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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool1_data_analysis_final.xlsx
June 02, 2025 - health diagnosis ERROR:#DIV/0! … % of readmissions with a comorbid behavioral health diagnosis ERROR:#DIV/0! ERROR:#DIV/0! … list surprising diagnoses here Look for sepsis, behavioral health diagnosis. … diagnoses here Identify diagnoses, such as sepsis, sickle cell, substance use that are high risk but … list surprising diagnoses here Look for sepsis, behavioral health diagnosis
Examine list of top discharge
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol2-4.html
June 01, 2023 - For all these reasons, the nexus between diagnosis and treatment may remain opaque. … Diagnoses for conditions that are poorly understood. … Diagnoses for patients approaching the end of life. … Diagnoses affected by organizational or systemic constraints. … Identifying and assessing delayed diagnoses.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-rural-healthcare3.html
September 01, 2024 - Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action
Three Areas To Immediately Advance Diagnosis In Rural Healthcare … and surgical capabilities, rural hospitals can provide more comprehensive care and facilitate quicker diagnoses … patient care, minimizing redundancies, and ensuring accurate and timely diagnoses. … expertise, but telemedicine networks, such as telestroke programs, enable quicker and more accurate diagnoses … to misdiagnosis.81 Similarly, poverty may prevent patients from accessing care, leading to delayed diagnoses
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/telehealth.html
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth continues to broaden training, mentoring, diagnosis, and treatment … Promise of Telehealth in Treating Opioid Use Disorder
Using Telemedicine To Make Accurate, Timely Diagnoses
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-ehr-impact5.html
July 01, 2024 - Documenting Diagnosis: Exploring the Impact of Electronic Health Records on Diagnostic Safety
The Future … By automatically identifying and coding diagnoses from unstructured text, NLP streamlines the documentation … NLP decision support tools can help providers consider differential diagnoses, adhere to clinical guidelines … , and ensure thorough and accurate diagnosis documentation. … Healthcare described successful diagnosis in the 21st century.
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/best-practices/influenza-rsv.html
September 01, 2022 - The "Never Antibiotics" Diagnoses: Influenza and RSV
After viewing or presenting this presentation … The Never Antibiotics Diagnoses: Influenza and RSV – Slides (PPTX, 3.7 MB)
The Never Antibiotics Diagnoses
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/best-practices/bronchitis.html
November 01, 2022 - The "Never Antibiotics" Diagnoses: Acute Bronchitis
After viewing or presenting this presentation … The Never Antibiotics Diagnoses: Acute Bronchitis – Slides (PPTX, 14 MB)
The Never Antibiotics Diagnoses
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/best-practices/cap.html
September 01, 2022 - The "Usually Antibiotics" Diagnoses: Community-Acquired Pneumonia
After viewing or presenting … The “Usually Antibiotics” Diagnoses: Community-Acquired Pneumonia – Slides (PPTX, 3.7 MB)
The “Usually … Antibiotics” Diagnoses: Community-Acquired Pneumonia – Facilitator Guide (DOCX, 4.7 MB)
Clinician
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/readmission-rates.pdf
June 02, 2025 - HOSPITALS
*Readmissions were for all causes and did not necessarily include the same procedure or diagnosis … the most comprehensive
national estimates of 30-day readmission rates for specific procedures and diagnoses … Heart valve procedures
19% Debridement of a wound,
infection, or burn
patients with these common
diagnoses … 29% Kidney transplant
29% Ileostomy and other
enterostomy
patients with these less frequent
diagnoses … : Congestive heart failure
By Diagnosis
Nearly one in fourNearly one in five
Nearly one in threeNearly
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/tanner-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - over 10% had three or more incorrect diagnoses. … time of correct diagnosis. … During the period
prior to the first diagnosis of dystonia, each of these incorrect diagnoses was identified … Frequency among cases given an incorrect diagnosis
Incorrect diagnoses reported
by >= 5% of primary … Frequency among cases treated for an incorrect diagnosis
Treatments prescribed
for incorrect diagnoses
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/dxsafety-probabilistic-thinking.pdf
September 01, 2022 - Understanding probability and managing related uncertainty are vital for making accurate, timely diagnoses … When diagnoses are expressed as possible and uncertainty is recognized, the chance of
