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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/americas-hospitals-improving-quality-and-safety-joint-commissions-annual-report-2016
November 10, 2016 - , referred to as accountability measures . … Reporting Program, The Joint Commission decreased the number of accountability measures from 49 to 29 … The percent of hospitals that performed at 95% or above for all accountability measures declined from … However, the report emphasizes that many of the measures in which hospitals were performing extremely … Hospitals were also given the opportunity to submit electronic clinical quality measure data for the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/839323/psn-pdf
November 02, 2022 - Comparison of quality measures from US hospitals with
physician vs nonphysician chief executive officers … Comparison of quality measures from US hospitals with physician vs
nonphysician chief executive officers … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/comparison-quality-measures-us-hospitals-physician-vs-nonphysician-chief … This cross-sectional study
examined differences in hospital quality measures between hospitals who have … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/comparison-quality-measures-us-hospitals-physician-vs-nonphysician-chief-executive-officers
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-diagnostic-quality-safetyreducing-diagnostic-error-measurement-considerations
November 20, 2019 - Washington DC; National Quality Forum: October 28, 2019. … Efforts to track, understand and measure diagnostic errors offer continuing challenges to designing … measures. … It identified new types of active measures and related concepts present in the evidence base. … Need
July 8, 2020
Identification and Prioritization of Health IT Patient Safety Measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/international-review-patient-safety-measures-radiotherapy-practice
May 22, 2019 - Review
An international review of patient safety measures in radiotherapy practice … An international review of patient safety measures in radiotherapy practice. … An international review of patient safety measures in radiotherapy practice. … June 26, 2019
Quality improvement priorities for safer out-of-hours palliative care: … Annual Perspective
Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/alternative-medications-medications-use-high-risk-medications-elderly-and-potentially-harmful
April 27, 2011 - High-Risk Medications in the Elderly and Potentially Harmful Drug–Disease Interactions in the Elderly quality … measures. … Measures. … Because avoiding these medications is a quality measure, it is a priority for health systems to employ … Measures.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/moving-towards-core-measures-set-patient-safety-perioperative-care-e-delphi-consensus-study
January 15, 2025 - Study
Moving towards a core measures set for patient safety in perioperative care … Moving towards a core measures set for patient safety in perioperative care: an e-Delphi 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.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46289/psn-pdf
January 01, 2021 - Communication training, adverse events, and quality
measures: 2 retrospective database analyses in … Communication Training, Adverse Events, and Quality Measures: 2
Retrospective Database Analyses in Washington … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/communication-training-adverse-events-and-quality-measures-2-retrospective … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/communication-training-adverse-events-and-quality-measures-2-retrospective-database-analyses … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/communication-training-adverse-events-and-quality-measures-2-retrospective-database-analyses
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/864866/psn-pdf
March 20, 2024 - 2024 National Impact Assessment of the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Measures … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/2024-national-impact-assessment-centers-medicare-medicaid-services-cms-
quality-measures … for future emergencies, such as the creation of metrics to
track workplace safety as a component of quality … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/2024-national-impact-assessment-centers-medicare-medicaid-services-cms-quality-measures … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/2024-national-impact-assessment-centers-medicare-medicaid-services-cms-quality-measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/72688/psn-pdf
October 06, 2022 - Request for proposals for clinical quality measures to
improve diagnosis. …
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/request-proposals-clinical-quality-measures-improve-diagnosis
A … lack of consensus on measures for the effectiveness and accuracy of diagnosis represents a gap in … This announcement seeks proposals to examine quality measures to motivate
excellence in three primary … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/request-proposals-clinical-quality-measures-improve-diagnosis
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/development-patient-safety-measures-identify-inappropriate-diagnosis-common-infections
April 10, 2024 - Study
