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9721. Final progress report: Developing Evidence for Safety Surveillance from Device Adverse Event Reports (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/mao-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - reports related to HS, can be extremely time and resource consuming and does not represent a sustainable measure … Regulators often draw critical information from adverse event reports to help determine significant measures … However, the availability of high-quality reports may not be as straightforward. … positive, false positive, and false negative, which were used to calculate the precision, recall, and F measure … Measures and analysis Study measures analyzed include the following: • Reporting source and type: reporting

9722. Tulare District Hospital Rural Health EMR Consortium (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2008 - The survey instrument incorporated revised questions from two previously developed scales to assess … failed June 2007 roll-out and subsequent second roll-out in January 2008, this survey was scheduled to measure … The majority of staff, including nurses, assessed the system positively on every measure of accuracy … To study changes in patient safety measures, we again examined the data over time to learn whether there … We focused on four measures of hospital finances: total margin or profitability, which includes operating

9723. Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/implementing-stewardship-guide.docx
      September 01, 2022 - and for the quality of care. … Earning rewards through MIPS (or avoiding penalties) is based on quality-of-care measures, use of electronic … For example, if a clinician figures out that she is performing poorly on an acute bronchitis measure, … To detect diagnosis shifting, measure overall antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic prescribing for a … broader range of diagnoses than those just in the target measure.

9724. DEcIDE 33: Summary Variables in Observational Resesarch: Propensity Scores and Disease Risk Scores (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/observational-research-scores_research.pdf
      May 01, 2012 - research conducted by the DEcIDE Methods Center under contract to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2012. … Disease risk scores may also be preferable summary measures when the exposure is infrequent or consists … University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Parivash Nourjah, Ph.D., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … between treated and untreated individuals, the IPTW weighting approach can lead to extremely large weights

9725. Chapter 4. Evaluation Design | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Improving the goal-setting rate in patients with diabetes was the key measure of this intervention. … Clinic E Yes Yes All patients in clinic with diabetes Quality improvement coordinator and medical … Clinics without registries are at a disadvantage in collecting data needed to assess progress with quality … An improvement in the process and outcome measures of an intervention may not provide evidence that the … Patient goal setting is a common measure for community clinics, but few clinics have designed a methodology

9726. Disposition of Comments for Efficacy and Safety of Screening for Postpartum Depression (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2013 - measure. … We would argue that, if baseline child health measures are equivalent, then a difference in visits … Without better outcome measures for children, this remains an area of uncertainty. … We agree that measures of absolute risk are more important for both clinical and policy purposes than … Therefore a measure of family satisfaction would also be appropriate.

9727. Tool 10. Sample Brochure | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2014 - Your health care team will measure your weight and height to calculate your BMI. … orprn Oregon Health & Science University Website: www.ohsu.edu Agency for Health Care Research & Quality

9728. Hospital Report Card: Ontario 2009. | PSNet
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      December 17, 2014 - Designed to help patients choose hospitals, this report utilized AHRQ quality indicators to analyze the … March 16, 2016 Promoting Safety and Quality Through Human Resource Practices: Executive … May 13, 2021 Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality … October 25, 2013 HealthGrades Quality Study: Fifth Annual Patient Safety in American … June 3, 2009 Do HSMRs really measure patient safety? 

9729. Fbqmoapkebekmj7Aqmale5 (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2014 - several drug therapies and nonpharmacologic interventions have a small effect on cognitive function measures … The USPSTF found adequate evi- dence that interventions targeted to caregivers have a small effect on measures … cognitive stimulation with or without cognitive training seems to improve global cog- nitive function measures … dementia with several drug therapies and nonpharmacologic interventions results in small improvements in measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2013. 2.

