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2121. Chapter 4. Developing and Pilot Testing Change: Implementing the Medication Reconciliation Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/match/chapter-4.html
      July 01, 2022 - What are the process measures (i.e., quantity, adherence to process) to determine compliance during the … What are the quality measures to determine impact on patient safety? … led by the leadership team, should be held with stakeholders representing physicians (i.e., clinical program

2122. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiref.html
      April 01, 2018 - Assessment of infection control programs in Maryland skilled-nursing long-term care facilities. … Assessing the status of infection control programs in small rural hospitals in the western United States … Use of national surgical quality improvement program data as a catalyst for quality improvement. … antibiotic exposure and coded discharge diagnoses as indicators of postoperative infection and other quality … assurance measures.

2123. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 23: Documenting Your Work With Practices (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-23-documenting-work-with-practices.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - McNellis, M.P.H., P.A., Agency for Health Research and Quality Janice L. … paper-based forms or simple spreadsheets on a computer or you can use online spreadsheets and survey programs … PRACTICE PROGRESS DASHBOARD PROJECT CKI> Overall A ssessme,nt Scales: ~ -er-a-liltJ tu,p.o•w- ~ and … Person responsible , When to be done Where to be done I Predict what will happen when the test is Measures … of Person responsible When to be done Where to be done Predict what will happen when the test is Measures

2124. Final Progress Report: Occult Uterine Cancer and Power Morcellation in Hysterectomy and Myomectomy (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/xu-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - Program (NSQIP) participant use data fileb,26 as well as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP). … ACS NSQIP Participant Use File. https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/acs-nsqip/participant- use. … www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/sidoverview.jsp https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/sidoverview.jsp https://www.facs.org/quality-programs … wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SGO-Testimony-to-FDA-on-Power-Morcellation-FINAL.pdf https://www.facs.org/quality-programs

2125. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4a_combo_psi03-pressureulcer-bestpractices.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - acquired during hospitalization.3 • Starting in 2015, the pressure ulcer PSI will be one of the measures … o Establishes measures that will tell if changes are leading to improvement. … programs for the prevention of pressure ulcers should be structured, organized, and comprehensive and … should occur upon hire, annually, and when this protocol is added to job responsibilities.8,9 • Programs … Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program measures (calendar year 2014 discharges).

2126. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Midwest Cooperative (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/cooperatives/evidencenow-executive-summary-midwest.pdf
      November 01, 2017 - clinical quality measures across the region. … Update The Midwest Cooperative is collecting electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), practice … Care Learning Community [AcademyHealth, 2017] • Use of the popHealth Open-Source Quality Measure … Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring Program [2017] • Improving Health Outcomes: Blood Pressure … Treating Your Patients for Tobacco Dependence [2016] • Understanding the New Cholesterol Performance Measure

2127. Simulation Facguide (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/situ/simulation_facguide.docx
      May 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care Establishing a Program of In Situ Simulations Establishing a Program … simulation supports perinatal safety; demonstrate how to execute in situ simulations; and identify ways to measure … Develop or use other measures to track the impact of simulation program. … Slide 35 SAY: In designing measures to evaluate a simulation program, it is important to clarify the … Slide 36 SAY: After defining the purpose of evaluation, decide what to measure.

2128. Perspectives on Diagnostic Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-terminology2.html
      April 01, 2025 - Definitions of Diagnosis Types of Evidence Used To Assess Diagnosis Conceptual Paradigms of Diagnostic Quality … who need to ensure the financial health of their organization, often focus on satisfying regulatory measures … for quality to optimize reimbursement. … Some may look to satisfy performance standards within incentive programs to enhance institutional reputation … diagnostic improvement, and each perspective should be considered for the role it has in ensuring diagnostic quality

2129. CAHPS Moving Forward: Innovations in Tools and Research (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-moving-forward-webcast.pdf
      October 01, 2017 - I direct the CAHPS program at AHRQ, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and I'm delighted … We have voluntary reporting programs. … Here are the aims of our programs. … to measure. … improvement programs.

