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1. Final Progress Report: Pediatric Emergency Assessment Tool (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/gorelick-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - The index should have a high, known correlation with the patient’s underlying severity of illness … Importantly, a risk adjustment index should be applicable to all pediatric emergency patients, not just … Examples include MEDISGROUPS, the Computerized Severity Index, and the Patient Management Categories … We intend to develop a broadly applicable index of acuity for pediatric emergency patients that will … An evaluationof multiple trauma severity indices created by different index development strategies

2. New York City Uses AHRQ's TeamSTEPPS®, Other AHRQ Resources to Advance Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201518.html
   July 01, 2015 - Emergency Severity Index , a five-level triage tool designed to provide timely emergency care to patients … HHC augments its patient safety efforts with another AHRQ-funded resource—the Emergency Severity Index … (ESI), a triage tool used in emergency care. … “The ESI has provided specific timeframes within which to treat patients based on the severity of their … Severity Index, Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, TeamSTEPPS®, Surveys on Patient

3. Hospital Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2017 - Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Email updates Sign up: HCUP Highlights Email updates Emergency … Severity Index The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department (ED) triage … Improving the Emergency Department Discharge Process Millions of patients visit hospital emergency … Research showed that the RED was effective at reducing readmissions and posthospital emergency department

4. Final Progress Report: Emergency Department Overcrowding and Quality of Acute Asthma Care for Children (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/sills-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - Because the scores were used to define subpopulations, they were not included as severity adjusters … For both populations, the primary severity adjusters were triage level and ambulance arrival. … Index for quantifying emergency department crowding. … severity and management. … Development and validation of a new index to measure emergency department crowding.

5. Final Progress Report: Pneumonia Mortality Risk Index to Support Discussions of Care Options with Elders (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/naughton-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - consecutive hospital admissions for older persons with pneumonia who initially presented to a hospital emergency … and potentially overwhelmed emergency medicine providers but also could be integrated into a screening … assist physicians in predicting mortality from community- acquired pneumonia, including the Pneumonia Severity … Index (PSI), CURB-65, and CRB-65. … The Pneumonia Severity Index, an important tool, requires collection of 20 data points, a fact that

6. Final Progress Report: Adaptation and Pilot Implementation of a Validated, Electronic Real-Time Clinical Decision Support Tool for the Care of Pneumonia Patients in 12 Utah Urgent Care Centers (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/dean-report.pdf
   January 01, 2025 - Hypothesis #1: Use of ePneumonia will make patient disposition from the UCCs more consistent with severity … We will also study performance of the shock index as a criterion for hospital admission/emergency department … Pneumonia severity scores (PSI, electronic CURB-65, and shock index) overestimated patient need for … Patients with effusions had higher Pneumonia Severity Index scores, lower SpO2, and higher Shock Index … department and hospital cohorts, but the associations with higher illness severity and downstream

7. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2025 - Emergency Severity Index triage tool Emergency department triage algorithm that provides clinically relevant

8. Community-Acquired Pneumonia – Discussion Guide (doc file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/cap-discussion-guide.docx
   September 01, 2022 - Will members of the practice use the CURB-65 pneumonia severity score or the Pneumonia Severity Index … other criteria that the practice should use in determining which patients should be referred to the emergency

9. Section 2. Forming a Patient Flow Team | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptflow/section2.html
   July 01, 2018 - Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals Section 2. … The Need to Address Emergency Department Crowding Section 2. … Measuring Emergency Department Performance Section 4. Identifying Strategies Section 5. … Severity Index (ESI) triage system as part of their participation in the UMLN II. … Note: Emergency Severity Index: Version 4 .

10. Final Progress Report: Demonstration Project To Refine, Automate and Test a Novel Emergency Department Trigger Tool (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/griffey-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - to assess AE severity. … Visit characteristics included date and time of arrival, Emergency Severity Index, primary diagnoses … the modified National Coordinating Council for Medication Errors Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) Index … ESI = Emergency Severity Index. MERP = Medical Error Reporting and Prevention index. … Used with a severity scoring system, this taxonomy can be easily used and modified by emergency departments

11. Rehospitalization for Childhood Asthma: Timing, Variation, and Opportunities for Intervention (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/Kenyon2014.pdf
    February 01, 2014 - severity of illness (mild [1]; moderate [2]; severe [3]; and extremely severe [4]), use of intensive … Higher severity of chronic illness and more comorbid illness likely contribute to the elevated odds of … analysis does not include costs of interventions to reduce repeat admissions or shifts in outpatient and emergency … Use of asthma guidelines by primary care providers to reduce hospitalizations and emergency department … Relationships of race and socioeconomic status with prevalence, severity, and symptoms of asthma in

12. Final Progress Report: Hospital Volume and Quality of Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/picone-jollis-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Thus, the emergency medical service generally is directed toward the nearest hospital. … The data are linked with Medicare claims data and with the national death index. … Thus, we know how long the patient survived after the index admission and if he/she was readmitted to … We summarized all coexisting conditions by the Charlson index with binaries for lack of mobility and … Higher values of the Charlson index indicated worse health.

