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Before you decide which quality measures to report, it is helpful to know what kinds of data you will need to produce the scores for the measure. Sometimes, the data you want to report already exist ...

Care coordination in the primary care practice involves deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient's care to achieve ...

The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) End-of-Life Care Survey assesses healthcare experiences in the last month of life, including care experiences across a range of ...

An accurate measurement system is an important component of the quality improvement process that allows staff to determine if changes in care lead to improvement. The Tracking Record for Improving ...

Some states use some of their budget surpluses to support research. One example is in Texas, where they have created the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) and they are ...

There were 68.6 million outpatient prescription opioid fills between 2021 and 2022. Hydrocodone (25.2 million fills), oxycodone (19.2 million fills) and tramadol (14.1 million fills) accounted for ...

Between 2021 and 2022, average annual total outpatient prescription costs for oxycodone totaled $1.9 billion, and costs for hydrocodone totaled $700 million, accounting for nearly 75 percent of the ...

Between 2018 and 2022, 21.7 percent of healthcare expenditures were associated with the top 1 percent of spenders. The bottom 50 percent of spenders accounted for less than 3 percent of expenditures. ...

After the Institute of Medicine released its sentinel report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with its Federal ...

The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide is a comprehensive resource for health plans, medical groups, and other providers seeking to improve their performance in the domains of patient experience ...

Many organizations are uncertain about how to proceed with designing a workable solution for medication reconciliation. This chapter provides helpful information and tools for designing or redesigning ...