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41. Strategies for Patient, Family and Caregiver Engagement | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 27, 2019 - including children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. 14 Clinicians and healthcare systems … Increasingly, health care systems are implementing strategies to engage patients, families, and caregivers … care system—direct care, organizational design and governance, and policy making — to improve health … and health care.” 37 Figure 1. … Partnering with Patients and Families To Design a Patient- and Family-Centered Health Care System: A

42. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Revisiting the State of the Science – A Summary | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 09, 2013 - People using assistive technology may not be able to fully access information in this file. … In 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality launched a collection of evidence reports to … infections, QI measurement of outcomes for people with disabilities, and health care and palliative … care professional, health care delivery organization, policymaker, and research community). … Conclusions The series covers many important aspects of quality improvement in health care.

43. Management of Infantile Hemangioma | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    June 21, 2016 - People using assistive technology may not be able to fully access information in these files. … Key Issue Access to early treatment may be critical for a subset of children facing significant impact … Policymakers may have an important role to play in decisionmaking that leads to timely diagnosis and … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2016. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2016.

44. Assessing Equivalence and Noninferiority | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    June 22, 2012 - fully access information in these files. … Structured Abstract Objective To provide guidance on how to manage the concepts of equivalence and … workgroup consisting of 13 individuals from seven Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) and the Agency for Healthcare … Prior to developing any guidance, the lead EPC also performed two methods projects intended to assist … Conclusions Systematic reviewers need to adopt a consistent and conceptually sound approach to interpreting

45. Mortality Risk in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients Using Theophylline | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 04, 2009 - People using assistive technology may not be able to fully access information in this file. … Abstract Objectives To evaluate the comparative effectiveness of treatment regimens with theophylline … compared to the regimen without theophylline. … Design Retrospective cohort study Setting United States Veterans Affairs healthcare system from … Treatment groups were stratified based on propensity to receive theophylline.

46. Impact of Insurance Prior Authorizations on Patient Outcomes (pdf file)
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    December 03, 2020 - is to help control health care costs without negatively impacting health outcomes. … Persons using assistive technology may not be able to fully access information in this report. … Does the nomination represent a health care drug, intervention, device, technology, or health care … system/setting available (or soon to be available) in the United States? … patients, to health care systems, or to payers Yes.

47. Closing the Quality Gap Series: Prevention of Health Care–Associated Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 03, 2011 - Successful strategies will help to close the quality gap regarding health care-associated infections. … According to Ranji et al., 16 a quality gap refers to the difference between health care processes or … Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control … Guidelines for preventing health-care–associated pneumonia, 2003: recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare … of Health Care, Integrated [mh] or Patient Care Team [mh] or Behavior Control [mh] or ((coordination

48. Despite steadily increasing health care expenditures in the United States, improved health outcomes and quality remain elusive (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2008 - , jeopardizing the stability of health care systems globally. 1 This trend has led to interest in … care delivery—the U.S. … care interventions through systematic reviews, the varied health care system environments necessitate … care system. … The EHC Program reflects in many ways the decentralized nature of the U.S. health care system.

49. Despite steadily increasing health care expenditures in the United States, improved health outcomes and quality remain elusive (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2008 - , jeopardizing the stability of health care systems globally. 1 This trend has led to interest in … care delivery—the U.S. … care interventions through systematic reviews, the varied health care system environments necessitate … care system. … The EHC Program reflects in many ways the decentralized nature of the U.S. health care system.

50. PREGNANCY, INCLUDING PRETERM BIRTH #12 (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2013 - exist to understand their potential impact on clinical care, the health care system, patient outcomes … care system. … as having potential for high impact on some aspect of health care or the health care system (e.g., … Health care delivery infrastructure and patient management: Experts’ views diverged on the potential … care system and health care costs by preventing unwanted pregnancies, thereby reducing the number

51. Breastfeeding Programs and Policies, Breastfeeding Uptake, and Maternal Health Outcomes in Developed Countries | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    July 18, 2018 - People using assistive technology may not be able to fully access information in these files. … summarize the effectiveness of community, workplace, and health care system–based programs and policies … To summarize the effectiveness of community, workplace, and health care system–based programs and policies … 12, 2017, for studies relevant to the effectiveness of health care system–based, workplace, and community … Posted final reports are located on the Effective Health Care Program search page . 

