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61. 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.

62. 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

63. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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

68. 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.

69. 3. Which fall prevention practices do you want to use? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - Medications: Patients on a large number of prescription medications, or patients taking medicines that … could cause sedation, confusion, impaired balance, or orthostatic blood pressure changes are at higher … These patients should have their medications reviewed, as medications can both contribute to agitation … High-Risk Medications Patients on high-risk medications (go to Tool 3I, "Medication Fall Risk Score … Routine assessment and documentation of orthostatic blood pressure and pulse changes.

70. AHRQ Impact Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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71. 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.

72. 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.

73. 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

74. 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

75. 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…

76. 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 …

77. 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.

78. Diagnostic Safety Grants Awarded in FY 2022 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - 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.

79. 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

80. 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.