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9741. Improving the Reliability of Health Care. | PSNet
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      November 18, 2011 - February 15, 2017 Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality. … 25, 2013 View More Related Resources Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality … Encouraging employees to speak up to prevent infections: opportunities to leverage quality … August 26, 2011 Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals … November 18, 2009 Examination of how a survey can spur culture changes using a quality

9742. Disposition of Comments for Screening for Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2012 - your comment Peer Reviewer #3 Methods Are the definitions or diagnostic criteria for the outcome measures … Yes, the outcome measures – sensitivity, specificity and AUROC are appropriate. … The definitions of the outcome measures appropriate. … outside of the scope of this comparative effectiveness review Public comment/ Pfizer Methods To measure … The value of screening must be used to measure a more important and valuable outcome, preventing early

9743. Interdisciplinary teamwork | PSNet
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      September 15, 2025 - Classic Teamwork in healthcare: key discoveries enabling safer, high-quality … This review summarizes the evidence regarding teamwork, including strategies to measure team... … This review summarizes the evidence regarding teamwork, including strategies to measure team performance … measures, which may be insensitive to teamwork improvements in care delivery. … These include transparency in disclosing errors and quality problems, integration of care across teams

9744. Final Progress Report: Developing a Framework to Study and Improve Communication to Enhance Diagnostic Quality in the ED (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2025 - ,” revealing distributions of the group’s responses via controlled feedback, and generating summary measures … concluded with all participants returning their electronic survey, and the survey data were analyzed using measures … in the framework although both are not necessarily needed at every stage of the journey or in equal measure … As the quality of the partnership improves, trust develops. … As the quality of the partnership improves, trust develops.

9745. Breastfeeding and Health Outcomes for Infants and Children (pdf file)
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      February 03, 2025 - Early initiation of breastfeeding: Fed human milk within one hour of birth37 • Ever breastfed: A measure … human milk: Human milk that has been expressed by hand or with a pump • Intensity of breastfeeding: A measure … human milk and commercial milk formula but not complementary foods or beverages • Mode of feeding: A measure … Allergic rhinitis o Food allergies • Asthma • Celiac disease • Cognitive development (e.g., measures … of IQ and other cognitive development measures) • Childhood cancer • Cardiovascular disease outcomes

9746. Abstracts of the 7th Annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. | PSNet
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      August 01, 2018 - situ simulation as a tool to longitudinally identify and track latent safety threats in a structured quality … February 23, 2022 How Does Hospital Quality Management Drive Quality? … Results From the "Deepening Our Understanding of Quality Improvement (DUQuE)" Project. … August 18, 2021 Use of simulation to measure the effects of just-in-time information … September 27, 2017 At the Precipice of Quality Health Care: The Role of the Toxicologist

9747. Asthma 1: Emergency Room Visits for Children between 3 and 21 with identifiable asthma (pdf file)
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      October 31, 2018 - These are the lists of NDC codes and drug information for "Asthma Medications" from the Hedis measure … They can be accessed here: http://www.ncqa.org/hedis-quality-measurement/hedis-measures. 5) Comorbidity … Claims Table: All (unfiltered) medical claims for at least the patients in the measure cohort. … dates; %let lookstart = 01Jan&lookyear.; *First date of the lookback year; http://www.ncqa.org/hedis-quality-measurement … /hedis-measures %let evalstart = 01Jan&evalyear.; *First date of the evaluation year; %let evalend

9748. Hospital Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - Toolkits, recommendations, and other resources for hospitals and hospital administrators to improve quality … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded initial work on the ESI. … are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality.   … To promote stronger engagement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed a guide … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality commissioned this guide to identify ways evidence-based

9749. User Guide: Cost To Charge Ratio (CCR) For Inpatient Files (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2020 - All other CD-SID States that permit release of the CCR measures are included in the CCR for CD-SID File … A proxy measure, the ratio of interns and residents per bed, was tested in regression analyses, and … a Excludes States that did not permit AHRQ to release their CCR measures. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

9750. IPCCR_UserGuide_2012-2019 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2019 - All other CD-SID States that permit release of the CCR measures are included in the CCR for CD-SID File … A proxy measure, the ratio of interns and residents per bed, was tested in regression analyses, and … a Excludes States that did not permit AHRQ to release their CCR measures. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

9751. Patient Safety Organization (PSO) Listing Guide (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2022 - the safety and quality of healthcare. … The provision of appropriate security measures with respect to patient safety work product; 7. … For example: • Does the component PSO have written policies and procedures and security measures in … • Ensure an appropriate level of security/strength and related security measures for passwords and … • Additional security measures in place to protect facility-based and virtual workstations with PSWP,

9752. Aspirin for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Colorectal Cancer: A Decision Analysis for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2016 - Outcome Measures: Primary outcomes are length and quality of life measured in net life-years and quality-adjusted … 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- … Quality-of-life weights for the US population: self-reported health status and priority health conditions … Health Utility Weights* Parameter First Year/ New Event Ongoing Quality of Life Reference Baseline

9753. Biomarkers for Assessing and Managing Iron Deficiency Anemia in Late-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease: Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2013 - Despite these limitations, a bone marrow biopsy remains the most accurate measure that reflects stored … ZPP is a measure of iron incorporation in heme. … This can be used to measure functional iron deficiency. … • Soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR). sTfR measures the availability of iron in the bone marrow … Despite these limitations, a bone marrow biopsy remains the most accurate measure that reflects stored

9754. EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      September 01, 2017 - EvidenceNOW are ambitious and include-- Helping primary care practices implement evidence to improve the quality … incorporate other patient-centered outcomes research findings in the future Studying how external quality … Shared learning collaboratives or peer-to-peer learning Expert consultation How Will EvidenceNOW Measure … It is helping them to learn how to extract data from their electronic health records and use it for quality

9755. Improving Missing Data Analysis in Distributed Research Networks – Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2022 - This project was supported by grant number R01HS026214 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Methods (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures, Limitations). … We used two measures to evaluate accuracy. … Methods (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures, Limitations).

9756. Statistical Brief #72: Nationwide Frequency and Costs of Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations, 2006 (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2009 - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)’s Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs)3 are used … 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 … Diagnoses and ICD-9-CM PQI admission rates are based on principal diagnosis for all measures except … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

9757. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2003 - healthcare organization had switched carbamazepine formulations at all its member hospitals, a Continuous Quality … Any time a nurse is required to manipulate a medication (measure it or break a tablet in half), there … Quality assurance audit of the ADD-Vantage system for intermittent intravenous drug administration. … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

9758. Methodology Report #2: Sample Design of the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component
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      January 01, 2002 - The survey is cosponsored by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) and … by geographic area (Census region and State), metropolitan status, and sociodemographic measures … sample of blocks (segments) was selected after the blocks were stratified by measures … should satisfy the following precision requirements for mean estimates of the following measures … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane

9759. Two New Issue Briefs Examine Diagnosis Improvement and Healthcare Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2025 - Technical Brief:  Measure Criteria for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Healthcare … Quality and Disparities Report . … Evaluation of Measure Dx, a resource to accelerate diagnostic safety learning and improvement. … This service is provided to you at no charge by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ

9760. Lap Burn | PSNet
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      March 01, 2018 - 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 … A variety of light sources provide different quality of light and different temperatures. … These types of complications can be avoided by a few simple measures. … the Same Author(s) Perspective Missed Nursing Care: A Key Measure