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9321. 3. Building and Maintaining a Network of Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2024 - quarterly practice improvement reports to track progress on heart health quality measures. … measures. … project aims to reduce rates of uncontrolled blood pressure and the practice needs to improve on this measure … In addition to using its professional association partners and the Quality Innovation Network-Quality … Readiness assessments commonly measure the following elements: willingness to change, organizational

9322. Improving the Management of Multiple Chronic Conditions with mPROVE | Digital Healthcare Research
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      August 31, 2024 - chronic conditions can potentially improve the patient-clinician relationship and improve patients’ quality … Health Information Technology (IT) Strategies for Collecting and Using Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures … Finally, researchers will evaluate quality of care and implementation outcomes, and identify and address … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2024. … This will improve shared decision making and patients’ quality of life.

9323. Expansion, Implementation, and Evaluation of Electronic Health Record-Integrated Patient-Reported Symptom Screening in a Comprehensive Cancer Center | Digital Healthcare Research
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      May 31, 2023 - symptoms and have supportive care needs that may interfere with their treatment and compromise their quality … real-time. cPRO’s impact on patient and system outcomes were evaluated over 12 months using both a quality … Participants also completed measures on patient-reported healthcare utilization and quality, symptoms … facilitate reflection, boost self-efficacy, improve appointment efficiency, and strengthen sense of care quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2023.

9324. Multiple High-Risk Events Involving Workflow for Wasting of Medications Used by Anesthesia | PSNet
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      August 29, 2021 - 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 … The submitted case highlights how a variety of factors and quality gaps may contribute to errors during … be significant, and many of the strategies aimed at reducing waste may also act as additional safety measures … carefully examine the strategies that are currently present and to work to develop additional safety measures

9325. Closing the Quality Gap Series, Summary Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2013 - Closing the Quality Gap Series, Summary Report Structured Abstract In 2004, AHRQ launched a … collection of evidence reports, Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement … Strategies , to bring data to bear on quality improvement opportunities. … These reports summarized the evidence on quality improvement strategies related to chronic conditions … bring data to bear on quality improvement (QI) opportunities.

9326. A Theory-Based Patient Portal eLearning Program for Older Adults with Chronic Illnesses - Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2019 - Support: This study was supported by Grant R21HS024739 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Nahm 6 Measures Demographic and descriptive variables. … Outcome Measures. … The validity of the measure was assessed using criterion validity testing.35 The scale was tested in … Outcome Measures.

9327. CAHPS Program: Improving Response Rates and Representativeness - AHRQ’S CAHPS Program (pdf file)
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      June 02, 2025 - Social Science Analyst, CAHPS® & SOPS® Programs Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety, AHRQ … does not require use of tools, products, and databases • Encourage CAHPS database submissions for Quality … • Health Plans • Dental Plans • Home and Community- Based Services 9 Uses for CAHPS Surveys Quality

9328. The CAHPS Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2023 - and Systems (CAHPS ® ) program is a multi-year initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Help organizations use the results to improve the quality of care. … CAHPS program in October 1995 in response to concerns about the lack of good information about the quality … This work includes:  The development and testing of new surveys to measure patient experience (e.g … The User Network is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and administered by Westat

9329. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      February 18, 2011 - hospital-readmissions-physician-awareness-and-communication-practices Hospital readmissions are garnering increased attention as a potential measure … of care transition quality. 

9330. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      February 08, 2023 - Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) is an international public health concern and the focus of hospital quality … The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) SMM measure was adapted and results are stratified

9331. Cancer-Pancreas Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      August 09, 2013 - or mortality rates at a given time point (separate groups of patients), or another patient survival measure … However, the tumor-based data will be separated from the patient-based data because they measure different … For studies of clinical outcomes, we will compute effect sizes and measures of variance using standard … Was the outcome measure of interest objective and was it objectively measured? 18. … Was a standard instrument used to measure the outcome? 19.

9332. Best Practices: How Successful Units Engaged Their Senior Executive Leaders (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2013 - We probably all have trained our nurses or talked to our staff about quality measures or outcomes or … Then, we also did quality contracts with our staff that we had a commitment to quality in our patients … measures, which leads me to one other statement and that is we have organizational goals and with regards … The other thing that we said was that we want to be in the top quartile of public measures. … We wanted to be up in that top quartile for a change, and we actually are moving up on our public measures

9333. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      December 09, 2020 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/missed-or-rationed-nursing-care Incomplete nursing care is known to affect care quality

9334. Findings and Lessons From the Improving Quality Through Clinician Use of Health IT Grant Initiative. | PSNet
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      November 21, 2016 - Government Resource Findings and Lessons From the Improving Quality Through Clinician … Citation Text: Findings and Lessons From the Improving Quality Through Clinician Use of Health IT Grant … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2013. … Copy URL August 28, 2013 Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2013.

9335. Electronic Health Record Usability: Interface Design Considerations (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2009 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. October 2009. … • Developing an understanding of, and ways to measure the impact of usability and information design … Effective usability measures involve a combination of heuristics and observations of direct use in clinical … • Developing an understanding of, and ways to measure the impact of usability and information design … design and process measures. J Am Med Inform 46.

9336. Pediatric prehospital medication dosing errors: a mixed-methods study. | PSNet
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      August 25, 2021 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Methods used to obtain pediatric patient weights … harmful medication dispenses after a fall or hip fracture: a mixed methods study of a commonly used quality … measure.

9337. Why Define Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH)? | The Academy
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      February 01, 2025 - Expert Insight Expert Tips Success Stories Measures … To "help providers, payers and population managers to measure progress in organizing delivery of integrated … Quality improvement lead What is the QI opportunity and obligation? Many possibilities. … Development and validation of a measure of primary care behavioral health integration. … Further Experience with the Practice Integration Profile: A Measure of Behavioral Health and Primary

9338. Exhibit 2. Number of procedures stratified by hospital and types between 2008 and 2009 | 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 2. Number of procedures stratified by hospital and types between 2008 and 2009 Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome…

9339. Anxiety Screening: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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      June 20, 2023 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Anxiety and depression outcomes; global quality of life and functioning; sensitivity … Quality: Study did not meet criteria for fair or good quality. … Brief Symptom Inventory–Anxiety; CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy; DASS, Depression Anxiety Stress Scales … 13 to 22 wk of follow-up Absolute differences in change ranged from −1.5 to 0.3 on 16- and 40-point scales … A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7.

9340. State and Regional Demonstration in Health Information Technology: Utah | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - Primary Care Specialty Care Health Care Theme Clinical Workflow Interoperability Quality … The Utah Health Information Network (UHIN) is one of six Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … While the impact of the use of cHIE by clinicians on patient safety and quality of care could not be … It can be difficult to measure outcomes until an HIE is functioning, mature, and widely used. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. November 2015.