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21. AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery. | PSNet
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    May 01, 2017 - Book/Report AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery. … Citation Text: AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. December 2017. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. December 2017. … May 2, 2017 Concurrent and Overlapping Surgeries: Additional Measures Warranted.

22. Where Does Risk-Adjusted Mortality Fit Into a Safety Measurement Program? | PSNet
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    March 01, 2015 - Where Does Risk-Adjusted Mortality Fit Into a Safety Measurement Program? … At the time I was trying to work out what to allocate to each hospital and what measures of quality that … So we didn't do the morbidity measures. … RW : There's been debate in the medical literature about using the HSMR as a quality measure, and some … We also say that HSMR is not the measure of the quality of the hospital.

23. How best to measure surgical quality? Comparison of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators (AHRQ-PSI) and the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) postoperative adverse events at a single institution. | PSNet
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    December 21, 2014 - Study How best to measure surgical quality? … How best to measure surgical quality? … the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP)…. … How best to measure surgical quality? … measure.

24. Measures to improve diagnostic safety in clinical practice. | PSNet
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    September 01, 2021 - Measures to Improve Diagnostic Safety in Clinical Practice. … Measures to Improve Diagnostic Safety in Clinical Practice. … 16, 2020 Development and usability testing of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … February 23, 2018 Evaluation of outcomes from a national patient-initiated second-opinion program … Annual Perspective Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality

25. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    November 15, 2023 - An exploratory analysis of the association between hospital quality measures and financial performance … An exploratory analysis of the association between hospital quality measures and financial performance … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/exploratory-analysis-association-between-hospital-quality-measures-and- … This study examines the association of several quality-of-care measures and hospital profitability as … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/health-economic-evaluation-infection-prevention-and-control-program-are-quality-and-patient

26. Strengthening the Business Case for Patient Safety | PSNet
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    May 01, 2013 - In its first iteration the program includes 13 measures taken from Medicare's Inpatient Quality Reporting … Some measures are more problematic, the biggest one being the readmissions measure. … RW : One of the tensions between safety and quality is that while it's relatively easy to measure mortality … and maybe case-mix adjust mortality and certain process measures, it's pretty hard to measure diagnostic … And do you worry that because it's easier to measure quality we'll take our eye off the safety ball?

27. Measuring Patient Safety | PSNet
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    December 14, 2022 - and Value-Based Programs & Initiatives , aim to use measures like the PSIs to both determine the quality … , a measure that was recently added by CMS to its Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program . … of the quality measures and value-based quality programs that are used within CMS. … home health, and hospice; many hospital programs (such as the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, … Sometimes measures are just slightly different from one program to another.

28. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    December 22, 2014 - National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC). … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/national-quality-measures-clearinghouse-nqmc This web-accessible database …  provided access to evidence-based quality measures and measure sets. … Funding for the program ended in 2018. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/national-quality-measures-clearinghouse-nqmc

29. From board to bedside: how the application of financial structures to safety and quality can drive accountability in a large health care system. | PSNet
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    January 29, 2015 - January 29, 2015 Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins … January 27, 2016 Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns … August 8, 2018 Developing a measure of value in health care. … November 29, 2017 Effect of a hospital-wide measure on the readmissions reduction program … first six years of a novel financial incentive program.

30. In Conversation With… Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH | PSNet
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    May 01, 2013 - Some measures are more problematic, the biggest one being the readmissions measure. … RW : One of the tensions between safety and quality is that while it's relatively easy to measure mortality … and maybe case-mix adjust mortality and certain process measures, it's pretty hard to measure diagnostic … And do you worry that because it's easier to measure quality we'll take our eye off the safety ball? … In its first iteration the program includes 13 measures taken from Medicare's Inpatient Quality Reporting

31. Successful implementation of the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in the private sector: the Patient Safety in Surgery study. | PSNet
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    March 28, 2012 - Successful implementation of the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Surgical Quality … Program in the private sector: the Patient Safety in Surgery study. … improvement program.  … correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures … July 13, 2010 Measures of patient safety in developing and emerging countries: a review

32. Risk-adjusted morbidity in teaching hospitals correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures of teamwork climate, safety climate, or working conditions. | PSNet
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    July 12, 2010 - correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures … correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures … Hospitals are urged to measure their safety culture through the use of one of several validated surveys … Improvement Program in the private sector: the Patient Safety in Surgery study. … Improvement program data.

