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21. Identifying Strategies to Improve Medication Safety at Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2022 - Xiao, a human factors engineer, has studied and identified strategies to improve medication safety during … care transitions by using a human factors approach. … Using a human factors approach, Dr. … He is a member of the editorial board for the journal, Human Factors , and was named a Fellow of the … Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in 2021.

22. Overview of Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (PSLL) Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - This approach can involve evaluating the physical (built) environment, technological factors such as … Medication transitions: vulnerable periods of change in need of human factors and ergonomics . … This model showed how policies designed to affect those factors resulted in changes to outcomes. … IISE Trans Occup Ergon Hum Factors  2018;6(3-4):200-8. Das P, et al.  … In this risk score, X n represents baseline risk factors and in-hospital clinical factors, as well as

23. About the Comparative Health Systems Performance (CHSP) Initiative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2021 - AHRQ’s goal is to understand the factors that affect health systems' use of patient-centered outcomes … However, little is known about the characteristics of high-performing health systems and the factors … Promote broad dissemination of findings on the characteristics of high-performing health systems and factors … Focus Areas of the Centers of Excellence Market and Organizational Factors That Influence Implementation … Study how market and organizational factors influence the implementation of biomedical, health system

24. Guiding Principles Help Healthcare Community Address Potential Bias Resulting From Algorithms | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - Grantee Applies Human Factors Approach to Healthcare Systems To Improve Safety . … Grantee Applies Human Factors Approach to Healthcare Systems To Improve Safety AHRQ grantee Rollin … Used in safety-critical industries like aviation, a human factors approach seeks to understand the factors … also a professor of emergency medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, has used human factors … JMIR Hum Factors 2023 Sep 12;10:e45957. Access the abstract on PubMed®.

25. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 17, 2016 - Although many risk factors are nonmodifiable (e.g., emergency surgery), some factors can be addressed … Determine risk factors for postoperative wound dehiscence and identify pediatric patients at risk.2- … Hospital Quality and Safety 2 Tool D.4i o Malnutrition • When possible, eliminate or mitigate risk factors … o Reported pain (if old enough to verbalize) or increased heart rate not accounted for by other factors … Risk factors for abdominal wound dehiscence in children: a case-control study.

26. Roadmap for Implementing Pediatric Quality Measures for Performance Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2021 - follow the steps to explore the measure implementation process, including understanding contextual factors … Having an awareness and understanding of the contextual factors that may be at play, before initiating … order to better understand your context, see the link below to a self-study exercise on contextual factors … Example: PQMP IMPLEMENT Team Self-study Exercise on Contextual Factors Using the MUSIQ Framework … Contextual Factors Impacting Implementation EHR Modification Costs: The ability to modify or customize

27. Understand the Science of Safety for Perinatal Safety: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Slide 6: System-Level Factors Affect Safety Say: As the illustration shows, at any given time, … there are several system factors that simultaneously influence unit culture and patient safety. … Task factors In addition to patient characteristics, task factors can shape the delivery of care and … Team factors Team factors may involve issues with teamwork, communication, inadequate supervision, and … Slide 7: System-Level Factors Can Predict Performance Say: When nurse-to-patient ratios exceed

28. Lessons from the Field: Making Performance Comparisons (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2019 - Adjustments for demographic, clinical and social risk factors may be necessary to ensure that performance … The most common approaches used to account for these factors (demographic, clinical and social) are … Performance Comparisons 10 Figure 5: Adjustments for demographic, clinical and social risk factors … ‣ When assessing performance on process measures, risk adjustment should not include SES factors … Risk Adjustment for Socioeconomic Status or Other Sociodemographic Factors.

