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201. Part 3: Trends in Access and Priorities of the National Quality Strategy—National Quality Strategy Priorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part3-nqs.html
     May 01, 2018 - Differences in rates between groups were used to assess trends in disparities. … Differences in rates between groups are statistically significant and reference group rates exceed population … rates by at least 1% per year. … Differences in rates between groups are statistically significant and population rates exceed reference … group rates by at least 1% per year.  

202. Part 3: Trends in Access and Priorities of the National Quality Strategy—National Quality Strategy Priorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part3-nqs.html
     March 01, 2016 - Differences in rates between groups were used to assess trends in disparities. … Differences in rates between groups are statistically significant and reference group rates exceed population … rates by at least 1% per year. … Differences in rates between groups are statistically significant and population rates exceed reference … group rates by at least 1% per year.

203. Resources and Tools To Improve Discharge and Transitions of Care and Reduce Readmissions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/areas/improve-discharge.html
     August 01, 2024 - article) Implementation of the Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit To Decrease All-Cause Readmission Rates … Re-Engineered Discharge (RED): The Impact of a Pharmacist Telephone Intervention on Hospital Readmission Rates … journal article) RED Toolkit Impact Case Studies: Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute Slashes Readmission Rates … Readmissions and Revisits PSNet Materials: AHRQ PSNet article: Association of Changing Hospital Readmission Rates … With Mortality Rates After Hospital Discharge AHRQ PS Net Primer: Readmissions and Adverse Events After

204. Measures of Inefficiency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/careaffordability/measures3.html
     June 01, 2018 - Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. Annual rates are adjusted for age and gender. … Importance: Timely assessment of abdominal pain and diagnosis of appendicitis reduces rates of perforated … Groups With Disparities: Until 2007, Blacks tended to have higher rates than Whites, and people … with Medicare, Medicaid, or no insurance tended to have higher rates than people with private insurance … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.

205. AcademyHealth State-University Partnership Learning Network (SUPLN) Web Conference | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/supln-slides.html
     January 01, 2016 - The average increase in vaccination rates was 5.1 percent. … Among the 21 practices, 18 increased their vaccination rates. … Challenges in producing statewide CHIPRA rates from registry. … Rates increased over time in each age group, with slightly higher screening rates by ages 1 and 2, than … Screening rates by age 2 increased from 3-6 percent to 17- 26 percent from 2011 to 2014.

206. 165. Treatment Recommendations: Intensive Treatment (Continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/presentations/2008update-full/slide165.html
     October 01, 2014 - provision of intra-treatment social support are associated with significant increases in abstinence rates … such as bupropion SR, nicotine replacement therapies, and varenicline consistently increase abstinence rates … In addition, combining counseling and medication increases abstinence rates.

207. Language, Literacy, and Communication Regarding Medication in an Anticoagulation Clinic: Are Pictures Better Than Words? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Schillinger.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - importance of clinician-patient communication for safe medication management, little is known about rates … Measuring rates of miscommunication, as well as differences between verbal and visual modes of assessment … The researchers then examined whether verbal and visual concordance rates varied with the patient’s … We measured the difference in concordance rates when the report was obtained through the verbal and … to verbal concordance rates * When patient reports of their regimen were shifted from verbal to

208. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - However, many colorectal cancers are not found early due to low screening rates. … SATIS-PHI/CRC is a population-based system-redesign intervention designed to improve CRC screening rates … and rates of diagnostic followup for positive screens. … Increase screening and followup rates. … factors that hindered implementation and that were a likely cause of lower than expected screening rates

209. Standardized infection ratios for central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections, 2009–2012
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     July 01, 2015 - Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Hispanics and Whites had similar rates of treatment completion. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Rates are adjusted by age, sex, and interactions of age and sex. … The birth weight and hence infant mortality rates of U.S.

210. Designing & Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care The Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions Webinar 1 (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2011 - not the most frequent diagnoses leading to readmissions These are not the diagnoses with the highest rates … Medicaid patients have high readmission rates Medicaid all-cause readmission rates for patients aged … 21-44 (19.2%) and 45-64 (21.6%) are higher than Medicare all-cause readmission rates (17.3%) Medicaid … heart failure readmission rates are higher than Medicare rates: 29.1% versus 23.7% Strategies developed … on penalty conditions Focusing on those diagnoses only will not reduce hospital-wide readmission rates

