United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
"United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and timely dissemination of information on research, demonstration projects, and evaluations with respect to health care to public and private entities and individuals engaged in the improvement of health care delivery..." It supersedes the National Center for Health Services Research. The United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research was renamed Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999.
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D016270
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.409.418.750.600.650.592 N03.540.348.500.500.600.650.592
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality" by people in Profiles.
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Law AC, Stevens JP, Walkey AJ. National Trends in Timing of Death Among Patients With Septic Shock, 1994-2014. Crit Care Med. 2019 11; 47(11):1493-1496.
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Shin MH, Rivard PE, Shwartz M, Borzecki A, Yaksic E, Stolzmann K, Zubkoff L, Rosen AK. Tailoring an educational program on the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to meet stakeholder needs: lessons learned in the VA. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 02 14; 18(1):114.
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Nguyen MC, Moffatt-Bruce SD, Van Buren A, Gonsenhauser I, Eiferman DS. Daily review of AHRQ patient safety indicators has important impact on value-based purchasing, reimbursement, and performance scores. Surgery. 2018 03; 163(3):542-546.
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Hefner JL, Huerta TR, McAlearney AS, Barash B, Latimer T, Moffatt-Bruce SD. Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard algorithms to measure patient safety. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 03 01; 24(2):310-315.
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Gray DM, Hefner JL, Nguyen MC, Eiferman D, Moffatt-Bruce SD. The Link Between Clinically Validated Patient Safety Indicators and Clinical Outcomes. Am J Med Qual. 2017 Nov/Dec; 32(6):583-590.
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Chen Q, Rosen AK, Borzecki A, Shwartz M. Using Harm-Based Weights for the AHRQ Patient Safety for Selected Indicators Composite (PSI-90): Does It Affect Assessment of Hospital Performance and Financial Penalties in Veterans Health Administration Hospitals? Health Serv Res. 2016 Dec; 51(6):2140-2157.
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Engineer LD, Winters BD, Weston CM, Zhang A, Sharma R, Bass E, Jones D, Rosen A, Yoon FB, Borzecki A, Dy SM. Hospital Characteristics and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Inpatient Quality Indicators: A Systematic Review. J Healthc Qual. 2016 Sep-Oct; 38(5):304-13.
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Nguyen MC, Moffatt-Bruce SD, Strosberg DS, Puttmann KT, Pan YL, Eiferman DS. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicator for Postoperative Respiratory Failure (PSI 11) does not identify accurately patients who received unsafe care. Surgery. 2016 10; 160(4):858-868.
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Shin MH, Sullivan JL, Rosen AK, Solomon JL, Dunn EJ, Shimada SL, Hayes J, Rivard PE. Examining the validity of AHRQ's patient safety indicators (PSIs): is variation in PSI composite score related to hospital organizational factors? Med Care Res Rev. 2014 Dec; 71(6):599-618.
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Chen Q, Hanchate A, Shwartz M, Borzecki AM, Mull HJ, Shin MH, Rosen AK. Comparison of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicator Rates Among Veteran Dual Users. Am J Med Qual. 2014 Jul-Aug; 29(4):335-43.