To help advance its goal of improving health care for all Americans, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) held its second annual conference on September 7-10, 2008, in Bethesda, MD. This conference was designed to showcase the best of the Agency's research and provide examples of how that research is being implemented at all levels in health care delivery. Entitled "Promoting Quality... Partnering for Change," the conference featured presentations in five major themes.
Contents
Health Information Technology (Health IT)
Prevention/Care Management
Effective Healthcare
Patient Safety
Value/Innovations/Emerging Issues
Miscellaneous
Video
Health Information Technology (Health IT)
Using Health IT to Enhance Inter-Provider Communication
to Improve Care
Designing for ACCORD with Patients (PowerPoint® File, 3 MB; Web Version)
Henry C. Chueh,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Human Factors in Prescription Medication Management (PowerPoint® File, 1.2 MB; Web Version)
Jonathan R. Nebeker,
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Improving Quality of Care for Vulnerable Populations
Through Health IT
Use of Clinical Decision Support Expert Rules within Clinician Workflows: Improving Quality of Care for Vulnerable Populations Through Health IT (PowerPoint® File, 1.4 MB; Web Version)
Jane M. Brokel, University of Iowa
The BLUES Project (PowerPoint® File, 550 KB; Web Version)
Karen C. Fox, Delta Health Alliance
On-Time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care: Using Nursing Home IT
for Optimal Care Delivery (PowerPoint® File, 1.2 MB; Web Version)
Susan D. Horn,
Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research
Considerations for Health Information Exchange (HIE) Implementation
Health Information Exchange: Myths, Mirages and Reality (PowerPoint® File, 1.7 MB; Web Version)
Donald P. Connelly,
University of Minnesota
MidSouth eHealth Alliance (PowerPoint® File, 215 KB; Web Version)
Thomas Duarte, MidSouth eHealth Alliance
Lessons Learned: Implementing a Low-Cost Structure Health Information Exchange (PowerPoint® File, 3 MB; Web Version)
Frank Richards,
Geisinger Health System
ePrescribing: Enabling Change and Measuring Impact
Enabling Electronic Prescribing and Enhanced Management of Controlled Substances (PowerPoint® File, 510 KB; Web Version)
Grant M. Carrow,
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Barriers to Provider Adoption of eRx: Lessons Learned from the NEO CMS eRx Pilot (PowerPoint® File, 7.4 MB; Web Version)
Bob Elson, MetroHealth
John Kralewski, University of Minnesota
Dave Gans, Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
E-prescribing in Community-Based Practices: Successes and Barriers (PowerPoint® File, 540 KB; Web Version)
Michael A. Fischer,
Harvard Medical School
Enabling Quality Measurement Through Health IT
Developing a Metric Set for Measuring and Reporting Ambulatory Quality of Care in the Setting of Health IT with HIE (PowerPoint® File, 185 KB; Web Version)
Lisa M. Kern,
Rina V. Dhopeshwarkar, and
Rainu Kaushal, Cornell University
Standardization and Automatic Extraction of Quality Measures in an Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (EMR) (PowerPoint® File, 1.4 MB; Web Version)
Denni McColm, Citizens Memorial Healthcare
Creating a Shared Quality Improvement Reporting System (PowerPoint® File, 1.7 MB;
Web Version)
Lisa Schilling,
Colorado Associated Community Health Information Exchange
Clinical Decision Support Tools for Ambulatory Settings
Clinical Decision Support Consortium (PowerPoint® File, 2.2 MB; Web Version)
Blackford Middleton,
Harvard Medical School
Clinical Decision Support to Improve Quality
IPSQWHIT: Measuring the Quality Improvements Associated with Decision Support in Pediatrics
(PowerPoint® File, 280 KB; Web Version)
Timothy G. Ferris,
Harvard Medical School
Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) and EMR-Based Registry to Improve Management of Hypertension in a Community Health Center (PowerPoint® File, 420 KB; Web Version)
Helene Kopal, Primary Care Development Corporation
Information Integration to support Medication Management
(PowerPoint® File, 2.1 MB; Web Version)
Jonathan R. Nebeker,
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Medicaid and Health IT
Medicaid/SCHIP Technical Assistance for Health IT/HIE (PowerPoint® File, 760 KB; Web Version)
Linda Dimitropoulos, RTI International
Electronic Prescribing (PowerPoint® File, 355 KB; Web Version)
Jim Hutcheson, TennCare
Development of Health Information Technology to Impact Urban High Risk Populations (PowerPoint® File, 335 KB; Web Version)
LaRah Payne, District of Columbia, Department of Health/MAA
Considerations in Design of Health IT for In-Home Use
Enhancing Self-Management of T2DM with In-Home Technology (PowerPoint® File, 1.8 MB; Web Version)
Edith Burns,
Medical College of Wisconsin
Be Careful What You Wish For—Managing Devices and Data In Your Patient's Home (PowerPoint® File, 167 KB; Web Version)
