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121. Reduce Unnecessary Urine Culturing and Overuse of Antibiotics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/reduce.html
     March 01, 2017 - tools that summarize why more urine cultures lead to more catheter-associated urinary tract infection diagnoses

122. A Path to Rural Diagnostic Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-rural-healthcare1.html
     October 01, 2024 - Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action A Path to Rural Diagnostic Excellence Improving Diagnosis in the … Context of Rurality Three Areas To Immediately Advance Diagnosis In Rural Healthcare A Call To Action … faces distinct healthcare challenges that critically impact the accuracy and timeliness of medical diagnoses

123. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship9.html
     August 01, 2024 - Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Conclusion … Page Table of Contents Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis … laboratory personnel, to reductions in diagnostic errors that reach the patient, such as incorrect diagnoses

124. Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: The Common Cold (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/respiratory-one-pager.pdf
     September 01, 2022 - Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: The Common Cold Diagnosis • Upper respiratory tract … • The physical examination should focus on identifying alternative diagnoses: ‒ Acute diagnoses

125. SyH-DR Known Data Issue: Maryland Medicaid Diagnosis Codes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-Maryland-Medicaid-Diagnoses-Codes-January2024.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - SyH-DR Known Data Issue: Maryland Medicaid Diagnosis Codes AHRQ Publication No. 24-0031-1-EF January … 2024 Synthetic Healthcare Data for Research (SyH-DR) Known Data Issue: Maryland Medicaid Diagnosis … Therefore, users should not interpret any estimates derived from the Maryland Medicaid diagnosis codes … Note: No changes were made to the Medicaid diagnosis code values. … Synthetic Healthcare Data for Research (SyH-DR) Known Data Issue: Maryland Medicaid Diagnosis Codes

126. Documentation and Coding for the AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/b4_pdi_documentationcoding.pdf
     March 15, 2016 - • Identify the principal diagnosis or reason for admission. … ○ Coding a symptom or sign rather than the diagnosis. … diagnoses equally meet the definition of principal diagnosis … Indicator requires diagnosis code and procedure code. … The coder should never assume a diagnosis of respiratory failure without a documented diagnosis by

127. SOPS Diagnostic Safety Pilot Study Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/medical-office/diagnostic-safety-pilot-study-report.pdf
     April 01, 2021 - , and communication around diagnoses. … The survey development team reviewed the literature on diagnosis and diagnostic and patient safety in … , communicate with other providers about diagnostic issues, and discuss missed diagnoses with other … that has a specific coded category to document diagnostic errors such as missed, wrong, or delayed diagnoses … or delayed diagnosis happens.

128. Understanding SOPS® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Gray (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/sops-101-webcast-overview-surveys.pdf
     January 01, 2022 - Diagnostic Safety Supplemental Items • For medical offices ► Focus on the diagnostic process, accurate diagnoses … , and communication around diagnoses 21 Survey Development Process Review literature and existing

129. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxchecklists-1.html
     September 01, 2020 - Process-Focused Checklists Factors That Influence Effectiveness of Checklists Why Checklists for Diagnosis … Checklists are considered a promising intervention for the area of diagnosis because they can support … diagnostic decision making by helping them take correct diagnostic steps and ensuring that possible diagnoses

130. Adaptation of AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators for Use in ICD-10 Administrative Data by an International Consortium (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Quan_52.pdf
     March 10, 2008 - Many countries have adopted ICD-10 for coding hospital diagnoses. … , the numerator is based only on secondary diagnoses.6 Inclusion of principal diagnoses in the area-level … For example, Canada classifies diagnoses using diagnosis-type definitions: type (M) for the most responsible … .13 The most responsible diagnosis is defined as “the one diagnosis or condition that can be described … France also defines the principal diagnosis as the diagnosis that contributed the most to the care