9730. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/patients-families/engagingfamilies/strategy2/index.html
      December 01, 2017 - Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality Research shows that when patients are engaged in … their health care, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality. … To promote stronger engagement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed the Guide to Patient … work as partners with patients and families to improve quality and safety. … Communicating to Improve Quality Strategy Implementation Handbook gives an overview of and rationale

9731. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/tethered-spinal-cord-protocol.pdf
      July 19, 2023 - of life, or general health status, as well as process measures such as repeat surgery Provider satisfaction … In addition, we will accept other measures of concordance, including rater agreement. … summary of findings statements are as follows: • KQ1 (diagnosis) outcomes: any diagnostic accuracy measure … diagnostic tool or treatment intervention learning curves; and clinical relevance and timing of the outcome measures … Effective Health Care Program Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Rockville, MD: 2021.

9732. Medication Errors: The Nursing Experience. | PSNet
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      May 26, 2011 - November 30, 2022 Quality Work Environments for Nurse and Patient Safety. … Association of electronic health record use above meaningful use thresholds with hospital quality … December 18, 2018 Quality and Safety in Nursing: a Competency Approach to Improving Outcomes … October 29, 2008 Quality Work Environments for Nurse and Patient Safety.

9733. Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety. | PSNet
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      October 16, 2024 - November 25, 2020 Providing Safe, High-Quality Maternity Care in Rural US Hospitals. … December 14, 2022 Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality. … 2023 Annual Perspective Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality … See More About The Topic Hospitals Long-Term Care Ambulatory Clinic or Office Quality

9734. Hospital Preparedness for a COVID-19 Surge: Assessment Tool. | PSNet
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      September 16, 2020 - September 16, 2020 Providing Safe, High-Quality Maternity Care in Rural US Hospitals. … December 14, 2022 Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality. … May 11, 2022 Quality and safety in hospital pediatrics during COVID-19: a national qualitative … See More About The Topic Hospitals Health Care Executives and Administrators Quality

9735. Selection of indicators for continuous monitoring of patient safety: recommendations of the project 'safety improvement for patients in Europe.'  | PSNet
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      June 22, 2016 - 2016 Analysis of suicides reported as adverse events in psychiatry resulted in nine quality … June 27, 2011 Quality management and perceptions of teamwork and safety climate in European … May 26, 2014 Measuring harm and informing quality improvement in the Welsh NHS: the longitudinal … July 15, 2009 Measurement of quality and assurance of safety in the critically ill. … Safety Scientists Policy Makers Quality Improvement Strategies Culture of Safety

9736. Improving Influenza Vaccine Uptake in Acute Care Settings | Digital Healthcare Research
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      July 31, 2023 - patient-specific information at appropriate times in the healthcare workflow to inform decision making and improve quality … The primary outcome measure was the proportion of eligible hospitalizations with at least one dose of … efficacy in vaccine administration, clinician adoption, cost, and sustainability were evaluated to measure … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2023.

9737. Archived: Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Women: Screening and Supplementation | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/iron-deficiency-anemia-in-pregnant-women-screening-and-supplementation-september-2015
      September 07, 2015 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Accuracy of Screening Tests The primary screening test for anemia is to measure serum hemoglobin or … Serum ferritin, which is often used to measure iron status, may have limited use during pregnancy because … identification and correction of iron deficiency anemia plays an important role and whether current measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015. 3.

9738. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/colorectal-cancer-liver-metastases-therapies_research-protocol.pdf
      September 27, 2012 - including: – Statistical analyses (statistical test/estimation results)  Test used  Summary measures …  Sample variability measures  Precision of estimate  p values – Regression modeling techniques … Discordant quality assessments will be resolved with input from a third reviewer, if necessary. … o Were outcome measures clearly valid, reliable, and equally applied to treatment groups? … question o Well-described study population o Well-described intervention o Use of validated outcome measures

9739. Optimizing Acute Post-Operative Dental Pain Management Using New Health Information Technology | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2024 - Health Information Technology (IT) Strategies for Collecting and Using Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2022.

9740. CUSP: A Framework for Success (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2013 - I was in Michigan, not at Hopkins but partnering with Hopkins, we insisted that we use standardized measures … Once you create a CUSP team, it's really useful to measure culture in the unit, and Chris talked about … create your partnership, commit to learning from mistakes, and then use tools to improve and obviously measure … decrease our number of non-indicated catheters because when you have to actually write it down and measure … I would add the whole notion that everyone in the country is doing the SCIP measures, and performance