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8521. Topic 0586 LUTS Secondary to BPH NSD FINAL (pdf file)
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      January 07, 2014 - To sign up for notification when this and other Effective Health Care (EHC) Program topics are posted … Considerations § The topic meets all EHC Program selection criteria. … Although LUTS/BPH is usually not a life-threatening condition, it is associated with symptoms that affect quality

8522. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2011 - Through its Comparative Effectiveness Reviews, the program supports systematic appraisals of existing … percent taking three or more classes in 1999–2000.3 In 2007, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … comparisons of interest, either because of an absence of evidence, conflicting results, or the low quality … format for specifying research questions: patient populations, interventions, comparators, outcome measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. March 2011.

8523. Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2023 - , training , and reports to help health systems deliver CLAS so that all patients receive high quality … Tips on Writing a Quality Report TalkingQuality offers guidance on producing comparative information … on healthcare quality that's understandable and useful to consumers. … Tip 5: Make a Health Care Quality Report Culturally Appropriate helps readers feel like the report was … HHS Resources Think Cultural Health is a program of the U.S.

8524. Topic-Brief1-Care-Coordination (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2021 - Impact of enhanced recovery after surgery programs on pancreatic surgery: A meta-analysis. … transitions measure. … Rehospitalizations among patients in the Medicare fee-for-service program. … Posted final reports are located on the Effective Health Care Program search page. … reviews are: • Interventional Treatments for Acute and Chronic Pain • Integrated Pain Management Programs

8525. Topic-Brief1-Care-Coordination (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2021 - Impact of enhanced recovery after surgery programs on pancreatic surgery: A meta-analysis. … transitions measure. … Rehospitalizations among patients in the Medicare fee-for-service program. … Posted final reports are located on the Effective Health Care Program search page. … reviews are: • Interventional Treatments for Acute and Chronic Pain • Integrated Pain Management Programs

8526. Evaluation of Effectiveness and Safety of Antiepileptic Medications in Patients With Epilepsy (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2008 - Both study design and quality rating should be considered when interpreting the methodological quality … Summary ratings of quality of individual studies Quality Rating Definition Good (low risk of bias) … • Secondary seizure injury (fracture, laceration, head trauma, aspiration pneumonia) General Measures … We will also consider measures of heterogeneity from our meta-analyses in evaluating consistency. … /health/drugbill06.htm� http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/drugbill07.htm� http://www.ncsl.org/programs

8527. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2) in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      June 15, 2008 - examined persons at high risk for diabetes, and thus the results may not be applicable to mass screening programs … The cost-effectiveness of diabetes screening programs is considered to be mainly determined by the long-term … Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. … population and general Swedish population (where there is a high level of screening for T2DM) in most measures … It is difficult to compare results across studies because of heterogeneous outcome measures and comparison

8528. Integrating Stakeholder Preferences in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Potential Uses of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Techniques (pdf file)
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      August 27, 2012 - I’m Vice President of Program Development at the Center for Medical Technology Policy. … The Community Forum is charged with working with ARHQ’s effective healthcare program components to … Here we can attach a weight to quality of life. MS. … In each case, risk tolerance measures as a maximum acceptable risk was greater for the absolute risk … large number of people and a wide number of alternatives then most people would say conjoint analysis measures

8529. Integrating Clinical Decision Support into Workflow (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2011 - the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (Health IT) in the SHARP Program … 4.0 0.7 0.6 0.008 Ease of use 3.2 3.6 1.0 0.9 0.049 Workload 2.3 2.9 0.8 0.6 0.028 Dependent Measures … The NASA TLX has several items that measure specific dimensions of workload (mental demand, physical … contrast, questions from the workload integration survey that comprised the workload subscale may measure … Procedure and Scenarios Statistical Methods Results Phase 1 Themes and CDS type: Phase 2 Dependent Measures

8530. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2015 - We hope it will be used to guide quality improvement efforts at facilities with physician training programs … toolkit can be used as a self-learning module or as an adjunct to existing educational or orientation programs … Introducing a population-based outcome measure to evaluate the effect of interventions to reduce catheter-associated … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education

