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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips1209.html
July 01, 2012 - Cleveland Clinic Health System Facility Implements AHRQ's Emergency Severity Index
Search All Impact … Emergency Department (ED) part of the Cleveland Clinic Health System implemented AHRQ's "Emergency Severity … Impact Case Study Identifier:
CQuIPS-12-09
AHRQ Product(s):
Emergency Severity
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/sfmeasures.pdf
June 02, 2025 - # Measure name Definition for Data Collection; Exclusions/Inclusions if applicable
1 Asthma severity … documented
Definition: Asthma severity was documented as Intermittent or persistent for patients … Inclusions: Includes documentation of severity within the past 6 months, or more often if needed … 2 Inhaled
Corticosteroids
or other
controller
medication
prescribed
Definition: If asthma severity … Inclusions: The types of interactions that can be counted as part of an asthma visit depend on the severity
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/gorelick-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Definition of severity. Second, we must specify what is meant by severity. … Many severity indices are based largely on the patient’s diagnosis. … Severity adjustment tools available and their limitations. … However, the
difference is much smaller when adjusted for severity. … Injury severity scales: overview and directions for future research.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Jones_91.pdf
July 17, 2008 - Conclusion: The severity of voluntarily reported medication errors is
associated with the structure … a The number of error types exceeds the number of reports for severity Categories B – I because error … Medication Error Severity
The severity of medication errors varied by the availability of pharmacist … Analysis of the phase of the medication use
process by error severity indicated that CAHs were less … Type and severity of actual medication error reports
(Categories B - I) by pharmacist availability
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/picone-jollis-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Severity of illness and coexisting conditions: An advantage of CCP compared to
Medicare claims data … Killip class, a measure of severity at admission, is used as the initial assessment of
the severity … We interacted
the hospital volume binaries and different severity-of-illness measures to test whether … Controlling for coexisting conditions and
severity of illness for urban patients does not affect the … Across methods
and treatment studied, the addition of controls for severity of illness to the standard
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/dx-improvement/dxsafety-infographic.pdf
February 01, 2022 - Emergency
Department
23%
Of diagnostic-related malpractice cases...3
69%
high
severity
27%
medium … severity
4%
low
severity
34%
resulted
in death
Improve Communication and Teamwork Among
Providers
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201518.html
July 01, 2015 - Emergency Severity Index , a five-level triage tool designed to provide timely emergency care to patients … HHC augments its patient safety efforts with another AHRQ-funded resource—the Emergency Severity Index … “The ESI has provided specific timeframes within which to treat patients based on the severity of their … Studies
Impact Case Study Identifier:
2015-18
AHRQ Product(s):
Emergency Severity
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/bim.html
December 01, 2017 - Next, rate each barrier on the likelihood of the barrier occurring within the unit and the severity of … Multiply the likelihood and severity scores together to calculate a ranked priority score. … or severity. … Very high
Severity Score
How likely is it that experiencing this particular barrier will lead to … Very high
Barrier Priority Score
Multiply the likelihood score by the severity score to calculate
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cap-toolkit/cap_ed-pamphlet.pdf
January 01, 2018 - America (IDSA) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) recommend two
validated tools for assessing the severity … This tool calculates a severity score and recommended site
of care based on four readily available clinical … patients presenting with
symptoms of pneumonia include:
■ Support accurate appraisal of pneumonia severity … The tool will calculate a severity score and provide a recommendation for site of care: (home or hospital
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-201-asthma-section-2-tech-specs.pdf
June 02, 2025 - This measure assesses the percentage of children, ages 1 through 17 years old with asthma
of any severity … Percentage of children ages 1 through 17 years old who were identified as
having asthma, regardless of severity … The number of children ages 1 through 17 years who were identified as
having asthma, regardless of severity … The number of children ages 1 through 17 years who were identified as
having asthma, regardless of severity
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/bim.docx
December 01, 2017 - Next, rate each barrier on the likelihood of the barrier occurring within the unit and the severity of … Multiply the likelihood and severity scores together to calculate a ranked priority score. … or severity. … The priority score for each barrier is then calculated by multiplying the likelihood and severity scores … Very high
Barrier Priority Score
Multiply the likelihood score by the severity score to calculate the
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cap-toolkit/cap_pc-pamphlet.pdf
January 01, 2018 - America (IDSA) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) recommend two
validated tools for assessing the severity … process.3 The most actionable tool in a
primary care setting is the CRB-65 tool.4 This tool calculates a severity … patients presenting with
symptoms of pneumonia include:
■ Support accurate appraisal of pneumonia severity … The tool will calculate a severity score and provide a recommendation for site of care: (home or hospital
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cap-toolkit/cap_imptoolkit.pdf
January 01, 2018 - .”6
Severity assessments determine the site in which the patient is to receive subsequent care; sites … Severity-of-illness scores, such as the CURB-65 criteria, can be used to
identify patients with CAP … How is disease severity of CAP currently assessed?
