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8641. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Screening, April 2001 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/skin-cancer-screening-2001
      April 01, 2001 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Analytic Framework Figure 1 shows the populations, interventions, and outcome measures we examined … screening note that having a total-body skin examination might increase skin awareness and sun protection measures … The quality of the evidence at each link ranged from poor to fair. … Factors related to non-attendance in a population-based melanoma screening program.

8642. Long Term Care e-Prescribing Standards Pilot Study - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/Long%20Term%20Care%20e-Prescribing%20Standards%20Pilot%20Study%20-%20Final%20Report_0.pdf
      August 01, 2007 - to pilot an electronic prescribing software program. … Pilot Study (LTC e-Rx study) was to implement and test current National Council for Prescription Drug Programs … Institute (ANSI) accredited e-Prescribing standards body at the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs … requested observation of medication order process. 2.3.2.2 The data collector used a stop watch to measure … these complex issues – especially the patient care and safety issues. 4.2.3 The research study did measure

8643. Meta-analysis of Test Performance Evidence When There is a “Gold Standard” Reference Standard (ppt file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/medical-test-reviews-meta-analysis.ppt
      June 01, 2012 - Measures Used To Assess Test Performance (1 of 2) Trikalinos TA, Coleman CI, Griffith L, et al. … The diagnostic odds ratio is a measure of the effectiveness of a diagnostic test. … Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program … Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program … Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program

8644. Meta-analysis of Test Performance Evidence When There is a “Gold Standard” Reference Standard (ppt file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/medical-test-reviews-meta-analysis.ppt
      June 01, 2012 - Measures Used To Assess Test Performance (1 of 2) Trikalinos TA, Coleman CI, Griffith L, et al. … The diagnostic odds ratio is a measure of the effectiveness of a diagnostic test. … Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program … Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program … Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program

8645. Bridging the feedback gap: a sociotechnical approach to informing clinicians of patients' subsequent clinical course and outcomes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/bridging-feedback-gap.pdf
      June 21, 2021 - to clinicians for all patients, that is, no news is not good news Supports electronic methods to measure … Finally, strategies are needed to measure how well the system is functioning and its impact on outcomes … A Program to Provide Clinicians with Feedback on Their Diagnostic Performance in a Learning Health … Closing the Loop: Program Description and Qualitative Analysis of a Pediatric Posttransfer Follow-up … and Feedback Program.

8646. C-Reactive Protein as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/khUSqr94jqWPErt9ZRnQ95
      October 01, 2009 - In particular, they did not systematically assess the degree of adjustment for standard measures of CHD … , discrimination measures, or model calibration statistics separately for models with and without CRP … They note that measures of risk reclassification are probably better than the c-statistic for assessing … Non-HDL choles- terol, apolipoproteins A-I and B100, standard lipid measures, lipid ratios, and Clinical … National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detec- tion, Evaluation, and Treatment

8647. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patient-role-references.html
      September 01, 2024 - Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. … Supplemental Material to the CMS MMS Hub Patient-Reported Outcome Measures. … Patient and public involvement in patient-reported outcome measures: evolution not revolution. … https://www.cms.gov/priorities/health-equity/minority-health/equity-programs/framework . … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

8648. Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement in Diagnostic Documentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-ehr-impact4.html
      July 01, 2024 - Such records can improve the quality of care delivered, improve coordination and communication across … Future regulations must support clinicians in creating high-quality documentation while recognizing systematic … Existing quality and reimbursement programs must adjust their data collection and quality measurement

8649. 2001 HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Comparison Report
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/reports/2001niscomparisonrpt.jsp
      November 01, 2015 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … is limited to Medicare discharges and contains all Medicare patients covered by the fee-for-service program … Return to Contents NIS Weights Sample weights were developed for the NIS to obtain national estimates … While approximately 15.4 percent of Medicare patients were enrolled in managed care programs, managed … When other differences were observed, inconsistency was generally limited to one other measure.

