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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2023-child-hcahps-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2023 - Rockville, MD: Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2023. … Top Box and Proportional Score Crosswalk to Child HCAHPS Response Scales C-1
Table C-2. … measure, and the single-item measures. … The Child
HCAHPS Survey uses several different response scales. … In the Child HCAHPS Survey, there are composite measures that have items on two different response scales
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/access-outpatient-speciality.html
August 01, 2021 - Access to Outpatient Specialty Care for Children
Measure Domain: Availability of Services … Measure Sub-Domain: Availability of Specialty Services for Children
PQMP COE: Q-METRIC
Associated … Products:
Fact Sheet: None
Full Report (PDF, 215 KB)
Measure Technical Specifications and Other … Place of Service Codes (PDF, 30 KB)
Section 2, Detailed Measure Specifications (PDF, 105 KB)
Section … Impact of Alternate Data Source on Measure Results (PDF, 26 KB)
Section 6, Table 10.
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/post-partum-followup.html
August 01, 2021 - Post-Partum Follow-Up and Care Coordination
Measure Domain: Perinatal Care
Measure Sub-Domain … Associated NQF # and Name: None
Products:
Fact Sheet (PDF, 335 KB)
Full Report (PDF, 169 KB)
Measure … Technical Specifications and Other Supporting Documents:
Measure Technical Specifications (PDF, 81
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/depression/chipra-247-section-2.pdf
June 02, 2025 - These Measures were developed and are owned by the National Committee for Quality Assurance
(NCQA). … & Medicaid Services (CMS) under the CHIPRA Pediatric Quality Measures
Program Centers of Excellence … that uses or reports
performance measures, and NCQA has no liability to anyone who relies on such measures … NCQA
holds a copyright in these Measures and can rescind or alter these Measures at any time. … Users of the
Measures shall not have the right to alter, enhance or otherwise modify the Measures.
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/follow-up-referral.html
August 01, 2021 - Follow-up Referral After Positive Developmental Screen
Measure Domain: Child Clinical Preventive … Services
Measure Sub-Domain: Developmental Screening Follow-up
PQMP COE: PMCOE
Associated NQF … # and Name: None
Products:
Fact Sheet (PDF, 399 KB)
Full Report (PDF, 250 KB)
Measure Technical … Specifications and Other Supporting Documents:
Measure Technical Specifications (PDF, 181 KB)
Materials
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www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/backgroundrpt/discuss.html
April 01, 2017 - APCDs are prone to several data quality concerns. … Measure development gaps. … Often, however, for the same population, few measures are available for cost, quality, and utilization … . 8 In particular, our review showed that quality measures were lacking. … Again, data limitations may hamper the development of quality measures that assess outcomes using only
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/nursing-home/nursing-home-survey-items-composite-english.pdf
September 01, 2024 - • In this document, the items in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Nursing
Home … Last updated: September 2024
https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety … Reliability of this composite measure—Cronbach’s alpha (4 items) = .81
Single-item measures:
Overall … Measures
1. … Organizational Learning
Single-item measures:
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/clinical-community-relationships-measures-atlas/ccrm-atlas-ex41.html
March 01, 2013 - Clinical-Community Relationships Measures (CCRM) Atlas
Exhibit 4-1. … Why Was the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures Atlas Developed?
2. … What Are the Existing Measures of Clinical-Community Relationships?
References
Appendix A. … National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ Data Sources
Appendix C. … The data sources are based on the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ ( AHRQ, 2011 ) full listing
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/abstract-dowd.html
December 01, 2017 - Physician Quality Reporting and Patient Outcomes in Medicare
Abstract
Principal Investigator … Public Health, University of Minnesota
Purpose
This study examined the impact of the Physician Quality … Reporting System (PQRS) on the quality and cost of care for Medicare patients. … to report data on the quality and outcomes of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries. … Using a composite measure of hemoglobin A1c, low-density lipoprotein, and blood pressure for a sample
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-pennsylvania-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - center for reporting
selected measures from the Core Set of Children’s Health Care
Quality Measures … Most
health systems were unable to automate quality measure
Spotlight on Pennsylvania
January 2018 … on quality measures. … to put quality measures to work? … We used survey weights to calculate
univariate statistics.
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/supln-slides.html
January 01, 2016 - (24 measures in 2015)
Annual updates to measures based on review and public comment
Measure areas … Slide 26
Measure-Focused Demonstration Activities
Calculate measures. … Use measure to drive QI changes.
