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221. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - In its first iteration the program includes 13 measures taken from Medicare's Inpatient Quality Reporting … track record is spotty at best, these pay-for-performance programs have strong appeal—in no small measure … Who pays for poor surgical quality? Building a business case for quality improvement. … Tension between quality measurement, public quality reporting, and pay for performance. … Hospital quality for acute myocardial infarction: correlation among process measures and relationship

222. In Conversation with...Mark Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH | PSNet
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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.

223. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     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

224. Creating a high-reliability health care system: improving performance on core processes of care at Johns Hopkins Medicine. | PSNet
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     January 27, 2016 - The new governance structure includes oversight from a patient safety and quality board committee. … By 2013, the health system reached at least 96% compliance on 6 of 7 targeted measures, with 4 hospitals … Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Sustaining reliability on accountability measures … January 27, 2016 Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns … November 18, 2016 Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins

225. The use of "lives saved" measures in nurse staffing and patient safety research: statistical considerations. | PSNet
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     May 21, 2009 - Study The use of "lives saved" measures in nurse staffing and patient safety research … The use of "lives saved" measures in nurse staffing and patient safety research: statistical considerations … The use of "lives saved" measures in nurse staffing and patient safety research: statistical considerations … November 2, 2010 Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional … Nurses' shift length and overtime working in 12 European countries: the association with perceived quality

226. Predictors of gaps in patient safety and quality in U.S. hospitals. | PSNet
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     December 23, 2020 - Study Predictors of gaps in patient safety and quality in U.S. hospitals. … Predictors of Gaps in Patient Safety and Quality in U.S. Hospitals. … Because public reporting programs measure hospital performance using averages or rankings of observed … and safety measures and its actual performance on those measures as publicly reported by the Centers … Predictors of Gaps in Patient Safety and Quality in U.S. Hospitals.

227. Measuring psychological safety and local learning to enable high reliability organisational change. | PSNet
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     May 05, 2021 - This children’s hospital developed two scales (trust in team members and trust in leadership) and one … composite measure (local learning) to measure staff psychological safety and evaluate the effectiveness … More than 4,500 health system staff completed the survey; results indicate the two scales are strongly … associated with the composite measure. … Improving the implementation and adherence of the surgical safety checklist: a quality improvement project

228. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     March 25, 2020 - Washington DC; National Quality Forum. February 2020. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-spring-2019-final-cdp-report The development of effective measures … This report contributes to a long-standing initiative to define an evolving set of measures to respond … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/public-reporting-antibiotic-timing-patients-pneumonia-lessons-flawed-performance-measure

229. Effect of electronic health records in ambulatory care: retrospective, serial, cross sectional study. | PSNet
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     March 24, 2019 - This study aimed to evaluate the impact of such a system on the use and quality of ambulatory care. … measures from the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS). … decrease in utilization of office visits, an increase in telephone contacts, and largely unaffected measures … of quality. … December 8, 2021 Associations of physician burnout with career engagement and quality

230. Special Report: Quality of Care Survey. | PSNet
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     May 27, 2011 - Citation Text: Special Report: Quality of Care Survey. … April 7, 2021 Comparison of quality measures from US hospitals with physician vs nonphysician … Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. … August 4, 2021 An organization-specific and modifiable inpatient safety composite measure … Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

231. How best to measure surgical quality? Comparison of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators (AHRQ-PSI) and the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) postoperative adverse events at a single institution. | PSNet
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     December 21, 2014 - Study How best to measure surgical quality? … How best to measure surgical quality? … How best to measure surgical quality? … using criteria validated from the adult population: justifying the need for pediatric-focused outcome measures … measure.

232. Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2007. | PSNet
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     April 24, 2007 - Book/Report Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality … to evidence-based treatments for heart attacks, heart failure, and pneumonia, as well as more recent measures … measures, and noted variability exists in performance by hospital and by state. … Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award Winners. … quality improvement: what is the destination and how do we get there?

233. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 10, 2016 - America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety—The Joint Commission's Annual Report 2015. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/americas-hospitals-improving-quality-and-safety-joint-commissions-annual … This year's report reflects an expansion in the number of quality measures used. … About one-third of participating hospitals performed at 95% or above for all accountability measures. … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/joint-commission-center-transforming-healthcare https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/accountability-measures-using-measurement-promote-quality-improvement

234. America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety—The Joint Commission's Annual Report 2015. | PSNet
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     November 23, 2016 - Book/Report America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety—The Joint Commission's … Citation Text: America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety—The Joint Commission's Annual Report … This year's report reflects an expansion in the number of quality measures used. … About one-third of participating hospitals performed at 95% or above for all accountability measures. … The report also found that quality of care has improved over time for myocardial infarction, pneumonia

235. In Conversation With… Paul G. Shekelle, MD, MPH, PhD | PSNet
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     February 26, 2025 - Robert Wachter, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M : In your career you've done a lot of work in quality, quality assessment … I think that that's really true for these so-called softer measures as well. … ago, to try to measure health outcomes that weren't death or heart attacks or hospitalizations. … Not only do we have generic measures of quality of life, but we have all kinds of disease-specific measures … RW : I was struck, again in your clinical analogy, that as you measure all of these potential confounders

236. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2010 - 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

237. Changes in hospital safety following penalties in the US Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program: retrospective cohort study. | PSNet
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     September 29, 2021 - They found that penalized hospitals did not have lower HAC rates or improve other measures of clinical … quality. … By contrast, quality improvement collaboratives like Partnership for Patients have markedly reduced … June 25, 2018 Composite measures for profiling hospitals on bariatric surgery performance … measures and financial performance.

238. Do work condition interventions affect quality and errors in primary care? Results from the Healthy Work Place Study. | PSNet
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     September 04, 2016 - Study Do work condition interventions affect quality and errors in primary care? … Do Work Condition Interventions Affect Quality and Errors in Primary Care? … measures. … measures between the clinics. … Do Work Condition Interventions Affect Quality and Errors in Primary Care?

239. Organizational factors associated with high performance in quality and safety in academic medical centers. | PSNet
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     January 03, 2017 - Classic Organizational factors associated with high performance in quality … This study examined discharge data from 79 AMCs to generate a scoring method for measures of safety, … hospitals and residents' knowledge of quality and patient safety? … July 19, 2010 The reliability of AHRQ Common Format Harm Scales in rating patient safety … April 6, 2011 The Safety Organizing Scale: development and validation of a behavioral measure

240. A review of patient safety measures based on routinely collected hospital data. | PSNet
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     February 10, 2012 - Review A review of patient safety measures based on routinely collected hospital … A review of patient safety measures based on routinely collected hospital data. … A review of patient safety measures based on routinely collected hospital data. … weekend: a retrospective cohort study on the association between day of hospital presentation and the quality … weekend: a retrospective cohort study on the association between day of hospital presentation and the quality