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61. Health IT-Enabled Quality Measurement: Perspectives, Pathways, and Practical Guidance (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/20130913-health-it-enabled-quality-measurement-presentation-slides.pdf
    September 13, 2013 - Measurement Enabled by Health IT, which describes over 150 different public and private programs … • Focused on improving quality • Measures are developed for various stakeholders and purposes • … measurement programs should be aligned and harmonized uniformly through a centralized multi-stakeholder … ideation agenda; better alignment with other programs and certifications would be beneficial Improved … ▪ Nomination forms and instructions are available on AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program Web site

62. Using Precision Performance Measurement to Conduct Focused Quality Improvement - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-precision-performance-measurement-conduct-focused-quality-improvement/annual-summary/2010
    January 01, 2010 - Program: Improving Quality Through Clinician Use of Health Information Technology (IQHIT) Grant … A quality measure may be recorded as not having been met because a patient was incorrectly considered … , and seamlessly link data to practice-level quality improvement programs and point-of-care interventions … The project uses previously developed quality measurement programs that examine EHR data to measure quality … Exception codes are being introduced into the EHR for 18 national quality measures.

63. Integrating the Patient Voice in Patient-Reported Health Outcomes | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Challenges to using patient-reported outcome measures Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are designed … to assess health outcomes like quality of life, functional status, mental health, health symptoms, and … Use of patient-reported outcome measures in orthopedic care Dr. … This Research is Featured in Improving Healthcare Through AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program … This Research is Featured in Improving Healthcare Through AHRQ's Digital Healthcare Research Program

64. Advancing Quality Measurement and Care Improvement with Health Information Exchange | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Health information exchanges (HIEs) make it possible to measure quality across institutions in a patient-centric … The goal of this project was to validate two HIE-enabled quality measures for potentially preventable … Retrospectively measure the change in ability to employ these measures using HIE data.  … Implement these HIE-enhanced measures and prospectively measure changes in their performance.  … assurance program and 2) a real-time HIE-based frequent ED user notification service.

65. Clinical/Practice Guidelines | Digital Healthcare Research
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    March 01, 2024 - Description This document contains screenshots of a diabetes quality measures reporting … diabetes quality measures reporting system. … Measures in Ambulatory Care Description A list of quality measures for colorectal cancer … Letter to Patients Description Example letter to inform patients about a new program … Measures for Colonoscopy, CORI v4 Description A list of quality measures for colorectal

66. Cardio-Hit Phase II | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Program: Enabling Quality Measurement through Health IT (R18) AHRQ Funded Amount $889,874 … Measurement Quality measure exceptions are defined by the Physician Consortium for Performance … 13,985 HF patients for three HF drug therapy performance measures, including exception reasons. … measures for coronary artery disease in electronic health records. … Exceptions to outpatient quality measures for coronary artery disease in electronic health records.

67. Medication Without Harm: How Digital Healthcare Tools Can Support Providers and Improve Patient Safety (pdf file)
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    January 12, 2025 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality July 24, 2024 Agenda • Welcome and Introductions • … Explain how outcome measures, such as the Wrong-Patient Retract-and-Reorder measure, can be developed … Associate Dean for Quality and Patient Safety Director, Center for Patient Safety Science Columbia … National Quality Forum Providing Evidence and Developing a Toolkit To Accelerate the Adoption of … • The first RAR measure identified wrong-patient errors.

68. Crossing the Quality Assessment Chasm: Aligning Measured and True Quality of Care - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2010 - Program: Enabling Quality Measurement through Health Information Technology (EQM) Grant Number … measure. … The result of the analysis is intended to create a new set of quality measures that better reflects actual … measures for diabetes. … . ( Achieved ) Develop a quality measure for diabetes that accounts for patient heterogeneity in terms

69. Preventing Medication-Related Problems in Care Transitions to Skilled Nursing Facilities | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Compare patient-, family-, and caregiver-reported measures of quality of communication and care coordination … A patient-reported measure, the Care Transitions Measure (CTM), will be used to capture patient and caregiver … assessment of the quality of transition care. … monitoring patient- and caregiver-reported quality of care throughout the process. … The research team will also measure equity within the program’s implementation, observing how people

70. An Interactive Health Communication Program For Young Urban Adults With Asthma | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - An Interactive Health Communication Program For Young Urban Adults With Asthma Project … HS020977 Funding Mechanism(s) Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality … African American adults aged 18-30 have some of the highest asthma prevalence rates, as well as very poor measures … These will include quality of life, asthma symptoms, asthma control, self-efficacy, and health care utilization … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2015.

