RESOURCES

Webinars

2009

AHRQ Quality Indicators Learning Institute Webinar Series

• Pancholi, M., Staiger, D., & Geppert, J. (January, 2009). Classifying Hospitals.
• Pancholi, M., Sofaer, S., McBride, S., Bott, J., & Geppert, J. (February, 2009). Displaying the Data.
• Pancholi, M., Sofaer, S., Wright, V., Kolmer, S., & Geppert, J. (March, 2009). The Model Report: Beyond the Data Web Site Design and Content.
• Bott, J., Shannon, M., Migdail, K., & Sofaer, K. (April, 2009). Getting the Public to View and Use your Report.
• Bott, J., Hibbard, J., Sofaer, S., Cronin, C., & Eastman, B. (May, 2009). Evaluation of your Public Reporting Program.
• Bott, J., Tietze, M., Jacob, B., & Stewart, D. (July, 2009). Working with your Hospitals on Quality Improvement: From Small Steps to Large Leaps.
• Bott, J. & Geppert, J. (August, 2009). Quality Indicators Learning Institute Question and Answer Web Forum.

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2008

AHRQ Quality Indicators Learning Institute Webinar Series

• Fraser, I., Geppert, J., & Love, D. (October, 2008). Designing your Public Reporting Program.
• Fraser, I., Sofaer, S., & Geppert, J. (November, 2008). Selecting Measures.
• Fraser, I., Romano, P., Strauss, W., & Geppert, J. (December, 2008). Key Choices in Analyzing Data.

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2004

October 24 - Webinar on Public Reporting and Quality-Based Purchasing: The Evidence Base and Practical Tools
The-Buy Right for Health Care Quality Series Brochure

• Brochure, October 24

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Presentations

2009

• Davies, S. (October, 2009). Expanding the uses of AHRQ’s prevention quality indicators: Validity from the clinician perspective. Seventh Annual Bay Area Health Care Quality and Outcomes Research (HCQ07) Converence.

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2008

• Davies, S. (2008). Panel reviews of the AHRQ QIs: AHRQ and NQF panels.

AHRQ Annual Meeting and AHRQ Quality Indicators User Meeting- September 8-10; Bethesda, MD

• Patient Safety Indicator Validation
• Lessons from the AHRQ PSI Validation Project, Patrick Romano
• Validating the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) in the VA: a Multi-Faceted Approach, Amy Rosen
• Examining Patient Safety Indicators in UHC Academic Medical Centers: UHC Benchmarking Projects, Joanne Cuny
• Tiering of the Quality Indicators
• AHRQ Quality Indicators NQF Update, Marybeth Farquhar
• AHRQ QI Guide to Comparative Reporting, Sheryl Davies
• Future Validation and Improvement of the AHRQ QI, Kathryn McDonald
• Public Reporting of the Quality Indicators
• Guidelines for Consumer-Focused Public Reporting, Carol Cronin
• Evaluating the AHRQ Inpatient Mortality Measures for Public Reporting in California, Joseph Parker

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2007

AHRQ Annual Meeting and AHRQ Quality Indicators User Meeting- September 26-28; Bethesda, MD

• Quality Indicator Reporting Template
• Model Reports for the AHRQ Quality Indicators, Shoshanna Sofaer
• Overview of the Quality Indicators
• Overview of Quality Indicator Modules, Laura Puzniak
• Neonatal Development Process, Patrick Romano
• Establishing the Validity of the AHRQ QI/NQF process: Validation Pilot, Jeff Geppert
• Expectations of next release including impact of MS-DRGs, Sheryl Davies
• Collaborative Validation Efforts
• Examining Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism in Academic Medical Centers, a UHC Benchmarking Project; Joanne Cuny
• Validating the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) in the VA: a Multi-Faceted Approach; Amy Rosen
• Panel and workgroup reviews
• AHRQ IQI Panel Reviews , Sheryl Davies
• Current Evidence
• AHRQ Quality Indicators: Recent validation efforts, Patrick Romano
• Validation Pilot
• AHRQ Quality Validation Pilot Process and Tools, Pat Zrelak
• Validation Pilot Partner Experience: Patient Safety A Regional Perspective In Arizona, Beverlee Hall
• Lessons Learned, Laura Puzniak