8531. Physician and Physician Practice Research Database Feasibility Report (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2024 - allowing to link individuals to organizations and can therefore be used to create practice-level measures … Although definitions were initially informed by the literature and existing data programs that were … Although developing this measure would be valuable, the execution may be difficult, time-consuming, … commercial payers and other proprietary datasets (e.g., Aetna and Blue Health Intelligence data, and data programs … public policy in innovative and meaningful ways, as demonstrated through all of AHRQ’s current data programs

8532. Microsoft Word - NEDS_2007_Introduction v5.doc (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2007 - Variance Calculations It may be important for researchers to calculate a measure of precision for … The NEDS includes a Hospital Weights File with variables required by these programs to calculate finite-population … Programs to load the ASCII data files into statistical software: • SAS Load Programs • SPSS … Load Programs • Stata Load Programs Description of the NEDS Files • Introduction to the NEDS, 2007 … – this document • HCUP Quality Control Procedures – describes procedures used to assess data quality

8533. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      August 10, 2019 - of infection or hematuria.(1,4) As this patient was seen in a urology office, a bladder scanner to measure … Barry, MD Director and Professor of Medicine Informed Medical Decisions Program Division of General … Rockville, MD: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality; May 2016. Report No. 16-EHC024-EF. … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

8534. Quantitative Synthesis Chapter 3. Choice of Statistical Model for Combining Studies (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2018 - Choice of Statistical Model for Combining Studies Prepared for: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … The Evidence-based Practice Center Program is part of AHRQ’s Effective Healthcare Program. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; February 2018. www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov … The Peto odds ratio viewed as a new effect measure. … The Peto odds ratio viewed as a new effect measure.

8535. Impact of Meaningful Use Patient Engagement Objectives in a Multicultural Practice-Based Research Network - Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - Principal Investigator/Program … Agency Support : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Grant Number: R18HS022746 Inclusion … Content codes were then linked to quanti tative measures of patient satisfaction, recall and … Principal Investigator/Program … Since the introduction of the MU incentive program, our research group has focused on understanding

8536. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      August 17, 2011 - as it is not a given that all change will lead to improvement; furthermore, some studies may only measure … result in improvement, no improvement, or worsening of outcomes, or the study design may not include measures … Care Services/ or Competitive Medical Plans/ or Health Maintenance Organizations/ or Managed Care Programs … or Inform$ or Indicator$ or Metric$ or Rank$ or Compar$ or Score$ or Rating$ or Rate$ or data or measure … with resource utilization implications, such as readmissions, which are currently accepted as a measure

8537. Migraine-Adults-Executive-130408 (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2013 - Published reviews have not examined quality of life. … of life, patient satisfaction, and composite measures of response including frequency and severity … Cohen standardized mean differences were calculated for different continuous measures of the same outcome … Multidisciplinary drug management programs demonstrated improvement in migraine-related disability … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Effective Health-Care Program.

8538. Antipsychotics-Adults Surveillance (pdf file)
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      August 30, 2014 - AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Review Surveillance Program CER #63: First-Generation Versus Second-Generation … Introduction The purpose of the surveillance process for the EPC Program … days, length of hospitalization stay, rates of emergency department visits, attendance in day care programs … Questionnaire Sent to Expert Reviewers AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Review Surveillance Program … The main outcomes were the mean change on mania rating scales and the number of patients who dropped

8539. Appendix C. Site Visit Protocol | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - What major organizational or clinical outcomes related to delivery of care does the administration measure … Probe: : Please list all quality improvement initiatives you can recall. … Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State Ambulatory Surgery Database or the Outcomes Monitoring Program … targets, and (4) lack of timely and adequate guidance on personal protective equipment and other safety measures … Control of bloodborne pathogen exposure Standard precautions and hand hygiene An occupational health program

8540. Final Progress Report: TIPI Systems To Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - This difference may be related to the ECG interpretation program used by the hospital’s ECG manufacturer … Of note, based on the NHLBI National Heart Attack Alert Program (NHAAP) Diagnostic Technology Review9 … ● Actionable measures to be added: - Timeliness to ECG, blood tests - Single biomarker use - MI … This information will be used to provide the results of specific and actionable quality measures not … Through a facilitated, continuous quality improvement cycle, the measures will be followed over time