2130. Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation.html
      May 01, 2017 - The tools referenced throughout the guide include items such as checklist templates, quality improvement … cultural interventions surrounding the safe surgery checklist: The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program … Training and Tools for Implementation Once you're ready to implement a program to improve safety culture

2131. Acronyms and Terms (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/6bb-toolkit-acronyms.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - champions the opioid improvement work, building consensus among clinicians and staff, leading the program … • CME: Continuing medical education. • COT: Chronic opioid therapy. • COMM: Current Opioid Misuse Measure … MOUD: Medication treatment for opioid use disorder. • OIT: Opioid improvement team, which leads the quality … improvements at the clinic made through the Six Building Blocks program. • ORT: Opioid Risk Tool assessment … PC-PTSD: Primary Care Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder assessment. • PDMP: Prescription drug monitoring program

2132. Preface | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/preface.html
      March 01, 2016 - The Surgical Care Improvement Project has widely used measures for VTE prevention, 33 and VTE Prevention … A proven quality improvement (QI) framework to coordinate steps toward breakthrough improvement. … Institutional infrastructure, policies, practices, and educational programs that promote use of the protocol … New measures: New and improved metrics for tracking the adequacy of VTE prophylaxis, including information … on using measurement with concurrent intervention (aka measure-vention) are reviewed.

2133. State at a Glance: Oregon | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/or.html
      March 01, 2019 - Demonstration Grant Program ? … measures can be used to improve quality of care for children. … Working with the Initial Core Set of Children's Quality Measures Oregon will collect, report, and test … the initial core set of children's quality measures for the State's Medicaid and CHIP population by … profile by using existing population-based measures that highlight the need for quality improvement

2134. Facilitator Guide: Deep-Rooting Your Data (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_deep_root_data_facnotes.docx
      December 01, 2017 - Improvement -Program or NSQIP data set. … Each is a process measure, immediately available for feedback. … Slide 5 Process Measure Examples SAY: These are examples of process measures you can implement in … outcome measure data. … administrators, you provide the necessary information to support your requests and accelerate your programs

2135. Training-Tools-Facnotes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/training-tools-facnotes.docx
      May 01, 2017 - Slide 12 SAY: There are many reasons that programs or improvements are not sustained. … barriers to sustainability: Lack of Organizational Infrastructure and Resources Evidence shows that programs … Outcomes measures, or measures that describe the effect of the intervention or improvement on the measure … Slide 31 SAY: After determining who will measure, what you will measure, and when to measure, it … is now time to determine how to measure.

2136. CHIPRA 157 Bibliography (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/duration/chipra-157-bibliography.pdf
      June 12, 2018 - Initial core set of children’s health quality measures: Technical specifications and resource manual … Variables on scatterplots look more highly correlated when the scales are increased. … Medicaid and CHIP children's healthcare quality measures: What states use and what they want. … Monitoring duration of coverage in Medicaid and CHIP to assess program performance and quality. … A guide to rating scales and questionnaires, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2006.

2137. 43-Pathway-Worksheet (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/43-pathway-worksheet.docx
      June 01, 2023 - Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving … Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving … Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving … Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving … Evidence review conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving

2138. Getting Started: Laying the Groundwork for Implementing Automatic Referral and Effective Care Coordination (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/getting-started-implementation-guide.pdf
      March 01, 2023 - Terms and Definitions • Measure: quantifies the extent, quality, value, or effect of something. … Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures o AACVPR’s Enrollment in CR Measure Specification … Examples If your measure was the percentage of patients graduating annually from your CR program … If your measure was the percent of patients graduating annually from your CR program who did not die … Measures (aacvpr.org), as are links to webinars to help certified programs learn how to generate them

2139. Access to Outpatient Specialty Care for Children (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-235-fullreport.pdf
      September 01, 2018 - asthma care quality, inpatient care measures). … We are unaware of any existing quality measures specific to the rate of participating specialists for … Identification of Disparities CHIPRA requires that quality measures be able to identify disparities … Levels of Aggregation CHIPRA states that data used in quality measures must be collected and reported … Measures Program (PQMP) Candidate Measure Submission Form (CPCF) was approved by the Office of Management

2140. Heart Health NOW (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/recruitment-brochure-nc.pdf
      January 01, 2003 - Cooperative of EvidenceNOW —a program funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … CCNC’s Informatics Center reporting services • Working with a practice coach to develop a quality … Carolina are: • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • NC Area Health Education Centers Program … Get free consultation from the NC AHEC Practice Support Program to ready your practice for value-based … payment opportunities, such as the Medicare Shared Savings Program and other “Accountable Care”