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301. Appendix A. Literature Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - substantial morbidity, prolonging hospital stay by a median of 2 weeks, doubling rehospitalization rates … The literature is mixed as to whether infection rates are lower for ASCs compared to hospital settings … Effects of Preoperative Skin Preparation on Postoperative Wound Infection Rates: A Prospective Study … Surgical wound infection rates by wound class, operative procedure, and patient risk index. … SWI rates increased with the number of risk factors present (Table 3).

302. 2. Evidence of Disparities among Ethnicity Groups | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata2.html
     May 01, 2018 - example, there is more information on varying life expectancy ( IOM, 2008 ) and mortality risks or rates … along with knowledge of disparities in general health status, access to health care, and utilization rates … of depressive disorders whether male or female and lower rates of substance abuse disorders for women … Rates for Cuban and Dominican ethnicities were intermediate and similar to Black children. … Another study examined hypertension-related mortality rates among women of various Hispanic subgroups

303. Declines in Hospital Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/hac-rates-decline.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Declines in Hospital Acquired Conditions Declines in Hospital- Acquired Conditions National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and injuries from falls helped prevent 8,000 deaths and saved $2.9 billion between 2014 and 2016. Adverse Drug Events CAUTI* *CAUTI - Catheter-…

304. AHRQ Stats | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2025 - Highest Rates of Traumatic Brain Injury Population rates of hospitalizations and emergency department … Highest and Lowest Hospital Readmission Rates The highest hospital readmission rates in 2016 were due … Increased Suicide Rates in Rural Areas From 1999 to 2015, suicide rates among American Indians and Alaska … Highest Hospital Readmission Rates by Payer Thirty-day all-cause hospital readmission rates in 2014 were … Highest Hospital Readmission Rates Thirty-day all-cause hospital readmission rates in 2014 were highest

305. Quality and Safety Review System (QSRS) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2025 - National Adverse Event Rates Available From QSRS AHRQ worked with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid … These rates improved in 2022, decreasing to 6.2 percent of patients and 71.1 AEs per 1,000 discharges … For AEs where the population at risk numbered at least 100, the highest rates for both 2021 and 2022 … For almost 20 years, MPSMS was used to determine national rates for specific adverse events.

306. Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - The measures you monitor after implementation will include rates for the AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators … Indicators to Hospital Data (Tool B.1), which provides instructions for calculating and using PDI rates … for quality improvement in your hospital, as well as the tool Assessing PDI Rates Using Trends and … To produce accurate reports for measures that are calculated as rates (e.g., percentage of patients … Other measures that are not expressed as rates also can be used for monitoring, such as the occurrence

307. Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - The measures you monitor after implementation will include rates for the AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicators … Hospital Data (Tool B.1), which provides instructions for calculating and using IQI, PSI, and PDI rates … for quality improvement in your hospital, as well as the tool Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends … To produce accurate reports for measures that are calculated as rates (e.g., percentage of patients … Other measures that are not expressed as rates also can be used for monitoring, such as the occurrence

308. Improving Heart Health in Manufacturing Communities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2025 - Manufacturing communities have significantly higher rates of smoking, obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes … Preliminary results also suggest lower rates of burnout among worksite health center clinicians, compared … think we can use worksite health centers as a natural vehicle to reach manufacturing workers with high rates

309. P8: Do Telemedicine Visits Provide Similar Quality and Safety as In-Person Visits? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/profile-p8-reed.html
     May 01, 2024 - using electronic health record data in northern California from the multi-year study period to examine rates … other races to choose to have a telemedicine visit. 1 Researchers also found that there were lower rates … of prescribing and higher rates of follow-up office visits for patients with telemedicine visits compared … with prior experience having video visits, and those visiting their usual primary care provider. 3 Rates … Rates of follow-up office visits, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations were lower following

310. Hospital Readmissions: Not Just a Problem for Medicare (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - But another patient group – adults covered by Medicaid – have readmission rates that are just as high … This graphic compares 30-day readmission rates for Medicare and Medicaid patients for acute myocardial