2. … ■ Present guidance on CAP severity and what the consequent action ought to be. … CURB-65 pneumonia severity assessment adapted for electronic decision support.
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/anticipate.html
May 01, 2023 - ANTICipate
A dministrative data
N ew clinical information
T asks to be performed
I llness severity
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/chipra-164-materials-ii.pdf
June 02, 2025 - years
1
2
3-‐4
5
6-‐8
9
10-‐11
12-‐18
Numerators defined for each of the following treatment severity … 10-‐11
8 12-‐18
SEX Gender of
Patient
1 Male
2 Female
Table 2 Treatment Services and Codes, by Severity … Treatment Variables Definition – by Severity
Variable Proc. … Composite Crown
6
PMCoE
Dental – Attachment 2.1
Table 2 Treatment Services and Codes, by Severity … (cont’d)
Treatment Variables Definition – by Severity
Variable Proc.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/moyer-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - of the potential outcome
if it did occur (severity score). … Frequency and severity were rated on a numerical scale
and decided by group consensus. … Table 1
Revised Severity Categories
Category (Score) Outcome type Description of outcome(s) within … and probability scores, the team recognized that simultaneously scoring
the severity and the probability … Probability Hazard
Score
Severity Probability Hazard
Score
1C(1)
There is no
caregiver identified
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-0217-section-1-tables-1-4.pdf
June 02, 2025 - prp46
Emer treat of pain minor PRP46
Pain
Assessment
1125F Amnt pain
noted pain
prsnt
Pain severity … quantified; pain present (ONC)1
Pain
Assessment
1126F Amnt pain
noted none
prsnt
Pain severity … of a follow‐up
plan, reason not specified
Pain
Assessment
G8512 Pain sev quant
present
Pain severity
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/keydriver-sfcollaborative.pdf
January 24, 2018 - [ASTHMA
CONTROL]
I ‐ Increase number of children with asthma severity accurately classified. … [ASTHMA DIAGNOSIS AND ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF SEVERITY]
I ‐ Parents understand and administer … I ‐ Assess and document severity classification at least 1/year and use to determine f/
u plan (at least
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Woolever.pdf
January 01, 2001 - Evaluation of incident severity showed 172 (86 percent) near misses (no impact
on patient) in 1998 and … Similarly, the severity of incidents shows an overall decline approaching
statistical significance. … Data pertaining to the total number of reports, the assigned incident category
and severity, and the … Comparison of reporting rates and incident severity
per 100 hospital admissions at Eglin U.S. … Comparison of reporting rates and incident severity
Figure 1.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Zhang.pdf
January 01, 2004 - by places of occurrences of violations and by severity ratings. … Figure 3 summarizes the severity of the problems found in Pump 1 and Pump
2. … The severity ratings were divided into four regions: a severity rating equal or
above 3.5 is catastrophic … ; a severity rating equal or above 2.5 but below 3.5 is
major; a severity rating equal or above 1.5 … but below 1.5 is minor; and a severity
rating below 1.5 is cosmetic.