Lee R. Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania
Innovative Telehealth Applications to Support High Quality Care From a Distance
ECHO Project (PowerPoint® File, 2.6 MB; Web Version)
Sanjeev Arora,
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Telemedicine in Pediatrics: Increasing Access & Quality (PowerPoint® File, 5.4 MB; PDF File, 1.1 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
James P. Marcin, University of California, Davis, Children's Hospital
Health-e-Access: Improving Care for Rochester's Vulnerable Children (PowerPoint® File, 1.5 MB; Web Version)
Kenneth McConnochie, University of Rochester
Enabling Transitions in Care Through Health IT
ACCEL: Access El Dorado; Health Care Access That Works. Simpler. Better. (PowerPoint® File, 1.3 MB; PDF File, 230 KB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Gregory Bergner, El Dorado County, California
Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge (PowerPoint® File, 53 MB; PDF File, 1.4 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Brian Jack, Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine
Does Access to Electronic Health Record (EHR) Information Improve Emergency Department (ED) Performance? (PowerPoint® File, 504 KB; Web Version)
Stuart M. Speedie, Jing Du, Nawanan Theera-Ampornpunt, Young-Taek Park, and Donald Connelly, University of Minnesota
Design of Patient-Centered Health IT
Cancer Care Communication (C3) (PowerPoint® File, 3.4 MB; Web Version)
Elizabeth A. Hahn, Northwestern University
Use of Mixed-Method Designs To Inform Patient-Centered Tools To Improve Medication Management (PowerPoint® File, 1.4 MB; Web Version)
Brian J. Quilliam and Anne L. Hume, University of Rhode Island
Roberta E. Goldman, Charles Eaton, and Kate L. Lapane, Brown Medical School
Design of Patient-Centered Care Health IT: Patient Advisor Involvement in ePHR Design and Outcomes Research (PowerPoint® File, 3.2 MB; Web Version)
Patricia Sodomka, MCG Health, Inc., and Medical College of Georgia
Measuring the Quality of Health Across Populations
Use of Information Technology for Precision Performance Measurement and Focused Quality Improvement (PowerPoint® File, 2.3 MB; Web Version)
David W. Baker, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Measuring the Quality of Health Across a Population: The Indian Health Experience (PDF File, 3.6 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Theresa Cullen, Indian Health Service
Enabling Chronic Disease Care Through Health IT
Conversational IT for Better, Safer, Pediatric Care (PowerPoint® File, 1 MB; Web Version)
William G. Adams, Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine
Internet-based Telemedicine for Cardiovascular Disease Management (PowerPoint® File, 1.4 MB; Web Version)
Alfred A. Bove, Temple University Medical Center
Enabling Chronic Disease Care through Health IT (PowerPoint® File, 7.2 MB; PDF File, 830 KB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Dean Schillinger, University of California, San Francisco,
San Francisco General Hospital, and California Deptartment of Public Health
Improving Patient-Clinician Communication Through Consumer Health IT
Personal Health Records for Medication Use: Views from Elders and Their Physicians (PowerPoint® File, 1.8 MB; Web Version)
Elizabeth Chrischilles, University of Iowa, Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics
Findings from Focus Groups of Geriatric Patients Regarding Medication Issues (PowerPoint® File, 515 KB; Web Version)
Kate Lynn Lapane,
Virginia Commonwealth University
Stakeholder Involvement in HIE
Stakeholder Buy-in & Local Health Information Exchange Activities: Implications for Quality Reporting & Pay-for-Performance (P4P) (PowerPoint® File, 260 KB; Web Version)
Joy Grossman, Kathryn Kushner Santoro, and Elizabeth November, Center for Studying Health System Change
Metro DC Health Information Exchange (MeDHIX) Characteristics, Challenges, Lessons Learned (PowerPoint® File, 1 MB; Web Version)
Thomas L. Lewis and Leta Kajut, Center for Community Based Health Informatics
Overcoming Barriers to Expanding HIE (PowerPoint® File, 2.6 MB; Web Version)
Marc Overhage, Indiana Health Information Exchange
EHR Implementation and Adoption
Electronic Health Record Adoption and Implementation: A Report from the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (PowerPoint® File, 626 KB; Web Version)
David W. Bates, Partners Healthcare and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Impact of Electronic Health Records on the Financial Performance of Medical Group Practices—Track 1: EHR Implementation and Adoption (PowerPoint® File, 700 KB; Web Version)
David N. Gans, Medical Group Management Association
EHR Implementation and Adoption Ambulatory EHR at MaineGeneral Medical Center (PowerPoint® File, 1 MB; Web Version)
Dan Mingle, MaineGeneral Medical Center
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Prevention/Care Management
