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341. Nursing home safety: does financial performance matter? | PSNet
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     November 05, 2008 - discovered that nursing homes in the bottom quartile of financial performance also did poorly on measures … deficiencies , whereas the next to lowest quartile of financial performance did best on selected safety measures … Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Hospital financial condition and the quality … October 3, 2011 Variation in quality of urgent health care provided during commercial … Patterns in nursing home medication errors: disproportionality analysis as a novel method to identify quality

342. Stop orders to reduce inappropriate urinary catheterization in hospitalized patients: a randomized controlled trial. | PSNet
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     February 23, 2022 - August 3, 2016 Accountability measures—using measurement to promote quality improvement … September 20, 2011 Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association … December 4, 2016 Adherence to simple and effective measures reduces the incidence of

343. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     March 04, 2009 - increasing patient safety in the intensive care unit: increasing the implementation rates of proven safety measures … increasing patient safety in the intensive care unit: increasing the implementation rates of proven safety measures … model-increasing-patient-safety-intensive-care-unit-increasing-implementation- rates-proven Evaluating the impact of quality … adoption of tools that promoted team communication, prompts to providers to address the evidence-based measures

344. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2011 - Robert Wachter, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M: In your career you've done a lot of work in quality, quality assessment … , quality improvement, and appropriateness. … 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

345. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2014 - national nonprofit representing employers and other purchasers of health benefits advancing safety and quality … Why can't their employees look at the quality and cost effectiveness of hospitals when deciding where … In 2000 there were very few measures of performance of hospitals. … I cannot go to my board and talk to them about the details of a new measure on maternity care. … But I can talk to them about why we think it's important to have this maternity measure.

346. Improving patient safety—five years after the IOM report. | PSNet
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     February 18, 2011 - November 4, 2020 Does racism impact healthcare quality? … quality improvement: what is the destination and how do we get there? … goals and performance measures for improvement. … November 9, 2016 Measures to improve diagnostic safety in clinical practice. … November 2, 2016 Developing a measure of value in health care.

347. Mortality due to hospital-acquired infection after cardiac surgery. | PSNet
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     February 12, 2020 - July 31, 2013 Transparency, public reporting, and a culture of change to quality and … September 23, 2020 Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Conference: using a revised … Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures … associated with self-reported commitment to, subjective norms toward, and knowledge about preventive measures … Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures

348. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 15, 2024 - administration of appropriate antimicrobial prophylaxis) is routinely tracked in the form of process measures … implemented the CUSP with mentorship from a national project team, used either the NHSN or NSQIP method to measure … measures) on its Care Compare website. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. December 2017. … [Free full text] https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adherence-surgical-care-improvement-project-measures-and-association-postoperative-infections

349. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     October 31, 2017 - Relationship between state malpractice environment and quality of health care in the United States. … Relationship Between State Malpractice Environment and Quality of Health Care in the United States. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/relationship-between-state-malpractice-environment-and-quality-health-care … Investigators assessed quality using several measures: validated processes-of-care measures, such as … There were no associations between any of these quality outcomes and the rate of paid claims per 100

350. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 20, 2024 - AHRQ Quality Indicators. … September 20, 2024 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ahrq-quality-indicators … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) represent quality measures … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ahrq-quality-indicators https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-ahrq-quality-indicators-improve-health-care-quality … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pediatric-quality-indicators-overview https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective

351. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 05, 2011 - Hospital computerized provider order entry adoption and quality: an examination of the United States … united-states Hospitals with a computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system generally performed better on measures … for quality of inpatient care. … However, CPOE adoption was associated with poor performance on a (now discarded) performance measure … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/public-reporting-antibiotic-timing-patients-pneumonia-lessons-flawed-performance-measure

352. Prescription Opioids: Medicare Needs to Expand Oversight Efforts to Reduce the Risk of Harm. | PSNet
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     December 06, 2017 - Author(s) Improved Policies and Oversight Needed for Reviewing and Reporting Providers for Quality … December 9, 2020 The STOP Measure. … May 16, 2018 America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety: The Joint Commission's … October 3, 2017 Request for comments on the proposed measures and 2020 targets for the … National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention: inpatient and outpatient measures for reduction

353. Doing well by doing good: evaluating the influence of patient safety performance on hospital financial outcomes. | PSNet
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     September 11, 2024 - September 11, 2024 An exploratory analysis of the association between hospital quality … measures and financial performance. … April 18, 2018 Examining the relationship of an all-cause harm patient safety measure … and critical performance measures at the frontline of care. … October 31, 2017 Closing the gap and raising the bar: assessing board competency in quality

354. In Conversation With... Jack Westfall, MD, MPH | PSNet
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     September 28, 2022 - JW: How do we measure high quality? … measures. … This sort of dichotomy exists between the overall quality measures and the individual quality measures … So rather than trying to measure 100 things, we wonder how to determine a parsimonious group of measures … that are proxies for individual measures but serve as a primary-care-centric, whole-person measure of

355. Identifying adverse events: reflections on an imperfect gold standard after 20 years of patient safety research. | PSNet
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     September 09, 2015 - advocate moving away from the imperfect gold standard of adverse event rates and embracing more specific measures … September 9, 2015 Connecting perspectives on quality and safety: patient-level linkage … August 17, 2018 Surgical adverse outcomes and patients’ evaluation of quality of care … : inherent risk or reduced quality of care? … Resources Achieving diagnostic excellence: roadmaps to develop and use patient-reported measures

356. Restoring trust in VA health care. | PSNet
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     June 21, 2016 - data, this commentary relates barriers to improving patient safety, such as overuse of performance measures … The authors describe approaches to augment safety, such as narrowing down performance measures to address … Hospital board and management practices are strongly related to hospital performance on clinical quality … December 18, 2018 Quality improvement for patient safety: project-level versus program-level

357. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2016 - Developing a measure of value in health care. … Developing a measure of value in health care. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/developing-measure-value-health-care Value-based healthcare is emerging … This article discusses the primary definition of value in health care and how established quality measures … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/developing-measure-value-health-care https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/broadening-concept-patient-safety-culture-through-value-based-healthcare

358. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 18, 2013 - progress in safety improvement and describes seven priorities to guide development of patient safety measures … measuring-errors-and-adverse-events-health-care https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-patient-safety-indicators-related-widely-used-measures-hospital-quality

359. In Conversation With… John D. Birkmeyer, MD | PSNet
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     January 31, 2024 - antibiotics, the use of prophylaxis against postoperative blood clots—all of the things you can easily measure … The fact that those measures were so powerfully associated with outcomes only speaks to how important … of skill versus alternative measures of quality or outcome, we kept finding exactly the same thing. … profession at large back to some degree was the relative simplicity and ease with which you can actually measure … tend to be statistically imprecise—perhaps influenced by a surgeon's case mix—I think that a measure

360. Pragmatic insights on patient safety priorities and intervention strategies in ambulatory settings. | PSNet
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     January 06, 2018 - ambulatory setting and suggest activities to advance improvement efforts in outpatient care, such as measure … July 22, 2011 Quality measures for patients at risk of adverse outcomes in the Veterans … Annual Perspective Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality … July 21, 2020 Optimal Resources for Surgical Quality and Safety. … February 21, 2018 Concurrent and Overlapping Surgeries: Additional Measures Warranted