8650. Gout Executive-2016 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/gout_executive-2016.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - Assessment of Methodological Quality of Individual Studies The risk of bias (study quality) of individual … negatives was reported or could be calculated; studies were similar enough with respect to outcome measures … • Precision, a measure of the confidence intervals in a pooled analysis, also was not assessed in … Applicability Applicability is a measure of the extent to which the participants, interventions, and … outcome measures are similar to those of the population of interest and care settings for which the

8651. In Conversation With… Dave deBronkart | PSNet
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      June 01, 2014 - experience in other industries, I firmly believe the aphorism that you cannot improve what you don't measure … There are many valid complaints about how useful the measures are, but you have to start somewhere. … cannot turn it into a numbers game; you have to be looking at the actual change that the numbers will measure … But as health care reform moves out into the community, some programs have visibly shifted their emphasis … Community prevention: the program of the People's Medical Society.

8652. Project ECHO Hepatitis C Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement in New Mexico through Health Information Technology - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018171-arora-final-report-2013.pdf
      January 01, 2013 - Specific Aim 2: Develop a web portal that creates a central identity for the HCV program and provides … Specific Aim 3: Create search tools that program personnel can use to extract data for monitoring data … quality, profiling, quality improvement, and research. … including AHRQ, and 4) Educational institutions (medical schools, continuing professional education programs … quality, profiling, quality improvement, and research.

8653. Overview to the HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), 1998
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_1998.jsp
      January 01, 1998 - These files can be useful for testing programs or validating models. … A hospital is considered to be a teaching hospital if it has an AMA-approved residency program, is a … /SAS Load Programs SAS programming code to convert ASCII data files into SAS. … /SPSS Load Programs SPSS programming code to convert ASCII data files into SPSS. … are clinical performance measures for use with readily available inpatient data.

8654. Advancing Population and Public health Reporting and Outcomes with Vaccination data Exchange (APPROVE) – Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r03hs028693-rajamani-final-report-2023.pdf
      January 01, 2023 - The system has users across state programs, local public health agencies, and clinical partners with … This yielded one of the measures of interoperability tool use, which is to assess the number/percent … methods involved input from epidemiologists (n=9) who lead select infectious disease surveillance programs … Partnerships with academia and workforce programs funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for … Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/technical-guidance/index.html. 12.

8655. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49817/psn-pdf
      January 01, 2018 - It oversees a certification program for electronic health https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#references https: … physicians and health care systems electing to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program … but such a center has not yet been formed.(18) Despite current efforts and certification standards, measures … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

8656. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49489/psn-pdf
      September 01, 2005 - Case Objectives Appreciate the incidence of adverse drug events in older persons List preventative measures … using an instrument such as the Medication Discrepancy Tool (Figure) produced by the Care Transitions Program … Medication Discrepancy Tool Produced by Care Transitions Program at University of Colorado at Denver … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

8657. COVID-19 and the Built Environment | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/covid-19-and-built-environment
      June 30, 2021 - This may involve implementation of more robust environmental risk management programs. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2013. … From public health, we know that basic measures will go a long way. … HAIs associated with surface, water, or air transmission might be more environmental risk management programs … January 13, 2021 Restructuring of a general surgery residency program in an epicenter

8658. Prostate-Cancer-Risk-Assessment-Genes Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/prostate-cancer-risk-assessment-genes_executive.pdf
      July 01, 2012 - Evidence-Based Practice Evidence-based Practice Program The Agency for Healthcare Research and … with the aging of the population.4 In data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program … assessment42 Element Strategies Components Analytic validity An indicator of how well a test or tool measures … the property or characteristic (e.g., genomic variations) that it is intended to measure Analytical … www.ohri.ca/programs/clinical_epidemiology/oxford.htm 45.

8659. 8 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-harms_methods.pdf
      November 01, 2008 - Through a collaborative effort of the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program, the Agency for Healthcare … Research and Quality (AHRQ), the EHC Program Scientific Resource Center, and the AHRQ Evidence-based … This document was written with support from the Effective Health Care Program at AHRQ. Dr. … and harms of an intervention are usually very different in character and are measured on different scales … applicability (study populations, interventions, or settings) Differences in methods used to define or measure

8660. 8 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/methodsguide_chou_assessing_harms_when_comparing.pdf
      November 01, 2008 - Through a collaborative effort of the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program, the Agency for Healthcare … Research and Quality (AHRQ), the EHC Program Scientific Resource Center, and the AHRQ Evidence-based … This document was written with support from the Effective Health Care Program at AHRQ. Dr. … and harms of an intervention are usually very different in character and are measured on different scales … applicability (study populations, interventions, or settings) Differences in methods used to define or measure