311. Final Progress Report: Are Volume Standards Accurate Measures? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/glance-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Intensive Care Units with high patient volumes have lower mortality rates compared to low-volume ICUs … Surgeons performing high-volume of off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery have lower mortality rates … Intensive Care Units with high patient volumes have lower mortality rates compared to low-volume ICUs … Surgeons performing high-volume of off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery have lower mortality rates … Study 2: The AHRQ IQI software was used to calculate risk-adjusted mortality rates using either (1)

312. Medical Failure-to-Rescue Final Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/silber-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - complicated and precedence rates. … Medically Complicated Rates and 30-day Mortality Precedence Rates in 20% Medicare Sample Condition … and low overall complication rates for pneumonia and CHF. … 80%) compared with expected rates (around 60%), despite high precedence rates (>90%, Table 11). 14 … Variation in hospital complication rates and failure-to-rescue for trauma patients.

313. Final Progress Report: Call Light Responsiveness and Effect on Inpatient Falls and Patient Perceptions (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - , 2) injurious fall rates, and 3) patients’ perceptions about timeliness of call light responsiveness … showed that faster call light response time was associated with lower total fall and injurious fall rates … To examine the unique contribution of call light response time in predicting fall rates. … Hypothesis 1: Call light response time will contribute significantly to predicting fall rates, after … Units with a higher call light use rate had lower total fall and injurious fall rates.

314. CAHPS 101 (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - distribution • Telephone • In-person interviews 22 Data Collection Approaches Yielding Higher Response Rates … Sample Data Collection Approaches We Have Tested Data Collection Approaches Yielding Higher Response Rates

315. Adverse Drug Events occurring in U.S. Hospitals (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - Antibiotics Opiates and narcotics 0 5 10 15 20 The four most common causes of in-hospital ADEs—rates … 11 20 13 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80By patient age <1 1–17 18–44 45–64 65+ 65 75 30 34 3 Rates

316. Hypertension Screening for Children Who Are Overweight or Obese: Technical Specifications (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - This measure requires medical record data and is calculated as three rates as well as an overall rate … that is a composite of the three individual rates. … The three individual rates are: 1.

317. P4: Impacts of Changes in Payment Policy on Access to Primary Care for People with Lower Incomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/profile-p4-fung.html
     April 01, 2024 - Objective: To identify the effects of the temporary Affordable Care Act increases in Medicaid payment rates … for primary care providers in 2013 and 2014, which increased payment rates for dually eligible beneficiaries … Approach: The research team is using Medicare claims data to compare primary care visit rates for beneficiaries … Results: To date, findings from this study show that relative rates of primary care visits for dually

318. Measure Descriptions for Low Tidal Volume Ventilation: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - LTVV compliance rates (≥4 and ≤8 mL/PBW) for all patients. … LTVV compliance rates (≥4 and ≤6 mL/PBW) for patients with ARDS. … LTVV compliance rates (≥6 and ≤8 mL/PBW) for patients without ARDS. … PEEP compliance rates (≥5 cm H 2 0). Slide 16: Questions?

319. The End of the Public Health Emergency Refocuses the Urgency to Improve Healthcare Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2023 - First, some encouraging news: According to the Leapfrog report, Clostridioides difficile infection rates … improved 15 percent when comparing the period immediately before the pandemic to rates in late 2021 … Rates increased for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections (37 percent), central-line … Trends in adverse event rates in hospitalized patients. JAMA  2022 Jul 12;328(2):173-83.

320. Info FAQs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     How does AHRQ recommend that users interpret QI rates calculated with the v2018 software? … All measures that use the ICD-10 CM/PCS coding standards may see some variation in rates resulting from … AHRQ recommends using v2018 rates as a starting point for internal assessment and not for comparison … The inaccurate population estimates affect the rates of all area-level indicators only and does not affect … The inaccurate population estimates also affects rates of the following area-level indicators retired