Getting to Know the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)—Evidence to Impact
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (PowerPoint® File, 6.6 MB; PDF File, 590 KB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Kenneth Lin, Diana Petitti, and Tracy Wolff, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Translating Evidence into Recommendations (PowerPoint® File, 825 KB; Web Version)
Tess Miller, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
USPSTF: Perspectives of a Member (PowerPoint® File, 107 KB; Web Version)
Diana Petitti, Preventive Services Task Force
Models to Inform Recommendations About Preventive Services: Perspective of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (PowerPoint® File, 146 KB; Web Version)
Provision of Preventive Services in the Complex Patient
Provision of Preventive Services in the Complex Patient (PowerPoint® File, 144 KB; Web Version)
Laura Castro, Duke University
Maureen Smith, University of Wisconsin
USPSTF—Making a Difference in Clinical Care
Promoting Quality... Partnering for Change (PowerPoint® File, 9.5 MB; PDF File, 670 KB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Ron Finch,
National Business Group on Health
Using USPSTF Recommendations in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Clinical Practice (PowerPoint® File, 2.4 MB; Web Version)
Linda Kinsinger, VHA
Office of Patient Care Services
USPSTF Clinical Guidelines in a Physician Assistant Curriculum (PowerPoint® File, 714 KB; Web Version)
Timothy Quigley,
Wichita State University
New Knowledge in Care Coordination
New Knowledge in Care Coordination (PowerPoint® File, 3.1 MB; PDF File, 1.8 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Steven H. Woolf, Virginia Commonwealth University
Alex R. Kemper, Duke University
Medical Errors and Adverse Drug Events Reporting System (MEADERS)
MEADERS: Networks' Experiences (PowerPoint® File, 2 MB; Web Version)
John Lynch, Connecticut Center for Primary Care
Reducing Health Disparities Among Hispanic Elders: Lessons from a Learning Network
Reducing Health Disparities Among Hispanic Elders: From Report to Support (PowerPoint® File, 3.6 MB; PDF File, 406 KB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Ernest Moy,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Reducing Health Disparities Among Hispanic Elders: Lessons from a Learning Network (Team Chicago) (PowerPoint® File, 450 KB; Web Version)
Susan Vega, Alivio Medical Center
Reducing Health Disparities Among Hispanic Elders: Lessons from a Learning Network (Team San Antonio) (PowerPoint® File, 692 KB; Web Version)
Carol Zernial, Bexar Area Agency on Aging
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Effective Healthcare
Spotlight on Effective Healthcare (EHC) Research on Heart and Blood Vessel Conditions and/or Diabetes
The Future of Clinical Registries in the Cycle of Evidence (PowerPoint® File, 2 MB; Web Version)
Eric D. Peterson,
Duke University Medical Center
Cardiovascular Consortium Effective Health Care Program (PowerPoint® File, 2.2 MB; Web Version)
Art Sedrakyan, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Use of Simulation and Decision Modeling to Inform Decision Making
A Cervical Cancer Decision Model to Inform Recommendations About Preventive Services: Perspective of the Decision Modeler (PowerPoint® File, 555 KB; Web Version)
Shalini Kulasingam,
Duke University
Decision Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests by Age to Begin, Age to End, and Screening Intervals: Report to the United States Preventive Services Task Force from the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) (PowerPoint® File, 2.7 MB; Web Version)
Ann Zauber, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Marjolein van Ballegooijen, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar and Janneke Wilschut, Erasmus MC
Karen Kuntz, University of Minnesota
Amy Knudsen, Massachusetts General Hospital
Using Simulation and Decision Modeling to Inform Decision Making (PowerPoint® File, 1.2 MB; Web Version)
Ann Zauber, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Shalini Kulasingam, Duke University
Diana Petitti, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
Our Future (PowerPoint® File, 7.5 MB; PDF File, 570 KB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Robin Bostic, Thoratec
Good Practice for Patient Registries (PowerPoint® File, 1.1 MB; Web Version)
Richard Gliklich, Outcome DEcIDE Center
Medical Device Registries: Multiple Applications (PowerPoint® File, 216 KB; Web Version)
Thomas P. Gross, Food & Drug Administration, Center for Devices & Radiological Health
Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (PowerPoint® File, 436 KB; Web Version)
Marissa A. Miller,
National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute
Collaborative Networks for Conducting Comparative Effectiveness Research
Collaborative Networks for Conducting Comparative Effectiveness Research (PowerPoint® File, 1.3 MB; Web Version)
