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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/overview/background/measures-PHP-33.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Measure Name: Rates of screening using standardized screening tools for potential delays in social and … set of tools as part of a well child or
other visit to their primary care provider
(report three rates … Yes No X NR
Screening rates before and after use of the measure.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/hacreport-2019.pdf
January 01, 2019 - AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Updated Baseline Rates and Preliminary Results … 2014-2017
January 2019
AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions
Updated Baseline Rates … The 2015 rate is 92 HACs per 1,000 discharges, and 2016 and preliminary 2017 rates are 88 and
86 HACs … Data are more precise for the
overall harm rates than for individual metrics. … Removing these charts from the
2015 and 2016 global samples resulted in lower HAC rates.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Rivard.pdf
May 01, 2004 - PSI rates
Table 5 compares the PSI rates that were calculated using the VA aggregated-
acute database … with rates presented in a previously published nationwide study. … Overall, VA and non-VA rates are similar. … However, for a few indicators, rates differ substantially. … PSI rates are in the range of one to five per thousand hospitalizations.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/womenhealth/wm-comm.html
September 01, 2015 - Rates of emergency department visits for asthma among women decreased from 739.3 to 730.6 and among men … Trends: From 2005 to 2012, overall rates for potentially avoidable hospitalizations for all conditions … Rates improved among men and women. … The rates improved among both men and women. … Groups With Disparities:
In 2012, overall, women had higher rates of admissions with hypertension
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-232-section-3-table-5.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Ranges for Normal Heart Rates, by Age
Threshold (Normal) Ranges Age
Group
Heart Rates (beats/min
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part1.html
March 01, 2020 - Data are generally available through 2012, although rates of uninsurance have been tracked through the … Quality improved for most NQS priorities:
Patient Safety improved, led by a 17% reduction in rates … Healthy Living improved, led by doubling of selected adolescent immunization rates from 2008 to 2012 … At the same time, several racial and ethnic disparities in rates of childhood immunization and rates … Most Hispanic populations have lower infant mortality rates than Whites.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiexh20.html
April 01, 2018 - Estimates of the total number of SSI cases in the United States, based on the rates used
Previous … Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates
Chapter 3.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/2014nhqdr-hispanichealth-pt4.pptx
January 01, 2014 - -Mexico Border
Population-based rates of inpatient Hospital stays By Service Line
24
Rates of Inpatient … Hispanics generally had lower rates of hospitalization than non-Hispanics, except in the medical and … All rates are per 100,000 population. … All rates are per 100,000 population. … Access to health care: Hispanics in border counties had the highest rates of uninsurance.
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/decisionmakers/systems/index.html
December 01, 2012 - Such integration represents an opportunity to increase rates of delivering tobacco dependence treatments … First, such strategies have the potential to substantially improve population abstinence rates. … implementation of such strategies could produce a 2-to-3.5-percent reduction in smoking prevalence rates … Clinician training and other systems changes are intended to increase rates of tobacco use assessment … Three different outcomes were examined: rates of treatment provision, quit attempts, and quit rates.
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www.ahrq.gov/opioids/data/stat-briefs.html
February 01, 2024 - HCUP Statistical Brief #260: Social Determinants of Health and County Population Rates of Opioid-Related … This brief describes the social determinants of health for counties with high population rates of opioid-related … Related infographic: Women Have Higher Rates of Opioid-Related Hospitalizations In Most States
HCUP … State-specific data, provides trends over time, and identifies the States with the highest and lowest rates … Hospitalization rates were climbing among every adult age group and in every region of the country, making
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/qdr-blackhealth-slides.html
November 01, 2020 - 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 … Rates for Whites in the lowest income quartile were lower than the rates for Blacks in the highest income … At current rates of improvement, the overall, multiple-race, and Asian rates could reach the benchmark
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/guide/web2.html
December 01, 2017 - Look at:
Readmission rates by payer.
Top 10 diagnoses leading to the most readmissions. … Readmission rates varied by payer type; patients with commercial payers had lower readmission rates than … Patients discharged to home (without home health agency care) and hospice have lower readmission rates … Slide 13: Readmission Rates for Congestive Heart Failure
Image: Two bar graphs show All-cause 30- … Use this information to:
Identify groups of patients with high readmission rates.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/qdr-ruralhealthchartbook-update.pdf
January 01, 2020 - ■ Higher smoking rates (NCHS, 2017). … ■ Higher rates of uninsurance (NCHS, 2017)
■ Higher rates of suicide (Kegler, et al., 2017). … Rates for heart disease and death rates for cancer decreased at a slower rate in
nonmetropolitan areas … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Rates in
less urban areas have been higher than rates in more urban areas, with some evidence of a
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final-companion/clabsicomp1.html
January 01, 2013 - report discusses project background, implementation, impact, and lessons learned and provides data on rates … Finally, the Moderating Factors section examines variation in CLABSI rates found in the project.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/guide/web1.html
December 01, 2017 - These are not the diagnoses with the highest rates of readmissions. … 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%. … Focusing on those diagnoses only will not reduce hospital-wide readmission rates.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/hacrate2013_0.pdf
October 01, 2015 - index.html
http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/index.html
2013 Final HAC Rates … Some HACs have declined dramatically in the Nation’s
2 2013 Final HAC Rates
hospitals. … These data
on SSIs are used to calculate the HAC rates, overall, for approximately 2 percent of all … The majority of deaths averted occurred as a
result of reductions in the rates of pressure ulcers
14 … Temporal trends in rates of patient harm resulting from medical care.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-stat-brief-4-statins.pdf
October 01, 2024 - Brief, No. 4 October 2024
Highlights
● For Medicare beneficiaries age 65 years and older, national rates … ● Medicare beneficiaries in New York and Washington generally had the highest and lowest
rates of … The rates in Hawaii (79.7%), California (68.5%), and New York (68.2%) were
significantly higher than … Rates in South Dakota (42.1%), Montana
(44.2%), Arkansas (51.0%), Washington (51.9%), and Maryland ( … Rates in Maine (43.5%)
and Washington (49.1%) were significantly lower.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/011-blood-culture-webinar-slides.pptx
October 01, 2024 - Rates are calculated monthly for adult units with >50 blood cultures per month. … Rates are calculated quarterly for adult units with <50 blood cultures per month. … Effectiveness of introducing blood culture collection packs to reduce contamination rates. … Reducing blood culture contamination rates: a systematic approach to improving quality of care. … Reducing blood culture contamination rates in the emergency department.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/pfphac.pdf
September 01, 2014 - 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.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/spotlights/spotlight-patterns-fall-interventions.pdf
September 01, 2023 - reported interventions are similar across senior and adult patients even though
seniors have much higher rates … reported interventions are similar between patients with and without
sensory impairment even though rates … medications known
to increase the risk of falls and patients not on these medications, even though rates … reported interventions are similar across patients with and without a history
of falls even though rates … • Even though rates of harm and injury varied
across patients with different risk factors,
Frequent