Improve quality of care. … They are to calculate measures, use measures to drive QI changes, and improve quality of care. … Slide 35
States' Quality Measure and Reporting Strategies
Calculate measures
↓
Use measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/prioritization-report_0.pdf
January 01, 2020 - due to the limited number of quality measures. … inventory of evidence-based
measures and measure sets. … measures
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
Episode measures 141 measures
Cost measures for … NCQA Relative Resource Use Measures 5 measures
Quality Alliance Steering Committee 22 measures
APCD … , type of measure (cost, quality, or
utilization), risk adjustment, and Web site or reference (if measure
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/scores/index.html
March 01, 2016 - Generating Health Care Quality Scores That Show Differences
The critical link between collecting … The nature of the score is often inherent in the measure (e.g., an overall rating on a 1-10 scale). … This section discusses the following topics:
Scoring Different Kinds of Measures
Making Adjustments … to Scores
Combining Measures Into Composites or Summary Scores
Framing Scores as Positive or Negative … Why Good Presentation Matters
Generating Scores that Show Differences in Performance
Describing Measures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/helpful-resources/analysis/instructions-for-analyzing-data-50.pdf
June 01, 2025 - Composite measures combine CAHPS survey questions that measure the same dimensions of patients’
experiences … this will equal 1; for composite
measures this will equal the number of items in the composite measure … Item Weighting – Algorithm for Composite Measures
The CAHPS Analysis Program uses item weights to … will receive different
composite measure scores if the composite measures are calculated with different … For composite measures, the several
adjusted entity means are combined with equal item weights (one
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/scd-confirmatory-testing.html
August 01, 2021 - Timeliness of confirmatory testing for sickle cell disease
Measure Domain: Management of Chronic … Conditions
Measure Sub-Domain: Sickle Cell Treatment
PQMP COE: Q-METRIC
Associated NQF # and … Name: None
Products:
Fact Sheet (PDF, 323 KB)
Full Report (PDF, 125 KB)
Measure Technical … SCD Measure 1: Specifications (PDF, 134 KB)
Section 5. Table 3 (PDF, 87 KB)
Section 7.
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/follow-up-family.html
August 01, 2021 - Follow-up With Patient Family After Developmental Screening
Measure Domain: Child Clinical Preventive … Services
Measure Sub-Domain: Developmental Screening Follow-up
PQMP COE: PMCOE
Associated NQF … # and Name: None
Products:
Fact Sheet (PDF, 397 KB)
Full Report (PDF, 266 KB)
Measure Technical … Specifications and Other Supporting Documents:
Measure Technical Specifications (PDF, 174 KB)
Materials
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2021qdr-intro-methods.pdf
December 01, 2021 - These measures have not been approved by the IWG for inclusion in the
core measure set and core measure … • Types of Quality Measures. … Additions have been made to the measure set as new domains of quality, data, and
measures have … indicated that a measure did not represent high-quality care. … To analyze all measures across the measure set in the same way for assessing disparities, some
measures
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/timely-blood-culture.html
August 01, 2021 - Timely blood culture for children with sepsis syndrome
Measure Domain: Management of Acute Conditions … Measure Sub-Domain: Pediatric Sepsis Syndrome
PQMP COE: Q-METRIC
Associated NQF # and Name: … None
Products:
Full Report (PDF, 281 KB)
Measure Technical Specifications and Other Supporting
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/metabolic-monitoring-antipsychotics.html
August 01, 2021 - Metabolic Monitoring for Children and Adolescents on Antipsychotics
Measure Domain: Management … of Chronic Conditions
Measure Sub-Domain: Use of Antipsychotics
Subcategory: Safe and judicious … Adolescents on Antipsychotics
Products:
Fact Sheet (PDF, 315 KB)
Full Report (PDF, 125.2 KB)
Measure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/american-indian/measures-american-indian-809.pdf
December 11, 2017 - American Indian Survey Measures ...................... 2
Appendix: Survey Items Organized by Measure … • Rating measures are based on items that use a scale of 0 to 10 to measure
respondents’ assessments … When reporting single-item measures, it is
important to indicate that the measure reflects performance … The appendix shows which survey questions are included in each measure. … Survey results are typically reported along with other measures of
quality and safety.