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www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/medical-office/index.html
July 01, 2024 - providers and other staff and asks for their opinions about the culture of patient safety and healthcare quality … Survey Items and Composite Measures Medical Office Items and Composite Measures—English (PDF, 165 KB … Medical Office Items and Composite Measures—Spanish (PDF, 205 KB). … Additional Resources The SOPS Program offers resources to assist survey users, including an Action … Announcements Learn more about the AHRQ-sponsored webcasts , podcasts , and announcements on the SOPS Program
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/physician-checklist.html
January 01, 2017 - Physician Champion Checklist
AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients … Partner with hospital leadership to measure and track objective outcomes, including average duration … reports of current data for VAE rates, number of patients who develop a VAE, performance on process measures … , and objective outcome measures. … Become an active member of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) quality improvement (QI) team
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www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/tcd/key-driver.html
September 01, 2021 - this measure specifically. … State-Level Insights
State Medicaid programs set contracts with health plans for Medicaid beneficiaries … These conditions are uniformly contained in HEDIS measures or those on the Child Core Set of Quality … Measures. … QMETRIC met with the Quality Improvement & Program Development Section at the Michigan Department of
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/demo-program/grants/issues.html
August 01, 2022 - interventions with the assumption that these might feed back into hospital-based root cause analysis or other quality … There is no single, most relevant set of measures for capturing PSML outcomes across diverse studies. … safety have a complex relationship that may not be easily or simply reducible to a single set of outcome measures … When project leaders were asked what they believed the single most relevant and appropriate outcome measure … AHRQ and other funders will also need to pay closer attention to the quality of the study designs as
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/cauti-interim/cauti-interim5.html
July 01, 2013 - Culture Measures
Conclusions
The national project team is committed to the overall … It is noteworthy that the health care environment has seen a sharp increase in the number of programs … initiatives, such as the Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks providing seamless data measure … of the program items, and agreement with program statements. … broadly the findings of national quality improvement efforts.
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight06.html
January 01, 2014 - Grant Program aims to identify effective, replicable strategies for enhancing quality of health care … measures to improve child health care. … Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) Quality Demonstration Grant Program. … of health care delivered to children, including using a core set of pediatric quality measures, promoting … interpret the technical specifications for CMS’s core set of children’s health care quality measures
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/dowdstudysnapshot.html
November 01, 2015 - Program
AHRQ Delivery System Research: Study Snapshot
Between 2008 and 2014, practices that voluntarily … measures approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). … The three measures of inappropriate utilization included:
Ambulatory care-sensitive admissions. … and penalties: While bonuses may be necessary early on to gain acceptance of a voluntary reporting program … Program sponsors should make special efforts to provide actionable feedback reports and other easy-to-use
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/index.html
March 01, 2025 - Reports Tools for measuring health care quality, including the National Healthcare Disparities and Quality … Reports, AHRQ Quality Indicators, and ambulatory clinical performance measures. … Technology Assessment Program The Technology Assessment (TA) Program at the Agency for Healthcare Research … These technology assessments are used by CMS to inform its national coverage decisions for the Medicare program … reports from research grants administered since 2000 on a variety of patient safety topics, such as measure
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/measures/measure-4.html
November 01, 2017 - Established Child Health Care Quality Measures: HEDIS
Child Health Care Quality Toolbox
The … The measures are categorized by NCQA-designated measure type as follows:
Type: Effectiveness of Care … States collected HEDIS® measures from their risk-based managed care programs in 2000. … Health Insurance Programs (SCHIPs). … Online resource: For specifications, go to: http://www.ncqa.org/hedis-quality-measurement/hedis-measures
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/uses/fbba97.html
December 01, 2017 - assurance in both Medicaid and the newly created State Children's Health Insurance Program. … care assurance measures..." … Subtitle J: State Children's Health Insurance Program - Chapter 1: State Children's Health Insurance … Program
Requires that States "submit for the Secretary's approval a child health plan for the use of … funds, containing strategic objectives, performance goals, and performance measures."
