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441. Tool 2: Readmission Review Tool (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool2_readm_review.docx
     September 02, 2016 - Readmission teams uniformly report that these reviews yield valuable information that would otherwise be difficult

442. Lessons from the Field: Measuring Intermediate Progress (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/lessons/lessons-intermediate-progress.pdf
     November 04, 2018 - •P-HIP: low frequency of related events made it difficult to identify an intermediate indicator that … of the relationship between an intermediate indicator and a long- term outcome •IMPLEMENT: difficult … ⇒ Generally, associations between intermediate indicators and outcomes will be difficult to establish

443. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/meeting-summary-cooperatives/building-state1.html
     October 01, 2024 - However, grantees did not have a common approach to documenting their interventions making it difficult

444. Making Healthcare Safer IV | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs4/index.html
     April 01, 2025 - patient safety research, patient safety resources, and accrediting body standards makes it increasingly difficult

445. Cerner-Q-A-Session (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/cerner-q-a-session.pdf
     December 14, 2022 - In the outpatient world, 9 that’s very difficult. … If all your physicians have the same security role within Cerner, making this distinction is difficult … One of the reasons it ends up being difficult is that Epic was designed to report on an individual patient … Building an order set does not take that long and is not difficult to print in another department.

446. Translation Guidelines for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/resources/transguide.pdf
     January 01, 2007 - o Ask open-ended questions to find out if anything in the survey is confusing, misinterpreted, or difficult … They are asked to mark any words or items they found confusing or difficult to answer. … • Allow sufficient time for recruiting—reaching staff and scheduling an interview can be difficult

447. Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 1: How To Effectively Present Health Care Performance Data To Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/public-reporting/guide1.html
     August 01, 2018 - (e.g., a doctor who communicates well but whose patients wait long times for appointments) are very difficult … When reports have categories or category names that are difficult to understand or are viewed as meaningless … ZIP code, by clinic affiliation), consumers would have to review all performance results, doing the difficult

448. Learn From Defects in Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/learn-from-defects-fac-guide.html
     February 01, 2017 - Each defect has many contributing factors, making it difficult to immediately address each one. … As difficult as they may seem, they usually offer kernels of truth. … Ask: Getting people engaged and involved in the process is difficult, so how can we better involve

449. Chapter 4. Long Term Management | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/man4.html
     December 01, 2017 - Sometimes it may be difficult to determine if the resident is hypotensive when checking only one point … Also, it may be difficult to determine the resident's risk this early in their stay. … Ongoing management of risk for residents with chronic degenerative diseases is difficult.

450. Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool2.html
     March 01, 2013 - required to change their policies and processes with regard to medication reconciliation, which may be difficult … However, it will be much more difficult to lower a 30-day readmission rate that is already low, say 15 … Coordination may be difficult, requiring a clear delineation of responsibilities and communication protocols

451. Section 7: Measuring Value in a Care Management Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/medicaidmgmt/mm7.html
     October 01, 2014 - Outcome measures are better indicators of a program's success but are often difficult to collect. … Difficult to collect clinical data. … percent of members with asthma who received an influenza vaccine increases, it will be gradually more difficult

452. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/learn-from-defects-facguide.docx
     January 01, 2017 - Each defect has many contributing factors, making it difficult to immediately address each one. … As difficult as they may seem, they usually offer kernels of truth. … ASK: Getting people engaged and involved in the process is difficult, so how can we better involve the

453. Engaging Senior Executives: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/on-boarding/sr-exec-slides.html
     December 01, 2017 - Addressing adaptive challenges is often much more difficult; checklists alone will not improve teamwork … Some of these will be small fixes, but even these relatively small things can be difficult to change … It can be difficult, and very few people are trained on how to do it.

454. Facilitator Guide: Engage Senior Executives in Surgical Site Infection Prevention Work (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/onboarding/onboarding_sr-execs_facnotes.docx
     December 01, 2017 - Addressing adaptive challenges is often much more difficult; checklists alone will not improve teamwork … Some of these will be small fixes, but even these relatively small things can be difficult to change … It can be difficult, and very few people are trained on how to do it.

455. Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool2.html
     March 01, 2013 - required to change their policies and processes with regard to medication reconciliation, which may be difficult … However, it will be much more difficult to lower a 30-day readmission rate that is already low, say 15 … Coordination may be difficult, requiring a clear delineation of responsibilities and communication protocols

456. Fielding the CAHPS Child Hospital Survey (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/fielding-child-hcahps.pdf
     February 18, 2021 - ..................................................... 24 Appendix C: Enlisting Respondents Who Are Difficult … For additional advice and guidance, see: • Appendix C: Enlisting Respondents Who Are Difficult to Reach … CAHPS Child Hospital Survey Document No. 93 Page 26 Appendix C: Enlisting Respondents Who Are Difficult … to Reach It may be difficult to locate some respondents, but it is especially important to interview … or receive returned questionnaires from those individuals who might be difficult to reach.

457. 10-Year Experience Integrating Strategic Performance Improvement Initiatives: Can the Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma®, and Team Training All Thrive in a Single Hospital? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Meliones_40.pdf
     January 01, 2006 - Physicians, as a group, often are difficult to engage. … Finally, control of the process can be difficult as priorities in the organization shift. … Outcomes in health care sometimes are difficult to interpret because many confounding factors contribute … It is difficult to remove all confounders, so this remains a limitation.

458. 2. Description of the Intervention (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen2a.html
     April 01, 2018 - West, et al., 2009 ) note that obtaining information from electronic health records is complicated and difficult … electronic data systems and therefore the information available in our master patient database, so it was difficult … We also learned that it can be very difficult to determine from the electronic records whether a complete … Lessons Learned It was difficult to get clinicians to complete and return the CDE feedback form.

459. Translating Patient Safety Research into Clinical Practice (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Magid.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - While obtaining information on eligible individuals who decline to participate in studies may be difficult … While the intervention was shown to be successful in a single hospital, it is difficult to conclude … Thus, it is difficult to compare results across studies. … Second, it can be difficult or impossible to know with precision the exact “denominator” of patients

460. Improving-Facnotes (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/improving/improving-facnotes.docx
     May 01, 2017 - Operating and procedure rooms can be chaotic places where background noise makes hearing difficult. … One of the most difficult components of performing a debriefing is making sure that it occurs when all … The debriefing is probably one of the most difficult techniques to incorporate into the surgical environment … Getting the entire team to stop all activity at this point in the case can sometimes be difficult. … These are usually the most difficult items for teams to perform consistently, and they are the most commonly