131. TeamSTEPPS® Diagnosis Improvement: Team Assessment Tool (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/dx-improvement/dxsafety-team-assessment-tool.pdf
     February 01, 2022 - TeamSTEPPS® Diagnosis Improvement: Team Assessment Tool TeamSTEPPS® Team Assessment Tool for Improving … periodically to prioritize and guide initiatives in the five critical teamwork domains, with safer diagnoses … TeamSTEPPS® for Diagnosis Improvement TeamSTEPPS® for Diagnosis Improvement 2 TeamSTEPPS Team Assessment … improvement domain over time and set new goals with safer diagnoses as a long-term objective. … ® Team Assessment Tool forImproving Diagnosis – Using the Results

132. TeamSTEPPS® Diagnosis Improvement: Module 5 Situation Monitoring To Improve Diagnosis - Facilitator’s Notes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/dx-improvement/module5-presenters-notes.pdf
     January 10, 2022 - TeamSTEPPS® Diagnosis Improvement: Module 5 Situation Monitoring To Improve Diagnosis - Facilitator’s … Welcome to the TeamSTEPPS for Diagnosis Improvement Course. … the Team Assessment Tool for Improving Diagnosis. … Acting makes every facet of the diagnostic process safer and offers the potential for fewer missed diagnoses … , delayed diagnoses, and wrong diagnoses.

133. Most Prevalent Conditions Requiring Hospitalization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/hospitalizations-conditions.html
     August 01, 2021 - Source:  AHRQ, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #277,  Most Frequent Principal Diagnoses

134. Infographic - Most Prevalent Conditions Requiring Hospitalization (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/hospitalization-most-prevalent-conditions.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Source: AHRQ, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #277: Most Frequent Principal Diagnoses

135. An Overview of the SOPS® Surveys for New Users - Kirchner (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/3-sops101-webcast-2023-kirchner.pdf
     January 01, 2023 - Safety Supplemental Item Set for Medical Offices • Focus on: ► The diagnostic process ► Accurate diagnoses … ► Communication around diagnoses 19 Survey Development Process Review literature and existing

136. RED Discharge Preparation Workbook (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/hospitals/red-toolkit/dischargeprep.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Diagnoses Admitting Dx: _______________________________________________________________________ … Diagnoses 2. Followup Appointments 3. Medicine 4. Pharmacy 5. Diet 6. Substance use 7.

137. Calibrate Dx: A Resource To Improve Diagnostic Decisions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/calibrate-dx.html
     March 01, 2023 - Calibrate Dx: A Resource To Improve Diagnostic Decisions Delayed, wrong, and missed diagnoses … Diagnostic excellence involves not just making a correct and timely diagnosis but also doing so while

138. Sampling, Weighting, and Synthetization Methodologies (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-Sampling-Weighting-Synthetization-Methodologies.pdf
     December 01, 2023 - Inpatient and Outpatient Files Diagnoses The Inpatient and Outpatient files contain diagnosis codes … ICD-10-CM diagnoses observed in the source files were in 1,925 diagnosis categories. … Preprocessing To synthesize diagnoses, services files were first prepared by removing diagnosis codes … Finally, a synthetic diagnosis was drawn from the set of diagnoses in that category with probabilities … produces a different set of synthetic diagnoses.

139. Final Progress Report: Utility of Predictive Systems in Diagnostic Errors (UPSIDE) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/auerbach-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - safety, less attention has been paid to how clinicians gather, interpret, and convey information about diagnoses … Vizient was used to categorize comorbidities based on the Elixhauser method and to define inpatient diagnoses … , failure to recognize complications, or suboptimal prioritizing of potential diagnoses), access and … support on pre-test and post-test probabilities, providing guidance on test selection for common diagnoses … , and training physicians and patients in how to make better and faster diagnoses is only now coming

140. Medical Injury Identification Using Hospital Discharge Data (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Layde.pdf
     January 01, 2003 - screening criteria for medical injury was based on International Classification of Disease code discharge diagnoses … Conclusions: Screening criteria applied to discharge diagnoses identify frequently occurring medical … Compared with those without any such diagnosis, patients with a discharge diagnosis indicating a medical … Our validation study found that screening criteria based on ICD-9-CM N-code and E-code discharge diagnoses … All Patient Refined–Diagnosis Related Groups (APR– DRGs): Version 15.0.