211. Introducing the New CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey 3.0 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20150917/ron_hay-slides.pdf
     January 01, 2015 - Shortening CG-CAHPS Survey • Simplifying CG-CAHPS Item Wording • Effect of Incentives on Response Rates … Jose Calderón, in progress www.cahps.ahrq.gov Effect of Incentives on Response Rates • Participants … Effect of a post-paid incentive on response rates to a web-based survey. … Web mode was less expensive and surveys were returned more quickly than mail surveys, but response rates … CG-CAHPS Survey Simplifying CG-CAHPS Item Wording (Q6 Screening Item) Effect of Incentives on Response Rates

212. Module 1: Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals—Understanding Why Change Is Needed | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureinjury/workshop/guide1.html
     October 01, 2017 - describe the Toolkit, and discuss why a hospital would be interested in decreasing pressure injury rates … Pressure injuries are preventable, but pressure injury rates continue to escalate. … Because of the ever-increasing number of obese, diabetic, and elderly patients, pressure injury rates … The prevention team wanted to send the message that driving down pressure injury rates means driving … However, tools alone will not improve pressure injury rates.

213. Methods To Estimate the Baseline 2010 PFP National Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/methods.html
     December 01, 2017 - Collectively, 28 specific measures are used: 14 measures to generate rates for the 9 specific PFP HACs … The rates of the 21 MPSMS adverse events are expressed as a rate for the whole sample population, rather … For example, the CLABSI rate, like all the rates, uses all patients in the denominator, not just the … Table 3 provides a summary of the data that shows how the 28 rates from all the measures are combined … than have been computed to date, but not necessarily change the annual trends in the HAC rates.

214. Final Progress Report: What About Mom? Using Administrative Data To Develop Measures for Monitoring Healthcare Quality in Pregnancy & Childbirth (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/gregory-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Differences in hospital rates will be compared with rates of similar indicators, if applicable. … Adaptability – Differences in hospital rates were compared with rates for similar indicators in non- … Differences in hospital rates for the potential indicator were compared with rates within the adult … But the increased rates of delayed childbearing will contribute to increased rates of comorbidity conditions … improvement likely exists for the hospitals with high rates.

215. 209. Specific Populations and Other Topics - Pregnant Smokers (Continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/presentations/2008update-full/slide209.html
     October 01, 2014 - These are associated with higher quit rates. … Reinforces pregnancy-specific benefits and increases cessation rates. … Postpartum relapse rates are high even if a woman maintains abstinence throughout pregnancy.  

216. Chapter 2: Evidence of Disparities Among Ethnicity Groups (continued, 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata2b.html
     May 01, 2018 - When combining incidence rates for all cancer sites, AIAN rates were found to be higher than non-Hispanic … of lung cancer and approximately two-fold rates of all cancers. … Incidence rates followed the same pattern. The study did not control for socioeconomic status. … , or regional location is correlated with other factors that could influence these rates. … Rates were age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. adult population and compared with the rates of U.S.

217. CHIPRA 209 Report: Neonatal Intensive Care Outcomes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-209-fullreport.pdf
     June 01, 2019 - rates are seen in higher level, higher volume hospitals that have lower mortality rates once adequate … Specifically, we determined whether the outcome rates and the rankings based on these rates were consistent … period preceding the observed rates and the “current” rates, or year (t-1) to year t, where t is a specific … Minority patients had higher rates of several complications in these data, including higher rates of … Therefore, it is not possible to report rates of missing data.

218. From Quality Measures to Quality Care: Examples of Quality Improvement at Work | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-measures/21st-century/challenges.html
     June 01, 2018 - Mortality rates decreased from 10.9 percent to 6.5 percent in less than 1 year. … Western States had the lowest rates ( Clarke and Taffel, 1996 ). … For example, cesarean section rates in Washington State hospitals ranged from 0 percent to 43 percent … Over a 3-year period, overall flu vaccination rates climbed from 26 percent to 48 percent. … In a few of the intervention sites, vaccination rates surpassed 60 percent.

219. Comparative Reports on Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports/hospitals.html
     December 01, 2022 - experience scores, whether the hospital provides timely and effective care, complications, mortality rates … , unplanned hospital visits (including readmission rates), effective treatment and patient safety in … Healthcare Compare Developer Type: State agency Location: California Synopsis: Cal Hospital Compare rates … department timeliness, number of procedures and surgeries performed, childbirth practices, complication rates … , use of recommended practices, hospital-acquired infection rates, death rates and re-admissions, and

220. 84. Treatment Recommendations: Counseling (Continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/presentations/2008update-full/slide84.html
     October 01, 2014 - Variables associated with higher or lower abstinence rates Variables associated with higher abstinence … rates Variable Examples High motivation Ready to change Moderate to high self-efficacy … Variables associated with lower abstinence rates Variable Examples High nicotine dependence