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4621. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/72911/psn-pdf
      March 15, 2021 - Patient Safety and Quality, 1–14. … CMS EHR Incentive Program. 2013. … “Eligible Professional Meaningful Use Menu Set Measures Measure 7 of 10.” … “Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program.” … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

4622. Code Blue—Where To? | PSNet
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      March 30, 2020 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … ergonomically designed resuscitation equipment saves valuable time.( 12 ) Hospitals must institute measures … Asheville, NC: Quality America; 2007. … Follow American Heart Association (AHA) Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) program policies Expensive

4623. Clinical Classifications for Health Policy Research: Hospital Inpatient Statistics, 1995
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/natstats/his95/clinclas.htm
      January 01, 1999 - and policy choices; accurately measure outcomes, community access to care, utilization, and costs; … and guide future health care policymaking that will maintain both high quality of care and good value … The CCHPR software program aggregates ICD-9-CM codes, about 12,000 diagnosis codes and 3,500 procedure … Quality of health services. Utilization of services by special populations. … Weights indicate the number of discharges that the sample discharge represents in the universe of discharges

4624. Statistical Brief #130: Emergency Department Visits and Inpatient Hospital Stays for All-Terrain-Vehicle-Related Injuries, 2009 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb130.pdf
      March 01, 2012 - to reduce ATV-related injury by requiring helmet use and promoting safer use through educational programs … ,5 but the effectiveness of these measures remains in doubt. 6,7 This report provides an update … Patients covered by the State  Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) may be included here.  …   – Other includes Worker's Compensation, TRICARE/CHAMPUS, CHAMPVA, Title V, and other  government programs … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

4625. AMIA Health Policy Conference Series - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r13hs021825-kuperman-final-report-2015.pdf
      January 01, 2015 - Methods (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures, Limitations). 4. … of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine • Chuck Friedman, PhD, Director of the Health Informatics Program … Overby, PhD, Faculty Member, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, the Center for Health-related … Patients deserve personalized evidence to improve the quality of their care. … Although technical innovations make it increasingly feasible to measure these data repeatedly, a single

4626. Integrating Contextual Factors into Clinical Decision Support to Reduce Contextual Error, Improve Outcomes, and Reduce Misuse, Overuse, and Underuse of Outpatient Primary Care - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs025374-weiner-final-report-2022.pdf
      January 01, 2022 - Gamache, roland.gamache@ahrq.hhs.gov This study was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … encounter, proportion of red flags probed, proportion of contextual factors addressed. (2): Outcome measure … In parallel we conducted a study employing USPs to measure the effect of the intervention on costs related … to carry concealed audio recorders into their visits.4 Whereas the USP methodology is designed to measure … From May 1017-May 2019, we conducted a step-wedge trial of the quality improvement program.

4627. Archived: Evidence Summary: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/genital-herpes-screening-november-2016
      December 20, 2016 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Accuracy of screening tests, benefits of screening, harms of screening, … Eligible outcomes included reduced rates of symptomatic episodes and transmission (including measures … The metandi program in Stata version 14 12 was used to conduct all quantitative analyses. … , Results Symptomatic Episodes Outcome Measure Results HSV-2 Transmission Outcome Measure Results … with no known history of genital herpes Studies are uncontrolled; due to study design and outcome measures

4628. Final Progress Report: Engineering Safe Care Journeys for Vulnerable Older Adults (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/smith-werner-carayon-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - Initial electronic health record domains and measures extracted in this study. … There were no significant differences in fall-specific measures or in any measures for the suspected … Development and implementation of a pharmacy fall prevention program. … Rehospitalizations among patients in the Medicare fee-for- service program. … Development and testing of a measure designed to assess the quality of care transitions.

4629. Archived: Decision Analysis: Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Colorectal Cancer: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/decision-analysis-for-aspirin/aspirin-to-prevent-cardiovascular-disease-and-cancer-april-2016
      April 11, 2016 - Outcome Measures: Primary outcomes are length and quality of life measured in net life-years and quality-adjusted … The next most sensitive parameter to both measures is the RR for hemorrhagic stroke (cases 13 and 14) … Quality-adjusted life-years are an important measure because they incorporate both expected length- and … Quality-of-life weights for the US population: self-reported health status and priority health conditions … National Cancer Institute; Surveillance Research Program. SEER*Stat, version 8.1.5.

4630. Appendix A: Interview Questions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2013 - CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Executive Summary Report Organization Program … Implementation Program Impact What We Learned: Five Key Lessons Lessons on How To Improve Future … What are the quality improvement/patient safety (QI/PS) strategic priorities of your association? … For example, does your SHA have a quality council? How often does it meet? … Sustainability How will you sustain the CUSP program in your State?

