Long-Term Care
CAHPS ® Nursing Home Survey was developed by AHRQ and designed to measure … The surveys are developed from the patient’s perspective on what’s important to measure. … care and improving their fall care processes and outcomes through educational and quality improvement … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/a1a_combo_iqifactsheet.pdf
October 01, 2015 - The Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) are a set of 28 provider-level measures developed by the
Agency … A detailed list of indicator specifications, software for calculating the measures, and software
documentation … the elderly 10.81
IQI 25 Bilateral cardiac catheterization 12.42 0355 2012
*NA: Not applicable; measure … coding with ICD-10 codes,
there are no available national data that allow hospitals to compare their measures … to national
benchmarks; however, future versions of the software will calculate risk-adjusted measures