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2005

AHRQ Quality Indicators User Meeting- September 26-27; Rockville, MD

• Overview of the AHRQ Quality Indicators
• What are the AHRQ Quality Indicators and how do they fit AHRQ’s organization and mission, Irene Fraser
• What are the AHRQ Quality Indicators and how do they fit AHRQ’s organization and mission, Marybeth Farquhar
• Overview of the AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators
• AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators, Kathy McDonald and Sheryl Davies
• Using the AHRQ Area Level Indicators to Improve Population Health
• Using AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicators to Assess Program Performance in Medicaid Managed Care, Sandra Mahkorn
• Combining the AHRQ Indicator Sets to Assess the Health of Communities: Powerful Information for Planning Purposes, Susan McBride
• Measuring and Managing Quality with AHRQ Quality Indicators, Samir Shalaby
• Using the AHRQ Provider Level Indicators as a Catalyst for Quality Improvement
• Going Public, Ben Yandell
• Covenant Healthcare, Carol Munsch
• Failure to Rescue: Preventing Avoidable Deaths with Rapid Rescue Teams, Joanne Cuny
• Implications of ICD-9-CM Coding Rules for Measuring AHRQ Quality Indicators
• Implications of ICD-9-CM Coding Rules for Measuring QIs, Patrick Romano and Rita Scichilone
• Use of the AHRQ Quality Indicators in National and State Healthcare Quality Reporting
• National Healthcare Reporting: Quality and Disparities Reports, Ernie Moy
• Quality Reporting Initiatives State Trends and Issues, Denise Love
• Methods for Creating Aggregate Performance Indices
• Methods for Creating Aggregate Performance Indices, Jeffrey Geppert
• Considerations in Comparative Public Reporting
• Considerations in Comparative and Public Reporting, Patrick Romano
• Considerations in Public Reporting of the AHRQ QIs, Shoshanna Sofaer
• Case Study: Using AHRQ Quality Indicators in Public Reporting
• Inpatient Quality Reporting in Colorado, Scott Anderson
• Oregon Hospital Quality Indicators, Tina Edlund
• Implementing ALL the Consensus Standards: The Journey so far, Daniel Varga
• Case Study: Using AHRQ Quality Indicators in Pay-for-Performance
• Medicare’s Healthcare Quality Incentive Strategies, Sheila Roman and Trent Haywood
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Use of AHRQ Quality Indicators, Carol Wilhoit

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Publications

2010

• Davies SM, McDonald KM, Schmidt E, Schultz E, Geppert J, Romano, PS. 'Expanding the Uses of AHRQ's Prevention Quality Indicators: Validity from the Clinician Perspective'. Medical Care. In press.
• Borzecki AM, Kaafarani HMA, Utter GH, Romano PS, Itani K, Shin MH, Chen Q, Rosen AK. How valid is the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator Postoperative Respiratory Failure? The Veterans Health Administration experience. Journal of the American College of Surgeons; in press.
• Utter GH, Borzecki AM, Rosen AK, Zrelak PA, Baron R, Cuny J, Kaafarani HM, Sadeghi B, Geppert JJ, Romano PS. Designing an abstraction instrument—Lessons from efforts to validate the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety; 37(1):20-28.
• Sadeghi B, Baron R, Zrelak P, Geppert J, Tancredi D, Romano PS. Cases of iatrogenic pneumothorax can be identified from ICD-9-CM coded data. American Journal of Medical Quality; 25(3):218-24.
• White RH, Garcia M, Sadeghi B, Tancredi DJ, Zrelak P, Cuny J, Sama P, Gammon H, Schmaltz S, Romano PS. Evaluation of the predictive value of ICD-9-CM coded administrative data for venous thromboembolism in the United States. Thrombosis Research; 126(1):61-7.
• Utter GH, Cuny J, Sama P, Silver MR, Zrelak PA, Baron R, Drösler SE, Romano PS. Detection of Postoperative Respiratory Failure: How predictive Is the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator? Journal of the American College of Surgeons; 211(3):347-354.

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2009

• Romano PS, Mull HJ, Rivard PE, Zhao S, Henderson WG, Loveland S, Tsilimingras D, Christiansen CL, Rosen AK. Validity of selected AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators based on VA National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data. Health Services Research; 44(1): 182-204.
• Utter GH, Zrelak PA, Baron R, Tancredi DJ, Sadeghi B, Geppert JJ, Romano PS. Positive predictive value of the AHRQ Accidental Puncture or Laceration Patient Safety Indicator. Annals of Surgery; 250(6):1041-5.
• White RH, Sadeghi B, Tancredi DJ, Zrelak P, Cuny J, Sama P, Utter GH, Geppert JJ, Romano PS. How valid is the ICD-9-CM based AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator for postoperative venous thromboembolism? Medical Care; 47(12):1237-43.

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2008

• Houchens RL, Elixhauser A, Romano PS. How often are potential patient safety events present on admission? Joint Commission Journal Quality and Patient Safety; 34(3):154-63.
• McDonald K, Davies S, Haberland C, Geppert J, Ku A, Romano PS. “A preliminary assessment of pediatric healthcare quality and patient safety in the U.S. using readily available administrative data.” Pediatrics 2008; 122(2):e416-25.

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2007

• Silber JH, Romano PS, Rosen AK, Wang Y, Even-Shoshan O, Volpp K. Failure-to-Rescue: Comparing definitions to measure quality of care. Medical Care; 45(10):918-25.
• McDonald KM, Davies SM, Geppert J, Romano PS. “Why Rescue the Administrative Data Version of the “Failure to Rescue” Quality Indicator.” Med Care. 2007 Apr;45(4):277-9

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2003

• Romano PS, Geppert JJ, Davies SM, Miller MR, Elixhauser A, McDonald KM. “A National Profile of Patient Safety in US Hospitals Based on Administrative Data,” Health Affairs 22, no. 2: 154-166 (March/April 2003).

• Supplemental graphs for research paper (PDF — 49 KB)

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2002

• Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Initiative (2002). AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicators- Interpretive Guide.

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