4631. Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information Exchange
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/iavr_executivesummary.html
      December 29, 2006 - Variation   Prepared for Susan Christensen, Senior Advisor Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Sometimes the matter was simply that, even though HIPAA accommodates scalability in security programs … organizations voiced concern related to liability when one organization that believes its security program … . 2) were issued, confidentiality has been a cornerstone practice for substance abuse treatment programs … Treatment facilities note stringent precautionary measures to safeguard patient substance use information

4632. JAMA JATS (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/UA7cEG8wH4xh8-fr7Lfw9q
      September 18, 2018 - of weight and provided tools to support weight loss or weight loss maintenance (eg, pedometers, food scales … while other trials provided referral and free access to commercially available group-based weight loss programs … In the good-quality Diabetes Prevention Program trial (n = 1295), the estimated cumulative incidence … of life outcomes.1 Many trials showed improve- ment in obesity-specific quality of life measures among … Fifteen trials were good quality and 15 trials were fair quality.

4633. Emergency Department Visits Related to Suicidal Ideation, 2006-2013 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb220-Suicidal-Ideation-ED-Visits.pdf
      December 01, 2016 - NHEA spending or revenue measures the amount of income received by the hospital for treatment and other … services provided, including payments by insurers, patients, or government programs. … Hospital stays billed to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) may be classified … as Medicaid, Private Insurance, or Other, depending on the structure of the State program. … of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care programs, and outcomes of treatments

4634. Healthcare Systems and Infrastructure | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-systems.html
      May 01, 2024 - AHRQ's Recent Primary Care Grants and Resources Practice and Quality Improvement Healthcare Systems … Appendix B: Other AHRQ Programs Relevant for Primary Care Research Audiences 7.  … primary care organizations in payment reform models including the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive program … The study team looks at the combined impact of participation in these models on the quality and value … In this program, a health information exchange’s automated electronic alert system notifies primary care

4635. Recommendation: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening
      May 08, 2018 - Screening Tests Screening for prostate cancer begins with a test that measures the amount of prostate-specific … Asian and Pacific Islander men). 1 Detection Screening for prostate cancer begins with a test that measures … The USPSTF identified 3 good-quality and 1 fair-quality randomized trials and 7 large fair-quality observational … measures compared with conservative management in cohort studies. … transrectal ultrasound-guided sextant biopsies of the prostate within a population-based screening program

4636. Some Patients Can't Wait: Improving Timeliness of Emergency Department Care | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/some-patients-cant-wait-improving-timeliness-emergency-department-care
      November 25, 2020 - Other strategies include smoothing operating room schedules, 15 implementing community paramedicine programs … Team STEPPS, developed by the Department of Defense Patient Safety Program and supported by the Agency … Common Program Requirements (Residency). June 2019:1-52. The Joint Commission. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). … TeamStepps | Agency for Health Research and Quality.

4637. Final Progress Report: Connected Emergency Care (CEC) Patient Safety Learning Lab (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/hinson-levin-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - data from our ED data repository and outpatient clinics within the Johns Hopkins Health System to measure … interventions to address the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the Latino community and led to the creation of a program … We found that median time to achieve all four studied CMS sepsis core measures was slightly shorter for … Individual measures such as serum lactate collection, blood culture collection, and intravenous fluid … Do prehospital sepsis alerts decrease time to complete CMS sepsis measures?

4638. Archived: Tuberculosis Infection, Including Bacille Calmette-Guérin Immunization: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/tuberculosis-infection-screening-immunization-1996
      February 11, 2014 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … a rate of new infections greater than 1% per year and for whom the usual surveillance and treatment programs … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … The risk varies with the type of vaccine used, the population, and the methods used to measure complications … a rate of new infections greater than 1% per year and for whom the usual surveillance and treatment programs

4639. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Inpatient Stays Involving Sepsis, 2016–2021 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb309-sepsis-race-2016-2021.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), which is a measure … is based on the Elixhauser Comorbidity Software Refined for ICD-10-CM for the subset of comorbidity measures … The NIS includes a subset of comorbidity measures that do not require an indication that the diagnosis … Social vulnerability designation in this Statistical Brief is based on the overall SVI measure in the … of health services, medical practice patterns, access to healthcare programs, and outcomes of treatments

4640. Archived: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening-2012
      May 15, 2012 - There is convincing evidence that PSA-based screening programs result in the detection of many cases … There is convincing evidence that PSA-based screening programs result in the detection of many cases … , such as digital rectal examination or transrectal ultrasonography. 4 , 19-22 Screening tests or programs … required to better assess and improve the reliability of prostate cancer mortality as a valid outcome measure … When the analysis was repeated by using only validated measures of comorbidity (that is, Charlson comorbidity