The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), one of the leading quality measurement organizations in the US,defines quality healthcareas “the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with curre...
AHRQ and the Alliance.Efficiency in Health Care:What Does it Mean?How is it Measured?How Can it be Used for Value-Based Purchasing?Highlights from a National Conference,2006.Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Efficiency in Health Care: What does it mean?...
What is the impact of the eConsult on the course of action and need for referrals for older patients with frailty? What impact does eConsult have on care and access to services for patients with frailty? Methods Study setting The ChamplainBASE™ eConsult service is a secure web-based ...
Patient-level Composites to Assess Inpatient Care Quality Room to improve on all-or-none Less than half of PN inpatients receive all care processes. Just over half (57%) receive all HF care processes. 83% receive all AMI care processes Composite measure AMIHFPNE Patient %: Mean % of proces...
Clinical coding is the task of transforming medical information in a patient’s health records into structured codes so that they can be used for statistical analysis. This is a cognitive and time-consuming task that follows a standard process in order t
How common are language barriers in healthcare? Those language barriers putabout 9 percent of the US population at riskfor an adverse patient safety event as the result of a language discrepancy, according to a 2012 report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Patients se...
Even if a man is willing to be circumcised this does not mean he will end up having the procedure done. On the other hand, a lack of willingness to be circumcised should not be interpreted as a preference to be uncircumcised. This is because a large number of obstacles have been document...
For clinicians, work over many years, mainly in the US, has established health literacy as an identifiable and manageable risk in clinical care, of particular importance in the management of long-term and complex conditions that depend upon successful patient engagement and management. For public ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook AcronymDefinition ARMCArrowhead Regional Medical Center(Colton, CA) ARMCAlpena Regional Medical Center(Alpena, MI) ARMCAustin and Repatriation Medical Centre(est. 1995; Australia) ...
AHRQ Publication No. 11(12)-EHC076-EF. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK65646/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK65646.pdf. Accessed 27 Apr 2018. Barkin RL, Beckerman M, Blum SL, Clark FM, Koh EK, Wu DS. Should non...