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3481. Use of Electronic Health Records | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/carecoordination/measure5.html
      June 01, 2018 - Chartbook on Care Coordination Acknowledgments Care Coordination Trends in Care Coordination Measures … Electronic Health Records References Electronic health records (EHRs) can improve the quality … Electronic health record measures include: Patients who reported that it was very important for them … When implemented effectively, CDS has been shown to improve quality and can be particularly effective … When implemented effectively, CDS has been shown to improve quality and can be particularly effective

3482. Learning From Diagnostic Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-psychological-safety-1.html
      September 01, 2023 - Despite growing awareness of diagnostic error, most healthcare systems do not track or record diagnostic quality … Without methods to identify, measure, investigate, and analyze events, healthcare organizations cannot … Successful approaches to learn from diagnostic quality and develop strategies to reduce harm from diagnostic

3483. Improving Patient Safety by Engaging Patients and Families (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/ps-research-summary-pfe.pdf
      April 30, 2025 - Measure Dx: A Resource To Identify, Analyze, and Learn From Diagnostic Safety Events. 3. … of meaningful quality improvement measures of organizational practices that make it easier for people … healthcare organizations in Chicago engage in collaborative projects to implement change initiatives and measure … multiple interventions and products, including the CONNECT instrument, a tool that enables researchers to measure … The project succeeded in developing tools to measure patient and provider ratings of the quality of

3484. Multimethod Evaluation of Physician Group Incentive Programs for PCMH Transformation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-fetters.pdf
      April 01, 2015 - Key Impacts of Transformation The effect of PCMH implementation on costs and quality was estimated based … on relationships observed for partial implementation, using cost and composite quality and preventive … care measures that were developed with administrative claims data. … Quality of Care • It was estimated that full implementation of the BCBSM PCMH model would yield a 3.5 … Incremental improvements in PCMH implementation would also yield positive effects on quality of care

3485. Appendix J. Additional Risk Factors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Appendix J. Additional Risk Factors Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Executive Summary Chapter 1. Adminis…

3486. Developing a Community-Wide Electronic Shared Medication List (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Stock_113.pdf
      June 15, 2005 - tools; measure use of the electronic tool by patients and clinicians; measure the degree to which medication … Project Evaluation The following quantitative and qualitative measures were utilized to evaluate the … Medication list discrepancy measure. … A tool was developed to measure the extent of medication discrepancies between what the patient was … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2003. 13. Mahoney E.

3487. Exhibits 29 to 31 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Exhibits 29 to 31 Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Executive Summary Chapter 1. Administration Chapter …

3488. AHRQ Summit to Address Emergency Department Boarding (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2025 - .............................................................................................. 12 Measures … • Poorer infection prevention and control measures. • Lower compliance with standards of care. … Measures, Standards, and Public Reporting Standard setting, measurement, and public reporting of measures … Equity of Emergency Care Capacity and Quality (ECCQ) Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Public … Measures, Standards, and Public Reporting Regional Health Data Systems Payment and Incentives Rural

3489. Final Progress Report: What Is Patient Safety in the Medical Home? (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/dy-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Measures: A novel method for measuring the implementation of patient safety activities in ambulatory … Measures: For the in-depth interviews and focus groups, the semi-structured discussion guides addressed … Measures: • (Paper 6): The dependent variable was patient safety culture (as assessed by the Safety … Final Report Results (AIM 1): • A method to measure the implementation of patient safety activities … The results suggest that interventions to improve ambulatory patient safety should measure, evaluate

3490. Case Example #2: The Health Center | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2019 - with a clinical and IT background, to be shared with other health centers to help with EHR design and quality-measure … measure reporting standards for State and Federal funders. … Despite providing the quality of care needed to meet measure requirements, not all data are sufficiently … measurement, helping THC's HIT workgroup measure crossmapping activity. … Comparing quality measures across payers will allow THC to ensure all data is recorded and data entry

