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8901. National Opportunity To Improve Infection Control in ESRD (NOTICE) Phase Two Final Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/esrd/finalreportphase2.pdf
      September 29, 2014 - This literature review was performed to ensure that the Infection Control Worksheet (ICWS) would reflect … To ensure alignment with CDC guidelines and CMS oversight, the checklists also were developed to reflect … Network staff provided technical assistance to the dialysis facilities to ensure that facilities understood … Early involvement of OCKT would ensure that timelines could be developed to accommodate their schedules

8902. Development of Harmonized Outcome Measures for Use in Patient Registries and Clinical Practice: Methods and Lessons Learned (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/white-paper-standardized-library.pdf
      February 01, 2019 - patient and provider; to drive the process of discovery as a natural outgrowth of patient care; and to ensure … agreed to participate attended the first and last workgroup meetings to provide their perspectives to ensure … in NSCLC, both a thoracic surgeon and a medical oncologist were engaged as clinical consultants to ensure … This additional research allowed the project team to ensure as complete a set of outcome measures as

8903. VU EPC DBD Protocol_AHRQ comments_revised_clean (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/disruptive-behavior-disorder_research-protocol.pdf
      January 30, 2014 - the search strategies in tandem with the refinement of the Key Questions and Analytic Framework to ensure … Databases To ensure comprehensive retrieval of relevant studies, we will use the following key databases … papers, we anticipate the need for additional minor refinements and/or expansions to the search to ensure … We will revise the forms as needed to ensure that the forms are comprehensive and representative of

8904. Wheeled Mobility (Wheelchair) Service Delivery (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/wheelchair-service_technical-brief.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Structured discussion questions were developed in advance of interviews to ensure that necessary information … Quality of Web site information was evaluated to ensure that the information provided was authoritative … caregiver goals, needs, and preferences, continual assessment of the status and goals, monitoring to ensure … for providers, payers, and consumers to gain the appropriate knowledge and awareness necessary to ensure

8905. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for the Diagnosis and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/liver-cancer_disposition-comments.pdf
      October 23, 2014 - By providing proper training and adhering to these standards and initiatives, physicians can ensure … This standard requires software features that ensure only an authorized operator can alter the controls … institutionalization of administrative privileges, access levels, and the recording of clinical protocols to ensure

8906. Florida Final Report
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/FL4AHRQProjectFinalReportMar2010_v2.jsp
      July 01, 2016 - After conducting quality assurance to ensure that the data mapping was correct, they uploaded the standardized … developed using administrative data from California, and applied to the Florida administrative data to ensure … Ensure that the data are available: One of the hospitals changed out its laboratory information system

8907. Fl4Ahrqprojectfinalreportmar2010 V2 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/FL4AHRQProjectFinalReportMar2010_v2.pdf
      March 01, 2010 - After conducting quality assurance to ensure that the data mapping was correct, they uploaded the standardized … developed using administrative data from California, and applied to the Florida administrative data to ensure … Ensure that the data are available: One of the hospitals changed out its laboratory information system

8908. Title (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/mental-illness-adults-prisons_research-protocol.pdf
      September 13, 2012 - formulary policies must include a mechanism to access non-formulary medications on a case-by-case basis to ensure … percent of the articles excluded at the full-article level and have them screened by a second person to ensure … To ensure that all patients, even those enrolled later, receive the same treatment, (e.g., the original

8909. Final Progress Report: Evaluate the Effects of the Massachusetts Reporting System (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/ridley-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Hospital leaders did not ensure that staff resources were freed up during the testing and implementation … hospital leadership engagement, including a requirement of more frequent review of project results; 3) ensure … sufficient use of measures; 4) ensure appropriate implementation of rapid cycle improvement changes

8910. Ratio of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans to Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Seizure: Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0197-fullreport.pdf
      November 01, 2019 - Sedation- and Anesthesia-Related Burden and Risk Some children will require sedation to ensure minimal … To ensure an adequate number of cases to test the feasibility of this measure, we set a target sample … To help ensure consistency of data collection, the medical record abstractors were trained on the study

8911. Ratio of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans to Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Headache (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-196-fullreport.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - Sedation and Anesthesia-Related Burden and Risk Some children will require sedation to ensure minimal … To ensure an adequate number of cases to test the validity of this measure, we set a target sample of … To help ensure consistency of data collection, the medical record abstractors were trained on the study

8912. CAHPS Moving Forward: Innovations in Tools and Research (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-moving-forward-webcast.pdf
      October 01, 2017 - for us, we're helping health care delivery organizations evolve in learning health care systems to ensure … agreement is to conduct independent research moving CAHPS and patient experience forward, develop tools, ensure … The narrative data from these five items were compared to the in-depth interviews to ensure that they

8913. Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/recent-insights-transcript.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - to have response rates that are sufficient to allow us to understand patient experience and also to ensure … accordance TCPA regulations and think about the administrative procedures that need to be in place to ensure … So in Medicaid populations, one of the things you can do is try and ensure accuracy of contact information

8914. 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 - The primary aim of this screening process is to ensure that pertinent studies are not missed. … pharmacist coverage participated in the care of patients at a number of small, rural hospitals and helped ensure … As integral members of the health care team, nurses and physicians need to ensure that their data … Investing time and effort to ensure that sufficient dialogue takes place among all stakeholders is

8915. Community-Based Participatory Research: Lessons for Stakeholder Engagement in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/lessons-transcript.pdf
      May 29, 2025 - First I’d like to ensure that we’re all clear about the relationship between comparative effectiveness … Just like CER PCOR requires the active involvement of stakeholders to ensure that the research will … for all of the stakeholder’s groups and I would put researchers in that category, and so you need to ensure

8916. What Factors Influence States’ Capacity to Report Children’s Health Care Quality Measures? A Multiple-Case Study (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/chipra-factors-influencing-state-reporting.pdf
      July 01, 2016 - measure construction Pennsylvania’s EQRO worked with health plan data and conducted quality checks to ensure

8917. County-Level Determinants of High Opioid-Related Hospitalization Rates (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/CountyHighOpioidHospitalRates.pdf
      December 01, 2020 - concerns such as multicollinearity and lack of variance across counties (e.g., state-level variables) to ensure

8918. StartSmart: Health Information Technology to Improve Adherence to Prenatal Guidelines - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024738-gance-cleveland-final-report-2019.pdf
      January 01, 2019 - age do not have adequate dietary folate intake, and daily folic acid supplementation is necessary to ensure … Experts provided input on screening instruments, algorithm, and recommendations for StartSmartTM to ensure … The research team provided ongoing coaching on the use of StartSmartTM with clinic champions to ensure

8919. PREGNANCY, INCLUDING PRETERM BIRTH #12 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pregnancy_hi_impact.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - than $235 and that the Sequenom laboratory would initially operate as an out-of-network provider to ensure … with human milk from a source other than her own, only milk from a source that has been screened to ensure … than $235 and that the Sequenom laboratory would initially operate as an out-of-network provider to ensure

8920. Neonatal Intensive Care All-Condition Readmissions with Gestational Age Reported (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-207-fullreport.pdf
      June 01, 2019 - Readmissions as a measure can help ensure that these babies are receiving the routine and preventive … Increased focus on regular preventive care may reduce the number of unnecessary hospital readmissions and ensure … To ensure that there were enough patients per hospital to make reliable estimates of the readmission