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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/reviewing-deaths-british-and-us-hospitals-study-two-scales-assessing-preventability
April 03, 2019 - Study
Reviewing deaths in British and US hospitals: a study of two scales for assessing … Reviewing deaths in British and US hospitals: a study of two scales for assessing preventability. … December 30, 2014
Changes in weekend and weekday care quality of emergency medical admissions … August 2, 2011
Adherence to Surgical Care Improvement Project measures and the association … 2009
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-spring-2019-final-cdp-report
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.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/canada-continues-lag-behind-other-oecd-countries-measures-patient-safety
March 26, 2014 - Fact Sheet/FAQs
Canada continues to lag behind other OECD countries on measures of … patient safety
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Canada continues to lag behind other OECD countries on measures … indicators across 12 countries worldwide and gives Canada's current status on a variety of patient safety measures … Citation
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Canada continues to lag behind other OECD countries on measures … Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
International Comparisons: A Focus on Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/relationship-between-preventable-hospital-deaths-and-other-measures-safety-exploratory-study
November 12, 2014 - Study
Relationship between preventable hospital deaths and other measures of safety … Relationship between preventable hospital deaths and other measures of safety: an exploratory study. … Relationship between preventable hospital deaths and other measures of safety: an exploratory study. … January 7, 2011
The problem of engaging hospital doctors in promoting safety and quality … June 12, 2013
Adverse event rates as measures of hospital performance.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/publicly-available-hospital-comparison-web-sites-determination-useful-valid-and-appropriate
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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pediatric-quality-indicators-overview
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.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/board-bedside-how-application-financial-structures-safety-and-quality-can-drive
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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39261/psn-pdf
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 … -
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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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/getting-good-report-card-unintended-consequences-public-reporting-hospital-quality
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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33695/psn-pdf
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.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/errors-laboratory-medicine-practical-lessons-improve-patient-safety
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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49522/psn-pdf
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?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33682/psn-pdf
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.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866312/psn-pdf
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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/measurement-ambulatory-medication-errors-children-scoping-review
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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39641/psn-pdf
September 20, 2011 - Adherence to Surgical Care Improvement Project
measures and the association with postoperative
infections … Public reporting of quality measures is now widely used as a means of spurring hospitals to invest … in
patient safety and quality improvement efforts; however, it remains unclear if reported measures … truly
indicate a higher quality of care. … publicly-available-hospital-comparison-web-sites-determination-useful-valid-and-appropriate
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/national-surgical-quality-improvement-program
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38733/psn-pdf
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.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37890/psn-pdf
February 18, 2011 - Are Patient Safety Indicators related to widely used
measures of hospital quality? … Are patient safety indicators related to widely used measures of hospital quality? … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-patient-safety-indicators-related-widely-used-measures-hospital-quality … The availability of multiple publicly reported measures of hospital quality has led to controversy, … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-patient-safety-indicators-related-widely-used-measures-hospital-quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44598/psn-pdf
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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/network-patient-safety-databases-chartbook-2019
October 23, 2019 - Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook, 2019 Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Copy URL
February 5, 2020
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Data within the chartbook cannot be used for statistical comparisons with clinical quality measures because … March 22, 2024
Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program: Health IT Portfolio. … Measures Report.