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3721. Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/p8bwnFstpfy9KoDSJhT7m5
      February 01, 2005 - the supporting scientific evidence, and updates the 1996 recommendations contained in the Guide to Clinical … Clinical Considerations • The major risk factors for AAA include age (being 65 or older), male sex, … Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. 2nd ed. … Randomized clinical trial of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in women. … Frame, MD (Family Physician, Tri-County Family Medicine, Cohocton, NY, and Clinical Professor of Family

3722. Towards Effective and Efficient Health Information Technology Adoption in Home Care - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r03hs022352-koru-final-report-2014.pdf
      January 01, 2014 - Results: For effectiveness, health IT adoption needs to focus on addressing the (i) coordination of clinical … • Off-Site Nature of Care: Unlike the fixed clinical settings, for HHAs, providing care requires … Patients’ home can be less familiar and less controllable compared to fixed clinical settings. … • Providers: Due to their clinical knowledge, the clinicians from the HHAs were also interviewed. … This research found that integrating health IT into the daily clinical and administrative workflows

3723. Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      February 12, 2019 - See the Clinical Considerations section for information on risk assessment. Figure 1. … Read the Clinical Considerations section of the USPSTF Recommendation Statement. … Recommendations of Others The USPSTF found no other guidelines on the prevention of peri- natal depression … Treatment of postpartum depression: clinical, psychological and pharmacological options. … Prevention of postpartum depression: a pilot randomized clinical trial.

3724. Evidence Summary: Iron Deficiency Anemia in Young Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary23/iron-deficiency-anemia-in-young-children-screening
      March 30, 2015 - This article is intended as a reference and not as a substitute for clinical judgment. … This article may be used, in whole or in part, as the basis for the development of clinical practice … guidelines and other quality enhancement tools, or as a basis for reimbursement and coverage policies … Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. 2nd ed. Report of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. … A randomized controlled clinical trial of increased dietary iron in breast-fed infants.

3725. 2016-08 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2016 - ..................................... 2 International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical … The SEDD contain more than 100 clinical and nonclinical data elements included on a hospital discharge … International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) The ICD … Clinical Practice and Management; FAQ9. … in the ways hospital billing systems use these coding systems to report ED services, and in coding guidelines

3726. Does Counseling by Clinicians Improve Physical Activity? A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2010 - .1,2 Only 25% of Americans achieve the level of physical activity recommended in Healthy People 2010 guidelines … The authors of this article are responsible for its contents, including any clinical or treatment recommendations … performed a new systematic review that focused on controlled trials published since the 1996 USPSTF guidelines … .7 In consultation with members of the USPSTF, we took the middle ground of including all controlled clinical … Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. 2nd ed.

3727. Overview of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-Related Adult Inpatient Stays, 2016–2021 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2021 - diagnosis categories are reported for stays with a MRSA diagnosis, based on categorization by the Clinical … Additional information on the clinical coding criteria for identifying MRSA and state-specific rates … with one of the top ten principal diagnoses 188,901 74.0% 162,061 74.5% Abbreviations: CCSR, Clinical … Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnosis coding system for use with medical records. 11 Clinical … coding guidelines, etiology and pathology of diseases, and standards set by other Federal agencies.

3728. 6Ngc3Byq9Jeby Pwyvd6Or (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2014 - conducted a targeted update search of MEDLINE for trials published through 31 March 2014 and searched clinical … Guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke: a guideline for healthcare professionals from the American … Comparative Effectiveness Review Methods: Clinical Heterogeneity. Methods Research Report. … Clinical and operative predictors of outcomes of carotid endarterectomy. … : appropriateness of carotid endarterectomy after the clinical trials. Neurology. 2007;68:187-94.

3729. Accreditation and Regulation: Can They Help Improve Patient Safety? | PSNet
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      April 01, 2009 - continually improving quality and safety goals ( 7 ), but board leadership works best by recruiting clinical … mortality, as had been hoped, primarily because of the difficulty of definitive diagnosis in actual clinical … do a better job of meaningfully involving the actual clinicians who will be affected by new rules, guidelines … Clinical Alarms Task Force. … Impact of clinical alarms on patient safety: a report from the American College of Clinical Engineering

3730. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2017 - Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines … the CDC-NHSN to define cases. 42 , 47 , 48  CLABSI definitions used in cost studies also varied from clinical … This enabled them to use VAP definitions that incorporated clinical information such as laboratory testing … Finally, few studies used clinical definitions of C. difficile infection and instead relied on ICD-

3731. Archived: Evidence Summary: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/skin-cancer-screening-july-2016
      July 26, 2016 - This article is intended as a reference and not as a substitute for clinical judgment. … This article may be used, in whole or in part, as the basis for the development of clinical practice … guidelines and other quality enhancement tools, or as a basis for reimbursement and coverage policies … Results: No randomized clinical trials were identified. … Clinical whole-body skin examination reduces the incidence of thick melanomas.