George Neyarapally, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Wilson Pace and David West, CO Distributed Research Network (DRN) Project
Rich Platt and David Magid, HMORN Distributed Research Network (DRN) Project
Methodological Issues in Outcomes Research
Instrumental Variables for Comparative Effectiveness Research: A Review of Applications (PowerPoint® File, 153 KB; Web Version)
Alan M. Brookhart, Harvard Medical School
Sensitivity Analysis for Residual Confounding (PowerPoint® File, 1.6 KB; Web Version)
Sebastian Schneeweiss, Harvard Medical School
Methodological Issues in Outcome Research (PowerPoint® File, 326 KB; Web Version)
John D. Seeger, Ingenix/i3 Drug Safety
Sebastian Schneeweiss and Alan M. Brookhart, Harvard Medical School
Transparency in the Use of Propensity Score Methods (PowerPoint® File, 610 KB; Web Version)
John D. Seeger, Ingenix/i3 Drug Safety
A Panel Session Highlighting Innovations from the Health Care Innovations Exchange (HCIE)
Healthy Hair Starts with a Healthy Body (PDF File, 1.1 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Verluria Cobbs, National Kidney Foundation of Michigan
Partners in Palliative Care Program (PowerPoint® File, 302 KB; Web Version)
James Lee, The Everett Clinic
Velda Filzen,
Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County
A Panel Session Highlighting Innovations from the HCIE (PowerPoint® File, 395 KB; Web Version)
Nick Vizzoca, Innovation Center at Magee Womens Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Involving Patients in Decisions About Medications
Promoting Patient Involvement in Medication Decisions (PowerPoint® File, 570 KB; Web Version)
David H. Hickam,
Oregon Health & Science University
The Role of Beliefs in Decisions about Medication (PowerPoint® File, 460 KB; Web Version)
Kathleen Mazor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Fallon Community Health Plan and Fallon Clinic
Communicating about Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) Risk: Racial/Ethnic Disparities (PowerPoint® File, 260 KB; Web Version)
Mike Schoen, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine
Implementations and Use of Effective Health Care Program Products/Evidence
Systematic Review of Dietary Supplement Efficacy and Safety (PowerPoint® File, 1.7 MB; Web Version)
Paul H. Coates, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements
Use of Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Evidence Reviews: NIH Consensus Development Program (PowerPoint® File, 410 KB; Web Version)
Barnett Kramer, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Program
Using EPC Reports to Promote Changes in Research, Practice and Policy: A Perspective from Two Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) (PowerPoint® File, 930 KB; Web Version)
Margo Michaels, Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT)
Best Practices in Stakeholder Involvement (Developing Research Topics, Priority-Setting, Etc.)
Effective Health Care Program Stakeholder Group—A Perspective (PowerPoint® File, 136 KB; Web Version)
Peter Juhn, Johnson & Johnson, Inc.
Best Practices in Stakeholder Involvement (PowerPoint® File, 4.4 MB; PDF File, 1.6 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Paul Seligman, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
The Centers for Education & Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) Model for Stakeholder Engagement Public-Private Partnership (PowerPoint® File, 550 KB; Web Version)
Hugh H. Tilson, Chair, CERTs National Steering Committee
Conducting a Methodologically Sound Systematic
Review in the Face of Limited Resources: An Introduction
Conducting a Methodologically Sound Systematic
Review in the Face of Limited Resources: An Introduction (PowerPoint® File, 576 KB; Web Version)
Stephanie Chang, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Conducting a Sound Systematic Review: Balancing Resources with Quality Control (PowerPoint® File, 100 KB; Web Version)
Eric B. Bass,
Johns Hopkins University EPC
Methodological Issues in Systematic Review: Formulating Questions (PowerPoint® File, 195 KB; Web Version)
Joseph Lau, Tufts Medical Center EPC
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Patient Safety
Patient Safety Organization (PSO) Common Formats Workshop
PSO Common Formats for Patient Safety Event Reporting (PowerPoint® File, 1.2 MB; Web Version)
Amy Helwig, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PSO Common Formats for Patient Safety Event Reporting (PowerPoint® File, 270 KB; Web Version)
William B. Munier, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Improving Quality Care in Emergency Departments
Louisiana Hospitals: Shaking up the Snow Globe EMRs in the ED (PowerPoint® File, 1.5 MB; Web Version)
Rebecca Bradley, Louisiana Hospital Association
Researching the Use of Emergency Pharmacists in the ED (PowerPoint® File, 596 KB; Web Version)
Rollin J. (Terry) Fairbanks,
