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psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/system-approaches-social-determinants-health-screening-and-intervention-innovation
July 23, 2024 - financial resource strain, and transportation. 3 The goal of this innovation was to improve healthcare quality … , both in quality scores and measures. 3 The program was implemented across UNC Health’s 92 primary … planning and development, and a establishing a data infrastructure to collect process and outcomes measures … Standardized measures should be designed to collect simple screening information. … Teamwork in healthcare: key discoveries enabling safer, high-quality care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-home-hemodialysis-quality-assurance-and-serious-adverse-events-home-setting
January 23, 2017 - Commentary
Patient safety in home hemodialysis: quality assurance and serious adverse … Patient safety in home hemodialysis: quality assurance and serious adverse events in the home setting … Patient safety in home hemodialysis: quality assurance and serious adverse events in the home setting … December 16, 2020
Accountability measures—using measurement to promote quality improvement … September 20, 2011
Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-estimated-true-safety-event-rates-versus-flagged-safety-event-rates-does-it-change
December 15, 2011 - September 25, 2019
Using harm-based weights for the AHRQ Patient Safety for Selected … March 6, 2019
Quality improvement lessons learned from National Implementation of the … June 26, 2024
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Patient safety: let's measure … 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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42770/psn-pdf
November 27, 2013 - Increasing demands for quality measurement. … Increasing demands for quality measurement. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/increasing-demands-quality-measurement
This commentary relates challenges … to meaningful and accurate quality measurement and makes
recommendations to augment health care systems … to improve adoption and use of quality measures.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withjames-l-reinertsen-md
August 01, 2007 - Basically, if you can't measure it, it's really hard to work on improving it. … When boards ask for measures, what they generally are asking for are measures of the performance of the … to financial measures. … However, clinical care is complex, and meaningful single measures do not exist. … Related Resources
Using the Communication and Teamwork Skills (CATS) assessment to measure
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73553/psn-pdf
July 28, 2021 - You're there to do quality assurance and quality improvement,
as needed, as the system changes, and … At the regional level, most states have developed some definitions and some quality measures. … What does quality assurance look like in EMS? What does quality improvement look
like? … The ability to use correct data systems
and quality measures, not over-apply quality measures, and not … There are always unexpected situations and circumstances that quality measures are
not designed to take
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41284/psn-pdf
May 04, 2012 - In surgical patients, the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
measures have been shown to … effect-illness-severity-and-comorbidity-patient-safety-and-adverse-events
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/national-surgical-quality-improvement-program … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-best-measure-surgical-quality-comparison-agency-healthcare-research-and-quality-patient
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/automated-identification-diagnostic-labelling-errors-medicine
September 23, 2020 - August 5, 2024
Identifying and mapping measures of medication safety during transfer … Annual Perspective
Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality … September 7, 2022
Strength of safety measures introduced by medical practices to prevent … June 10, 2020
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Quality and Safety Professionals … Medicine
Clinical Misdiagnosis
Latent Errors
Continuous Quality Improvement
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Health care quality … and safety in a correctional system: creating goals and performance measures for improvement. … June 27, 2012
Patients' experiences and perspectives of patient-reported outcome measures … View More
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Hospitals
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Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluating-patient-safety-indicators-how-well-do-they-perform-veterans-health-administration
April 01, 2010 - January 8, 2020
Do medical inpatients who report poor service quality experience more … February 10, 2015
HealthGrades Quality Study: Fourth Annual Patient Safety in American … February 10, 2012
Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association … January 23, 2012
The relationship between patients' perception of care and measures of … hospital quality and safety.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/836851/psn-pdf
April 06, 2022 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality;
March 2022. … The highest-scoring composite measures are patient care tracking/follow-up
and teamwork. … Like the 2020 report, the lowest-scoring measure was work pressure and pace.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33663/psn-pdf
September 15, 2008 - , and patient safety initiatives
Alignment of AHS clinical outcomes and quality measures with national … Each hospital is now in
the process of implementing these patient safety measures locally. … The revisions include clearly defined process, outcome, structure, and patient
measures. … Mortality as an Outcome Measure
Since 2001, we have tracked our unadjusted system and hospital mortality … as the "ultimate outcome
measure."
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/incidence-and-method-suicide-hospitals-united-states
October 04, 2023 - October 4, 2023
Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association … January 23, 2012
Home health agency patient experience measures and their relationship … June 7, 2023
Infection control measure performance in long-term care hospitals and their
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluating-prevalence-four-recommended-practices-suicide-prevention-following-hospital
June 07, 2023 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Home health agency patient experience measures … April 24, 2018
Infection control measure performance in long-term care hospitals and … October 31, 2018
Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33729/psn-pdf
May 01, 2012 - different adverse event rates are identified
depending on the techniques being used to identify and measure … Occurrence reports: The most well known strategy to identify and measure patient safety in U.S. hospitals … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. [Available
at]
3. … AHRQ Quality Indicators: Introduction. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Evaluation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality Pediatric Quality Indicators.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37334/psn-pdf
February 01, 2011 - conceptual model to
guide organizations in developing their safety scorecard and understanding the measures … A worksheet is provided that focuses on three questions: Is the measure important? … , Is the
measure valid?, and Can this measure be used to improve safety in the organization? … A past AHRQ
WebM&M commentary discussed the unintended consequences of public reporting on quality. … ://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/getting-good-report-card-unintended-consequences-public-reporting-hospital-quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45330/psn-pdf
August 03, 2016 - Experts have also raised concerns about the use of in-hospital mortality as a quality measure. … Although readmission
rates and mortality ratios have been criticized as inaccurate measures of the quality … A PSNet
interview discussed the intersection of readmissions and quality. … cmss-hospital-acquired-condition-lists-link-hospital-payment-patient-safety
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/do-hsmrs-really-measure-patient-safety … www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20489/
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/feasibility-preventable-readmission-rate-quality-measure
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33914/psn-pdf
September 29, 2017 - Inpatient Quality Indicators. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/inpatient-quality-indicators
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's … (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) represent quality
measures that make use of a hospital's available … The Inpatient Quality Indicators
include inpatient mortality for certain procedures and medical conditions … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/inpatient-quality-indicators
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-targeted-solutions-tool-improve-hand-hygiene-compliance-associated-decreased-health
August 18, 2021 - November 21, 2021
Accountability measures—using measurement to promote quality improvement … September 20, 2011
Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association … catheter-associated urinary tract infection as a system: using systems engineering and human factors engineering in a quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37105/psn-pdf
August 15, 2007 - Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on the Quality and
Safety of Health Care in the United States. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/health-care-opinion-leaders-views-quality-and-safety-health-care-united-states … This report discusses results of a national survey regarding how to improve the safety and quality … measures, and more oversight. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/health-care-opinion-leaders-views-quality-and-safety-health-care-united-states