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8441. Round-Trip Service | PSNet
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      April 26, 2023 - 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 … He or she has no first-hand information about the procedure, such as the quality of the tissue closed … For more complex procedures such as weight loss surgery, measures such as lap band adjustment are commensurately … Entities accrediting offshore facilities should consider the establishment of measures to ensure continuity

8442. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2017 - Discuss how to improve the quantity and quality of end-of-life communication and decision making. … that she was at very high risk for becoming seriously ill and requiring aggressive life-sustaining measures … want full resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, or any other aggressive artificial life-prolonging measures … Finally, at a health care system level, quality indicators for end-of- life communication and decision … Implementation of system-wide quality indicators and institutional audits may enable identification of

8443. Add-on Case and the Missing Checklist | PSNet
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      September 01, 2012 - 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 … After extensive discussions with the family, the decision was made to focus on comfort measures only. … Quality indicators for EGD. Gastrointest Endosc. 2015;81:17-30. [go to PubMed] 9. … Comparative evaluation of different medication safety measures for the emergency department: physicians

8444. S29 (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2007 - Measures: Qualitative analysis of interview transcripts to identify barriers, factors influencing leaders … Supported by a supplement from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to the Health Maintenance … Some subjects noted that a CRT might be viewed as a quality assurance effort rather than research. … Outcome measures Concern that the outcome measures be meaningful, relevant, appropriate, and sufficient … Choose appropriate, sound, relevant outcome measures.

8445. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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      January 01, 2017 - This includes VAE rates and the number of patients that develop a VAE, performance on process measures … , and objective outcome measures. … Physician champions should evaluate the results of the staff safety survey with their quality improvement … improve teamwork and communication, physician champions can encourage their colleagues to participate in quality

8446. Final Progress Report: Implementation of a Medication Reconciliation Toolkit to Improve Patient Safety (MARQUIS2) (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - This approach measures both sudden improvement with implementation of the intervention as a whole (change … the implementation period among patients who did not receive any patient-level interventions as a measure … receive any patient-level interventions in the first, middle, and last 6 months of the study as a measure … medication discrepancies among the hundreds of hospitals it works with, providing much- needed data to measure … Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

8447. Management of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2025 - established methodologies of systematic reviews as outlined in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Self-report measures of suicidal thoughts and behaviors are not only limited by measurement error, but … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US). AHRQ Methods for Effective Health Care. … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2008. 14. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2025.

8448. Disposition of Comments for CER 151 Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage (pdf file)
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      April 28, 2015 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2015. … Showing an increase in the outcome measure (greater LOS and ICU admission) in 2 studies and no difference … Peer reviewer #1 Methods Are the definitions or diagnostic criteria for the outcome measures appropriate … TEP Reviewer #4 Methods Inclusion and exclusion criteria and outcome measures seem appropriate to me … Outcome measures are appropriate.

8449. Statistical Brief #159
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      July 01, 2013 - Procedure Classes for ICD-9-CM Surgery Flags for ICD-9-CM HCUP Supplemental Files NIS-Trend Weights … State Inpatient Databases (SID) disparities analysis file Race and ethnicity measures can be problematic … Prevention Quality Indicators The Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs; version 4.1), a component of … the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), are a set of measures that can be used with hospital inpatient discharge … The PDIs contain measures of potentially preventable hospitalizations for children for asthma, gastroenteritis

8450. Meeting Minutes, July 2019 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2019 - Yu noted the proposed cuts to the budget for quality indicators. … AHRQ could support quality improvement here. Jerry L. … How do we measure teamwork, strategies of communication, and feedback loops? These are complex. … tool (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System), which is designed to incorporate new measures … AHRQ could study partnerships and how they affect the quality of care.

8451. How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States working to improve adolescent health care? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2013 - measures to improve child health care. … Applying health information technology (IT) for quality improvement. … Assessing the utility of other innovative approaches to enhance quality. … For example, coaches help SBHCs pull medical charts and calculate quality measures, analyze medical records … ), 21 and submitting progress reports and small-denominator quality measure data.

8452. Exhibit 18. Counts of identified organisms by procedure | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Exhibit 18. Counts of identified organisms by procedure Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Executive Summary …

8453. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 03, 2017 - patient-safety-climate-us-hospitals-variation-management-level https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/safety-and-quality-long-term-care

8454. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      December 22, 2020 - This includes working to enhance the use of EHRs as well as defining appropriate measures and measurement … role, she leads research projects focused on using informatics approaches to improve the safety and quality … Additionally, he serves as the Director of the Texas Center for Oral Healthcare Quality and Safety. … Repository and research projects focused on using informatics approaches to improve the safety and quality … Informatics Professor for Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences Director, Texas Center for Oral Healthcare Quality

8455. Rethinking Root Cause Analysis | PSNet
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      August 21, 2016 - 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 … RCA process (which often involves significant time and resources), most organizations are unable to measure … Investigations of questionable quality Teams may not have in-depth training in accident investigation … Diagramming, Cause and Effect Diagramming, Five Rules of Causation, Action Hierarchy, Process/Outcome Measures

8456. Diabetes and Depression Text Messaging Intervention (DIAMANTE)- Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2022 - Engagement measures In addition to PA and the measures mentioned above, we also examined engagement … as a measure of PA. … relevant measure because of: (1) its relative ease to measure, and (2) the clinical importance … National healthcare quality disparities report, 2016. 20. … Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in A Crossing the quality chasm: a new health

8457. Chapter 1. Administration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - contact in facilitating and coordinating communications with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

8458. Guide to Sustaining a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2017 - /modules.html https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc … Use of data to measure performance and drive improvement 6. … /professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/improve … Consider which measures you want to focus on as part of the sustainability plan by assessing what will … /quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/sustainability/assessment-tool.html

8459. Cardio-HIT Phase II - Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2009 - for patient management and quality improvement5,6 Performance measure definitions and specifications … Electronic medical records for patients in the exception, apparent quality failure and measure met samples … The rate for each quality measure was lower than the rate reported for similar measures used in the … measure reporting and had no financial incentives for quality reporting. … Physicians are more likely to accept the quality measure results as valid if they can account for exceptions

8460. 2012 04 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2012 - These measures are also endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF) for public reporting and quality … Reference National Quality Forum, Quality Positioning System, Measure Title Display Information accessed … Reference National Quality Forum, Quality Positioning System, Measure Title Display Information accessed … Reference National Quality Forum, Quality Positioning System, Measure Title Display Information accessed … READMISSION MEASURES Measure 1.