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Emergency Care Research: Solutions for the U.S. Heath Care System (PowerPoint® File, 680 KB; Web Version)
Robert W. Neumar,
American College of Emergency Physicians
Increased Blood Pressure in the Emergency Department: Pain, Anxiety, or Undiagnosed Hypertension (PowerPoint® File, 1 MB; Web Version)
Paula Tanabe,
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
The Emergency Severity Index (ESI), A Triage System: Research and Implementation (PowerPoint® File, 1.9 MB; Web Version)
Paula Tanabe,
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Confidentiality, Patient Safety Work Product, and the PSOs
The Proposed Rule Implementing the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005: Confidentiality, Patient Safety Work Product, and PSOs (PowerPoint® File, 585 KB; Web Version)
Larry Patton and Verne Rinker, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
General PSO Update
General PSO Update (PowerPoint® File, 265 KB; Web Version)
Amy Helwig, William B. Munier, and Larry Patton, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Role of Consumers, Families, and the Community in Patient Safety:
Learning from Experience
The Role of Consumers, Families, and the Community in Patient Safety: Learning from Experience (PowerPoint® File, 47 MB; PDF File, 2.8 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Katherine Crosson, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Using Simulation to Transform the Healthcare Environment
Using Simulation to Enhance Team Communication and Error Disclosure to Patients (PowerPoint® File, 3.1 MB; Web Version)
Thomas H. Gallagher,
University of Washington
Development of an Immersive Simulation Environment for the Study of IT Impact in the Emergency Department (PowerPoint® File, 1.6 MB; Web Version)
Li Lin, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Simulation Training to Improve Heart Attack Care for Rural Hospitals (PowerPoint® File, 4.3 MB; Web Version)
John C. Messenger,
University of Colorado, Denver
Improving Administrative Data for Public Reporting
Adding Clinical Data to Administrative Data: AHRQ-sponsored Pilot & Planning Projects (PowerPoint® File, 2.3 MB; Web Version)
Roxanne Andrews and Anne Elixhauser, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Improving Administrative Data for Public Reporting (PowerPoint® File, 330 KB; Web Version)
Roxanne Andrews and Anne Elixhauser, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Joe Parker, Healthcare Outcomes Center, California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD)
Michael Pine, Michael Pine and Associates, Inc.
Screening Administrative Data To Assess the Accuracy Of Present-on-Admission Coding (PowerPoint® File, 430 KB; Web Version)
Michael Pine, Michael Pine and Associates, Inc.
PSO Common Formats
Patient Safety Organization Privacy Protection Center (PSOPPC): Services (PowerPoint® File, 538 KB; Web Version)
Kathy Barberio, Patient Safety Organization Privacy Protection Center
Patient Safety: Challenges to Improving Safety at the Point of Care
Challenges to Improving Safety at the Point of Care Building Infrastructure: Lessons Learned from Critical Access Hospitals (PowerPoint® File, 2.5 MB; Web Version)
Katherine Jones and Team, University of Nebraska Medical Center
The Partnership for Health and Accountability (PHA): Where to Next? (PowerPoint® File, 3.5 MB; Web Version)
Vi Naylor, Georgia Hospital Association
CAHPS® and Quality Improvement
CAHPS® and Quality Improvement (PowerPoint® File, 198 KB; Web Version)
Susan Edgman-Levitan and John D. Stoeckle, Massachusetts General Hospital
Evaluating CAHPS® Quality Improvement Demonstrations (PowerPoint® File, 128 KB; Web Version)
Donna Farley, RAND
Preventing Transmission of Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI)/Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in Healthcare Settings:
The Federal Government's Response
Preventing MRSA in Hospital Settings: System Redesign and Informatics Strategies in a Community Collaborative (PowerPoint® File, 1.7 MB; Web Version)
Brad Doebbeling and Heather Hagg, Regenstrief Institute
Abel Kho, Northwestern University
Mindy Flanagan, Indiana University—Purdue University—Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Jamie Workman, Kim McCoy, Shawn Hoke, and Paul Dexter, VA Center of Excellence in Implementing Evidence-based Practice
The Safe Critical Care Initiative (PowerPoint® File, 1.5 MB; Web Version)
Ted Spiroff, Vanderbilt University
Medication Safety: Tools for Diverse Settings
Medication Safety: Anticoagulation Management (PowerPoint® File, 4.6 MB; PDF File, 1.4 MB [PDF Help];
Web Version)
Carla S. Huber,
Community Anticoagulation Therapy (CAT) Clinic
Nursing Home Medication Safety: Bringing New Tools to Old Challenges (PowerPoint® File, 835 KB;
Web Version)
Amy Vogelsmeier,
University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing
Venous Thromboembolism Safety Tool Kit (PowerPoint® File, 3.8 MB; PDF File, 3.5 MB [PDF Help];
Web Version)
Brenda K. Zierler, University of Washington
TeamSTEPPS™: Producing Effective Medical Teams to Achieve
Optimal Patient Outcomes
STEPPS: Producing Effective Medical Teams to Achieve Optimal Patient Outcomes (PowerPoint® File, 355 KB;
Web Version)
Andy Kosseff,
SSM Health Care
TeamSTEPPS™ National Implementation (PowerPoint® File, 2 MB;
Web Version)
Robert J. McQuillan, Creighton University Medical Center
Improving Quality of Care in Nursing Homes
and Long-Term Care Settings
ReACH National Demonstration Collaborative: Reducing Acute Care Hospitalization (PowerPoint® File, 2.7 MB;
Web Version)
Penny H. Feldman,
Visiting Nurse Service of New York,
Center for Home Care Policy and Research
Improving Quality in Nursing Homes (NHs): An Overview of Advancing Excellence—The NH Quality Campaign (PowerPoint® File, 432 KB;
Web Version)
Mary Jane Koren, The Commonwealth Fund
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing in Long Term Care (PowerPoint® File, 1.4 MB;
Web Version)
Siobhan Sharkey, Health Management Strategies, Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research
What Makes a Difference in the Outcomes of QI Participation? (PowerPoint® File, 110 KB;
Web Version)
Shoshanna Sofaer,
School of Public Affairs,
Baruch College
Building a Culture of Safety in Difference Healthcare Settings:
Lessons Learned from the
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety (HSOPS)
Survey of Patient Safety Culture in U.S. Hospitals: External Validity Analyses (PowerPoint® File, 215 KB; Web Version)
Russ Mardon, Westat
Nordic Experience with Safety Culture Survey (PowerPoint® File, 3.7 MB; Web Version)
John Ovretveit, Karolinska Medical Management Centre, Sweden, and Bergen University
Results from the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (PowerPoint® File, 250 KB; Web Version)
Joann Sorra, Westat
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Value/Innovations/Emerging Issues
Input Your Data—Output Your Web Site:
A Web-Based Tool for Quality and Utilization Reporting
Input Your Data—Output Your Web Site:
A Web-Based Tool for Quality and Utilization Reporting (PowerPoint® File, 5.7 MB; PDF File, 2.7 MB [PDF Help];
Web Version)
Anne Elixhauser, Mamatha Pancholi, and Jenny Schnaier, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Enhancing Organizational Research in Health Care Quality:
Measurement and Data Availability
Increasing the Relevance of Health Care Organizational Research (PowerPoint® File, 130 KB; Web Version)
Jeff Alexander, University of Michigan
Enhancing Organizational Research in Health Care Quality (PowerPoint® File, 515 KB; Web Version)
Jeff Alexander, University of Michigan
David Nerenz, Henry Ford Health System
Beth Feldpush, American Hospital Association (AHA)
AHA Data Initiatives with Implications for Research on Organizational Characteristics and Quality Improvement (PowerPoint® File, 200 KB; Web Version)
Beth Feldpush, American Hospital Association
Building Bridges Between Researchers and Managers: Can it be Done? (PowerPoint® File, 855 KB; Web Version)
David Nerenz, Henry Ford Health System
Hard-Won Wisdom from Successful Healthcare Services
Research Innovators: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions
Hard-Won Wisdom from Successful Healthcare Services
Research Innovators: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions (PowerPoint® File, 736 KB; Web Version)
Shakeh J. Kaftarian, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Design Thinking for Innovative Healthcare Service (PowerPoint® File, 2.6 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Shelley Evenson, Carnegie Mellon University
Design at the Point of Care: Hard-Won Wisdom from the SPARC Innovation Program at Mayo Clinic
(PowerPoint® File, 2.5 MB; Web Version)
Matt Maleska, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation
AARP Member-Centric Innovation Process (PowerPoint® File, 220 KB; Web Version)
Nigel Smith, AARP
Public Reporting: Bring Your Lunch and Make Connections
Public Reporting: Bring Your Lunch and Make Connections: Introduction to the AHRQ QI Learning Institute (PowerPoint® File, 914 KB; Web Version)
Advances in Hospital Efficiency Measurement
Hospital Quality, Efficiency, and Input Slack Differentials (PowerPoint® File, 1.4 MB; Web Version)
Vivian Valdmanis,
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Michael Rosko, Widener University
Ryan Mutter, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Hospital Readmissions Research: In Search of Potentially Avoidable Costs (PowerPoint® File, 63 KB; Web Version)
Bernard Friedman, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Enhancing the Value of Rural Hospitals
Hospital Quality Indicators in Iowa Rural Hospitals (PowerPoint® File, 302 KB; Web Version)
Pengxiang (Alex) Li, University of Pennsylvania
Innovations Town Hall Meeting
Will It Work Here?(PowerPoint® File, 512 KB; Web Version)
