Metrics / Measures
Education – Clinical: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety. This is an evidence-based set of teamwork tools, aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among healthcare teams, including patients and family caregivers. Program includes welcome guides, curriculum materials, a diagnosis improvement course, patient videos, measurement tools, and training simulation tools.
Read MoreOrganizations for QI: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s TalkingQuality offers guidance on producing comparative information on health care quality that’s understandable and useful to consumers.
Read MoreTools: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Quality improvement measurement tools and information, including AHRQ Quality Indicators Hospital Toolkit, ambulatory clinical performance measures, and Talking Quality.
Read MoreOrganizations for QI: The AHRQ-CMS Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) is a central component to the overall HHS strategy for implementing the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), to support State Medicaid/CHIP agencies in collecting and reporting on a core set of standardized child health quality measures (“Initial Core Set” now called the “Child Core Set”) in alignment with other quality measures collected by states, health plans, and providers.
Read MoreTools: The Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures of health care quality that use readily available hospital inpatient administrative data. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality develops Quality Indicators to provide health care decisionmakers with tools to assess their data.
Read MoreOrganizations for QI: Browse through a collection of sample measures, guides, and reports to help plan a QI project.
Read MoreJournal Articles: In this issue of Heart Rhythm Journal we continue this quarterly feature highlighting important developments and advances in quality improvement or systems-based practice improvement in the delivery of heart rhythm care. This issue focuses on quality improvement surrounding atrial fibrillation (AF) and highlights some opportunities for measuring, reporting, and improving the quality of heart rhythm care for AF.
Read MoreJournal Articles: Understanding the quality of atrial fibrillation (AF) care delivery is critically important for identifying care gaps, targeting improvement efforts, and guiding resource allocation. In this effort, several professional societies have defined a series of AF quality indicators (QIs) that can be used to monitor adherence to evidence-based processes and AF-related outcomes. In Canada, this effort has been led by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS). On behalf of the CCS AF QI Working Group, in this issue of Heart Rhythm Journal, we summarize our process for defining and measuring AF QIs, present 2 recent publications reporting national data on key AF Qis, and discuss challenges encountered and future directions.
Read MoreThe purpose of this project was to develop a minimum set of standardized outcome measures that could be collected in AF patient registries and clinical practice.
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