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  1. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 266_Cervical Degenerative Disease Treatment: A Systematic Review (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-266-cdd-executive-summary.pdf
    November 01, 2023 - surgery (SOE: Moderate), whereas evidence was less strong with 2-level disease (SOE: Low) across various measures … rates were similar between the two approaches (SOE: Moderate); postoperative arm pain, function, quality … Rockville, MD: Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Content … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; November 2023.

  2. User Guide: Cost To Charge Ratio (CCR) For Inpatient Files (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/ccr/ip-ccr/Inpatient_CCR_User_Guide_External_2001-2020.pdf
    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.

  3. IPCCR_UserGuide_2012-2019 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/ccr/ip-ccr/IPCCR-UserGuide-2012-2019.pdf
    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.

  4. A web-based tool for the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP). | PSNet

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    January 02, 2017 - January 2, 2017 A model for the departmental quality management infrastructure within … July 1, 2017 The Armstrong Institute: an academic institute for patient safety and quality … May 1, 2019 North Mississippi Medical Center: a focus on quality, safety, and financial … January 2, 2017 Giving voice to quality and safety matters at board level: a qualitative … August 10, 2010 Expected and unanticipated consequences of the quality and information

  5. Reducing Adverse Drug Events. | PSNet

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    August 09, 2017 - August 9, 2017 COVID-19: patient safety and quality improvement skills to deploy during … June 24, 2020 Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality. … October 7, 2008 The effect of a Lean quality improvement implementation program on surgical … September 6, 2016 Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System … July 5, 2016 Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series.

  6. The Economics of Patient Safety: Strengthening a Value-based Approach to Reducing Patient Harm at National Level. | PSNet

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    May 02, 2018 - Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. … Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. … April 26, 2017 Impact of Medical Errors and Malpractice on Health Economics, Quality, … April 26, 2017 The new CMS hospital quality star ratings: the stars are not aligned. … November 9, 2016 Building a highway to quality health care.

  7. Use of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Era (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/telehealth-covid-19-disposition-comments.pdf
    January 03, 2023 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2023. … Patients also relied on home scales and pulse oximeters and some CF care centers set up methods for … devices was the most common recommendation among people with CF, including the ability to accurately measure … For measures of success (KQ3), there was a large body of data on mental health, but this question was … do not make policy decisions cutting access to telehealth based on low quality evidence.

  8. Standards and Regulatory Frameworks Workgroup: Environmental Scan | CDSiC

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    January 01, 2023 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2023. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville

  9. Standards and Regulatory Frameworks Workgroup: Improving Interoperability of Patient Apps with the Health IT Ecosystem | CDSiC

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    August 01, 2023 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2023. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville

  10. Mixed MethodsReview -Integrating Palliative Care with Chronic Disease Management in Ambulatory Care (pdf file)

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    November 21, 2019 - Prediction tools for potential life-shortening illness include measures such as the Palliative Performance … 7 Triggers could include health care utilization such as hospitalizations, or patient-reported measures … and the method of ascertainment, and the results of each outcome, including measures of variability … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol 1: Series Overview … self-care, identification of at-risk populations, a feedback loop between patients and care providers, measures

  11. Applying Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) Across Health Care Systems: Achieving Data Comparability (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Rivard.pdf
    May 01, 2004 - We found that key measures, including demographics, clinical elements, and length of stay, as well … generated PSIs and Data Comparability 9 considerable debate about the usefulness of the PSIs as a measure … Evaluation of the complication rate as a measure of quality of care in coronary artery bypass graft … Comorbidity- adjusted complication risk: a new outcome quality measure. … Do different case-mix measures affect assessments of provider efficiency?

  12. HCUP-US Methods Series

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    February 01, 2025 - Procedure Classes for ICD-9-CM Surgery Flags for ICD-9-CM HCUP Supplemental Files NIS-Trend Weights … (NHDR) ( PDF file, 458 KB; HTML ) Report #2012-04 Overview of Key Readmission Measures … #2007-02 Using the KIDS' Inpatient Database (KID) to Estimate Trends (PDF file, 360 KB) Trends Weights … for 1988-1997 HCUP NIS Data (Link to downloadable weights files) Report #2006-06 Updated … for 1988-1997 HCUP NIS Data (Link to downloadable weights files) Report #2005-02 Emergency

  13. Healthcare Safety Competencies Affinity Group | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    May 01, 2025 - Mercado, CAE, CPHQ, Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director National Association for Healthcare Quality … ARNP, Chief of Health Systems Strengthening, Resilience, and Training Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality … Organization Monika Haugstetter, M.H.A., M.S.N., R.N., CPHQ, Health Scientist Administrator, Center for Quality … Improvement and Patient Safety Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality   Jennifer Trallo Schreiber

  14. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    February 01, 2018 - recommendations from experts in the field regarding activities and future directions for health care quality … Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports A 2011 report that studied … of both the state and the science of child and adolescent health and health care quality measurement … Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series  Released: July 20, 2006 According to one estimate … Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health is a 2004 report that examines the quality

  15. Recommendation: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

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    July 26, 2022 - were associated with lower blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and adiposity measures … were associated with greater changes in intermediate outcomes, specifically lower LDL-C and adiposity measures … of life measures were reported in 15 trials; group differences were generally very small and of unclear … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

  16. Provider-Offered Insurance Products among U.S. Health Systems, 2016 (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/data/chsp-brief5-insurance-products.pdf
    January 01, 2019 - We used the 2015 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database to construct the measure … • Safety net systems: Systems are categorized as serving the safety net using two measures: (1) … As with all self-reported data, the accuracy of the measure depends on the knowledge of the respondent … About the Comparative Health System Performance Initiative The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/

  17. Screening for Skin Cancer: An Update of the Evidence (pdf file)

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    February 01, 2009 - Data Extraction: All studies for the key question were reviewed, abstracted, and rated for quality by … Data Extraction and Quality Assessment For all citations that met the eligibility criteria for the … key question, 2 reviewers independently reviewed, ab­ stracted, and quality-rated the full articles. … Many studies measure accuracy through the use of photographs of lesions of known histopathology. … Other studies measure accuracy by following the referral patterns and ultimate histopathology of lesions

  18. Canadian Patient Safety Week. | PSNet

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    August 24, 2022 - October 5, 2021 The Canadian Quality and Patient Safety Framework for Health and Social … 21, 2005 View More See More About The Topic Health Care Providers Quality

  19. Archived: Evidence Summary: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary8/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-2014
    January 15, 2014 - AAA Screening in Men We identified 2 fair-quality and 2 good-quality population-based screening RCTs … of life (QOL) and anxiety or depression measures (data not shown). 30 , 44 , 53–57 One study reported … those who screened positive for AAA. 55 Four studies showed no clinically important decrease in QOL measures … Analyzed, n All-Cause Mortality AAA-Related Mortality Deaths, n (%) Risk Summary Measure … (95% CI) Deaths, n (%) Risk Summary Measure (95% CI) Ashton et al, 2002 30 and Thompson

  20. Clinical informatics team members' perspectives on health information technology safety after experiential learning and safety process development: qualitative descriptive study. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/clinical-informatics-team-members-perspectives-health-information-technology-safety-after
    September 04, 2024 - July 19, 2023 The effect of nursing care delivery models on quality and safety outcomes … November 6, 2019 Development of a self-report instrument to measure patient safety attitudes
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