3491. Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2022 - Measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital administrative data, the … Quality Indicators™ can be used to highlight potential quality concerns, identify areas that need further … The current AHRQ Quality Indicators modules represent various aspects of quality: Patient Safety … Inpatient Quality Indicators reflect quality of care inside hospitals, as well as across geographic … AHRQ's Quality Indicators that use hospital administrative data to assess the quality of care provided

3492. Building Self-Empowered Teams for Improving Safety in Postoperative Pain Management (pdf file)
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      April 20, 2008 - Implement and measure the effects of these interventions. … These answers were transposed onto numerical scales and then converted to relative hazard scores by … Assess/measure baseline safety state with SEMI-P - 3. … A variety of effectiveness measures will likely be needed, ranging from simple rates of use of the interventions … For example, safety climate/attitude surveys mig ht 11 be used to attempt to measure changes

3493. Primary Care-Integrated Long COVID Care to Improve Outcomes for Minoritized Adults in New York City (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/coronavirus/long-covid-care-network/mt-sinai-grantee-profile.pdf
      February 01, 2024 - through the Mount Sinai AHRQ Long COVID Care Network initiative at each patient visit will be used to measure … This extension aims to improve access to high-quality Long COVID care in underserved communities. … and staff interviews, focus groups, random chart reviews, and observations of clinic operations to measure … impact of the project on patients’ access to and satisfaction with care and healthcare utilization, quality … Clinician surveys, interviews, and focus groups will be used to measure the effectiveness of these educational

3494. Evidence Reports and Technical Reviews | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2018 - Evidence reports and technical reviews about long-term care Technical Review No. 9: Closing the Quality … Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Volume 7—Care Coordination White Paper … : A Primer for Systematic Reviewers on the Measurement of Functional Status and Health-Related Quality … of Outcomes for People With Disabilities Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science … Improvement Strategy Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science Series USPSTF

3495. Final Topic Refinement Document: Home Mechanical Ventilators (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/home-mechanical-ventilators-refinement.pdf
      October 01, 2017 - Refinement Document Home Mechanical Ventilators ID: PULT0717 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … unit (ICU), need for intubation, outpatient visits, emergency room visits, disease exacerbations, quality … of life (QoL), activities of daily living (ADL), dyspnea, sleep quality, exercise tolerance, and adverse … initiation and continuation of treatment Equipment and usage Device type Parameters of device usage Measures … of life (QoL) • Activities of daily living (ADL) • Dyspnea • Sleep quality • Exercise tolerance

3496. Improving the Value of Patient Safety Reporting Systems (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Pronovost_95.pdf
      June 12, 2008 - incident reporting was enacted in 2005.4 Under the auspices of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … developing tools to use information in PSRS to prioritize patient safety efforts, and developing 7 measures … Acknowledgments Grant support was provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (grant … Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005. … How can clinicians measure safety and quality in acute care? Lancet 2004; 363: 1061-1067. 18.

3497. Case Scenarios: Handling Challenging Communications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2022 - The anesthesiologist suspects that Alphonse has an air embolus, and appropriate resuscitative measures

3498. Early-Mobility-Tool (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/early-mobility-tool.docx
      January 01, 2017 - Patient on comfort/palliative care measures 3. … recommend the RASS and SAS as the most valid and reliable sedation assessment tools for measuring the quality … For example, enter 2 for “Patient on comfort/palliative care measures.” … Patient on comfort/palliative care measures 3.

3499. National Evaluation Team | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2021 - Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care  is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … regional cooperatives composed of public and private health partnerships that provide a variety of quality … The initiative also includes an independent national evaluation designed to determine if and how quality … Specific Aims Engage EvidenceNOW grantees in the overall evaluation initiative by harmonizing measures … Why were practices able to make changes in their quality and capacity, or why not?

3500. Implementing a Daily Team Huddle—AMA CME Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2025 - strategies to incorporate daily huddles into practice workflows, to devise daily huddle structure, and to measure … toolkit are in accordance with Key Driver 4: Create and support high functioning teams to deliver high-quality