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digital.ahrq.gov/hl7
January 01, 2023 - Summary: The Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) database provides a universal code … LOINC codes are used by large reference laboratories and Federal agencies and are part of the Health … Laboratories should include LOINC codes in their outbound HL7 messages so that clinical and research
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digital.ahrq.gov/technology/bar-coding
January 01, 2023 - Bar Coding
Improving Patient Safety and Clinician Cognitive Support Through eMAR Redesign – Final Report
Citation
Ratwani R., Hettinger A. Improving Patient Safety and Clinician Cognitive Support Through eMAR Redesign – Final Report. (Prepared by MedStar Health Research Instit…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/KING_3_II.ppt
June 16, 2021 - roll-out continues through 2006
Core Entity Patient ID Data Lab Results Encounter Data Diagnostic Codes … clinicians (working on the project) identified a subset of laboratory test results to begin
A list of ~40 codes … standardized to LOINC across sites
Send LOINC mappings back to sites to load in their LIS
Select next 50 codes … to map
Define process to do annual review and update of LOINC codes
For more information: www.volunteer-ehealth.org
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs024537-sockolow-final-report-2020.pdf
January 01, 2020 - For readability, CCD/S codes are italicized, and
both CCD/S codes and themes are capitalized. … Each decision
relied on information related to between 2 and 12 codes. … One of these codes, Problems, was only missing
in 1 observation. … The other 13 CCD/S codes were not tagged to a clinical decision. … We do not recommend that the unmentioned codes be removed from the CCD/S.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/resource/PCC_Lapane_Q2_Patients_Issues_code_book.pdf
June 16, 2021 - Patient medication issues code book
Patient medication issues code book
TalkDoc: generally how docs have talked to them about medicines, including
about what the medicine is for, risks and benefits, and how they feel about
taking medicines.
WantKnow: What they want to know about their medicines.
Chan…
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/enhancing-fulfillment-data-community-practices-clinical-care-and-research/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - with the fulfillment-data extraction uncovered some unexpected challenges in mapping the National Drug Codes … (NDC) to Generic Product Identifier codes in order to classify the dispensed medications into the correct … The resulting unmatched NDC codes will limit the generalizability of the overall findings.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/hit-based-regional-medication-management-pharmacy-system/annual-summary/2009
January 01, 2009 - Override codes from the automated dispensing machines at the remote hospitals were recorded in place … The codes were reviewed to determine when and why nursing staff were retrieving newly-ordered medications … hospital and the rural facilities has proven particularly vexing because of different abbreviation codes
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digital.ahrq.gov/sample-questions-answers
January 01, 2023 - provider time for documentation = $42,680/yr net savings
Automatic documentation of diagnostic codes …
12000 visits/yr * 2 codes/visit *15% manually researched * 5 minutes/code = 300 hours coding time
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/past-initiatives/state-and-regional-demonstration-projects/tennessee
January 01, 2023 - Discharge summaries
Operative reports
Emergency room summaries
History & physicals
Diagnostic codes … Health Level 7) - the project uses version 2.x
LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers, Names, and Codes
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/NJ-EPAC%20Pilot%20Testing%20of%20Electronic%20Prescribing%20Standards_0.pdf
April 01, 2008 - NDC codes have
many shortcomings as drug identifiers, however, including the existence of multiple codes … for the same
clinical drug, and the use of codes that are outdated, erroneous, or unpublished by the … To provide a third mapping from
NDC codes to RxNorm SCDs, we created a dataset associating NDC codes … , leaving 9921 prescriptions with 1964 distinct NDC codes. … excluded, leaving 10,035 non-device requests using 1660 distinct NDC codes.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs019726-kahn-final-report-2014.pdf
January 01, 2014 - (e.g., NDC
codes that had no relationship to the text drug name) and multiple records, sometimes 10 … NDC codes have one of the following groupings of
segments: 4-4-2, 5-3-2, or 5-4-1. … but only 50%-74% of
prescription codes. … 296.9, 300.4, 311
Table 2: Medi-Span GPI-4 and GPI-8 codes used to define medication classes. … Table 2: Medi-Span GPI-4 and GPI-8 codes used to define medication classes.
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digital.ahrq.gov/bar-coded-medication-administration
January 01, 2023 - Durability of patient wristbands and barcodes is an important consideration, because broken or unreadable codes
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs028127-meeker-final-report-2023.pdf
January 01, 2023 - characterize the variation in treatment and outcomes of non-hospitalized patients with diagnosis
codes … Appointment setting (telehealth, urgent care center) was defined using place of service, CPT
codes, … HCPCS codes, revenue codes, CPT modifiers, or type of service codes. … The patient’s CCI was calculated based on diagnosis codes in
the 2 years prior to the index appointment … If the index COVID-19-related
visit included diagnosis codes for which antibiotics are sometimes or
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs016151-mathews-final-report-2008.pdf
January 01, 2008 - Additional Diagnosis Codes -1 Situational ICD-9.
Additional Diagnosis Codes -2 Situational ICD-9. … Additional Diagnosis Codes -3 Situational ICD-9.
Additional Diagnosis Codes -4 Situational ICD-9. … Principal Procedure Information Situational CPT-4, HCPCS
Additional Procedure Codes -1 Situational CPT … -4 HCPCS
Additional Procedure Codes -2 Situational CPT-4, HCPCS
Additional Procedure Codes -3 Situational … CPT-4, HCPCS
Additional Procedure Codes -4 Situational CPT-4, HCPCS
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Results
The evaluation
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs022746-neale-final-report-2014.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Content codes were then linked to quanti tative measures of patient satisfaction, recall
and … Step 1: Establishing content codes
Six clinicians and four non-clinician researchers (including … Through
iterative discussions, the researchers used a grounded theory approach to develop
codes and … Table 1 provides examples of each of these major codes. … The Appendix shows the number of
category codes used for the PI section in each of the four clinics
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/risk-based-approach-improving-management-chronic-kidney-disease/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - best treatment practices will be measured by several indicators, including problem lists and encounter codes … Assessment of the appropriate documented problem list and encounter codes will be used to measure primary
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/structuring-care-recommendations-clinical-decision-support/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - reduce redundancy in extracting and structuring decision logic by assigning computer-interpretable codes … This includes leveraging codes and structures used to express clinical performance measures in a computable
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medicaid/ComprehensivePatientScenario.docx
June 16, 2021 - Discuss how diagnosis is linked to codes
6. Demonstrate batch posting
7. … CPT codes by month, and year to date by provider, by dept, by location
9. … Set up appointment types, transaction codes, patient types and insurance companies
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - receiving a vaccine was automatically
identified, and for the next 30 days, their health care diagnostic codes … receiving a vaccine was automatically identified, and for the next 30 days, their health care
diagnostic codes … ESP:VAERS flags every vaccinated patient, and prospectively accumulate that patient’s
diagnostic codes … & corresponding
algorithms were developed to detect potential adverse event cases using diagnostic codes
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/risk-based-approach-improving-management-chronic-kidney-disease/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - best treatment practices, will be measured by several indicators such as problem lists and encounter codes … Assessment of the appropriate documented problem list and encounter codes will be used to measure primary