misdiagnosis and … It shows the centrality of probabilistic understanding to making diagnoses at each of
the following … The chosen tests may relate to the most likely diagnosis
or the most concerning diagnosis, depending … for trainees occur in the context of generating differential diagnoses.23
These discussions do not
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-terminology7.html
April 01, 2025 - measurement of unplanned hospital admissions with a preceding index visit) set up to detect missed diagnoses … commonly used in clinical pathology. 36,37 The term is also used when there are disagreements between diagnoses … between different experts at different points in time (e.g., difference between admitting and discharge diagnoses … Timely Ensuring diagnoses are made without unnecessary delays. … Effective (Often Encompassing Accuracy) Using up-to-date evidence-based practices to achieve accurate diagnoses
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/best-practices/common-cold.html
September 01, 2022 - The "Never Antibiotics" Diagnoses: Viral Acute Upper Respiratory Infection: the Common Cold … The “Never Antibiotics” Diagnoses: Viral Acute Upper Respiratory Infection: the Common Cold – Slides … (PPTX, 2.4 MB)
The “Never Antibiotics” Diagnoses: Viral Acute Upper Respiratory Infection: the
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/medical-office/supplemental-items/diagnostic-safety.html
October 01, 2024 - offices assess the extent to which their organization's culture supports the diagnostic process, accurate diagnoses … , and communication around diagnoses. … tested for providers and staff and asks for their opinions about their medical office's processes around diagnosis
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/pfphac.pdf
September 01, 2014 - in the Surgical
Care Improvement Project (SCIP) (major surgery) sample, and those with a principal diagnosis … Only: AMI,
HF, Pneumonia, &
SCIP (CY 2005-2006
Combined)
Ratio
(Calculated as
All Diagnoses … , rather than being restricted to the four diagnoses that were included in the 2010 IQR sample. … for the four
diagnoses. … other than those in the four diagnosis groups present in the 2010-2011 IQR sample.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/probabilistic-thinking4.html
September 01, 2022 - Improved Diagnostic Accuracy Through Probability-Based Diagnosis
Future Vision for Probabilistic Diagnostic … Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Improved Diagnostic Accuracy Through Probability-Based Diagnosis … This framework illustrates how future clinicians can be equipped to make more accurate diagnoses … and reduce error through attention to probabilistic diagnosis. … During clinical training, students and residents should be asked to quantify the likelihood of different diagnoses
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/methods.html
December 01, 2017 - in the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) (major surgery) sample, and those with a principal diagnosis … Principal Diagnoses Rate)
ADE
ADE Associated With Digoxin
0.19
0.17
1.08
ADE … , rather than being restricted to the four diagnoses that were included in the 2010 IQR sample. … for the four diagnoses. … other than those in the four diagnosis groups present in the 2010–2011 IQR sample.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/timeline.docx
September 01, 2022 - The “Never Antibiotics” Diagnoses: Influenza and RSV
Presentation and facilitator guide
Discussion … The “Never Antibiotics” Diagnoses: Acute Bronchitis
Presentation and facilitator guide
Discussion … The “Sometimes Antibiotics” Diagnoses: Acute Otitis Media in Children
Presentation and facilitator … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and
Soft Tissue Abscesses
Presentation … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/prevhosp/ereports.html
September 01, 2017 - Active High-Risk Diagnoses. … Certain medical diagnoses are associated with preventable hospital and ED visits. … What is the most frequent discharge diagnosis from the ED? From the hospital? … How many discharge diagnoses were “potentially preventable”? … diagnosis in 10 percent of ED visits, their rank order would be the same.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/959.html
May 01, 2025 - Lab Results Improve Accuracy of AI-Generated Diagnoses
Issue Number
959
AHRQ News Now is … Today’s Headlines Lab Results Improve Accuracy of AI-Generated Diagnoses . … Lab Results Improve Accuracy of AI-Generated Diagnoses An AHRQ-funded study published in NPJ Digital … Medicine found that including lab results significantly improved the accuracy of differential diagnoses … Each model generated a list of possible diagnoses with and without lab data.