Development of patient safety measures to identify inappropriate diagnosis … Development of patient safety measures to identify inappropriate diagnosis of common infections. … This article describes the development of two National Quality Forum (NQF)-endorsed measures of inappropriate … Both measures demonstrated strong validity and reliability through testing with patient focus groups … Development of patient safety measures to identify inappropriate diagnosis of common infections.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/analysis-adverse-events-pediatric-surgery-using-criteria-validated-adult-population
May 06, 2009 - using criteria validated from the adult population: justifying the need for pediatric-focused outcome measures … using criteria validated from the adult population: justifying the need for pediatric-focused outcome measures … The authors argue that applying adult measures to a pediatric population overestimates the incidence … September 3, 2014
Identifying opportunities for quality improvement in surgical site … quality metric for surgery in children: do they predict adverse outcomes?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49678/psn-pdf
March 01, 2013 - a need for many pediatric care environments—especially outside of
children's hospitals—to upgrade scales … (in the US) live in a non–metric-
based society, we wish to communicate with families in units of measure … describes an important and classic system error and, more importantly, provides us
with tremendous quality-improvement … the following: (i) All providers that care for children should have access to infant and pediatric scales … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.137_slideshow.ppt
November 01, 2006 - Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA)
Began in 2003 with 10 quality measures spread across 3 clinical conditions … HQA: Current Measure Set (cont.) … HQA: Current Measure Set (cont.) … HQA: Current Measure Set (cont.) … Field of quality measurement in health care is still in its infancy
Only a small number of measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patients-experiences-and-perspectives-patient-reported-outcome-measures-clinical-care
October 27, 2021 - Review
Patients' experiences and perspectives of patient-reported outcome measures … Patients’ experiences and perspectives of patient-reported outcome measures in clinical care: a systematic … Patients are frequently asked to complete patient-reported outcome measures (PROM), or standardized … questionnaires, to assess general quality of life, screen for specific conditions or risk factors, … Patients’ experiences and perspectives of patient-reported outcome measures in clinical care: a systematic
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866216/psn-pdf
July 10, 2024 - measurement initiatives are in place at the federal and state levels.5,6 Health plan quality measures … Two such
examples of measures sets that assess health plan quality and patient safety are Healthcare … Effectiveness
Data and Information (HEDIS) measures, managed by the National Committee for Quality … mqi-patient-safety
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/developing-measure-value-health-care
https://psnet.ahrq.gov … Quality Measures Fact Sheet CMS Patient Safety Indicators PSI 90 (NQF #0531) National Quality
Strategy
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/measuring-psychological-safety-and-local-learning-enable-high-reliability-organisational
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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/comparison-broselow-tape-measurements-versus-physician-estimations-pediatric-weights
November 15, 2017 - Comparison of Broselow tape measurements versus physician estimations of pediatric weights … Comparison of Broselow tape measurements versus physician estimations of pediatric weights. … Comparison of Broselow tape measurements versus physician estimations of pediatric weights. … 23, 2010
Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard algorithms to measure … Emergency Departments
Children's Hospitals
Specialty Hospitals
Health Care Providers
Quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/new-analysis-shows-hospitals-improving-performance-key-patient-safety-measures-surpassing-pre
October 23, 2024 - Report
New Analysis Shows Hospitals Improving Performance on Key Patient Safety Measures … Citation Text:
New Analysis Shows Hospitals Improving Performance On Key Patient Safety Measures Surpassing … This report analyzed a set of patient safety measures in 1,300 hospitals and found that in the first … October 2, 2024
Hospital rating organizations' quality and patient safety scores: analysis … May 17, 2023
An examination of Leapfrog safety measures and Magnet designation.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50392/psn-pdf
September 01, 2019 - Over the years,
we've created programs like endorsement, like measure selection for CMS. … to see if a measure is available that meets their needs. … RW: How does a measure get generated by you as an organization? … But we have a number of different programs that try to identify where there are critical
measure gaps … in quality.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/full-implementation-computerized-physician-order-entry-and-medication-related-quality
September 07, 2011 - 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. … increasing patient safety in the intensive care unit: increasing the implementation rates of proven safety measures