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www.ahrq.gov/topics/outcomes.html
Patient Falls by 21 Percent
AHRQ Toolkit Helped NorthShore Health Track Data to Keep Infection Rates … Urinary Tract Infections
Tampa Hospital Uses AHRQ Tools to Reduce Emergency Department CAUTI Rates
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-rr-webcast-011124-bakdash.pdf
June 02, 2025 - CAHPS Program: Improving Response Rates and Representativeness - AHRQ’S CAHPS Program
AHRQ’S CAHPS® … Value-based purchasing
Health service research
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CAHPS Survey Administration:
Improving Response Rates … Standard for Patient Experience
Uses for CAHPS Surveys
CAHPS Survey Administration: Improving Response Rates
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/sopstipsheet.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Tip Sheet: Improving Response Rates on the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture
Tip Sheet: Improving … Response Rates
on the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture
This Tip Sheet will help you understand … the importance of high survey response rates and provide suggestions for
improving your response rates … Why do response rates matter?
Response rates are important for data quality. … Provide Survey Incentives
Research shows that survey incentives can increase response rates.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part2-cancer.html
June 01, 2018 - Groups With Disparities:
Rates of mammography were similar between Black and White women. … Rates of women with clinical Stage I-IIb breast cancer who received axillary node dissection at time … Breast cancer death rates were worse for Blacks compared with Whites. … At the current rates of improvement, the benchmark could be achieved overall within 9 years. … This is due to a decline in the White rates.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part2-sbuse.html
May 01, 2018 - 1976, most other common measures of alcohol-related problems such as arrest and hospital discharge rates … single-room occupancy hotels study of drug abuse in New York City suggest that Hispanics have higher rates … Lung and esophageal cancer morbidity and mortality rates, known to be related to smoking, are lower for … Groups With Disparities : Hispanics and Whites had similarly low rates of treatment for substance use … Hispanics and Whites had similar rates of treatment completion.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/significant-patient-safety-improvement.html
July 01, 2022 - out by Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows that rates … Researchers found significant decreases in in-hospital adverse event rates for heart attack, heart failure … Tracking the rates of adverse events is a common way of measuring changes in patient safety. … In the study, researchers examined the rates of adverse events by looking at the raw (observed) rates … In the observed data for 2010 and 2019, adverse event rates fell 36 percent for heart attack patients
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/hospital-readmissions.html
January 01, 2012 - NRD supports various analyses of national readmission rates for all payers and uninsured patients and … the Patient Safety Organization
Patient Safety Organizations help hospitals with high readmission rates
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/maternal-health-indicators.html
October 01, 2024 - The U.S. has one of the highest maternal morbidity rates in the world among wealthy nations, with an … particularly acute for Black women, Native women, and women in rural communities who experience the highest rates … Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) , was an important step towards transparency on state-level rates … The software allows states and other organizations to understand area-level rates of severe maternal … Organizations may also compare their rates to nationwide benchmarks.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b3b_combo_resultspresentation.pdf
June 02, 2025 - However, Pressure Ulcers (PSI 03) occur at higher rates than the
national average – this may be an area … Rates before the 4th quarter of 2014 are calculated
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but … Currently the ICD-10 software does not calculate expected, risk-adjusted, or smoothed rates, but will
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/oirtab.html
December 01, 2012 - Assessing the Health and Welfare of the HCBS Population
Table A: Indicator Rates for the HCBS and Full … Medicaid Populations (Rates of Admission per 100,000 Persons)
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part2-cancer.html
May 01, 2018 - Thirty years ago, the Heckler Report found that:
Overall age-adjusted cancer incidence rates … Hispanic females had somewhat lower survival rates than nonminority females. … Groups With Disparities:
Rates of mammography were similar between Hispanic and White women. … Rates of diagnosis with advanced stage breast cancer and death due to breast cancer were lower among … At the current rates of improvement, the benchmark could not be achieved overall for about 17 years.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/recent--insights-webcast-intro.pdf
November 19, 2019 - AHRQ Webcast Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates - Intro
Recent Insights into … CAHPS Survey Modes and
Response Rates
A Webcast Presented by the AHRQ CAHPS User Network
November … 3
Key Research Questions
• Can high response rates be achieved with the hard-to-reach
young adult … • How do response rates for electronic modes alone and in
combination with other survey modes compare … • What electronic modes achieve the highest response rates?
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201808.html
December 01, 2018 - Tampa Hospital Uses AHRQ Tools to Reduce Emergency Department CAUTI Rates by 75 Percent
Search All … from AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce healthcare-associated infection rates … The effort to further reduce the hospital’s CAUTI rates started after an analysis revealed that a high
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-rr-webcast-011124-goldstein.pdf
January 01, 2023 - CAHPS Program: Improving Response Rates and Representativeness - CAHPS Surveys at CMS
CAHPS Surveys … Consumer Assessment and Plan Performance
CMS, Baltimore, MD
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CMS Efforts to Increase Response Rates … providers
► Annual payment update
► Value-based purchasing
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CMS Efforts to Increase Response Rates … • CMS is considering multiple ways to help increase response rates
across the CAHPS surveys … by mode and race/ethnicity.
• Example of ICH CAHPS response rates by race/ethnicity.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/clabsi-tools/appendix-3.html
March 01, 2018 - the CUSP (Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program) Toolkit, these tools dramatically reduced CLABSI rates … National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Rates
Slide 6. … CLABSI Rates per 1,000 Catheter Days
Slide 7. Risk Factors for CLABSI
Slide 8. … CLABSIs are:
Associated with increased morbidity
Associated with mortality rates of 10 percent … Femoral sites have higher infection rates and risk of thrombosis.
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/healthcare-associated-infections-hais.html
May 12, 2015 - Safety Program for Telemedicine
AHRQ Toolkit Helped NorthShore Health Track Data to Keep Infection Rates … Drop in Urinary Infections
Tampa Hospital Uses AHRQ Tools to Reduce Emergency Department CAUTI Rates
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/surveys-patient-safety-culture.html
November 09, 2016 - The Improving Response Rates on the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture recording gives listeners … tips and tools to increase an organization's survey response rates.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/recent-insights-webcast-parast.pdf
June 02, 2025 - AHRQ Webcast Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates - Parast
Testing the Feasibility … Response rate < 5%
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EDPEC Survey: Feasibility Test II
• Test novel approaches to improve response rates … modes
• All arms had mail and/or telephone follow-up after web survey
invitations
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Response Rates … surveys captured a
segment of the population that may not respond otherwise and
increased response rates … EDPEC Survey: Feasibility Test II
Feasibility Test II Design
Feasibility Test II Design
Response Rates
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/b3b_pdi_resultspresentation.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Currently the
ICD-10 software does not
calculate expected, risk-
adjusted, or smoothed rates,
but … of Neonatal Blood
Stream Infection Rate (NQI 03) to Expected Rates
Observed
Expected
Pediatric … of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate (NQI 3) to National
Average Rates To Compare Case Mix
Exp … of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate (NQI 3)
to National Average Rates
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Risk- … Currently the ICD-10 software does not calculate expected, risk-adjusted, or smoothed rates, but will
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinar-091019.html
November 01, 2019 - Developing Invitation Messages That Increase CAHPS Survey Response Rates
September 10, 2019 … Speakers discussed what's known about the impact of survey invitations on response rates and shared the … for Survey Research
University of Massachusetts Boston
Email Messaging To Increase Web Response Rates … www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dAJ5efb8O3U
Developing Invitation Messages That Increase CAHPS Survey Response Rates … (01:01:04)
Transcript
Developing Invitation Messages That Increase CAHPS Survey Response Rates