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221. Toward a safer health care system: the critical need to improve measurement. | PSNet
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     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

222. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 26, 2012 - Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012. … seventh annual Joint Commission report summarizes the performance of hospitals across 45 accountability measures—evidence-based … This year's calculation for identifying "Top Performers" included three new accountability measure sets … year and now accounts for about 18% of all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals that report core measure … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/joint-commission-center-transforming-healthcare https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/accountability-measures-using-measurement-promote-quality-improvement

223. 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.

224. Medication safety in the neonatal intensive care unit: big measures for our smallest patients. | PSNet
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     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

225. Unexpectedly long hospital stays as an indicator of risk of unsafe care: an exploratory study. | PSNet
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     January 07, 2015 - to examine whether unexpectedly long length of stay could be used as an indicator of the safety and quality … measures. … Although much more work is required to validate this measure, it may fill a need as a measure of patient … May 19, 2014 Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns Hopkins … November 6, 2013 Validity of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety

226. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 08, 2025 - Moving towards a core measures set for patient safety in perioperative care: an e-Delphi consensus study … Moving towards a core measures set for patient safety in perioperative care: an e-Delphi consensus study … - consensus-study Standardized measures allow for comparison between facilities. … in surgical care in the context of the "Improving quality and patient SAFEty in surgical care through … Subject-matter experts and patients agreed on 85 measures.

227. In Conversation With… Richard Kronick, PhD | PSNet
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     February 01, 2014 - 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 … ability to measure much of what matters in medical care.

228. Request for Information: Diagnostic Excellence Measurement. | PSNet
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     January 15, 2025 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fed Register. December 12, 2024;89:100497-100498. … Linkedin Copy URL December 18, 2024 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … This call for public comment focuses on the value and usability of existing measures and others under … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fed Register. December 12, 2024;89:100497-100498. … View More See More About The Topic Medicine Clinical Misdiagnosis Quality

229. Medication errors in intensive care units: an umbrella review of control measures. | PSNet
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     February 09, 2022 - Review Medication errors in intensive care units: an umbrella review of control measures … Medication errors in intensive care units: an umbrella review of control measures. … Medication errors in intensive care units: an umbrella review of control measures. … April 7, 2021 Risk of medication errors and nurses' quality of sleep: a national cross-sectional

230. Clinical data sharing improves quality measurement and patient safety. | PSNet
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     April 21, 2021 - Study Clinical data sharing improves quality measurement and patient safety. … Clinical data sharing improves quality measurement and patient safety. … This study compared quality measure calculations between an individual electronic health record (EHR) … The results show that adding HIE data changed 15% of quality measure calculations. … Clinical data sharing improves quality measurement and patient safety.

231. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     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.

232. Don’t Wait to Collect an Accurate Weight: A Case of Subtherapeutic Insulin Therapy | PSNet
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     July 01, 2008 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … The NCCMERP recommends having appropriate metric scales (standing, chair, beds/stretchers with scales … Built-in bed scales are convenient but are also costly. … should facilitate obtaining accurate weights. … This includes ensuring that appropriate metric scales (standing or weighted stretcher scales) are readily

233. International Comparisons: A Focus on Quality of Care. | PSNet
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     December 04, 2019 - Book/Report International Comparisons: A Focus on Quality of Care. … Citation Text: International Comparisons: A Focus on Quality of Care. … The country has strong measures of community care such as avoidable admissions and influenza vaccinations … Resources From the Same Author(s) Canada continues to lag behind other OECD countries on measures … May 12, 2010 Department of Defense Health Care Quality.

234. Measure Dx: implementing pathways to discover and learn from diagnostic errors. | PSNet
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     August 25, 2021 - Commentary Measure Dx: implementing pathways to discover and learn from diagnostic … Measure Dx: Implementing pathways to discover and learn from diagnostic errors. … This commentary introduces Measure Dx , a tool providing guidance for health care organizations to identify … Measure Dx: Implementing pathways to discover and learn from diagnostic errors. … Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Validation of an electronic trigger to measure

235. In Conversation with...Patrick S. Romano, MD, MPH | PSNet
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     July 10, 2024 - Multiple approaches are necessary to get closer to concepts that we're trying to measure. … PR: Well, the simple answer is you can't improve what you don't measure. … The Program started with a fairly limited set of measures that are now called Inpatient Quality Indicators … or IQI, including risk-adjusted mortality measures and measures of volume on specific procedures for … from The Joint Commission, from Hospital Compare , from process measures, risk-adjusted mortality measures

236. Missed medication doses in hospitalised patients: a descriptive account of quality improvement measures and time series analysis. | PSNet
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     October 13, 2018 - Study Missed medication doses in hospitalised patients: a descriptive account of quality … improvement measures and time series analysis. … Missed medication doses in hospitalised patients: a descriptive account of quality improvement measures … Missed medication doses in hospitalised patients: a descriptive account of quality improvement measures … See More About The Topic Hospitals Physicians Nurses Nurse Managers Quality

237. Infection control measure performance in long-term care hospitals and their relationship to Joint Commission accreditation. | PSNet
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     June 07, 2023 - Study Infection control measure performance in long-term care hospitals and their … Infection control measure performance in long-term care hospitals and their relationship to Joint Commission … Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Home health agency patient experience measures … October 31, 2018 Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association … January 31, 2024 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports.

238. Patient Safety 2015: Final Technical Report. | PSNet
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     September 29, 2017 - Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2016. … The value of current measures to track patient safety has been called into question . … information about a consensus-driven initiative to evaluate the reliability of existing patient safety measures … Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2016. … August 2, 2017 Identification and Prioritization of Health IT Patient Safety Measures

239. Hospital process compliance and surgical outcomes in Medicare beneficiaries. | PSNet
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     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

240. Measuring adverse events in hospitalized patients: an administrative method for measuring harm. | PSNet
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     December 17, 2014 - that the administrative harm measurement tool can detect adverse events accurately enough for internal quality … July 21, 2009 Governing board, C-suite, and clinical management perceptions of quality … March 2, 2010 Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement … March 27, 2019 Procuring Interoperability: Achieving High-Quality, Connected, and Person-Centered