52. Models of Survivorship Care: Technical Brief | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 29, 2013 - among health care providers and with patients? … of Health Care"[Mesh] Filters: Humans; English 586,760 #12 Search (("Patient Care Planning"[Mesh … of Health Care"[Mesh] 744808 #5 Search (((("Patient Care Planning"[Mesh]) OR "Models, Nursing" … of Health Care"[Mesh]) 30 #15 Search (#14 AND #1) 1 #16 Search (#14 NOT #9) 19 Table … It also includes within its domain issues related to health care delivery, access, and followup care,

53. Identifying Priorities for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research for Serious Mental Illness | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    September 30, 2011 - fully access information in this file. … Structured Abstract The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency … charged with improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans … improve the quality of health care and promote evidence-based decisionmaking; AHRQ supports a variety … Care (EHC) Program.

54. Handling Continuous Outcomes in Quantitative Synthesis | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    July 25, 2013 - People using assistive technology may not be able to fully access information in these files. … (RCTs) for a comparative effectiveness review, continuous outcomes are usually less straightforward to … methodological or applied methodological papers in the Effective Health Care Program Methods Library … and in Ovid Medline, Current Index to Statistics, and Scopus databases (Appendix A, full report). … reviewers and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality officers, and those comments were considered

55. PREGNANCY, INCLUDING PRETERM BIRTH #12 (pdf file)
    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pregnancy-horizon-scan-high-impact-1306.pdf
    June 11, 2013 - exist to understand their potential impact on clinical care, the health care system, patient outcomes … care system. … as having potential for high impact on some aspect of health care or the health care system (e.g., … Health care delivery infrastructure and patient management: Views by experts diverged on the potential … care system and health care costs by preventing unwanted pregnancy, reducing the number of women seeking

56. Use of Electronic Medical Records and Administrative Claims Data for Assessing Type 2 Diabetes Care | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    April 07, 2010 - People using assistive technology may not be able to fully access information in this file. … Abstract Background Evaluating the adequacy of diabetic care requires access to clinical data not … populations were used: patients seen by clinicians affiliated with the University of North Carolina Health … Care System (UNCHCS) and individuals covered by NC Medicaid. … Given the fragmentation of healthcare in the US, we do not have access to longitudinal data sources that

57. Mobile Health Technology for Diabetes | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    July 12, 2017 - the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Effective Health Care Program by a managed care … Access to and use of these tools could help patients adhere to diet, exercise, and medication management … Does it connect to other aspects of a patient's health care?) … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Effective Health Care Program. 2017; /sites/default/files … Evaluation and Evolution of Diabetes Mobile Applications: Key Factors for Health Care Professionals Seeking

58. Screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    June 20, 2013 - Disposition of Comments Report [PDF · 456.9 KB] People using assistive technology may not be able to … fully access information in these files. … Strength of the body of evidence was assessed according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … to contribute to the strength-of-evidence syntheses. … strength of evidence that, compared with no screening, universal screening for MRSA carriage reduces healthcare-associated

59. Use of Evidence-Based Practice Center Comparative Effectiveness Reviews by Clinical Point-of-Care Tools | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    April 30, 2014 - Download Main Document PDF 364.9 KB People using assistive technology may not be able to … fully access information in these files. … Structured Abstract Background We conducted a pilot project to evaluate the use of Agency for Healthcare … Methods We selected a sample of AHRQ EPC comparative effectiveness reviews, traced reports to publications … Results should be used to develop more comprehensive assessments of the use of AHRQ EPC comparative effectiveness

60. Telehealth Evidence Map | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    August 11, 2015 - support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public … Interaction between a patient and a health care professional or interaction between two or more providers … The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment - Workshop Summary. … support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public … Care Utilization and Access Hospitalizations (length of stay, readmission) ER Outpatient Visits