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321. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Health Care November Meeting Summary (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/fed-IWG-dxsafety-Nov19mtg.pdf
     November 15, 2019 - patient-safety/diagnostic-error-grants/index.html https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/CLIA/index

322. State and Regional Demonstrations in Health Information Technology: Colorado - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/state-regional-demonstration-hit-co-final-report.pdf
     July 01, 2015 - A robust enterprise master patient index (eMPI) for nearly 2,500,000 registrants (1,400,000 individuals … Despite an intuitive and relatively fast interface for patient searches, busy emergency department ( … By speaking with clinicians (emergency department [ED] physicians) a list of important data elements … Sun Microsystems (Sun) had a product that included a master patient index as well as complete security … Deployment in the emergency departments (ED) showed that busy ED physicians are less likely to seek

323. A Community-Shared Clinical Abstract to Improve Care - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/community-shared-clinical-abstract-improve-care/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - Adults, Congestive Heart Failure Summary: This project seeks to improve continuity of care for emergency … Such risks are compounded during emergency visits, when patients may use the nearest available ED rather … There were 5,166 patients designated as index cases with 3,974 (77 percent) determined to be internal

324. Traumatic Brain Injury and Depression (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/depression-brain-injury_executive.pdf
     April 01, 2011 - damage, swelling, inflammation, and internal bleeding.4 TBI is responsible for roughly 1.2 million emergency … Medline®, the PsycINFO® database of psychological and psychiatric literature, Embase, the Cumulative Index … most common sources of study populations were tertiary care centers, identifying participants from emergency … .118 Another group using the Injury Severity Score also found no association between severity and prevalence … consensus process to select subscale domains of three screening tools (Neurobehavioral Functioning Index

325. Final Progress Report: An expert-guided machine-learning approach to estimate the incidence, risk, and harms associated with diagnostic delays for infectious diseases (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/polgren-miller-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - finding clusters of conditions that exhibit a similar pattern of increased frequency just before the index … symptom representing a diagnostic opportunity should be inversely related to the distance from the index … Using MarketScan data (2001-2015) and diagnosis codes during healthcare visits before the index diagnosis … The odds of secondary household transmission in households where the index case experienced a diagnostic … delay was 5.10 (95%CI: 4.44-5.95) times the odds of transmission when the index case was not delayed

326. Primary Care Connection Prior to Emergency Department Visits for Children With Identifiable Asthma (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-136-fullreport.pdf
     July 01, 2018 - and an ED visit with a primary or secondary diagnosis of asthma in the Reporting Month prior to the index … have not been consecutively enrolled with the reporting entity for at least six months prior to the index … • Severity of condition and burden of condition on children, family, and society (unrelated to cost … Asthma severity in children and the quality of life of their parents. … Parental education on asthma severity in the emergency department and primary care follow-up rates.

327. Machine Learning Methods in Systematic Reviews: Identifying Quality Improvement Intervention Evaluations (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/machine-learning-quality_research.pdf
     September 01, 2012 - An example is PMID 17530519, a publication on asthma treatment protocols in the emergency department … The percentage of calls that resulted in immediate evaluation by a physician (on-site or in the emergency … Administrative data, inpatient interviews, 30-day follow-up interviews, and the National Death Index … higher arm muscle circumference (AMC) (p = 0.05), calf circumference (CC) (p = 0.038) and body mass index … of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA. tself@utmem.edu Management of asthma in emergency

328. A Loss of Trust and a Missed Diagnosis | PSNet
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     October 31, 2023 - At the time of her appointment, she described the pain as deep, and 6 out of 10 in severity, concentrated … The PCP encouraged her to exercise more and try to lose some weight (her body mass index was 28 kg/m2 … Finally, a year after her initial evaluation for back pain, the patient’s family brought her to the emergency … The emergency physician ordered spine, left hip, and chest x-rays. … recent systematic review found that clinicians should anticipate about 50% mean improvement in the severity

329. User Guide: Cost To Charge Ratio (CCR) For Inpatient Files (pdf file)
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/ccr/ip-ccr/Inpatient_CCR_User_Guide_External_2001-2020.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - • A separate user guide is available for the CCR for Emergency Department Files. … The Emergency Services Group is used to calculate the emergency department CCR. … All CCR Files also include data year (YEAR) and area wage index (WAGEINDEX or WI_X), which is an index … /AcuteInpatientPPS/Wage-Index-Files for more information. … Navigate to the Wage Index page for the year of interest.

