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221. How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children’s health care quality? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2015 - practices in the learning collaborative ultimately surpassed the comparison practices in their Medical Home Index … Increased Medical Home Index scores reported by Massachusetts for learning collaborative and comparison … Figure 2 illustrates Medical Home Index scores for the 13 CHIPRA practices in Massachusetts compared … with Medical Home Index-Revised Short Form scores for comparison practices (8 practices at T1, 9 practices

222. Emerging Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease: A Summary of Systematic Reviews Conducted for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2009 - , homocysteine level, leukocyte count, fasting blood glucose, peri- odontal disease, ankle–brachial index … Members of the USPSTF determined the risk factors to evaluate: ankle– brachial index (ABI), leukocyte … Fair Ankle–brachial index 3 Serious** Significant uncertainty� Sparse or imprecise data Predictive … The association of the ankle-brachial index with incident coronary heart disease: the Atherosclerosis … Use of ankle brachial pressure index to predict cardiovascular events and death: a cohort study.

223. Grant Final Report: Virtual Continuity and its Impact on Complex Hospitalized Patients' Care - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018151-smith-final-report-2013.pdf
     January 01, 2013 - Secondary outcomes were 30-day rehospitalization, emergency department visit, and PCP visit rates. … data on a patient’s current medications at the time of their last health care encounter prior to the index … The modified Elixhauser comorbidity index score (15) was also slightly lower in the post-intervention … 47 (19) 4 32 (10) 10 (4) 5 12 (4) 1 (0.4) 6 1 (0.3) 0 (0) Modified Elixhauser comorbidity index … significant on multivariable analysis (Table 4) adjusting for age, sex, and modified Elixhauser comorbidity index

224. Communication During Transitions of Care | PSNet
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     July 10, 2024 - care as “the movement of a patient between different healthcare settings,” such as from ambulance to emergency … Tools and checklists that facilitate standardized, structured handoffs, such as I-PASS (i.e., illness severity … One study published in 2023 found that after implementing a modified I-PASS tool, pediatric emergency … Shift changes among emergency physicians: best of times, worst of times. … Development and validation of the hospital-to-home-health transition quality (H3TQ) index: a novel measure

225. HCUP_methods_series_cover.ai (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2005 - Statistical issues involved age-gender adjustment for all QIs, severity/comorbidity adjustment for … interaction, and 3M™ All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRGs) risk of mortality or severity … ), and “admission source” (e.g., transfer from another institution, emergency room, etc.). … g stdg N S N xw N xw N N N N xw N ==== ∑∑∑∑ ∑ ∑∑ ==== = == (A.3) g = index … g stdg gn i ig gn i igig g stdg w xw P N w xw N (A.7) g = index

226. Wrong-patient ordering errors in peripartum mother-newborn pairs: a unique patient-safety challenge in obstetrics. | PSNet
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     July 28, 2021 - August 10, 2022 A new index for obstetrics safety and quality of care: integrating cesarean … May 12, 2021 FDA Advise-ERR: reported medication errors with Veklury (remdesivir) emergency

227. Statistical Brief #28
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     April 01, 2007 - Costs for 2000 were adjusted to 2004 dollars using the overall Consumer Price Index (CPI). … All cost data are presented in 2004 dollars using the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index … all-payer encounter-level collection of longitudinal health care data (inpatient, ambulatory surgery, and emergency … 51,600 44.1% 24.1% * 2000 costs were adjusted to 2004 dollars using the overall Consumer Price Index … 4,400 51.6% 20.3% * 2000 costs were adjusted to 2004 dollars using the overall Consumer Price Index

228. Health Information Exchange | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Summary: Emergency physicians often must deliver medical care with minimal access to historical clinical … large, longitudinal, computer-based patient record system of clinical data from an urban hospital to emergency … The emergency physician received information both as a printed abstract and by means of online access … We assessed charges, hospital admissions, repeat visits to EDs, and the emergency physicians' satisfaction … Master Patient Index (MPI - a common medical record number or algorithm that identifies patients across

229. Statistical Brief #121
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     September 01, 2011 - An individual patient can have multiple index admissions during this observation period. … diagnosis. 30-day readmission costs by patient characteristics in 15 states, 2008 Statewide area wage indexes … Costs were consistently higher for readmissions than for index stays (table 3). … Statewide average area wage indexes weighted by bed size were used to adjust for local differences in … all-payer encounter-level collection of longitudinal healthcare data (inpatient, ambulatory surgery, and emergency

230. El Dorado County Safety Net Technology Project / ACCESS El Dorado (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs016129-bergner-final-report-2009.pdf
     January 01, 2009 - at improving the coordination of care for patients in El Dorado by providing: • A centralized index … Lastly, through decreasing the frequency of ED visits for non-emergencies, the OMH pathway reduces wait … times, allowing staff to devote more resources and time to treating patients with real emergencies. … The Cost of an Emergency Department Visit and Its Relationship to Emergency Department Volume. … The Cost of an Emergency Department Visit and Its Relationship to Emergency Department Volume.

