Agency News and Notes: AHRQ releases second national reports on health care quality and disparities

2005 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality

Patient-Centered, Integrated Health Care Quality Measures Could Improve Health Literacy, Language Access, and Cultural Competence

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignatius Bau ◽  
Robert A. Logan ◽  
Christopher Dezii ◽  
Bernard Rosof ◽  
Alicia Fernandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Organizational System ◽  
Language Access

The authors of this paper recommend the integration of health care quality improvement measures for health literacy, language access, and cultural competence. The paper also notes the importance of patient-centered and equity-based institutional performance assessments or monitoring systems. The authors support the continued use of specific measures such as assessing organizational system responses to health literacy or the actual availability of needed language access services such as qualified interpreters as part of overall efforts to maintain quality and accountability. Moreover, this paper is informed by previous recommendations from a commissioned paper provided by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) to the Roundtable on Health Literacy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In the commissioned paper, NCQA explained that health literacy, language access, and cultural competence measures are siloed and need to generate results that enhance patient care improvements. The authors suggest that the integration of health literacy, language access, and cultural competence measures will provide for institutional assessment across multiple dimensions of patient vulnerabilities. With such integration, health care organizations and providers will be able to cultivate the tools needed to identify opportunities for quality improvement as well as adapt care to meet diverse patients’ complex needs. Similarly, this paper reinforces the importance of providing more “measures that matter” within clinical settings.

scholarly journals Hearing Loss and Help-Seeking Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 797-797
Author(s):  
Nicholas Reed
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Medicare Beneficiary ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Help Seeking Behaviour ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Future Work

Abstract Hearing Loss (HL) is common among older adults and is associated with poor health care quality outcomes include 30-day readmissions, length of stay, poorer satisfaction, and increased medical expenditures. These associations may manifest in changes in help-seeking behaviour. In the 2015 Current Medicare Beneficiary Study (MCBS) (n=10848; weighted sample=46.3 million), participants reported whether they knowingly had avoided seeking care in the past year and self-reported HL was measured as degree of trouble (none, a little, or a lot) hearing when using a hearing aid if applicable. In a model adjusted for demographic, socioeconomic, and health factors, those with a little trouble (OR= 1.612; 95% CI= 1.334-1.947; P<0.001) and a lot of trouble hearing (OR= 2.011; 95% CI= 1.443-2.801; P<0.001) had 61.2% and 101.1% higher odds of avoiding health care over the past year relative to participants with no trouble hearing. Future work should examine whether hearing care modifies this association.

Factors Associated With Americans' Ratings of Health Care Quality: What Do They Tell Us About the Raters and the Health Care System?

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (sup3) ◽  
pp. 147-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou ◽  
Lin Chun Wang ◽  
Lila J. Finney Rutten ◽  
Richard P. Moser ◽  
Bradford W. Hesse
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Care System

scholarly journals Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare

2014 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 140-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt R. Brekke ◽  
Rosella Levaggi ◽  
Luigi Siciliani ◽  
Odd Rune Straume
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Patient Mobility
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