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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/categorize.html
December 01, 2022 - Statistical Tests to Categorize Performance
One solution is to use statistical tests to identify statistically … significant differences in the performance of health care organizations and sort the organizations into … Sometimes, when the sample size is large enough, very small differences in performance will be found statistically … significant. … From the consumer perspective, focusing on differences that are meaningful substantively as well as statistically
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lord-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Similarly, on the Memorial campus, there was a
statistically significant decrease of 0.0002/1000 patient … There was no statistically significant increase or decrease
over the 24-month study period. … On the University campus, there was a statistically significant decrease in the mean
rate of code calls … There was no statistically significant change in the rate of cardiac arrests between the before and after … There was not a statistically significant change in the rate of cardiac arrests in the ICU.
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www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/medical-office/2014/mosurv14chap6.html
June 01, 2014 - Statistically "Significant" Differences Between Scores
You may be interested in determining the statistical … size; as the number of observations in comparison groups increases, small differences in scores become statistically … significant. … While a 1 percentage point difference between percent positive scores might be "statistically" significant … Keep in mind that statistically significant differences are not always important, and nonsignificant
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June 02, 2025 - 274 453 314 267
The Ns in the table above are the required number of patients needed to detect a significant … and minority ratio is 0.75, you would need 596 white patients
and 209 minority patients to detect a significant … We do not have sufficient cases to statistically compare how each race/ethnic group performs relative
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part2-mch.html
May 01, 2018 - widening of the Hispanic-White difference although it is still below our threshold for identifying statistically … significant disparities. … among live births improved overall and among Whites and Blacks but changes among Hispanics were not statistically … significant. … There were no other statistically significant differences between groups.
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January 01, 2024 - Additionally, four of five nursing homes demonstrated statistically significant
improvement at some … Despite the noted differences in medication
error rates, there were no statistically significant differences … Nursing Homes One and Three actually had statistically significant declines in
performance (more errors … The
only nursing home to show statistically significant improvement between the pre-implementation … Nursing Home Medication Safety 13
Nursing Homes One and Three both had statistically significant declines
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March 01, 2020 - Protocol implementation, but the trend was not statistically significant. … significant results. … Compliance was statistically
significant when ages were
compared. … Compliance was also
statistically significant from
enrollment to time of
surgery—10.4 days (more … Wrong-site surgeries are rare, and showing any
statistically significant reduction in occurrences with
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/er221-abstract.html
April 01, 2018 - receiving a behavioral program compared with usual care (0.31) or an active control (0.44); both were statistically … significant, and the latter was considered clinically important based on our prespecified threshold … There was no statistically significant difference at end of intervention or followup timepoints longer
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part3-nqs5.html
October 01, 2015 - prior to initiation of renal replacement therapy improved overall and among Whites but there were no statistically … significant improvements among Hispanics and Blacks. … There were no statistically significant improvements overall or among any ethnic group.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/emergency-visits-opioids.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Inpatient
Sample and Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, 2017.
2014
177.7
18.3%
2015
*Change not
statistically … significant
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September 01, 2016 - Improving = Rates of change are positive at 1% per year or greater and are statistically significant. … No Change = Rates of change are less than 1% per year or not statistically significant. … Differences are not statistically significant or are smaller than 10%. … There were no statistically significant changes for those age 18-44 and ages 45-64. … There were no statistically significant changes among Blacks and Hispanics.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part3-nqs3.html
June 01, 2018 - Differences among other income groups were not statistically significant. … Differences among boys were not statistically significant. … Trends: From 2008 to 2014, there were no statistically significant changes in the percentage of hospice … There were no statistically significant changes among Black, API, or AI/AN hospice patients.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part3-nqs2.html
October 01, 2015 - Trends: From 2008 through 2011, there were no statistically significant changes overall or for any ethnic … Groups With Disparities: From January 2009 through December 2011 combined, there were no statistically … significant differences by language spoken in rates of postoperative sepsis.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/muller-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Both of these were statistically significant. … This was
statistically significant (p<0.0001) (Figure 1). … This
again was statistically significant (p=0.035) (Figure 2). … This again was
statistically significant (p=0.0009).
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2. … This was statistically significant
(p=0.0009).
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April 01, 2025 - · Nasal decolonization for cardiac and total joint replacement surgeries led to significant reduction … antimicrobial prophylaxis.
· Results: There was a decrease in complex Staphylococcus aureus SSIs, with statistically … significant decreases in all operations and in scheduled hip and knee arthroplasties. … Scheduled procedures also saw statistically significant decreases in SSIs.
· A bundled approach using
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/hisph-slides.html
March 01, 2020 - Differences in 2007-2010 and 2011-2012 were not statistically significant. … Differences are not statistically significant or are smaller than 10%. … Differences are not statistically significant or are smaller than 10%. … Differences are not statistically significant or are smaller than 10%. … There were no statistically significant changes among Blacks.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part3-nqs2.html
June 01, 2018 - Trends: From 2008 to 2013, there were no statistically significant changes overall or for any racial … Black-White differences in other insurance groups were not statistically significant. … Groups With Disparities: In 2008-2009, there were no statistically significant differences between Blacks
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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 - significant
increase in the number of reports filed at Eglin USAF Regional Hospital. … Although there was an increase in reporting from junior
team members, this was not statistically significant … significant. … This study, however, did demonstrate a statistically significant increase in
medical error reporting … significant.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Weaver.pdf
January 01, 2003 - Results:
Statistically significant reductions in LDL were noted for patient subgroups in the
CHD or … This result
was statistically significant (P < 0.001). … A P-value of less than
0.05 was considered statistically significant. … Results demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in LDL value for all
patients after the interventions … When broken down by risk
category, statistically significant reductions in LDL were noted for patient
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/healthyliving/mchcare-measures.html
June 01, 2018 - Groups With Disparities:
In 2013, there were no statistically significant differences between Whites … In 2013, there were no statistically significant differences by income:
Poor, 74.3%.