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61. Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - systematic approach to reduce diagnostic errors among children in three important areas: Elevated blood … pressure, which is misdiagnosed in 74 to 87 percent of children Adolescent depression, which affects … Increased Provider Recognition of Elevated Blood Pressure in Children. 

62. EvidenceNOW: Oklahoma Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

63. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
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    February 10, 2011 - They give you medicines and take your blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature.

64. 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on Treatment of Cholesterol to Reduce CVD | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2018 - Heart Health Evidence for Advancing Heart Health Aspirin Use Evidence and Resources Blood … Pressure Control Evidence and Resources Cholesterol Management Evidence and Resources Smoking

65. Methods and Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - measures that EvidenceNOW practices used to monitor the delivery of cardiovascular care included Aspirin, Blood … Pressure, Cholesterol, and Smoking Cessation (i.e., ABCS clinical quality measures overview and handout … Blood Pressure: Measures narrative and flow chart . … Blood Pressure: Instructions , protocol , and template . Cholesterol: Template .

66. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Labor and Delivery Unit Safety Obstetric Hemorrhage (doc file)
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    May 01, 2017 - · Several professional organizations and initiatives2,3 offer suggestions for medications and supplies … However, this approach is also associated with increased maternal diastolic blood pressure, pain, use

67. Slide 1
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    September 05, 2012 - Effects Change Over Time Results Intermediate Outcomes of Diabetes Care Hemoglobin A1c LDL-Cholesterol Blood … pressure Patients’ Experiences of Care CG-CAHPS Communication (k=6) Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness … Outcomes Summary Clinical Outcomes: Improved LDL-C control for the MA arm (8.4% points) Improved blood … pressure control for CHW arm (6.1% points) Patient Experience: More improvement (7.6 points) in patients … pressure for CHW; LDL-C for MA panel manager) in the short run (1 year) First multi-site intervention

68. TeamSTEPPS® Instructor Manual: Specialty Scenarios | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2014 - At 16 hours into her stay, the patient's blood pressure begins to drop. … She is expecting a new admission to be arriving momentarily from Labor and Delivery and has medications

69. AHRQ Impact Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - 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 …

70. Methods To Estimate the Baseline 2010 PFP National Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - 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 …

71. AHRQ Views Blog: Seizing the Opportunity To Improve Healthcare for All | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2022 - They studied six preventive services: blood cholesterol, colorectal cancer, and blood pressure screenings … eligibility for Medicare, use of preventive services increased, including for influenza vaccinations, blood … pressure screenings and mammograms.

72. 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

73. 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

74. New Models of Primary Care Workforce and Financing - Case Example #2: The Health Center (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2016 - Examples of situations that prompt outreach efforts include hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels higher than 9, blood … pressure higher than 140/90 mm Hg, and need for followup after hospital and emergency room visits. … If new medications are needed from the ADU, an offsite pharmacist approves the release of medications … This reduces the need for patients to drive to pick up medications, especially for multiple medications … The reports compare metrics for blood pressure control, HbA1c, hospitalizations, and emergency room

75. Five hours in the PACU? MetroHealth Uses TeamSTEPPS to Improve Patient Transfer from OR to ICU
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    January 01, 2016 - to ICU Transfer Slide ‹#› 24 Surgical APGAR Simple score based on blood loss, heart rate, and blood … pressure Grades the condition of patients at end of surgical procedures 0 – 10 score (The lower the … and Hctz ASA: 3 EBL: 25 cc Urine 400 cc Fluid Totals (Filter: LR and NaCl 0.9% Medications

76. 3. What are the best practices in pressure ulcer prevention that we want to use? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - patient lacks sensation to feel pain or has had a breakdown in the past and if epidural/spinal pain medications

77. 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

78. 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

79. 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

80. Patient Safety Organizations: A Summary of 2014 Profiles (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2014 - Initial Report Form) and then applying Common Formats for falls, pressure ulcers, surgery/anesthesia, medications … the state, the PSO and its members began a process to study the compounding variability for these medications … and to develop standard concentrations for 120 different medications.