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21. Explain and Motivate Use of Healthcare Quality Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2019 - Testing Is Essential While this section offers many suggestions about how to explain quality information … You can also use cognitive testing to explore alternative ways of talking about a particular issue, to … Finally, use testing to make sure that your language and message do not offend your consumer audience … Learn more about The Purpose and Process of Cognitive Testing .  

22. Advancing Diagnostic Equity Through Clinician Engagement, Community Partnerships, and Connected Care (pdf file)
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    November 15, 2022 - are less likely to be tested for coronavirus.1 Similar disparities have been documented with cardiac testing … address their biases through self-reflection activities (e.g., examining rates of how often essential testing … improve appointment attendance, ad- dress language barriers, and reinforce the importance of refer- rals, testing … COVID-19 racial disparities in testing, infection, hospitalization, and death: analysis of Epic data … November 12, 2021. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue- brief/covid-19-racial-disparities-testing-infection-hospitalization-death

23. An Update on the CAHPS Patient Narrative Item Sets - Martino (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2021 - environmental scan • Drafting of narrative items • Pretesting to assess readability and clarity • Validity testing … and revision • Translation and cognitive testing • Field testing and revision • Periodic refinement … Providing Insights into Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Care Experiences Revisiting Original Validity Testing … Providing Insights into Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Care Experiences Revisiting Original Validity Testing

24. Methods To Deploy Training | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Improving Your Laboratory Testing … Skills Updates or Competency Testing . Use the materials as part of competency testing of staff. … Competency testing can be done in a controlled environment such as a skills lab or can be accomplished

25. Advice on Using Design Professionals for a Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2022 - Resources Comparative Report Profiles Writing Tips Design Tips Cognitive Testing … Start consumer testing of the design at an early stage when it’s still possible and cost-effective to … Invite your design team to observe this testing. … Work with your design team to use the results from consumer testing to improve the report's design. … will support changes in design (such as changes that might be needed based on results from consumer testing

26. NPSD Data Spotlight - Patient Safety and COVID-19: A Qualitative Analysis of Concerns During the Public Health Emergency (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2021 - • Procedural issues with COVID-19 testing represented 13.0% of records analyzed. … The results indicate a need to close the loop on critical processes, such as testing, during a PHE … Additionally, nearly half of the records reviewed related to testing (n = 16) noted a failure of the … Potential patient and staff exposure to individuals testing positive for COVID-19, or PUI, presented … Train new staff, perform stat COVID-19 testing for surgery/ED, process ED samples.

27. Resources for Developers of Quality Reports for Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2019 - Resources Comparative Report Profiles Writing Tips Design Tips Cognitive Testing … Testing Quality Reports With Consumers Learn how you can use the  cognitive testing to elicit audience

28. Explaining Comparisons of Health Care Quality Scores | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2016 - However, evidence from cognitive testing of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality … Model_Report_Composite.pdf The developers of a model report for the AHRQ Quality Indicators did cognitive testing … shows how that can be done with two simple sentences which have been subjected to rigorous cognitive testing … ”   [1] This testing was done initially to explore how to add data from the CAHPS Hospital Survey … The approach shown on this page was adopted for the cognitive testing of the AHRQ Quality Indicator Model

29. The CAHPS Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2023 - Responsibilities of the CAHPS Consortium: The Consortium is responsible for conceiving, developing, testing … This work includes:  The development and testing of new surveys to measure patient experience (e.g. … The development and testing of survey items on specific topics (e.g., shared decision-making). … Information about products at various stages of development and testing.

30. CAHPS Emergency Department Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - Cognitive testing of the survey with ED patients. Measure testing with consumers. … Read about the development and testing of the CAHPS Emergency Department Survey .

31. Acute Care Learning Laboratory—Reducing Threats to Diagnostic Fidelity in Critical Illness | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - engaged key stakeholders to identify threats to the diagnostic process and guide the design, development, testing … data resources, real-time data processing capabilities, and patient clinical data, the laboratory is testing … As it prepares for pilot testing, the lab plans to apply for funding to evaluate the preliminary effectiveness … Feasibility and reliability testing of manual electronic health record reviews as a tool for timely identification … Feasibility and reliability testing of manual electronic health record reviews as a tool for timely identification

32. Translating Surveys and Other Materials | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2023 - This process includes two kinds of testing: Cognitive testing with a small group of representatives … of the target population, followed by revisions and additional testing as needed to address any areas

33. Search FAQs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2019 - Revisions to reflect findings from cognitive testing. … Field testing and psychometric analysis of field test results. … The CAHPS Hospital Survey: development, testing, and use. … Role of cognitive testing in the development of the CAHPS Hospital Survey. … and field testing of the survey.

34. Emergency Department Workflow Diagrams (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2018 - Diagnostic testing including labwork and chest x-ray. Diagnosis CAP? Pursue other diagnoses. … Diagnostic testing including labwork and chest x-ray. Diagnosis CAP? Pursue other diagnoses. … Diagnostic testing including labwork and chest x-ray. Diagnosis CAP? Pursue other diagnoses.

35. Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) 4 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2021 - ACTION projects conduct and study the development and testing of interventions designed to improve care … AHRQ’s mission through: A continued heavy focus on field-based, real-world informed development, testing … By testing innovations directly in the settings in which they are intended to be used, ACTION 4 projects

36. PCMH Fact Sheet (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2010 - • Cognitive testing (English and Spanish): In August 2010, the CAHPS Team conducted cognitive testing … questionnaires will be revised as needed based on the findings from the cognitive interviews.This testing … • Field testing: NCQA will conduct a field test of the instru- ment in late 2010. … The CAHPS Team is planning to do further field testing to inform implementation issues. … Organizations interested in testing the PCMH Survey may contact the CAHPS User Network at cahps1@ahrq.gov

37. About the CAHPS Patient Narratives Elicitation Protocol (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2021 - However, as part of the testing process, the open-ended items were administered both before and after … This testing indicated that the Narrative Item Set performed virtually the same whether placed before … Anticipated Participation Rate In field testing of the CG-CAHPS Narrative Item Set, approximately 60 … Anticipated Response Time In testing, the CG-CAHPS Narrative Item Set added 5-7 minutes on average … However, the additional time for answering the questions in experimental testing ranged widely, from

38. Designing and Testing Novel Solutions To Make Labor and Delivery Safer for Moms and Newborns | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2023 - Grants Post Award Grants Management AHRQ Grantee Profiles Designing and Testing … No‐Cost Extensions (NCEs) Contracts Grantee Profile Designing and Testing … reviewed August 2023 Page originally created August 2023 Internet Citation: Designing and Testing

39. Development of the CAHPS Clinician & Group Narrative Item Set | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Experimental Testing of the Protocol To assess the performance of the initial item set, the team conducted … In a second round of experimental testing with 332 respondents, the team assessed responses to these … Field Testing of the Protocol To assess how well the Narrative Elicitation Protocol performs outside … Release of the Final Version of the CG-CAHPS Narrative Item Set Based on additional testing of the

40. Administering the CAHPS Child Hospital Narrative Item Set (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2023 - typically administered with a mixed-mode method of mail/telephone, email/telephone, or email/mail.1 Testing … Validation testing suggests that administering the Narrative Item Set by phone resulted in longer, more … In field testing of the Child Hospital Narrative Item Set, approximately two-thirds of survey respondents … Anticipated Response Time In experimental testing, the median time for respondents to complete the … Anticipated Length of Comments In experimental testing, the average narrative written by survey respondents