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8621. Introducing the CAHPS Outpatient Mental Health Survey Webcast - AHRQ (pdf file)
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      June 02, 2025 - Social Science Analyst, Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety, AHRQ Agency for Healthcare … Research and Quality (AHRQ) AHRQ is: ► A research and science-based agency ► Lead Federal agency … : Improving the safety and quality of the U.S. healthcare system AHRQ is not: A regulatory agency … • Health Plans • Dental Plans • Home and Community- Based Services 8 Uses for CAHPS Surveys Quality … Value-based purchasing Health service research 9 AHRQ’S CAHPS PROGRAM Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

8622. Behavioral Counseling in Primary Care to Promote a Healthy Diet in Adults: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2010 - (eg, weight, proportion of body fat) with no direct measure of dietary behavior. … , based on randomized design, high retention rates, and use of appropriate outcome measures. … of fat intake, including grams of saturated or total fat consumed or study-specific outcome scales.10 … Second, identifying the appropriate measure of dietary change is difficult. … Our main outcome measure, self-reported change in dietary behavior, relies on individual self-report,

8623. Exhibit 13. Accuracy of algorithm at each participating hospital | 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 13. Accuracy of algorithm at each participating hospital Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Executive…

8624. Puh-Factraining-Guide (doc file)
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      June 02, 2025 - progress based on accomplishing Implementation Steps; and Tracking impact with process and outcome measures … This includes helping to identify measures the change team can use to monitor its own progress. … Commitment to provide high-quality data elements to populate reports. … The CMS quality measures, reported on Nursing Home Compare, may also be used to monitor outcome trends … , but these measures are reported less frequently.

8625. Foundational Terminology for Diagnosis Relating to Suboptimal Processes and Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2025 - Definitions of Diagnosis Types of Evidence Used To Assess Diagnosis Conceptual Paradigms of Diagnostic Quality … outcome bias and is thus not entirely objective. 29 In addition, diagnostic errors are difficult to measure … The detection of missed opportunities is best suited to the quality paradigm since it is typically proactive … to assess what is desired and good.6 The following descriptors characterize attributes of diagnostic quality … Equitable  As applied to diagnostic processes, providing care that does not vary in quality because of

8626. Evidence Behind Pain, Agitation, and Delirium: Assessments and Sedation Management: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2017 - Clinical Outcomes Trogrlić et al. 2015 Meta-analysis involved 21 studies, all including process measures … Slide 10: ABCDEF Implementation Success: Meta-Analysis 7 A variety of programs improved process measures … Slide 18: Johns Hopkins Medicine Quality Improvement (QI) Project 9 Reduced delirium via fewer benzodiazepines … Early physical medicine and rehabilitation for patients with acute respiratory failure: a quality improvement … Early physical medicine and rehabilitation for patients with acute respiratory failure: a quality improvement

8627. Exhibit 17. Sensitivity and positive predictive values of algorithms alone | 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 17. Sensitivity and positive predictive values of algorithms alone Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection …

8628. Appendix G. Pairwise Correlation of Variables with SSI and with Each Other | 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 G. Pairwise Correlation of Variables with SSI and with Each Other Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection …

8629. Making infection prevention and control everyone's business? Hospital staff views on patient involvement. | PSNet
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      April 29, 2015 - A qualitative study of a large-scale exercise in seeking to measure for improvement, not blame. … August 1, 2018 Changes in weekend and weekday care quality of emergency medical admissions … View More See More About The Topic Hospitals Health Care Providers Quality

8630. Review of alternatives to root cause analysis: developing a robust system for incident report analysis. | PSNet
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      November 14, 2018 - September 19, 2016 Use of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a measure in patient … Related Resources Evidence review conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … March 15, 2017 Economic evaluation of quality improvement interventions for bloodstream

8631. Anesthesia safety: model or myth? A review of the published literature and analysis of current original data. | PSNet
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      July 13, 2010 - The Committee on Quality of Health Care in America for IOM anointed the area of anesthesia as a model … that standardization of data collection methods and analysis is needed to effectively identify and measure … July 13, 2010 Introduction to the STS National Database Series: outcomes analysis, quality

8632. Sample Questions & Answers | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - By selecting EHR, outpatient/ambulatory and impact on healthcare effectiveness and quality we get the … One way to measure improvements in the quality of care is to look for increased adherence to standardized

8633. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2022 - HMS is one of 20+ Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQIs) funded and in partnership with Blue Cross … HMS determined the specific patient outcome measures, which included CLABSI, DVT, and catheter occlusion … data collection training Access to electronic health records Patient inclusion criteria Outcome measures … standardized local data Access to data from other participating (and non-participating) sites Outcome measures … Accessed November 17, 2021. https://mi-hms.org/quality- initiatives/midline-use-initiative 13.

8634. If safety is your yardstick, measuring culture from the top down must be a priority. | PSNet
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      April 29, 2018 - Perspective What Can the Rest of the Health Care System Learn from the VA's Quality … More See More About The Topic Hospitals Facility and Group Administrators Quality

8635. Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2014 - The nine Patient Safety and Quality Issues items use a frequency scale ranging from "Not in the past … for positively and negatively worded items: For positively worded items with 5-point response scales … For Patient Safety Quality Issues items, these are not in the past 12 months, once or twice in the past … Composite-Level Percent Positive Response The survey's 51 items measure 10 areas or composites of patient … safety culture, information exchange with other settings, and patient safety and quality issues.

8636. Research Findings #24: Utilization and Expenditures for Children with Special Health Care Needs
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      January 01, 2006 - Because AHRQ was mandated to measure health care quality for a national quality report starting in 2003 … , a number of enhancements to measure health care quality were added to MEPS, including a parent-administered … In addition to the CSHCN screener, the PAQ contained health care quality measures of children that were … In all, there were 6,581 children with positive SQPQW00F weights, and they produced an estimate of 72,420,907 … The nonsampling errors, such as response errors, are difficult to measure, but every effort is made to

8637. Crohns-Disease Executive (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2014 - Surgeries • Reduction of steroids • Fistula response (complete or partial fistula closure or other measure … Hospitalizations • Surgeries • Reduction of steroids • Fistula response (fistula recurrence or other measure … Quality Assessment We used study quality assessment to help us understand differences in results between … The evidence for the last reported measure is provided for disease activity after 16 weeks, mucosal … A new measure of health status for clinical trials in inflammatory bowel disease.

8638. Screening for Visual Impairment in Children Younger than Age 5 Years: An Update of the Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials, 1999–2003 (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2004 - Quality Rating Criteria developed by the USPSTF were used to rate study quality (Appendix). … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2004. … LogMAR than 2 mos of lines amblyopia therapy in the past 2 yrs; aged 7 yrs or older; not able to measure … Screening for Visual Impairment in Children Younger than Age 5 Years Intention-to- Measures Equal … Rating Yes Yes Yes Yes Fair Yes Yes Yes Yes Fair Yes Yes Yes Yes Good Primary visual acuity outcome measure

8639. 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

8640. 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.