330. Secure Architecture for Exchanging Health Information (SAFEHealth) - 2009 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/secure-architecture-exchanging-health-information-safehealth/annual-summary/2009
     January 01, 2009 - piloted through the Fallon Clinic, Milford Hospital, and the HealthAlliance Hospital’s Leominster Campus Emergency … decentralized edge proxy-server approach to authentication, data repositories, and an enterprise master person index … Implement and use SAFEHealth at Milford Hospital and HealthAlliance Hospital’s Leominster Campus Emergency … HealthAlliance Hospital’s Leominster Campus Emergency Department provided emergency room notes, while

331. Medication errors in neonatal and paediatric intensive-care units. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-errors-neonatal-and-paediatric-intensive-care-units
     February 03, 2011 - September 23, 2020 Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting. … January 7, 2011 The Diagnostic Error Index: a quality improvement initiative to identify

332. Wrong-patient ordering errors in peripartum mother-newborn pairs: a unique patient-safety challenge in obstetrics. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/wrong-patient-ordering-errors-peripartum-mother-newborn-pairs-unique-patient-safety-challenge
     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

333. Untitled (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/aggression_research-protocol.pdf
     October 05, 2015 - Decreased aggression in terms of frequency, severity, or duration (as measured by direct counts or by … Developed countries (“very high” human development index as defined by the United Nations Development … severity,!or!duration!(as! measured!by!direct!counts!or!by! validated!aggression!scales)! -! … index!per!the!United!Nations! Development!Programme)61! All!other!countries! Language! … Rapid response team for behavioral emergencies.

334. Program Evaluation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptmgmt/evaluation.html
     July 01, 2018 - telephone interactions, the average number of telephone interactions with individuals in the highest severity … , shortness of breath, peak flow readings, asthma symptom scores, nighttime symptoms, self-reported severity … of symptoms, and body mass index to assess disease or symptom control. … As an example, the asthma call center study used inpatient admissions, inpatient bed days, emergency … room visits, asthma inpatient admissions, asthma inpatient bed days, and asthma emergency room visits

335. Inflicting Confusion | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/inflicting-confusion
     August 04, 2021 - The Case A 26-year-old man with recently diagnosed Crohn disease presented to the emergency department … involvement, flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy with biopsies can be performed to both assess disease severity … Antibiotic therapy should be reserved for those with known C. difficile infection, or in those with a high index … June 15, 2022 Findings of the first consensus conference on medical emergency teams. … Disruption October 1, 2009 View More See More About The Topic Emergency

336. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol: Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/malnutrition-hospitalized-adults-protocol.pdf
     October 19, 2020 - malnutrition accounted for the largest number of readmissions among patients with any malnutrition-related index … Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) • Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) • Nutritional Risk Index … stay • 30-day readmission • Quality of life • Functional status, includes gate speed, Karnofsky Index … include: • Cross-sectional areas for lumbar skeletal muscle and adipose tissue • Skeletal Muscle Index … The confounders of interest include age, gender, comorbidities, and illness severity.

337. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program Research Gaps Summary: Primary Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/research-gap-primary-care-summary-table.pdf
     March 01, 2022 - We found— o moderate to low strength of evidence (SOE) that emergency department (ED)–based, primary … unclear, and we found consistent evidence of a lack of effect of PGHD interventions on body mass index … • Studies to measure health outcomes in obese patients, rather than merely body mass index or weight … • Specialty telehealth consultations likely reduce patient time in the emergency department. … • Telehealth consultations in emergency services likely reduce heart attack mortality.

338. Chapter 3. Care Coordination Measurement Framework | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/coordination/atlas/chapter3.html
     June 01, 2014 - schedule a clinic visit) Patient report of unnecessary care (e.g., unnecessary tests, procedures, emergency … administrative data Health care utilization by a group of patients (e.g., hospital readmissions, emergency

339. Final Progress Report: Safety Outcomes of Obese Residents in US Nursing Homes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/felix-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 12 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Notes: AIAN=American Indian/Alaskan Native, BMI=Body Mass Index … Process measures included percent of residents who were restrained, acuity index, skill mix (ratio of … The acuity index was negatively associated with lower rates of falls and falls with Injuries. … that they considered the ability of local healthcare and medical transportation providers to support emergency … Body Mass Index, Falls, and Hip Fractures Among Nursing Home Residents.

340. Abdominal Pain in Early Pregnancy | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/abdominal-pain-early-pregnancy
     November 13, 2024 - Abdominal pain remains the most common reason for emergency department (ED) visits, comprising more than … Given the severity and persistence of her symptoms despite treatment, a complete abdominal ultrasound … women.( 10 ) Given that appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdomen in pregnancy, a high index … Emergency Department Visits for Chest Pain and Abdominal Pain: United States, 1999–2008. … The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2011 Emergency Department Summary Tables.