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81. EvidenceNOW: Oklahoma Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/oklahoma.html
    March 01, 2021 - their management of patients at risk for CVD events, especially methods such as smoking cessation, blood … pressure control, statins, and low-dose aspirin. … Community-level interventions, such as smoking quit line referral and blood pressure medication assistance … A second randomization assigns practices to work first on either smoking cessation and blood pressure

82. C1 Prioritization Worksheet (xls file)
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/c1_combo_prioritizationworksheet.xlsx
    July 01, 2016 - C1 Prioritization Worksheet Prioritization Worksheet Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety AHRQ Quality Indicators Prioritization Worksheet Section 1- Blue Section 2-Green Section 3-Purple Section 4-Orange Own Rate and National Comparat…

83. 4 Things You Should Know about Urine Cultures (pdf file)
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/reduce/4-things.pdf
    March 01, 2017 - AND leukocytosis) ■ New suprapubic pain or costovertebral angle pain or tenderness ■ New, very low blood … pressure (with no alternate noninfectious cause) ■ Acute pain, swelling or tenderness of testes, epididymis

84. Recommendations to Improve Children's Health Care Quality Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/pubs/background-2012/backgrndapb.html
    December 01, 2012 - Substance Use/Abuse 0044 Assessment of smoking and substance use in the family (CAHMI). 6,1   Blood … Pressure 0060 Blood pressure screening by age 18 (NCQA) 7,3 7,3.5   Dental 0032 Children

85. Section 8: The Care Management Evidence Base | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/medicaidmgmt/mm8.html
    October 01, 2014 - It significantly affected measures such as blood pressure, lipid screening and levels, HbA1c screening … Blood pressure. Lipid (cholesterol and triglyceride) levels. … Of the intervention categories, in-person care management, which lowered HbA1c levels, blood pressure … Pressure In-Person Care Management. … Nurse case management improves blood pressure, emotional distress and diabetes complication screening

86. Primary Care Transformation in a NCQA Certified Patient-Centered Medical Home (pdf file)
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-tai-seale.pdf
    April 01, 2015 - • Having frequent in-person clinic visits was associated with improved blood pressure and cholesterol … control among patients with diabetes, and improved blood pressure control among patients with hypertension

87. Advancing Heart Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - A 1.6% increase in blood pressure control—an important finding, given decreasing national rates of … blood pressure control.

88. Cholesterol Management in Primary Care (pdf file)
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol-academic-detailing-guide.pdf
    July 07, 2015 - PRIMARY CARE :l Cholesterol Management in Primary Care ([) • • Aspirin when appropriate Blood … pressure control Cholesterol management Smoking cessation This document was produced by the National

89. For American Heart Month, AHRQ Offers New Tools for Expanding Cardiac Rehabilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2023 - primary care practices can improve heart health by counseling patients on aspirin use, focusing on blood … pressure control, improving cholesterol management, and continuing the push against smoking. … interviewing training to help primary care practices improve the use of patient self-monitoring of blood … pressure and encourage greater use of state quit-smoking phone lines and other smoking cessation supports

90. AHRQ’s Research and Tools Help Transform Delivery of Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2022 - Blood pressure control rose 1.6 percent, despite a national decline in blood pressure control over this

91. Talking With Residents and Family Members About Antibiotics (pdf file)
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/family-antibiotics.pdf
    June 01, 2021 - Medications such as antacids, the anticoagulant warfarin (e.g., Coumadin®), blood pressure medications

92. Advancing Heart Health and Equity during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/heart-health-during-covid19.html
    February 01, 2021 - patients by almost 7 percent; increased cholesterol management by more than 6 percent; and increased blood … pressure control by nearly 3 percent.  … While the improvement in blood pressure control appears small, it was accomplished during a period when

93. A Multipayer Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative in Pennsylvania (pdf file)
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-gabbay.pdf
    April 01, 2015 - improvement from baseline to 18 months on three diabetes measures (glycated hemoglobin concentration <7%, blood … pressure <130/80 mm Hg, and low-density lipoprotein [LDL] cholesterol <100 mg/dL). … practices, the percentage of patients who met target values for glycated hemoglobin, LDL cholesterol, and blood … pressure increased by 8.8, 14.9, and 19.4 percent, respectively.

94. C2 Prioritization Worksheet Example (pdf file)
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/c2_pdi_prioritizationworksheetexample.pdf
    June 05, 2016 - C2 Prioritization Worksheet Example AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit Prepared by RAND and UHC for AHRQ Tool C.1 Volume of Cases at Risk Cost of Single Event Total Cost Cost To Implement Penalties and Incentives Proxies for Cost Strategic Alignment External Mandates Public Perception Executive- Lev…

95. Documentation of Heart Rate During Fluid Resuscitation for Children With Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock (pdf file)
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-232-fullreport.pdf
    June 01, 2018 - pressure (hypotension), as children often maintain normal blood pressure until the advanced stages of … diminished pulses, mottled cool extremities, flash capillary refill, bounding peripheral pulses, or wide pulse … Because children often maintain their blood pressure until they are severely ill, systemic hypotension … For severe sepsis, one abstractor indicated that there was a low systolic blood pressure despite the … The other discrepancy was due to one abstractor recording a systolic blood pressure reading of 79, despite

96. NPSD Dashboards | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health and Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Search all AHRQ sites Search small Search Menu …

97. Table 6: Categories of Medication Error Classification | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2012 - ordered for patient instead of extended-release E Error that could have caused temporary harm Blood … pressure medication was inadvertently omitted from the orders F Error that could have caused temporary

98. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4g_combo_psi10-postopmetaderangement-bestpractices.pdf
    May 20, 2016 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 1 Tool D.4g Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement PSI 10: Postoperative Physiologic and Metabolic Derangement Why Focus on Postoperative Phys…

99. AHRQ-Funded Studies Highlight Benefits of Postpartum Care Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2023 - postpartum care recently included:   A  study  published in  Obstetrics and Gynecology  on postpartum home blood … pressure monitoring, also based on the systematic review, found postpartum home monitoring significantly … reduced the risk of unplanned hypertension-related hospital admissions and cut racial disparities in blood … pressure data collection by nearly half.

100. Timely Antibiotics for Children With Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0230-fullreport.pdf
     April 02, 2018 - pressure (hypotension), as children often maintain normal blood pressure until the advanced stages of … diminished pulses, mottled cool extremities, flash capillary refill, bounding peripheral pulses, or wide pulse … Because children often maintain their blood pressure until they are severely ill, systemic hypotension … For severe sepsis, one abstractor indicated that there was a low systolic blood pressure despite the … The other discrepancy was due to one abstractor recording a systolic blood pressure reading of 79, despite