Cindy Brach, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Miscellaneous
Research Findings on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Care
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in Children's Use of Stimulant Medications (PowerPoint® File, 695 KB; Web Version)
Julie Hudson, G. Edward Miller, and James Kirby, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Asthma Treatment and Outcomes: The Role of Disease Severity (PowerPoint® File, 776 KB; Web Version)
G. Edward Miller, Julie Hudson, and James Kirby, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Differences in Access to Care for Asian and White Adults (PowerPoint® File, 705 KB; Web Version)
Merrile Sing, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Determinants of Asthma Morbidity Among Inner-City Populations (PowerPoint® File, 708 KB; Web Version)
Juan P. Wisnivesky,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Research and Evaluation: Practical Tips for Research Teams and Research Training
Better Improvement Research (PowerPoint® File, 1.9 MB; Web Version)
John Ovretveit, Karolinska Medical Management Centre, Sweden, and Bergen University
10 Years After "To Err is Human": An RCA of Patient Safety Research? (PowerPoint® File, 1.8 MB; Web Version)
Peter Pronovost, Johns Hopkins University
Research Training for Quality Improvement (QI) and Patient Safety (PowerPoint® File, 350 KB; Web Version)
Maureen A. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) Implementation Research Findings
Integrating Chronic Care Management and Business Strategies (PowerPoint® File, 133 KB; Web Version)
Cindy Brach, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Integrating Chronic Care & Business Strategies in the Safety-Net (PowerPoint® File, 297 KB; Web Version)
Katie Coleman, Improving Chronic Illness Care
San Mateo Medical Center: A County System of Healthcare (PowerPoint® File, 1.5 MB; Web Version)
Jagruti Shukla, San Mateo Medical Center
Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) and ACTION: Mechanisms to Accelerate the Implementation of Evidence-Based Health Care
PBRNs and ACTION: Accelerating the Implementation of Evidence-Based Healthcare (PowerPoint® File, 3.3 MB; Web Version)
David Lanier and Cynthia Palmer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Understanding the Impact of Provider Incentives for Quality
Effect of Physician Pay-for-Performance (P4P) Incentives in a Large Primary Care Group Practice
(PowerPoint® File, 1.1 MB; Web Version)
Harold Luft, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute and Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco
California Pay for Performance: Understanding the Impact of Provider Incentives for Quality (PowerPoint® File, 575 KB; Web Version)
Tom Williams, Integrated Healthcare Association
Pay-for-Performance in Safety Net Settings: New Evidence from AHRQ (PowerPoint® File, 620 KB; Web Version)
Gary Young, Boston University School of Public Health andDepartment of Veterans Affairs
Bert White, Karen Sautter, Jason Silver, Barbara Bokhour, and Mark Meterko, Boston University School of Public Health
Hands-On Health Literacy
Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge: Hands-on Health Literacy (PowerPoint® File, 2.1 MB; Web Version)
Brian Jack, Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine
PILL: Pharmacy Intervention for Limited Literacy (PowerPoint® File, 1.5 MB; Web Version)
Kara L. Jacobson, Sunil Kripalani, Karen J. McMorris, and Sarah Blake, Emory University
Julie A. Gazmararian, Prudential Center for Health Care Research
Questions Are the Answer: Getting Patients Involved in Their Healthcare (PowerPoint® File, 1.4 MB; Web Version)
Doug Seubert, Marshfield Clinic
Building Successful Research Infrastructures: Lessons Learned in Achieving and Measuring Success
Building Successful Infrastructures: Lessons Learned in Achieving and Measuring Success (PowerPoint® File, 2 MB; (PDF File, 530 KB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Kimberly A. Galt, Creighton Health Services Research Program (CHRP),School of Pharmacy and Health Professions
Building Successful Research Infrastructures: Lessons Learned in Achieving and Measuring Success (PowerPoint® File, 240 KB; Web Version)
Daniel L. Howard, Institute for Health, Social, and Community Research, Shaw University
Office of Extramural Research, Education and Priority Populations (OEREP) Sessions
Grantsmanship Session
Grantsmanship Session (PowerPoint® File, 3 MB; Web Version)
Francis Chesley, Debbie Rothstein, Kishena Wadhwani, and Patrick McNeilly, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Panel Session on Successful Career Development in Health Services Research
Deaf People and Healthcare: Adapting CAHPS® to be Accessible for Sign Language Users (PowerPoint® File, 460 KB; Web Version)
Steven Barnett, University of Rochester
How a K-Award Has Advanced a Research Career: a Search for Unity in Diversity (PowerPoint® File, 802 KB; Web Version)