33. Developing and pilot testing practical measures of preanalytic surgical specimen identification defects. | PSNet
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    June 16, 2011 - Study Developing and pilot testing practical measures of preanalytic surgical specimen … Developing and pilot testing practical measures of preanalytic surgical specimen identification defects … This study reports on an effort to develop process measures for monitoring the quality of specimen identification … September 14, 2011 Surgical specimen identification errors: a new measure of quality … program at the transplantation center.

34. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2014 - In its first iteration the program includes 13 measures taken from Medicare's Inpatient Quality Reporting … (IQR) program, including process measures focused on the prevention of surgical infection, postoperative … no small measure because traditional models of hospital payment are so problematic and can be viewed … Who pays for poor surgical quality? Building a business case for quality improvement. … Hospital quality for acute myocardial infarction: correlation among process measures and relationship

35. Patient Safety Indicators | PSNet
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    June 15, 2024 - Quality Reporting (IQR) Program The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses more than 30 national performance … For example, the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) of the American College of Surgeons … electronic clinical quality measures. … In 2022, CMS published the Digital Quality Measures Strategic Roadmap , which outlines its transition … As these concerns were resolved through measure refinements and better data quality (e.g., nearly universal

36. Evaluation of the association between Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) measures and catheter-associated infections: results of two national collaboratives. | PSNet
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    December 21, 2017 - These programs—including the Keystone ICU program and a recent effort to prevent catheter-associated … to reduce HAIs; second, survey results may not be an accurate measure of safety culture (especially … April 5, 2017 A program to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection in acute … June 3, 2015 View More Related Resources National Healthcare Quality … Encouraging employees to speak up to prevent infections: opportunities to leverage quality

37. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    July 10, 2024 - Amy Helwig: Our quality improvement programs usually specify the health conditions and their associated … key quality measures. … A health plan may then build that into quality improvement programs with network providers. … with about 30 to 50 measures that change every year, including the weights and targets. … Amy Helwig: We often refer to these as quality measures rather than patient safety measures.

38. In Conversation with...Patrick S. Romano, MD, MPH | PSNet
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    July 10, 2024 - PR: Well, the simple answer is you can't improve what you don't measure. … PR: The AHRQ Quality Indicators Program emerged out of a data program called the Healthcare Cost and … Program. … The Program started with a fairly limited set of measures that are now called Inpatient Quality Indicators … or IQI, including risk-adjusted mortality measures and measures of volume on specific procedures for

39. Meaningful Measurement in Patient and Family Engagement | PSNet
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    March 10, 2021 - Per the Measures Management System Blueprint , CMS would like measure developers to actively engage … Other process measures could assess whether dedicated budget or staff members are allocated to PFE programs … J Fam Pract. 2000;49(9):796-804. [ PubMed ] [4] Gateways to PFA Program. … Since then we have expanded into Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) , research teams, measure … improvement program is going to hit the target?

40. In Conversation With...Amy Helwig about Health Plan Patient Safety Initiatives | PSNet
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    July 10, 2024 - key quality measures. … with about 30 to 50 measures that change every year, including the weights and targets. … reporting programs and pay-for-performance initiatives that tied reimbursement payments to quality measures … CMS uses the CMS PSI 90 in several federal programs, including the Value-Based Purchasing Program. 10 … https://mmshub.cms.gov/about-quality/quality-at-CMS/quality-programs Hasan O, Orav EJ, Hicks LS.