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... Appendix E HHS Interagency Workgroup for the NHQR and NHDR To select the core set of measures used in the NHQR and NHDR, AHRQ staff and the HHS Interagency Workgroup for the NHQR/NHDR applied three basic criteria recommended by the IOM in 2001 -- importance, scientific soundness, and feasibility (see discussion in Box 4-1 in Chapter 4) -- to each individual measure, mapped potential measures to the elements of the earlier quality framework (effectiveness, safety, timeliness, and patientcenteredness)
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... 172 NATIONAL HEALTHCARE QUALITY AND DISPARITIES REPORTS NVSS, 2005 SIPP, 2001 NHIS, 1996 MEPS, 2005 HCUP, 2005 Causes of activity Most costly Leading causes of death Main causes of disability limitation conditions Hospital principal diagnoses 1. Diseases of the heart 1.
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... APPENDIX E 173 IOM, 2003 HHS, 2004 NHIS, 2002 NHIS, 2002 NHIS, 2002 NHQR/NHDR 2005 Black-White Educational Serious racial Interagency Priority areas for quality Major threats to the health disparity in life disparity in life and ethnic Workgroup improvement and well-being of Americans years lost years lost disparities Consensus Cancer screening that is Reduce behavioral and other 1. Hypertension 1.

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