29. AHRQ Grantee Profiles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Founding Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Care Human Factors Armstrong Institute for Patient … More >> Human Factors in Surgery: Shifting the Paradigm on Patient Safety Kenneth Catchpole, Ph.D … Medicine Medical University of South Carolina “Human factors engineering in clinical settings is still … More >> Applying Human Factors to Make it Easier for Clinicians to Do Their Jobs Kristen E. … Senior Scientific Director National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare MedStar Health, Washington

30. PS Grantee Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2007 - Medication Safety (73) Communication and Teamwork (29) Patient Safety Tools (19) Human Factors … Implementation (7) Education and Training (6) Emergency Care (5) Human and Environmental Factors … These topics include human factors approaches to improve patient safety, patient safety measure development … Safety Publication Date: December 2006 Medication Error Reduction, Technologies, and Human Factors … Grant Number: UC1 HS 014253 Topic(s): Human Factors Approaches To Improve Patient Safety, Medication

31. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 17, 2016 - $77,739 in additional charges.4 Recommended Practice Details of Recommended Practice Assess risk factors … Develop a set of risk factors for postoperative respiratory failure and screen all patients undergoing … Recommended Practice: Assess risk factors • Determine which pediatric patients are at increased risk … adverse events postoperatively, as well as improve allocation of resources after surgery.5 • Some risk factors … • Additional adult risk factors that are applicable to children are: o Smoking. o Obesity.

32. Learn-From-Defects-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Visualize the factors that led to the event. Step 2. Identify the contributing factors. Step 3. … Prioritize the contributing factors. 3. What will you do to reduce the risk of recurrence? Step 1. … Develop interventions for two to five of the most important factors. Step 2. … look at the technical factors. … by human factors.

33. NPSD Data Spotlight - Patient Safety and COVID-19: A Qualitative Analysis of Concerns During the Public Health Emergency (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2021 - ............................................................ 5 Descriptions of Other Contributing Factors … (typically categorized as Human Factors). … Analysis of 124 records for which “COVID-19” was referenced in the Contributing Factors unstructured … Paraphrased text describing other contributing factors for a limited number of records Type of Event … Additionally, when asked to indicate the factors contributing to the event or unsafe condition, the

34. Understand the Science of Safety for Perinatal Safety (pdf file)
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/understand/understand-facilitator-guide.pdf
    May 01, 2017 - Task factors In addition to patient characteristics, task factors can shape the delivery of care and … Team factors Team factors may involve issues with teamwork, communication, inadequate supervision … While these issues are the furthest removed from the patient in the diagram, these factors continually … Analyzing what happened and why it happened helps the team understand the contributing factors and … Being aware of these factors will help units develop environments that facilitate communication and

35. EvidenceNOW: New York City Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - disease is the primary cause of death in the city, and prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors … Use qualitative methods to assess factors that help and hinder practices in implementing change and achieving … ABCS-driven care Three expert webinars on topics related to evidence-based management of CVD risk factors … practices [AcademyHealth, 2017] Using Practice Facilitation in primary care settings to reduce risk factors … Population Health Summit, 2016] Using Practice Facilitation in primary care settings to reduce risk factors

36. Job Aid: 5 Whys and Fishbone Diagrams (pdf file)
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    May 17, 2021 - They can also be used to identify the factors contributing to exemplary performance in order to replicate … 2 Fishbone Diagrams Fishbone diagrams are another tool for helping a practice identify factors … existing category sets like this healthcare one: people, materials, methods, measurement, environmental factors

37. EvidenceNOW: Ohio Cooperative (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2021 - The state has a high burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and substantial disparities in CVD risk factors … Smoking rates are higher in Ohio’s geographic regions with lower socioeconomic factors mirroring the … Determine patient, provider, clinic, and other contextual factors associated with greater improvements … implementation, maintenance, and efectiveness of the heart healthy QIP overall and by subgroup; and (3) factors

38. Preventing Falls in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and optimizing the hospital's … What is a standardized assessment of risk factors for falls, and how should this assessment be conducted … How should identified risk factors be used for fall prevention care planning?     3.5.

39. Sensemaking and Learn from Defects for Perinatal Safety (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Visualize the factors that led to the event. • Step 2. Identify the contributing factors. … Prioritize the contributing factors. 3. What will you do to reduce the risk of recurrence? … Develop interventions for two to five of the most important factors. … sometimes look at the technical factors. … by human factors.

40. Sensemaking and Learn From Defects for Perinatal Safety: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Rank these risk factors. … Visualize the factors that led to the event. Step 2. Identify the contributing factors. Step 3. … Develop interventions for two to five of the most important factors. Step 2. … look at the technical factors. … by human factors.