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8701. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/atypical-antipsychotics-off-label-update_disposition-comments.pdf
      September 01, 2011 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. September 2011. … its contents, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Inclusion and exclusion criteria, outcome measures, and statistical methods are clear. … unitless "effect sizes", and then back-converting the pooled effect size into a clinically meaningful measure … 12 Source of funding -- I noted in the methods section that source of funding was an element of quality

8702. Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/mmm-draft-protocol-amendment.pdf
      February 02, 2022 - maternal mortality and morbidity, pregnancy, prenatal care, postpartum care, health disparities, and measures … We will assess similarity within/across population, exposure, outcome measure(s) and, if appropriate … We will assess statistical heterogeneity with Cochran’s Q test and measure magnitude with I2 statistic … Intermediate outcomes, such as blood pressure, lab values, or psychometric scales that are not intended … Stress outcomes are included if they are operationalized as a global measure of stress.

8703. Aviation Safety Methods: Quickly Adopted but Questions Remain | PSNet
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      January 01, 2006 - How do we measure it? And what, exactly, should we be telling providers to do? … interventions such as executive walk rounds.( 16 ) It remains to be seen if such surveys predict other measures … Another limitation is that surveys only measure attitudes—one small component of an organization's culture … They cannot measure behavioral norms, values, or competencies. … Accidental deaths, saved lives, and improved quality.

8704. Final Progress Report: Promoting Safe Care Transitions: Simulation-Based Mastery Learning to Improve Communication in Times of Diagnostic Uncertainty (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/rising-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AGENCY SUPPORT: "This project was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Measures: Outcome measures were developed to report across three of the four domains from Kirkpatrick … include participants’ reaction to the educational curriculum and intervention assessed on 5-point Likert scales … Association with count measures was evaluated using Poisson regression.

8705. Evaluation of consistency in dosing directions and measuring devices for pediatric nonprescription liquid medications. | PSNet
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8706. Final Research Plan: Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      March 29, 2022 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … smallest value of benefit to patients) for symptoms and functioning on the most common instruments used to measure … of life measured using validated scales or instruments Functioning (using validated scales or instruments … Human Development Index Publication language English Any language other than English Quality … rating Fair- or good-quality studies Poor-quality studies * We will summarize the effect

8707. Final Research Plan: Depression and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/screening-depression-suicide-risk-children-adolescents
      August 13, 2020 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … smallest value of benefit to patients) for symptoms and functioning on the most common instruments used to measure … of life measured using validated scales or instruments Functioning (using validated scales or instruments … Human Development Index Publication language English Any language other than English Quality … rating Fair- or good-quality studies Poor-quality studies * We will summarize the effect

8708. Disposition of Comments for Treatment Strategies for Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/peripheral-artery-disease-treatment_disposition-comments.pdf
      May 29, 2013 - This would be consistent with the definitions of outcomes measures. … Page 3: Consider placing Cardiovascular Events section first under Other Measures for PAD to indicate … The mortality results were not reported by treatment group and no walking distance measures were reported … Yes Are the definitions or diagnostic criteria for the outcome measures appropriate? Yes. … Outcome measures are appropriate and described adequately.

8709. HCUP Statistical Brief #99: Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations for Acute and Chronic Conditions, 2008 (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2010 - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)’s Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) were used … AHRQ Quality Indicators. July 2004. … Prevention Quality Indicators The Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) are part of a set of AHRQ Quality … The PQIs are a set of measures that can be used with hospital inpatient discharge data to identify quality … PDIs), which include the hospital admission rate measures for pediatric asthma and pediatric gastroenteritis

8710. Medication-Therapy-Management Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - Intermediate outcomes, including biometric and laboratory measures, drug therapy problems identified … of life as measured by generally accepted generic health-related quality-of-life measures (e.g., short-form … questionnaires, EuroQOL) or disease- specific measures  Activities of daily living as measured by … generally accepted standardized measures of basic and/or instrumental activities of daily living (e.g … • Studies that only measure outcomes after one episode of MTM care Publication language English

8711. A Risk Based Approach to Improving Management of Chronic Kidney Disease - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/risk-based-approach-improving-management-chronic-kidney-disease/annual-summary/2012
      January 01, 2012 - Women's Hospital Funding Mechanism RFA: HS08-270: Utilizing Health IT to Improve Health Care Quality … Assessment of the appropriate documented problem list and encounter codes is being used to measure PCP … (Achieved) Assess whether quality of care for Stage 3 chronic kidney disease can be substantially improved … The patients in the mailing program received an initial baseline survey to assess the quality of the … Preliminary Impact and Findings: In the first phase of research, the project team analyzed the predictors of quality

8712. Archived: Decision Analysis: Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Colorectal Cancer: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/decision-analysis-for-aspirin/aspirin-to-prevent-cardiovascular-disease-and-cancer-april-2016
      April 11, 2016 - Outcome Measures: Primary outcomes are length and quality of life measured in net life-years and quality-adjusted … The next most sensitive parameter to both measures is the RR for hemorrhagic stroke (cases 13 and 14) … Life-years are an important measure because they incorporate differences in the expected length of life … Quality-adjusted life-years are an important measure because they incorporate both expected length- and … Quality-of-life weights for the US population: self-reported health status and priority health conditions

8713. Final Progress Report: Malpractice Insurers’ Medical Error Surveillance and Prevention Study (MIMESPS) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/studdert-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - report, moreover, linked the principal underlying causes of medical error— most notably, failures to measure … Safety measures. Best's Review. 2000;101(4):37. 25. Editorial. … A measure of malpractice: medical injury, malpractice litigation, and patient compensation. … Beyond dead reckoning: Measures of medical injury burden, malpractice litigation, and alternative compensation … Accidental deaths, saved lives, and improved quality.

8714. Tough Call: Addressing Errors From Previous Providers | PSNet
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      July 17, 2024 - 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 … Hickson, MD Senior Vice President for Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention Assistant Vice Chancellor … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Speaking up' about patient safety concerns and unprofessional behaviour among residents: validation of two scales

8715. Archived: Dementia in Older Adults: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/dementia-older-adults-screening-1996
      January 01, 1996 - 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 … to nausea, vomiting, or elevated liver enzymes. 53-56 Dihydroergotoxine (hydergine) improved some measures … 62 Identifying patients with early cognitive problems allows patients and their families to take measures … The Clock test: a sensitive measure to differentiate normal elderly from those with Alzheimer's disease

8716. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 27, 2023 - Patient Safety/Quality Improvement Primer. July 27, 2023 Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2018-2023. … wrong-site-surgery-otolaryngology-head-and-neck-surgery https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-and-quality-improvement

8717. Screening for Dementia in Primary Care: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2003 - In most clinical research on Alzheimer’s disease, function is measured by 1 or both of 2 scales: the … Both the ADAS-Cog and the CIBIC scales are stable and sensitive to clinical change over time.66 The … The evidence is mixed, however, about the effects of cholinesterase inhibitors on functional measures … taking placebo in the development of behavioral and psychological symptoms, although not all trials measure … an approximate 3% difference in cognitive scales between ginkgo biloba and placebo groups.16, 86 Note

8718. Improving Patient Safety Through Provider Communication Strategy Enhancements (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Dingley_14.pdf
      February 06, 2008 - • Maintain consistency and high quality in all educational efforts. … Further efforts to evaluate the strategies using additional measures are ongoing. … and staff-related measures, such as satisfaction, recruitment and retention. … Development of an instrument to measure collaboration and satisfaction about care decisions. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Patient safety culture surveys.

8719. Cardio-HIT Phase II - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017160-kmetik-final-report-2009.pdf
      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

8720. 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.