13. Appendix C: Example Implementation Plan | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptflow/appendix-c.html
    July 01, 2018 - The Need to Address Emergency Department Crowding Section 2. … When we analyzed these data, they clearly demonstrated that the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) 3 patients … The physician would have the right to reassign the patient to the main ED if he or she felt that the severity … Margulies Emergency Senior ED Physician C. Butler Emergency Nurse Manager K. … Rios Emergency Nurse C. Cicote IT System Analyst K.

14. Section 4. Identifying Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptflow/section4.html
    July 01, 2018 - Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals Section 4. … The Need to Address Emergency Department Crowding Section 2. … Measuring Emergency Department Performance Section 4. Identifying Strategies Section 5. … After reviewing its data, ED leaders found that 87 percent of LWBS patients were triaged as Emergency … Severity Index (ESI) Level 3, and the highest LWBS rates occurred among a subset of ESI 3 patients presenting

15. Final Progress Report: Developing an HIV-Specific Prevention Index Using the Electronic Medical Record (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/meenan-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - already described with one exception.    7  On February 1, 2012, the woman sought treatment in the emergency … DMIs measure both  time and level of control (severity).  … Because of occasional redundancy for encounters in source data, any number  of outpatient visits or emergency … Prevention Index (PrI) and Disease Management Index (DMI) for Lipids Management* 0 20 40 60 80 … The concept of a time‐based index (PI) or even a time‐plus‐severity‐ based index (DMI) may be understandable

16. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit Handbook (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cap-toolkit/cap_imptoolkit.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - blood urea nitrogen (BUN) testing, CRB-65 is an appropriate alternative for decision-making.5 For the emergency … alert in an ambulatory care setting, such as a primary or specialty care outpatient practice or an emergency … of this tool is appropriate includes ambulatory care settings such as a primary care practice and an emergency … Tool “a” in each set refers to materials pertinent to emergency department (ED) settings, and Tool “b … If the CURB-65 tool is not used, is another tool such as the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI) tool used

17. Final Progress Report: Improving Medication Management Practices and Care Transitions Through Technology (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/feldman-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - interactions and duplicative medications; and (iii) an alert system that flags three levels of DDI severity … The specific items included comorbidities and symptom severity, risk factors, prognosis, therapies, … were used in developing risk adjustment models to adjust for any potential differences in patient severity … 2008 data that indicated that this number determined those in the two highest deciles of complexity severity … The incidence and severity of adverse events affecting patients after discharge from the hospital.

18. Final Progress Report: Risk of Acute Asthma Associated with the Pediatric Use of Opioids (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/chen-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Severe asthma exacerbations can be potentially life threatening and may warrant an emergency room (ER … Need factors, such as prior history of procedures, diagnoses, and asthma severity, provide insight into … Asthma severity was defined as asthma-related hospitalization, ER visit, and SABA overuse during the … 12 months prior index period. … were prescribed commonly by surgical specialists (N=2,195, 40.9%), dentists (N=1,305, 24.3%), and emergency

19. Final Progress Report: Short-term Clinical Deterioration After Acute Pulmonary Embolism (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/weekes-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - SCOPE Background An important indicator of acute PE of moderate to high severity is an acute increase … absent in validated clinical prognostic models, such as the original and simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity … EDs with geographic spread, we expected to capture the full spectrum of demographics and acute PE severity … Fifty-five percent of enrollees (n = 559) had a Charlson comorbidity index of 1 or higher, which may … Our study focused on clinical deterioration and early mortality due to PE severity.

20. The “Usually Antibiotics” Diagnoses: Community-Acquired Pneumonia – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/cap-guide.docx
    September 01, 2022 - Two commonly used scoring systems in adults with CAP are the CURB-65 score and the Pneumonia Severity … Index, or PSI. … Patients who are confused, tachypneic, or hypotensive should be triaged to the emergency department or … Slide 10 Triaging Decisions: Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI) The 2019 Infectious Diseases Society … If he is clinically worsening, he should go to the emergency department.