3732. Understanding Clinical Information Needs and health Care Decision Making Processes in the Context of Health Information Technology - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs022087-singh-final-report-2018.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - Understanding Clinical Information Needs and health Care Decision Making Processes in the Context of … Results: We found clinical workflow and EHRs as main barriers. … The studies documented few guidelines to establish responsibility for patient notification and follow-up … American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 2009;131(3):432-41. 28. Visscher DW. … American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 2008;130(5):681-2. 29. Lundberg GD.

3733. Findings From the AHRQ Transforming Primary Care Grant Initiative: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-synthesis-report.pdf
      July 22, 2015 - Additionally, two studies linked increased care coordination and teamwork to improvements in clinical … Several of the studies linked improvements in clinical measures to specific PCMH processes such as care … network to more easily develop and implement patient registries, a patient portal, visit summaries, care guidelines … Why do we observe a limited impact of primary care access measures on clinical quality indicators? … evidence-based guidelines All five clinics achieved NCQA PCMH recognition Sarah Hudson Scholle

3734. Inventory and Prioritization of Measures To Support the Growing Effort in Transparency Using All-Payer Claims Databases (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2020 - High-priority clinical areas for measurement. … Set version was denied due to the lack of consistency of this project’s goals with the data release guidelines … Because claims data focus on payment, the clinical information provided is limited. … was populated for most provider claims or if the population was consistent with the data submission guidelines … Varied measures in high-priority clinical areas theoretically feasible using APCD data; 3.

3735. Archived: Evidence Summary: Screening for Breast Cancer: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-screening-for-breast-cancer/breast-cancer-screening-january-2016
      January 11, 2016 - This article is intended as a reference and not as a substitute for clinical judgment. … This article may be used, in whole or in part, as the basis for the development of clinical practice … guidelines and other quality enhancement tools, or as a basis for reimbursement and coverage policies … Despite changes in practice guidelines and variation in clinical practices, 3 overall screening rates … To determine the appropriateness of meta-analysis, we considered clinical and methodological diversity

3736. Archived: Evidence Summary: Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/syphilis-infection-in-nonpregnant-adults-and-adolescents-june-2016
      June 07, 2016 - This article is intended as a reference and not as a substitute for clinical judgment. … This article may be used, in whole or in part, as the basis for the development of clinical practice … guidelines and other quality enhancement tools, or as a basis for reimbursement and coverage policies … Results: No evidence was identified regarding the effectiveness of screening on clinical outcomes or … clinical relevance of participants and health care services and the use of screening tests that are

3737. Improving HIT Implementation in a Rural Health System (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs015337-mingle-final-report-2008.pdf
      January 01, 2008 - Data analyzed included surveys, clinical and process data from clinical and administrative databases … Improve quality of the local healthcare system by implementing clinical reminders during office visits … EMR use by clinical staff was now viewed as more “mature”. … JAMA. 2007; (297)5:520-2.) notes that it is important to distinguish between practice guidelines and … Clinical Data, Successes and Barriers in the Flow of Data, From Documentation to Utilization.

3738. Falls Prevention Self-Assessment Worksheet - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention (pdf file)
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      April 02, 2025 - currently identify residents who have experienced a change in falls risk, how they determine if new clinical … staff think about ways to transform these processes and how to begin to use the falls risk report in clinical … practices and help them see ways to incorporate the reports to improve these practices and improve clinical … communication of risk with use of the reports, but also helps enhance the interdisciplinary nature of clinical … If yes, does the policy include the following: Yes No Examination of clinical risk factors (e.g.,

3739. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2) in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary23/diabetes-mellitus-type-2-in-adults-screening-2008
      June 15, 2008 - This report is intended as a reference and not as a substitute for clinical judgment. … This report may be used, in whole or in part, as the basis for the development of clinical practice guidelines … [PMID: 1834807] National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. The Guidelines Manual. … London: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence; 2006. … Meta-analysis in clinical trials. Control Clin Trials 1986;7:177-88.

3740. Relieving Anxiety in Children Undergoing Radiation Therapy through Virtual Preparation - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs021799-cohen-final-report-2018.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - Many of the preparation programs in practice are developed and conducted based on clinical intuition … explanation and instruction by the nursing coordinator, a visit to the radiation unit to meet the clinical … Our project improves scientific knowledge, technical capability, and clinical practice by providing … Our RCT adhered to the guidelines detailed by the CONSORT statement. Participants. … As is common with clinical studies, there was significant variability within and across participants