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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/toward-safer-health-care-system-critical-need-improve-measurement
November 03, 2015 - The commentary emphasizes the need for valid patient safety measures and mentions the Surgeon Scorecard … The authors suggest that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) focus on measures of the … Hospital board and management practices are strongly related to hospital performance on clinical quality … June 24, 2019
Improving the quality of health care: what's taking so long? … November 30, 2016
Human factors and ergonomics and quality improvement science: integrating
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/measuring-perinatal-patient-safety-review-current-methods
October 19, 2022 - The author discusses four methods for measuring patient safety—structure measures, process measures, … outcome measures, and safety attitude and climate surveys. … September 1, 2016
Emerging trends in perinatal quality and risk with recommendations … ability to 'diagnose' system weaknesses and improve safety is a critical initial step in improving care quality … View More
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Facility and Group Administrators
Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41140/psn-pdf
February 15, 2012 - Is the maturity of hospitals' quality improvement systems
associated with measures of quality and patient … Is the maturity of hospitals' quality improvement systems associated
with measures of quality and patient … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/maturity-hospitals-quality-improvement-systems-associated-measures-quality … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/maturity-hospitals-quality-improvement-systems-associated-measures-quality-and-patient-safety … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/maturity-hospitals-quality-improvement-systems-associated-measures-quality-and-patient-safety
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44355/psn-pdf
September 02, 2015 - Effect of a real-time pediatric ICU safety bundle
dashboard on quality improvement measures. … Effect of a Real-Time Pediatric ICU Safety Bundle Dashboard on
Quality Improvement Measures. … -
measures
Adherence to quality and safety measures (such as informed consent, presence of urinary … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-real-time-pediatric-icu-safety-bundle-dashboard-quality-improvement-measures … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-real-time-pediatric-icu-safety-bundle-dashboard-quality-improvement-measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39796/psn-pdf
July 09, 2013 - Selecting Quality and Resource Use Measures: A
Decision Guide for Community Quality Collaboratives. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/selecting-quality-and-resource-use-measures-decision-guide-community-
quality-collaboratives … report describes how local health care leaders can guide their organizational planning and
performance measures … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/selecting-quality-and-resource-use-measures-decision-guide-community-quality-collaboratives … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/selecting-quality-and-resource-use-measures-decision-guide-community-quality-collaboratives
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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/47350/psn-pdf
November 29, 2018 - Do crowdsourced hospital ratings coincide with Hospital
Compare measures of clinical and nonclinical … quality? … Quality? … between crowdsourced ratings of hospitals (i.e., through consumer-
oriented sites) and publicly reported quality … of hospital quality and safety.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/urgent-need-improve-health-care-quality-institute-medicine-national-roundtable-health-care
May 27, 2015 - The urgent need to improve health care quality. … The authors review existing efforts to improve quality, including regulation, "Continuous Quality Improvement … The urgent need to improve health care quality. … May 27, 2015
Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association … December 23, 2008
Accountability measures—using measurement to promote quality improvement
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-hospital-public-quality-reporting-electronic-health-record-medication-safety
October 21, 2020 - Study
Association of hospital public quality reporting with electronic health record … Association of hospital public quality reporting with electronic health record medication safety performance … Hospitals participating in the voluntary Leapfrog program must publicly report data on several quality … measures. … Hospitals that participated in the Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) Evaluation Tool , which measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/risk-adjusted-morbidity-teaching-hospitals-correlates-reported-levels-communication-and
July 12, 2010 - correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures … correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures … Hospitals are urged to measure their safety culture through the use of one of several validated surveys … s)
Successful implementation of the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Surgical Quality … April 1, 2006
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Physicians
Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-dangerous-day-hospital-model-adverse-events-and-length-stay-medical-inpatients
February 09, 2012 - Citation
Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Adverse event rates as measures … May 19, 2018
Examining the relationship of an all-cause harm patient safety measure and … critical performance measures at the frontline of care. … Related Resources
Reviewing deaths in British and US hospitals: a study of two scales … March 3, 2011
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Hospitals
Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-process-compliance-and-surgical-outcomes-medicare-beneficiaries
May 01, 2015 - Hospitals are now required to report adherence to measures intended to prevent post-surgical complications … These measures are being publicly reported by groups including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid … However, this analysis found that high levels of adherence to these accountability measures were not … Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Association of hospital participation in a quality … December 4, 2019
Association of hospital participation in a regional trauma quality improvement
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/36277/psn-pdf
October 21, 2010 - Are the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
obstetric trauma indicators valid measures of hospital … Are the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality obstetric
trauma indicators valid measures of hospital … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-agency-healthcare-research-and-quality-obstetric-trauma-indicators-valid … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-agency-healthcare-research-and-quality-obstetric-trauma-indicators-valid-measures … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-agency-healthcare-research-and-quality-obstetric-trauma-indicators-valid-measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33803/psn-pdf
January 01, 2015 - For example, part of the
challenge is how do you measure diagnostic errors? … RK: AHRQ publishes an annual report that describes many measures of quality, safety, and disparities. … It also
showed improvements in quality on a number of measures publicly reported by CMS. … For example, we don't yet have good measures of
diagnostic acumen, or of the quality of a physician's … our ability to measure much of
what matters in medical care.
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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.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-project-2015-2017
April 15, 2005 - National Quality Forum; NQF. … The National Quality Forum (NQF) has been a leader in defining patient safety reporting measures. … website provides information about the third cycle of an NQF patient safety project that solicited new measures … National Quality Forum; NQF. … September 27, 2016
Patient Safety Measures.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-safety-neonatal-intensive-care-unit-big-measures-our-smallest-patients
September 18, 2024 - Commentary
Medication safety in the neonatal intensive care unit: big measures for … Medication Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Big Measures for Our Smallest Patients. … Medication Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Big Measures for Our Smallest Patients. … Assessment of changes in visits and antibiotic prescribing during the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … July 20, 2022
Quality and safety practices among academic obstetrics and gynecology departments
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45813/psn-pdf
January 18, 2017 - Considering chance in quality and safety performance
measures: an analysis of performance reports by … red, amber, green: the need to avoid distraction by random
variation in organisational performance measures … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/considering-chance-quality-and-safety-performance-measures-analysis-
performance-reports … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/considering-chance-quality-and-safety-performance-measures-analysis-performance-reports … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/considering-chance-quality-and-safety-performance-measures-analysis-performance-reports
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49678/psn-pdf
March 01, 2013 - a need for many pediatric care environments—especially outside of
children's hospitals—to upgrade scales … (in the US) live in a non–metric-
based society, we wish to communicate with families in units of measure … describes an important and classic system error and, more importantly, provides us
with tremendous quality-improvement … the following: (i) All providers that care for children should have access to infant and pediatric scales … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/defining-and-measuring-patient-safety
June 16, 2011 - The authors begin with an overview of safety terms and the basics of safety and quality measurement while … also sharing the challenges in choosing process versus outcome measures and tracking compliance with … March 11, 2020
Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins … July 14, 2010
Quality improvement implementation and hospital performance on patient … June 28, 2010
Linking Joint Commission inpatient core measures and National Patient Safety