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8321. Antibiotics for URI/Sinusitis—A Simple Decision Gone Bad | PSNet
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      January 01, 2014 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Review the evidence on the effectiveness of quality improvement efforts to reduce inappropriate antibiotic … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies. Technical Review 9. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2006.

8322. Pccds-Ln-Opioid-Action-Plan-2019 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2019 - o Systematically measure success resulting from interventions and related strategies. 5.6.4 Guidance … IPRO is the CMS-designated Quality Improvement Organization for New York State. … IPRO is one of the 14 CMS-supported Quality Improvement Networks-Quality Improvement Organizations … metrics should be developed, applied, and reported to track and enhance progress toward the success measures … HRSA Health Information Technology, Evaluation and Quality Center: JSI; 2016; Available at: https

8323. Final Report, Year 3: CDS Connect (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2019 - HL7 CQL, adopted by CMS for expressing electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), is used to express … evidence-based source for other initiatives (e.g., eCQMs, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set measures … clinician about ways to reduce their risk, including starting a statin medication as a preventive measure … The approach also scales better as the number of artifacts hosted by the Repository 46 increases … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

8324. Archived: Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2) in Adults: Screening, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      February 04, 2003 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … (Executive Director, National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, Boston, MA); Mark S. … Impact of diabetes screening on quality of life. Diabetes Care . 2002;25(6):1022–6. 53. … Valuing quality of life and improvements in glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes.

8325. Pf-Engagement-Facnotes (doc file)
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      May 01, 2017 - It will then discuss how to understand and measure engagement in your facility. … It is about improving quality and safety by communicating and partnering more effectively. · Handing … Engagement helps ASC facilities improve overall quality of care, patient safety, and patient outcomes … Slide 8 SAY: Patients and their family members have specific expectations about the quality and … To receive high-quality, safe care.

8326. The Other Side | PSNet
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      May 01, 2007 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. [ full report available ] 2. … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

8327. Archived: Depression: Screening 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      May 07, 2002 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … proportion of depressed patients who received treatment showed mixed results: in four fair-to-good quality … (Executive Director, National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, Boston, MA); * Mark S. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, May 2002. 2.

8328. Nudge Unit Supports Physician, Patient Behavioral Changes Towards Medical Decisions that Improve Care Value and Quality of Care | PSNet
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      July 23, 2024 - Supports Physician, Patient Behavioral Changes Towards Medical Decisions that Improve Care Value and Quality … This approach can be applied to a wide variety of quality improvement projects, including those with … Department of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or of the submitter … Annual Perspective Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality … July 29, 2020 View More See More About The Topic Overtreatment Quality

8329. Screening for Ovarian Cancer - Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2004 - Preventive Services Task Force, c/o Program Director, USPSTF, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2004. … Evidence that [the service] is effective is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting and the balance … The USPSTF grades the quality of the overall evidence for a service on a 3-point scale (good, fair, poor … to determine effects on health outcomes, but the strength of the evidence is limited by the number, quality

8330. Low-Dose Aspiring for the Prevention of Morbidity and Mortality from Preeclampsia: A Systematic Evidence Review fro the USPSTF (pdf file)
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      May 27, 2014 - English- language studies of fair or good quality were included. … We also excluded studies that we rated as poor-quality on the basis of the USPSTF quality rating standards … All RCTs reported valid outcome measures, and all but 1 study reported using identical placebo formulations … [PMID: 8094168] 1–3 Study quality Bakhti A, Vaiman D. … Maternal obstetric outcome measures in a randomised controlled study of labetalol in the treatment of

8331. 75Ftpgw4Rz-3Tdmqpstvdg (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2012 - Evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance of benefits and harms cannot be … Effectiveness of Preventive Measures The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on the use of in- depth multifactorial … The largest of the studies on mul- tifactorial clinical assessment was a fair-quality randomized trial … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; December 2010. 2. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 1996. 10.

8332. Counseling and Behavioral Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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      September 21, 2021 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Gestational weight–related outcomes; maternal and infant morbidity and mortality … was generally not observed, sensitivity analysis was not conducted using the difference in follow-up weights … If necessary, mean weight change was calculated based on reported baseline and follow-up weights; when … not reported, the correlation between baseline and follow-up weights was assumed to be the average … by study quality.

8333. Mindfulness: Engaging Frontline Providers in Antimicrobial Stewardship (June 10, 2014) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs in the Division of Healthcare Quality … stop them, and if it was and they had culture results, to tailor the antibiotics, and we decided to measure … that affects how our doctors get paid, and every year we have the ability to focus on a particular quality … A lot of what is being asked with respect to documentation, quality, fall risk, urinary catheter appropriateness … have infectious disease doctors in their hospitals and they work with chief medical officers, chief quality

8334. CAHPS Program: Improving Response Rates and Representativeness - The CAHPS Hospital, CAHPS Hospice, and MA/PDP CAHPS Surveys: Lessons Learned from Recent Mode Experiments (pdf file)
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      September 30, 2021 - ensure that patient experiences surveys: ► Fully capture the experiences of all patients ► Adequately measure … health equity and equity-targeted quality improvement efforts • Because these groups tend to have

8335. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2) in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      June 15, 2008 - We used good-quality systematic reviews to assess the adverse effects of treatment. … Impact of diabetes screening on quality of life. Diabetes Care 2002;25:1022-6. … population and general Swedish population (where there is a high level of screening for T2DM) in most measures … One poor-quality study showed NSD. KQ2: diabetes treatment 8 studies. … It is difficult to compare results across studies because of heterogeneous outcome measures and comparison

8336. Module 15: Preparing and Presenting Performance Data (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2015 - Preparing and Presenting Performance Data Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … McNellis, M.P.H., P.A., Agency for Health Research and Quality Janice L. … For a set of potential benchmarks, see the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Quality … Performance Metric Calculator for Diabetes Diabetes HEDIS Measure Outcomes HEDIS Measure Audit … Performance Metric Calculator for Diabetes Diabetes HEDIS Measure Outcomes

8337. THE HCUP NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SAMPLE (NEDS), 2015
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      January 01, 2015 - Missing Values Missing data values can compromise the quality of estimates. … Variance Calculations It may be important for researchers to calculate a measure of precision for … of an appropriate method for calculating variances for nationwide estimates depends on the type of measure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

8338. R18Hs017216-Johnson-Final-Report-2011 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2011 - Project Officer: Erin Grace This project was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … medical centers, where medication dosing takes into account the needs of home caregivers who must measure … Pharmacies are able to provide devices specifically designed to measure and administer these small doses

8339. Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs and Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors for Primary Prevention of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2007 - design, study population, and medication exposure and subsequently subcategorized studies based on measures … We chose relative risk as the effect measure. … Small studies of poor quality did not demon- strate a consistent duration effect (27, 31). … Dubé (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/U.S. Preventive Services Task Force). … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2006. 12.

8340. Chapter-7 - Harm Due to Anticoagulants (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2020 - pharmacy visits for anticoagulation management, elapsed time to the third available clinic appointment (a measure … implementation. 7.2.3.1 Clinical Outcomes The clinical outcomes examined in the studies included measures … Thromboplastin Time Two studies evaluated the effect of the nomograms on the time to aPTT stabilization, a measure … Quality indicators for continuity and coordination of care in vulnerable elders. … Some evidence suggests that patient self-testing/self-management may improve quality of life.