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61. Smoking Cessation Evidence and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - Heart Health Evidence for Advancing Heart Health Aspirin Use Evidence and Resources Blood … Pressure Control Evidence and Resources Cholesterol Management Evidence and Resources Smoking … of smoking, health benefits of quitting smoking, and the effectiveness of behavioral counseling and medications

62. 2014-Women-Chartbook (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2014 - For example, only half of people with high blood pressure have it controlled. … Admissions With Hypertension  Importance: About 70 million American adults (29%) have high blood pressure … High blood pressure costs the Nation $46 billion each year. … This total includes the cost of health care services, medications to treat high blood pressure, and … For people age 65 and over, high blood pressure affects more women than men (Mozzafarian, et al., 2015

63. Making Patients Part of Conversations About Their Care: Integrating Patient-Generated Health Data into Electronic Health Records | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2022 - With encouragement from his family, he checks his blood pressure daily using a digital blood pressure

64. Module 3: Best Practices in Fall Prevention—Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - For example, on a geriatric psychiatry ward, orthostatic hypotension due to medications may be a fall … Slide 18: Key Risk Factors for Falls Medications: Patients taking a large number of medications … that could cause sedation, confusion, impaired balance, or orthostatic blood pressure changes are at

65. 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

66. 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

67. AHRQ Impact Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2021 - 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 …

68. Teach-Back (pdf file)
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    April 11, 2018 - Presenter Presentation Notes If patients have a clear understanding of what you have told them – their medications … The clinician has decided to change his blood pressure medicine to metoprolol. Mr. … Continue taking her prescribed medications: Ticagrelor 90 mg – 1 tablet PO BID (morning and evening)

69. 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.

70. 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.

71. Strategy 6C: OpenNotes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2020 - condition. 3 These patients also felt more in control of their care and were more likely to take their medications … than two-thirds of patients who took medication during the study reported improved adherence to these medications … . 4 The investigation demonstrated that patients being treated for high blood pressure who were offered

72. Advancing Heart Health and Equity during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

73. Fact Sheet on Pediatric Quality Indicators (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2015 - Fact Sheet on Pediatric Quality Indicators Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 1 Tool A.1c Fact Sheet on Pediatric Quality Indicators What Are the Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs)? The Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs) are a set of 16 measures (15 st…

74. Module 5: How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices (doc file)
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    January 01, 2016 - Module 5: How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices Module 5: How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices Module Aim The aim of this module is to support your efforts to measure and monitor pressure injury rates and pressure injury prevention practices. Module Goals The goals of …

75. Alastair McGregor | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2020 - Resources Alastair McGregor Patient and Clinician Videos A close call with blood … pressure medicine led this patient to always ask questions and talk with his doctor.

76. Addressing Today’s Steep Challenges of Providing High-Quality Behavioral Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2022 - Because there is no reliable biomarker, such as blood pressure or hemoglobin A1c, for common behavioral … on a few screening measures and measures of follow-up after inpatient psychiatric care or starting medications

77. Diagnostic Safety Centers of Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2023 - current evidence, diagnostic practices, and outcomes for the problems of unintentional weight loss, high blood … pressure, and sepsis. … the clinical problems above, based on analysis of EHR data; existing evidence, including from a home blood … pressure monitoring screening study; and input and consensus among clinicians and patients.

78. Search Evidence-Based Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2021 - Effectiveness Reviews Affiliation: Brown University Report Status: Final Screening for High Blood … Pressure in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review for the U.S.

79. Mod5-Comm-Assessment (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2016 - Eventually, they are able to re-establish a normal heart rate, blood pressure, and adequate blood oxygen … During the resuscitation efforts, information obtained from the devices monitoring Mary’s EKG, blood … During her procedure, her heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen level were monitored. … During a part of the procedure, we became aware that her heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen level … First off, right now Mary is stable; her heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen level are all in normal

80. Pocket Guide: TeamSTEPPS: Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - Resident: “Breath sounds decreased on right” Leader: “Blood pressure?” … THE B Background Comorbidities, previous episodes, current medications, and family history A Actions … Monitoring STEP Tool to help assess health care situations Status of Patient Patient History Vital Signs Medications