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141. Discharging Our Responsibility | PSNet
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     January 16, 2019 - patients and the opportunity to implement, manage, and measure intervention strategies. … Quality of care in U.S. hospitals as reflected by standardized measures, 2002-2004. … Joint Commission/CMS Heart Failure Inpatient Performance Measure Descriptions. … Performance Measure Name Measure Description Discharge instructions Heart failure patients … quality and patient safety infrastructure.

142. In Conversation With… Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH | PSNet
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     May 01, 2013 - Some measures are more problematic, the biggest one being the readmissions measure. … RW : One of the tensions between safety and quality is that while it's relatively easy to measure mortality … and maybe case-mix adjust mortality and certain process measures, it's pretty hard to measure diagnostic … And do you worry that because it's easier to measure quality we'll take our eye off the safety ball? … Hospital quality for acute myocardial infarction: correlation among process measures and relationship

143. Measurement of ambulatory medication errors in children: a scoping review. | PSNet
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     February 07, 2024 - This scoping review explored the use of measures to capture pediatric medication errors in ambulatory … The authors identified 142 studies evaluating 21 measures of medication errors, including measures of … Only 31 studies assessed measure reliability. … Resources Annual Perspective Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality

144. Patient Safety, Spring 2019 Final CDP Report. | PSNet
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     October 28, 2020 - Washington DC; National Quality Forum. February 2020. … Washington DC; National Quality Forum. February 2020. … The development of effective measures to document and track patient safety is challenging. … Washington DC; National Quality Forum. February 2020. … July 16, 2009 Identification and Prioritization of Health IT Patient Safety Measures.

145. Errors in laboratory medicine: practical lessons to improve patient safety. | PSNet
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     February 14, 2024 - The author discusses eight performance measures, including customer satisfaction, test turnaround times … February 24, 2021 Developing a process to measure actual harm from medication errors … specimens February 26, 2020 Surgical specimen identification errors: a new measure … of quality in surgical care. … February 13, 2008 View More See More About The Topic Physicians Quality

146. Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures. | PSNet
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     March 17, 2021 - Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures … Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures … The COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in infection control and prevention measures to limit nosocomial … Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures … June 3, 2020 View More See More About The Topic Operating Room Quality

147. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     July 17, 2024 - Development of patient safety measures to identify inappropriate diagnosis of common infections. … Development of patient safety measures to identify inappropriate diagnosis of common infections. … This article describes the development of two National Quality Forum (NQF)-endorsed measures of inappropriate … Both measures demonstrated strong validity and reliability through testing with patient focus groups … 2011 https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/inappropriate-antibiotic-use https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/national-quality-forum

148. Publicly available hospital comparison web sites: determination of useful, valid, and appropriate information for comparing surgical quality. | PSNet
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     December 21, 2014 - measures.  … July 6, 2022 Repurposing clinical decision support system data to measure dosing errors … and clinician-level quality of care. … November 14, 2011 Adherence to Surgical Care Improvement Project measures and the association … Public reporting of antibiotic timing in patients with pneumonia: lessons from a flawed performance measure

149. 2024 National Impact Assessment of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Measures Report. | PSNet
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     November 23, 2015 - 2024 National Impact Assessment of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality … Measures Report. … Citation Text: 2024 National Impact Assessment of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality … Measures Report. … Measures Report.

150. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     February 03, 2010 - Patient safety measures in burn care: do national reporting systems accurately reflect quality of burn … Patient safety measures in burn care: do National reporting systems accurately reflect quality of burn … - reflect-quality This study examined quality measures reported to the University Health Consortium … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-measures-burn-care-do-national-reporting-systems-accurately-reflect-quality … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-measures-burn-care-do-national-reporting-systems-accurately-reflect-quality

151. Pediatric Quality Indicators Overview. | PSNet
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     December 24, 2008 - Citation Text: Pediatric Quality Indicators Overview. … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) represent quality … measures that make use of a hospital's available administrative data. … The Pediatric Quality Indicators focus on quality of care inside hospitals and identify potentially avoidable … Quality and Safety.

152. Getting a Good Report Card: Unintended Consequences of the Public Reporting of Hospital Quality | PSNet
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     October 01, 2004 - The public release of hospital quality measures is typically undertaken with a number of explicit and … The HQA began in late 2003 with a limited set of 10 quality measures spread across three clinical conditions … areas, with the addition of new measures focused on the quality of surgical care. … This is especially important to appreciate given that specifications for existing quality measures do … Table Hospital Quality Alliance: Current Measure Set Heart Attack (Acute Myocardial Infarction

153. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2009 - Either process or outcome measures can be valid measures of quality—valid in the sense that they really … So if you're going to use an outcome as a valid measure of quality, you must have a proven relationship … core measures. … The physician quality reporting initiative is out there. They have developed hundreds of measures. … I have already told you my bias that claims data do not produce highly valid quality measures.

154. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2006 - The public release of hospital quality measures is typically undertaken with a number of explicit and … The HQA began in late 2003 with a limited set of 10 quality measures spread across three clinical conditions … areas, with the addition of new measures focused on the quality of surgical care. … This is especially important to appreciate given that specifications for existing quality measures do … Table Hospital Quality Alliance: Current Measure Set http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

155. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     July 13, 2009 - Full implementation of computerized physician order entry and medication-related quality outcomes: a … measures. … This study compared quality of care measures for hospitals with and without CPOE systems. … Investigators found that CPOE-driven hospitals performed better on 5 of 11 measures related to medication … ordering and on 1 of 9 non–medication-related quality measures.

156. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - Recognizing that progress in improving quality and safety hinges on the availability of robust measures … ; rather, it is a neutral body that endorses measures. … Janet Corrigan, the current President and CEO of NQF, worry that the field of quality measures is getting … in order to stimulate improvement.(21) For example, consumers may have difficulty understanding a measure … represent the single source of measures for public reporting and pay-for-performance programs.

157. The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures in a community hospital. | PSNet
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     October 19, 2022 - Study The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures in a … The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures in a community hospital. … February 1, 2023 Developing a process to measure actual harm from medication errors in … Annual Perspective Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality … More About The Topic General Hospitals Facility and Group Administrators Risk Managers Quality

158. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 22, 2016 - High-Risk Medications in the Elderly and Potentially Harmful Drug–Disease Interactions in the Elderly quality … measures. … High-Risk Medications in the Elderly and Potentially Harmful Drug-Disease Interactions in the Elderly Quality … Measures. … Because avoiding these medications is a quality measure, it is a priority for health systems to employ

159. Are We Getting Better at Measuring Patient Safety? | PSNet
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     November 10, 2015 - about the safety event(s) and the circumstances surrounding it, using them to systematically detect and measure … events across large populations of patients over time.( 15 ) One example of an administrative data–based measure … Given the increased use of quality and safety measures for hospital-level public reporting and pay-for-performance … AHRQ Quality Indicators. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … April 10, 2024 Using harm-based weights for the AHRQ Patient Safety for Selected Indicators

160. From board to bedside: how the application of financial structures to safety and quality can drive accountability in a large health care system. | PSNet
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     January 29, 2015 - article described Johns Hopkins' success at achieving consistently high performance on accountability measures … January 29, 2015 Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins … January 27, 2016 Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns … August 8, 2018 Developing a measure of value in health care. … November 29, 2017 Effect of a hospital-wide measure on the readmissions reduction program