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41. 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

42. 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.

43. 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

44. 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 .

45. 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

46. TeamSTEPPS Mutual Support Module 4
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    February 28, 2022 - The monitor shows an elevated heart rate of 150 beats per minute and blood pressure of 76/48. … The nurse finds it unusual that the blood pressure and heart rate are substantially elevated. 17

47. 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 …

48. 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 …

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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.

54. 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.

55. 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

56. 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

57. 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…

58. 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 …

59. 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.

60. 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