231. 4. Observations About the Evaluation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - large proportion of AHRQ’s original research questions ( www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/index … of comparison practices to assess whether outcomes (such as receipt of well child care and avoidable emergency … CHIPRA practices for the full 3-year demonstration had a significant reduction in potentially avoidable emergency

232. Respiratory Distress after Neck Surgery: Two Cases of Postoperative Cervical Hematoma. | PSNet
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     August 14, 2024 - Intubation was attempted multiple times after the patient arrived in the Emergency Department (ED). … hematoma following ACSS include (1) patient factors such as male sex, age over 65 years, low body mass index … The order and timing of subsequent interventions depends on the severity of presentation and surgeon … Even when properly prepared, however, the high stress of airway emergencies can lead to cognitive overload … The Vortex: a universal “high-acuity implementation tool” for emergency airway management.

233. Healing our own: a randomized trial to assess benefits of peer support. | PSNet
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     May 19, 2021 - 2022 In situ simulation for adoption of new technology to improve sepsis care in rural emergency … February 15, 2023 A new index for obstetrics safety and quality of care: integrating

234. Data Flow & Clinical Outcomes in a Perinatal Continuum of Care System - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018649-levick-final-report-2014.pdf
     January 01, 2014 - analyze the index using two measures. … The second indicator, which reflects the severity of adverse birth outcomes, is the log of index … value, calculated over observations where the index is non-­‐zero. … In particular, we estimate 37% reduction in the severity of adverse birth events, such as harm … Further, there was a statistically significant decline in inductions and in the severity of adverse

235. Archived: Final Research Plan: Child Maltreatment: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 18, 2016 - broken bones, bruises, burns, and other injuries with a high specificity for abuse Visits to the emergency … to U.S. practice (i.e., conducted in countries categorized as "Very High" on the Human Development Index … United States (i.e., conducted in countries not categorized as "Very High" on the Human Development Index

236. Results Final Report
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/3MSummaryResultsReportFinal.jsp
     October 03, 2010 - The administrative data allows the determination of a patient’s reason for admission, the severity of … are assigned to a patient for severity of illness and risk of mortality. … In addition we calculated an "impact factor" index for each TRR on each of the 4 ROM subclasses. … The impact factor index was a generated by interpolating the mortality rate created by TRR in each ROM … when they occur for elective surgical cases and surgical cases that may be urgent but usually aren’t emergency

237. Postdischarge Follow-Up Phone Call | PSNet
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     May 19, 2021 - As her symptoms worsened, she contemplated returning to the emergency department (ED). … patients with CHF was associated with fewer hospital days and readmissions in the 6 months following the index … The incidence and severity of adverse events affecting patients after discharge from the hospital. … Effectiveness of an organized follow-up system for elder patients released from the emergency department … Physicians, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

238. Evidence-based Contingency Planning for Electronic Health Record Downtime - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024350-wernz-final-report-2018.pdf
     January 01, 2018 - Scope: EHR downtime was studied in the emergency department and clinical laboratory at two hospitals … improve various downtime contingency plans. 4 Scope EHR downtime was studied in the emergency … Emergency medicine is particularly reliant on rapid laboratory testing. … Emergency physicians rely on laboratory results for clinical decision-making, and any delays or errors … Arriving patients were classified according to their emergency severity index (ESI) and were then seen

239. Addressing Hospital Patient Information Needs Using a PHR Portal - Final Report (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - Disease severity was quantified using the Charlson Comorbidity Index8 and All Patient Refined Diagnosis … The PAM-13 score has been used to predict health-care outcomes including medication adherence, emergency … There were no differences in clinical severity based on the Charlson Comorbidity Index, All Patient … Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (which measured severity of illness and risk of mortality), comorbid … Kaplan Meier estimate of readmission rate to our hospital within 30 days of being discharged from the index

240. Screening and Interventions for Overweight in Children and Adolescents: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/J-vUTejXWsdp_d86zK4Gth
     July 01, 2005 - The USPSTF found fair evidence that body mass index (BMI) is a reasonable measure for identifying children … BMI is the most commonly used index of overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence. … Use of the body mass index (BMI) as a measure of overweight in children and adolescents. … Body mass index from childhood to middle age: a 50-y follow-up.