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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/index.html
June 01, 2025 - AHRQ tools to reduce diagnostic errors include: Calibrate Dx is a self-evaluation tool for clinicians … This resource provides structured exercises and tools to help clinicians learn from reviewing their clinical … toolkit helps ensure that diagnostic lab tests are accurately managed and shared with patients and clinicians … Potential users include clinicians, quality and safety professionals, risk management professionals, … Resources To Facilitate Communication Between Patients and Clinicians : From the IOM report, "Improving
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/continuing-ed/moc-sms.html
October 01, 2020 - Patient Self-Management Support of Chronic Conditions: Framework for Clinicians Seeking Recertification … Free, Self-contained Framework for Clinicians to Design Their Own QI Project. … Using this module, clinicians can improve how they support their patients’ ability to self-manage chronic … Clinicians will survey how patients/parents have experienced the clinicians’ use of two self-management … This webinar is appropriate for clinicians serving both pediatric and adult populations.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/continuing-ed/moc-ha.html
October 01, 2020 - Health Assessment Recertification Project for Diversely Trained Clinicians (MOC Part IV & PA-QI) … User-Friendly Recertification Health Assessment Project for Diverse Clinicians —easy-to-complete quality … improvement activity to help clinicians improve health assessment documentation in medical records ( … We encourage yet do not require clinicians to work together to design and discuss impact of the quality … improvement intervention program (Learn more below: Practices Can Help Clinicians Work Together to
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools.html
June 01, 2024 - Tools To Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections
AHRQ offers free toolkits designed for clinicians … by clinicians. … They help clinicians and other healthcare staff hardwire improved practices into daily routines and keep
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/proactive-planning.html
February 01, 2021 - Resource: Proactive Care Planning for COVID-19 (PDF, 587 KB)
This guide is for use by clinicians … This information will allow clinicians to create plans for care that will honor each individual's preferences … Source: Respecting Choices
Topic(s): Patient-Centered Care
Audience(s): Clinicians
Format:
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-cognitive-load5.html
May 01, 2024 - Enhancing understanding of clinician cognitive limitations will be useful in helping clinicians … Monitor EHR audit log data to determine which clinicians may be at risk of cognitive overload (e.g., … Human factors engineers should work closely with frontline clinicians during the development of new technology … Clinicians and organizational leaders should be taught basic cognitive load theory principles to help … Conclusion Diagnostic accuracy is garnering increasing interest from researchers, frontline clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/clinical-management.html
July 01, 2022 - of COVID-19
Resource: Clinical Management of COVID-19
This document provides guidance to clinicians … It has been expanded from previous versions to meet the needs of frontline clinicians and promotes a … Topic(s): Treatment, Leadership & Management, Mild Cases Treatment
Audience(s): Clinical Leaders, Clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-reimagining-healthcare-teams-2.html
July 01, 2023 - associated with advantages for both patients (e.g., improved quality of life, satisfaction with care) and clinicians … (e.g., higher quality of care, better job satisfaction). 8-10 However, patients and clinicians face … First, not all patients have access to clinicians, either at all (e.g., inadequate access to primary … When clinicians are available, they may have insufficient time to probe all aspects of a patient’s history
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/bridging-feedback-gap.pdf
June 21, 2021 - Bridging the feedback gap: a sociotechnical approach to informing clinicians of patients' subsequent … Miscalibration—when clinicians’
confidence in the accuracy of their deci
sions does not align with … , upstream clinicians often
feel that the feedback they do receive is suboptimal. … clinicians receiving feedback? … feedback process can be integrated seamlessly without
undue burden to clinicians.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/multiple/index.html
August 01, 2023 - Settings
Tools for Health Care Organizations
Calibrate Dx is a self-evaluation tool for clinicians … This resource provides structured exercises and tools to help clinicians learn from reviewing their clinical … Created for clinicians by clinicians, the toolkit includes training tools to make care safer by improving … Potential users include clinicians, quality and safety professionals, risk management professionals, … Project ECHO is a collaborative model of medical education and care management that helps clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/pbrn/index.html
July 01, 2013 - Networks (PBRN)
Primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are groups of primary care clinicians … PBRNs engage clinicians in quality improvement activities and an evidence-based culture in primary care … Email updates
Overview
Primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs) involve practicing clinicians … , its ability to improve the health of all Americans, and the potential of these networks to engage clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/sdm/about/index.html
May 01, 2023 - AHRQ defines shared decision making (SDM) as a collaborative process in which patients and clinicians … In SDM, clinicians engage patients in discussions about their care options, ensure patients understand … SDM can take place during a single visit or across multiple visits over time, with one or several clinicians … Tools and resources can be used to help patients and clinicians prepare for and engage in SDM. … and Practice
Despite SDM being an essential component of high-quality care, research has shown that clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxchecklists-2.html
September 01, 2020 - as Expected
Conclusions and Next Steps
References
Diagnosis is complex because clinicians … patient safety, experts in diagnostic safety have advocated for the development of checklists to support clinicians … In this brief, we will focus on checklists used for cognitive support (i.e., those that remind clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/clinician/index.html
July 01, 2018 - Clinicians and Providers
Clinical information on evidence-based practice, clinical guidelines … packed work days, demanding pace, time pressures, and emotional intensity—can put physicians and other clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship3.html
August 01, 2024 - References
The increasing number and complexity of diagnostic tests available to clinicians … respondents rated a “curbside consult” as helpful, but only 11 percent used it frequently. 21 Ensuring that clinicians … variety of interventions to optimize use of testing directly or indirectly through collaborations between clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/about/impact-stories/enabling-real-time.html
April 01, 2025 - Enabling Real-Time Identification of Burnout Risk Among Clinicians in Primary Care Practices … These surveys can have response bias and create extra burden on the participating clinicians. 7 Using … this study’s tool, an institution can routinely review already collected EHR data across all practice clinicians … " After speaking with primary care clinicians, a lot of their pain points were similar but the interventions … physicians at risk for burnout, but shows promise for identifying which primary care practices put clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/index.html
December 01, 2024 - We also develop research-based tools and resources to help front line clinicians understand "what" to … These tools and resources are developed for clinicians by clinicians, so they are practical and based … Stories of Impact From the Field Read Impact Case Studies to see how clinicians in the field are using
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/probabilistic-thinking4.html
September 01, 2022 - Probabilistic Diagnostic Decisions
References
This framework illustrates how future clinicians … Curricula for other clinicians such as nurse practitioners currently include very little content on probabilistic … Clinicians must be better educated to accurately estimate disease probabilities in the general population … Through understanding probability, clinicians can improve the diagnostic process and optimize patient
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/spotlight-s2-gold-ratwani.html
May 01, 2024 - This project will develop a library of EHR-based simulations that can be used to train clinicians … Diagnostic errors are often caused by clinicians not being able to access or synthesize the complex medical … can contribute to diagnostic errors, often because of system design issues and poor user training for clinicians … that can be used to both systematically study the ways EHRs contribute to diagnostic errors, and train clinicians … validated EHR-based simulation exercises that this project plans to develop has the potential to train clinicians
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/guidelines-recommendations/tobacco/clinicians/tearsheets/tearsheet.pdf
September 01, 2008 - Tear Sheet. You Can Quit Smoking: Support and Advice from Your Clinician
QUITTING TAKES HARD WORK AND A LOT OF EFFORT, BUT—
A PERSONALIZED QUIT PLAN FOR:
SUPPORT AND ADVICE
FROM YOUR CLINICIAN
WANT TO QUIT?
Nicotine is a powerful addiction.
Quitting is hard, but don’t give up. You can do it.
Many people try 2 or 3…