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/dowdstudysnapshot.pdf
November 01, 2015 - Implementation and Impact of Medicare’s Voluntary Ambulatory Care Quality Reporting Program
AHRQ DELIVERY … Reporting Program*
Bryan Dowd, Tami Swenson, Shriram Parashuram, Robert Coulam, Robert Kane, John Kralewski … measures approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). … The three measures of inappropriate utilization included:
■ Ambulatory care-sensitive admissions, … ■ No association existed between participation and targeted measures: With few
exceptions, participation
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/coordination/atlas/chapter6.html
June 01, 2014 - Measure Mapping Strategy
Appendix II. Identifying Measures
Appendix III. … Index of Measures
Measure Number
Measure Title
1. … Program Level (CCPS-P)
b. Individual Level (CCPS-I)
23. … Physician Office Quality of Care Monitor (QCM)
37. … Team Survey for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
63.
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/ccrm-atlas-suppl/ccrm-apptabA-10.html
October 01, 2013 - Executive Summary
Introduction
Potential Measure Development Methodology
Potential Measures … List of Measures from the CCRM Atlas
A-4. … Measure 9: Physician satisfaction with service coordination (Alzheimer’s Service Coordination Program … Measure 17: Referral rate for intensive counseling from a community program
A-21. … Measure 22: The quality of the service provided by community resource to a practice (GP-LI)
Clinical-Community
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/webinars/webinar8_pu_sustainingpractices.pdf
April 01, 2011 - Examples of outcome measures
How to measure
Plan how to assess data
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Purpose of Measurement … Demonstrate the success of your program to
leadership
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Examples of Process Measures
Percentage … 24
How To Measure
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Who will measure pressure ulcer rates
Who will measure … with your hospital’s Quality Improvement (QI)
Team to coordinate sustainability with other QI
programs … Examples of Outcome Measures
How To Measure
Plan How To Assess Data
Reinforcing Desired Results
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/snac_members.html
November 01, 2013 - Subcommittee on Quality Measures for Children's Healthcare for Medicaid and CHIP
Members List … : 2013
List of 2013 members of the Subcommittee on Quality Measures for Children's Healthcare (SNAC … Irvine
Irvine, CA
Sharon Carte, MHS
Executive Director
West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program … Drye, MD, SM
Director, Quality Measurement Programs
Yale/Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes … , NY
Jill Rosenthal, MPH
Program Director
National Academy for State Health Policy
Portland, ME
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/02-sops-riverside-handoffs-webcast-bakdash.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … : A composite measure is a grouping of two or more survey items that assess the
same area of culture … : in addition to the composite measures, single item measures included assess:
• Number of events reported … Program
What is Patient Safety Culture? … SOPS Hospital 2.0 Survey
SOPS Hospital 2.0 Survey: Handoffs and Information Exchange Composite Measure
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www.ahrq.gov/data/index.html
January 01, 2001 - Hospital Financial Measures Database (HFMD)
Physician and Physician Practice Research Database … AHRQ Quality Indicator Tools for Data Analytics
AHRQ Quality Indicators (AHRQ QIs) are standardized … , evidence-based measures of healthcare quality that can be used to measure and track clinical performance … Since 2001, the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Program has supported AHRQ's mission by … The SOPS Program conducts activities to understand, measure, and improve patient safety culture in healthcare
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2016-04-nac/nacmtg0416-minutes.html
August 01, 2016 - Because of the decrease, AHRQ will eliminate support for the Quality Measures Clearinghouse, MONAHRQ, … There is a need for health plans to agree on quality measures for behavioral health care. … new programs. … What is the clinically relevant change in a measure? … Quality and safety measures have saved lives. Dr.
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/overview/background/next-steps2.html
December 01, 2009 - Measures for Voluntary Use by Medicaid and CHIP Programs
Background Report on request for public … comment on initial, recommended core set of Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for voluntary use … grants are using this measure, 35 and staff from additional programs are being trained on the measure … engaged in the ABCD program. … This State of Alabama Medicaid program measure is similar to the overall measure of ED utilization (measure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/forming-cuspteam-slides.pptx
January 01, 2017 - Why Engage Across Disciplines
Successful efforts are—
Informed by science
Led by clinicians
Guided by measures … Members
Physician assistants
Nurse educators
Infection preventionists
Patient safety officers
Chief quality … supporting a unit’s CUSP work
Works with unit staff to implement new policies and procedures to achieve quality … Does it reflect how you will measure success? … Does it align with your organization’s strategic safety and quality improvement goals?