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401. Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/pediatric.html
     December 01, 2017 - Indicators to Hospital Data Includes instructions for performing calculations to identify current PDI rates … PDI Rates Generated by SAS QI (B.2a) and Windows QI (B.2b) Software Includes sample output from both … Excel Worksheets for Charts on Data, Trends, and Rates to Populate the PowerPoint Presentation Instructions … Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends and Comparators Includes guidance for conducting trend and comparator

402. Part 3: National Quality Strategy Priority—Care Coordination | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part3-nqs4.html
     June 01, 2018 - Note: Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. resident population for 2010 as the … Groups With Disparities: In 2013, in all income groups, rates of potentially avoidable hospitalizations … Rates for Whites in the lowest income quartile were lower than the rates for Blacks in the highest income

403. Elements of Access to Health Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/access/elements.html
     June 01, 2018 - Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. Data available for 2015 quarters 1-3 only. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. Data available for 2015 quarters 1-3 only. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. Data available for 2015 quarters 1-3 only. … Gaps in rates of uninsurance between people who were poor and those who were not poor and between people

404. Final Progress Report: Effects of Extended Work Hours on ICU Patient Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/czeisler-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Rates of all nonintercepted serious errors did not differ significantly, nor did rates of preventable … Interns' serious procedural error rates were not significantly different. … Serious procedural error rates did not differ significantly. … Either can lead to increased error and adverse event rates. … In examining error rates it is important to consider limitations as well.

405. 2014-Women-Chartbook (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/2014-women-chartbook.pdf
     January 01, 2014 - Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … For this measure, lower rates are better. … For this measure, lower rates are better. … Rates improved among men and women.

406. Ventilator-Associated Events and Outcome Measures Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/vae.html
     December 01, 2017 - and equations to help you use your collected data to determine your unit’s progress in reducing VAE rates … pertaining to mechanically ventilated patients (e.g., number of mechanically ventilated patients, mortality rates

407. Table 3. Types of HAI Prevention Activities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-hpwpreport/clabsi-hpwptab3.html
     August 01, 2015 - Widespread communication of CLABSI rates (e.g., posted on units, on screensavers).  … Enhanced efforts to monitor and report rates; compliance with protocols.

408. Chartbook on Care Affordability: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/careaffordability/careaffordability-slides.html
     September 01, 2018 - Notes: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Notes: For this measure, lower rates are better. White and Black are non-Hispanic. … Notes: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Notes: For this measure, lower rates are better. Annual rates are adjusted for age and gender. … Notes: For this measure, lower rates are better.

409. Appendix B. Decisionmaking and Readiness for Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/universal-icu-decolonization/universal-icu-apb.html
     September 01, 2013 - following baseline assessments are recommended: Determining ICU bloodstream infection rates. … ICU bloodstream infection rates should be obtained from positive blood cultures occurring more than 2 … Calculate rates for each adult ICU. … Higher rates of ICU bloodstream infection and MRSA burden may help drive decisionmaking. … Select pieces of the above rationale, your hospital rates for outcomes, and comments on timing.

410. SOPS Surveys | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/index.html
     January 01, 2025 - System and Joe Hughes, M.H.A., of Riverside Walter Reed Hospital about how to increase survey response rates … Tip Sheet: Improving Response Rates on the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (PDF, 130 KB) Technical

411. CHIPRA 157: Section 2, Detailed Measure Specifications (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/duration/chipra-157-section-2-specs.pdf
     June 30, 2009 - APPENDIX I: Newborn Duration frequency tables APPENDIX Ia: Newborn Duration rates in eight states … Newborn Duration rates in 8 states, January 1, 2008-June 30, 2009. … FREQUENCY TABLES BY MEDICAID/M-CHIP and S-CHIP PROGRAM 6, 12, and 18 month Newborn Duration rates

412. Research Centers for Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/chronic-care/decision/research-centers/index.html
     October 01, 2018 - The three main research projects of this center focus on understanding and addressing high rates of … refusal of pneumococcal vaccination among African-Americans * , improving rates of colorectal cancer … main research projects of this center look at reminder and recall methods to increase immunization rates

413. Project Report - Lean Sigma (ppt file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/twomorees-slides/Two-More-Es-and-How-to-Spread-Dec-13-2011-508.ppt
     January 01, 2011 - Learning Objectives To think ahead about ways to make your investment of time and improvements in BSI rates … and provided teams with needed resources Shared goal rather than a competition to reduce infection rates … Engage staff in thinking about the next mountain they would like to climb while maintaining low BSI rates

414. Final Progress Report: TOP-MEDS CERT: Tools for Optimizing Medication Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lambert-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - If the psycholinguistic tests are shown to predict real-world error rates, then they can be used as … Results Laboratory test error rates (and other metrics) significantly predicted real-world error rates … memory and perception tests and corresponding error rates in large pharmacy chains. … error rates (adjusted R2 = .12 and R2 = .18). … A potentially confusable drug name is quantified by its error rates.

415. 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/slides1.html
     October 01, 2017 - Slide 3: Compelling Reasons To Implement Program Pressure injury rates continue to escalate. … Because of the ever-increasing number of obese, diabetic, and elderly patients, rates are predicted to … Slide 6: Prevention Works Multicomponent prevention programs reduce pressure injury rates. … Rates can drop 50% to 100%. … How do you measure pressure injury rates and pressure injury prevention practices?

416. Final Progress Report: Comprehensive Analysis of Data from Testing the Re-engineered Hospital Discharge (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/chetty-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - with the chosen risk factors that benefit by the intervention by comparing the average readmission rates … quantitative risk scores from a logistic regression model and the other using tabulation of incidence rates … Risk scores for these categories can be calculated using the incidence rates estimated using the … Assuming that the risks are proportional to the incidence rates, normalizing the total risk for the … the 16 mutually exclusive risk categories without quantifying the risk but using the readmission rates

417. Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital-Acquired Conditions Update - Interim Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/interimhacrate2014_2.pdf
     November 19, 2015 - the 4 years (2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014) relative to the number of HACs that would have occurred if rates … Results The methods for this interim 2014 update on the rates and counts of HACs and associated costs … HAC Rates, 2010 to Interim 2014 Exhibit 2. … We directly estimate the size of the reduction in HAC rates but rely on analysis from other researchers … HAC Rates, 2010 to Interim 2014 Exhibit 2.

418. Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital-Acquired Conditions Update - Interim Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications2/files/interimhacrate2014_cx.pdf
     November 19, 2015 - the 4 years (2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014) relative to the number of HACs that would have occurred if rates … Results The methods for this interim 2014 update on the rates and counts of HACs and associated costs … HAC Rates, 2010 to Interim 2014 Exhibit 2. … We directly estimate the size of the reduction in HAC rates but rely on analysis from other researchers … HAC Rates, 2010 to Interim 2014 Exhibit 2.

419. CAHPS Webcasts & Recent Events | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/events/index.html
     August 01, 2025 - Improving response rates and the representativeness of CAHPS survey data. … Multiple Feedback Methods to Complement CAHPS Survey Data (Webcast) (May 8, 2024) Improving Response Rates

420. 097-Ss-Normothermia-One-Pager (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/097-ss-normothermia-one-pager.docx
     April 01, 2025 - wound hematomas or the need for transfusions, both of which can increase surgical site infection (SSI) rates … · Warming patients in an effort to maintain normothermia is associated with reduced SSI rates · Active