Christopher Keane, University of Pittsburgh
Building a Health Services Career: Organization of Care and Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery (PowerPoint® File, 440 KB; Web Version)
Elizabeth A. Martinez, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Sessions for Federal, State, and Local Policymakers
Trends in Health Insurance Coverage and Access
Financial Burdens for Health Care (PowerPoint® File, 717 KB; Web Version)
Jessica Banthin and Didem Bernard, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Health Care Financing and Coverage Decisions
Financial Burdens for Health Care (PowerPoint® File, 715 KB; Web Version)
Jessica Banthin and Didem Bernard, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Prescription Drug Expenditures and Healthcare Burdens in the Medicaid Population (PowerPoint® File, 720 KB; Web Version)
G. Edward Miller, Jessica S. Banthin, and Thomas M. Selden, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Equity in the Finance and Delivery of Health Care in the United States (PowerPoint® File, 210 KB; Web Version)
Thomas M. Selden, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Cost Sharing Arrangements in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Implications for Out-of-Pocket Spending Burdens (PowerPoint® File, 210 KB; Web Version)
Thomas M. Selden, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Genevieve M. Kenney, Matthew Pantell, and Joel Ruhter, The Urban Institute
Market and Community-Level Approaches to Improving Health Care Quality and Efficiency
Private Hospitals and the Treatment of Severe Mental Illness: The Role of the Emergency Department (PowerPoint® File, 550 KB; Web Version)
Richard C. Lindrooth, Medical University of South Carolina
Healthcare Workforce and Regionalization of Services
Trends in Regionalization of Inpatient Care for Urological Malignancies: A Health Care Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample Study (PowerPoint® File, 2.9 MB; Web Version)
Matthew R. Cooperberg, University of California, San Francisco
Regionalizing Health Care: Volume Standards vs. Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rate (PowerPoint® File, 1.1 MB; Web Version)
Laurent G. Glance, University of Rochester
The July Phenomenon in Obstetrics (PowerPoint® File, 3.4 MB; PDF File, 1 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Rini Banerjee Ratan, Columbia University Medical Center
The Maturation of a Specialty: Workforce Projections for Endocrine Surgery (PowerPoint® File, 3.2 MB; Web Version)
Julie Ann Sosa,
Yale University School of Medicine
Healthcare Workforce and Regionalization of Services: Lung Cancer Resections (PowerPoint® File, 1.7 MB; PDF File, 1 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Stephen C. Yang, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI) Meeting
Using AHRQ Composites (PowerPoint® File, 556 KB; Web Version)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Speakers
Guidelines for Consumer-focused Public Reporting (PowerPoint® File, 82 KB; Web Version)
Carol Cronin, Informed Patient Institute
AHRQ Guide to Comparative Reporting (PowerPoint® File, 140 KB; Web Version)
Sheryl Davies, Stanford University
Future Validation and Improvement of the AHRQ QI (PowerPoint® File, 45 KB; Web Version)
Kathryn McDonald, Stanford University
Evaluating the AHRQ Inpatient Mortality Indicators for Public Reporting in California (PowerPoint® File, 1.1 MB; Web Version)
Joseph Parker, Healthcare Outcomes Center, California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
Lessons from the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) Validation Pilot Project (PowerPoint® File, 590 KB; Web Version)
Patrick S. Romano, UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
Validating the PSIs in the VA: A Multi-Faceted Approach (PowerPoint® File, 800 KB; Web Version)
Amy Rosen, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine
Selecting Indicators for Public Reporting: The Ohio Experience (PowerPoint® File, 1 MB; Web Version)
Michele Shipp, Ohio Department of Health
Data Users Workshop
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) (PowerPoint® File, 7 MB; PDF File, 2.8 MB [PDF Help]; Web Version)
Anne Elixhauser, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
CAHPS®—Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (PowerPoint® File, 952 KB; Web Version)
Ernest Moy, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) (PowerPoint® File, 835 KB; Web Version)
Ernest Moy, Jim Battles, Bill Carroll, and Anne Elixhauser, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Video
Keynote Plenary Address (Transcript)
1 hour, 16 minutes, Windows Media®, 114 MB
AHRQ Director Dr. Carolyn Clancy
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Current as of February 2009
Internet Citation:
AHRQ 2008 Annual Conference. February 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/about/annualmtg08/