71. TRial of Aggregate Data Exchange for Maintenance of certification and Raising Quality (TRADEMaRQ) - Final Report (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2018 - We assessed measure and transfer errors, choices of quality improvement relative to quality gaps, and … to the average quality for the measure of all physicians in the study. … Measures Overlap in Quality Measures Used in TRADEMaRQ by Partner TRADEMaRQ Measures NQF # (description … Quality Payment Program is likely to increase measure production and reporting, we found little to … Program is unlikely to meet expectations unless quality measurement becomes a routine part of care

72. An Interactive Health Communication Program For Young Urban Adults with Asthma - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2012 - Funding Mechanism PAR: HS08-269: Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality … African Americans aged 18-30 have some of the highest asthma prevalence rates, as well as very poor measures … Asthma-specific outcomes, including quality of life, asthma symptoms, asthma control, self-efficacy, … The secondary outcomes will be an assessment of asthma-related quality of life, symptom status, asthma … across transitions in care settings, and the use of electronic exchange of health information to improve quality

73. Use of HIT to Increase Primary Care Access in Medicaid Patients - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/use-hit-increase-primary-care-access-medicaid-patients/annual-summary/2011
    January 01, 2011 - Funding Mechanism PAR: HS08-269: Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality … biggest users of ED services are people covered by Medicaid, the project team is using education and programs … a difference in quantitative and qualitative assessments, including measures of ED utilization, assessments … adaptation of both the client satisfaction questionnaire and multi-dimensional Health Locus of Control Scales … across transitions in care settings, and the use of electronic exchange of health information to improve quality

74. Learning from Primary Care Meaningful Use Exemplars | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - The MU program was implemented in three stages; for each stage, submission of clinical quality measures … Calculate practice and provider level performance, achievable benchmarks of care, and a summary measure … "Meaningful" clinical quality measures for primary care physicians. … "Meaningful" clinical quality measures for primary care physicians. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2014.

75. e-Coaching: Interactive Voice Response (IVR)-Enhanced Care Transition Support for Complex Patients - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/e-coaching-interactive-voice-response-ivr-enhanced-care-transition-support/annual-summary/2011
    January 01, 2011 - University of Alabama at Birmingham Funding Mechanism RFA: HS08-002: Ambulatory Safety and Quality … Program: Improving Management of Individuals with Complex Healthcare Needs Through Health Information … telephone follow-up, and provide assistance at and after discharge, report that although it is a successful program … tenure at home after discharge from the hospital, and patient self-efficacy based on the Care Transition Measure … Despite these measures, recruitment was still slower than anticipated, so Dr.

76. Evaluation and Integration of an Automatic Fall Prediction System - Final Report (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - Chaney Submitted to: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) U.S. … These spatial scales vary along the path as a multiple of the mean distance between points that make … Relationship of Fractal D to SGB measures. … Dispersal of the technology developed for this research program. … Fractal dimension measures habitat use at different spatial scales: an example with marten.

77. A Theory-Based Patient Portal eLearning Program for Older Adults With Chronic Illnesses | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - A Theory-Based Patient Portal eLearning Program for Older Adults With Chronic Illnesses … HS024739 Funding Mechanism(s) Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality … use among older adults is low, due to the lack of familiarity with the technology and awareness of PP programs … Self-efficacy for health decision making was also assessed using the Decision Self-Efficacy Scale – which measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2019.

78. Improving Quality In Cancer Screening: The Excellence Report For Colonoscopy - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-quality-cancer-screening-excellence-report-colonoscopy/annual-summary/2010
    January 01, 2010 - Program: Enabling Quality Measurement through Health Information Technology (EQM) Grant Number … recognized quality process measures for colonoscopy. … of change for each quality measure was not always towards improvement. … The sites with ASC accreditation tended to be more motivated to measure quality because of certification … which may have influenced physician willingness to measure quality.

79. Expansion, Implementation & Evaluation of Electronic Health Record-Integrated Patient-Reported Symptom Screening in a Comprehensive Cancer Center – Final Report (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs026170-garcia-final-report-2023.pdf
    January 01, 2023 - quality of life measures at baseline, 6 and 12 months. … (Aim 2b) Outcome Measure Items Measure Details Assessment Health-related quality of life: Effects … The multi-item patient satisfaction surveys contain one overlapping item, albeit scored on different scales … Available from: https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/cancer/coc/standards/2016. 19. … https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/cancer/coc/standards/2016 https://www.nccn.org/guidelines/guidelines-detail

80. Automating Assessment of Obesity Care Quality - Final Report (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018157-hazlehurst-final-report-2013.pdf
    January 01, 2013 - Developing Measures of Care Quality The OCQ Care Measures are an implementation of measures for the … or organizational weight loss program. 11 Quality Measurement Method Each measure … measure, and was blind to results from automated computation of the measures. … Second, because not all patients had a follow-up visit within the window in which final weights were … of Care Quality Quality Measurement Method Quality Measurement Framework Results OCQ Measure Validation