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221. Final Progress Report: Automated Lab Test Followup To Reduce Medical Errors (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/greenes-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - We evaluated the accuracy of ALARMS, measured rates of adequate follow-up for late-arriving abnormal … The specific purpose of this study was to: (1) Evaluate the accuracy of ALARMS (2) Use ALARMS “offline … Phase 1: Accuracy of ALARMS Phase 1 of the study was completed with ALARMS running in “the background … RESULTS Phase 1 – Accuracy of ALARMS During Phase 1, a research assistant manually reviewed late arriving

222. Final Progress Report: Encoding and Processing Patient Allergy Information in EHRs (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/zhou-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - free-text allergy entries to standard terminologies and developed qualitative metrics to assess mapping accuracy … Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) and RxNorm and developed qualitative metrics to assess the level of mapping accuracy … annotated 400 emergency department notes that served as a gold standard in order to evaluate the module’s accuracy … goal of this aim was to test whether the NLP module developed in Aim 2 could be used to improve the accuracy … This work contributes a value set, harmonized with existing data, to improve the consistency and accuracy

223. Advancing the Science and Implementation of Patient Narratives: Summary of Presentations (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-patient-narratives-presentations-summary.pdf
     January 01, 2022 - The presenters answered a clarifying question, explaining what they meant by the term “balanced accuracy … Rather than simply looking at the overall accuracy—the number of cases the tool correctly coded (i.e … Using balanced accuracy would, in effect, penalize the algorithm for incorrect guesses so it takes that … Using balanced accuracy as a marker of success forces the algorithm to correct for cases it codes incorrectly … iterative process; the more they train the file, the better it will be at predicting, and the more accuracy

224. Develop Your Own (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/develop/develop.doc
     January 01, 2003 - Because data completeness and accuracy are critical to all quality measures, whether they are part of … Some States have made significant investments in cleaning claims or encounter data to ensure accuracy … use, these protocols offer useful examples to others concerning how to ensure data completeness and accuracy

225. Establishing a Program of In Situ Simulations: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/situ/simulation-slides.html
     July 01, 2023 - Accuracy: Precision of performance (e.g., correct diagnosis, appropriate treatment). … Slide 42: Disclaimer Every effort was made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this resource

226. Protecting Patients from Drug-Drug Medication Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-malone.html
     September 01, 2023 - Malone received a 4-year AHRQ grant in 2018 to further improve the accuracy of the DDI alert algorithm

227. Observational Audits (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/observational-audits.pdf
     March 01, 2021 - Check for accuracy and consistency among auditors. … • Review the entered data for accuracy, checking any questioned values against the hard-copy audit

228. Physician Use of Hand-held Computers for Drug Information and Prescribing (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Galt.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - These devices have already demonstrated improved accuracy of patient identification in the hospital … more accurate and complete prescriptions (beliefs) • I believe the use of the PDA will improve the accuracy … fear of patient information loss with a PDA, and a positive belief about the impact of PDAs on the accuracy … efficiency positively impacted the beliefs that physicians have about the impact of PDA use on the accuracy … Physicians believed that improved accuracy and completeness of prescription information are related

229. How Will You Test Aspects of Your Health Care Quality Report? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/needs-and-testing/index.html
     May 01, 2019 - Do they trust the accuracy of the information and its source?

230. Part Three: Three Strategies for Continuous Improvement of Physician Feedback Reporting Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/confid-report/three-strategies.html
     February 01, 2016 - research* To some extent the distinctions among the following three strategies to test the accuracy

231. Towards a Model of Safety and Care for Trauma Room Design | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/model-safety-long-desc.html
     August 01, 2025 - The system achieved high accuracy while maintaining ethical and legal compliance, setting a benchmark

232. Tip 1. In a Quality Report, Write Text That’s Easy To Understand | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/writing/tip1.html
     May 01, 2015 - However, remain "hands-on" to maintain the accuracy of the information and to ensure that the writer

233. Final Progress Report: Dissemination of the PPRNet Model for Improving Medication Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/wessell-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - In the overarching concept of assuring the accuracy of the recorded medication list, participating practices … practice performance reports to evaluate performance over time and guide improvement plans Ensure the accuracy

234. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/teledx-7.html
     August 01, 2020 - Diagnostic accuracy in primary care e-visits: evaluation of a large integrated health care delivery system

235. Decolonization Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/decolonization-resources.html
     April 01, 2025 - language is presented for an audience without a clinical background to ensure patient compliance and accuracy

236. Evaluating the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program: An Overview (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/qtag-presentation.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - - Fielded CAHPS more systematically - Developed standard testing procedures to ensure measure accuracy

237. Case 2. Central Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-case2.html
     November 01, 2014 - However, the main impetus for selecting this project was physician dissatisfaction with the accuracy … Thus, the need for accuracy and efficiency in the surgical procedure cards increases. … Metrics for the accuracy of procedure cards and the number of times a staff member needed to leave the … The project has also resulted in an increase in accuracy, with the result that the team does not have … As a result of this project, billing accuracy was improved to 98 percent and revenue increased approximately

238. Issue Brief 7. Improving Education: A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications2/files/dxsafety-issuebrief-education.pdf
     March 11, 2022 - Both the accuracy and the timeliness of diagnosis depend greatly on the context of care in the health … Accuracy of the Safer Dx Instrument to identify diagnostic errors in primary care. … Physicians’ diagnostic accuracy, confidence, and resource requests. … Think twice: effects on diagnostic accuracy of returning to the case to reflect upon the initial diagnosis … Patients as diagnostic collaborators: sharing visit notes to promote accuracy and safety.

239. Diagnostic Safety Research Priorities and Opportunities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-pediatric-safety-4.html
     August 01, 2023 - first stewards of their children’s EHR information when those children may be incapable of managing its accuracy

240. Getting Started: Laying the Groundwork for Implementing Automatic Referral and Effective Care Coordination (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/getting-started-implementation-guide.pdf
     March 01, 2023 - • Be aware that location can affect data accuracy, ease of retrieval, and even whether the team … Aspects of data quality include completeness, accuracy, and consistency. … o How data are reported (e.g., patient self-report vs. staff determined) may impact accuracy. … o Data error checks can be added to the EMR to improve the accuracy of data elements like date of birth … o Verify the accuracy of new variables created by the IT department, (e.g., a variable created to identify