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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/defining-patient-safety-hospice-principles-guide-measurement-and-public-reporting
September 23, 2020 - Detailing how safety measures for hospitals can result in unintended consequences when implemented in … hospice care , this commentary recommends developing hospice-specific safety measures. … November 16, 2022
Expert consensus on currently accepted measures of harm. … November 25, 2020
Assessment of nursing home reporting of major injury falls for quality … Patterns in nursing home medication errors: disproportionality analysis as a novel method to identify quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/linking-joint-commission-inpatient-core-measures-and-national-patient-safety-goals-evidence
October 19, 2022 - Commentary
Linking Joint Commission inpatient core measures and National Patient … Linking joint commission inpatient core measures and national patient safety goals with evidence. … Linking joint commission inpatient core measures and national patient safety goals with evidence. … June 22, 2011
Ten years after the IOM report: engaging residents in quality and patient … safety by creating a house staff quality council.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/autopsy-quality-control-measure-radiology-and-vice-versa
April 24, 2018 - Study
Autopsy as a quality control measure for radiology, and vice versa. … Autopsy as a quality control measure for radiology, and vice versa. … The authors advocate for routinely comparing pathologic and radiologic diagnoses as a mutual quality … Autopsy as a quality control measure for radiology, and vice versa. … June 26, 2019
An international review of patient safety measures in radiotherapy practice
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/failure-rescue-comparing-definitions-measure-quality-care
April 17, 2013 - Study
Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care. … Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care. … study examined the effectiveness of three different failure to rescue definitions in evaluating the quality … Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-americas-hospitals-joint-commissions-annual-report-quality-and-safety-2012
November 02, 2012 - Book/Report
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality … annual Joint Commission report summarizes the performance of hospitals across 45 accountability measures … This year's calculation for identifying "Top Performers" included three new accountability measure sets … last year and now accounts for about 18% of all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals that report core measure … April 24, 2013
National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Patient Safety Measures: A
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intraoperative-surgical-performance-measurement-and-outcomes-choose-your-tools-carefully
June 17, 2015 - awareness can affect surgical performance, this commentary highlights the challenges to aligning rating scales … with surgical outcome measures. … January 22, 2016
Surgical ward round quality and impact on variable patient outcomes. … March 19, 2018
Quality, safety, and outcomes in anaesthesia: what's to be done? … July 23, 2018
Advances in perioperative quality and safety.
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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/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/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/issue/hospital-mortality-when-failure-not-good-measure-success
December 22, 2010 - Hospital mortality: when failure is not a good measure of success. … of the quality of care, as illustrated in a recent study of preventable deaths after cardiac surgery … Hospital mortality: when failure is not a good measure of success. … November 20, 2015
Building the bridge to quality: an urgent call to integrate quality … November 24, 2010
Do HSMRs really measure patient safety?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-acquired-infections-surgical-patients-impact-covid-19-related-infection-prevention
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
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Operating Room
Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37910/psn-pdf
February 28, 2011 - Efforts to improve the quality and safety of care are being driven in part by a growing focus on public … commentary shares the potential for the unintended consequences of reporting on flawed
performance measures … The authors discuss the background data for this particular quality measure, how it was
translated into … AHRQ WebM&M commentary discussed the unintended consequences of achieving a good
report card on such measures … ://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/getting-good-report-card-unintended-consequences-public-reporting-hospital-quality
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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/node/42705/psn-pdf
November 26, 2013 - Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's
Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2013. … 2013
This Joint Commission report summarizes the performance of hospitals across 47 accountability measures … This year's calculation for identifying
Top Performers included a new accountability measure for immunization … This represents 33% of all
Joint Commission-accredited hospitals that report core measure performance … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/joint-commission-center-transforming-healthcare
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/accountability-measures-using-measurement-promote-quality-improvement
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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/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/issue/relationship-between-performance-measurement-and-accreditation-implications-quality-care-and
March 13, 2013 - Relationship between performance measurement and accreditation: implications for quality … and safety, this study suggests a need for greater vigilance in defining how and what to measure if the … January 29, 2015
Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins … January 27, 2016
Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns … Indicators to improve health care quality.
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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/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/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