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www.ahrq.gov/news/psnet.html
March 01, 2025 - Highlights From AHRQ's Patient Safety Network
AHRQ's Patient Safety Network (PSNet) which highlights journal publications, books, and tools related to patient safety, features a new set of articles including: Ambulatory medication errors and adverse events involved in medicine-related malpractice cases from 20…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/one-pager-side-effects.pdf
June 01, 2021 - Antibiotic Side Effects
Risk of antibiotic side effects and adverse reactions
• Antibiotic use is the most important risk factor for developing multidrug-resistant infections, which
contribute to over 35,000 deaths in the United States each year
• Antibiotic-associated adverse events are one of the most common rea…
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-grigoryan.html
November 01, 2024 - Grantee Profile
Investigating Interventions to Reduce Unsafe Use of Antibiotics
Larissa Grigoryan, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Larissa Grigoryan, M.D., Ph.D. “It is wonderful that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers funding fo…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/gandhi-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Over 145,000 orders have been
generated across approximately 109,000 encounters. … Once the physician has
clicked this button, the ACPOE system automatically generated the medication … such as labs not drawn within 2 weeks or missed and unscheduled
colonoscopy appointments, will be generated
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-McCabe_39.pdf
March 28, 2008 - Generated populations of synthetic patients in the study
reported here are based on distributions of … the test set in order to create the best general classifier for the data.20 The
decision tree was generated … Decision tree generated using encounter data from combined outcomes of all models. … This restriction resulted in a relatively small tree that could be used to interpret
predictions generated
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/summary/index.html
September 01, 2017 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections
Project Summary
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a proven method for preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and other patient harms. CUSP…
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www.ahrq.gov/pcor/index.html
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) at AHRQ
AHRQ’s Healthcare Extension Service
State-Based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement
PCOR Strategic Framework
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/publications/pubcomguide/location-release.docx
July 01, 2024 - AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines
Location Release Form for Video Shoots
Instructions
This Location Release Form must be completed by the location’s administrative authority (herein called “Administrator”) to verify permission to conduct video recording at a particular location. It does not apply to recordi…
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/index.html
March 01, 2025 - About AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the federal agency charged with improving the quality and safety of healthcare delivery. The agency develops and disseminates scientific evidence, tools, and data to help patients and their families, healthcare professionals, and policymakers m…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/communication/strategy6htools.html
April 01, 2023 - Strategy 6H: Tools To Help Patients Communicate Their Needs
Contents
6.H.1. The Problem
6.H.2. The Intervention
6.H.2.a. Record Sharing
6.H.2.b. Patient Question Lists (a.k.a. Doc Talk Cards)
6.H.2.c. Feed Forward
6.H.2.d. Coached Care
References
Download Strategy 6H:
Tools …
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/implement/activity/plan.html
February 01, 2024 - Actions
Ideally, you will test to see whether the TeamSTEPPS intervention achieved each one of the aims generated
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/scores/scoring.html
June 01, 2016 - Scoring Different Kinds of Health Care Quality Measures
The scores you present in your report depend in large part on the kind of measure(s) you are reporting. This page reviews the scoring issues you will face with a variety of measures.
Organization-Level “Yes or No”
The simplest kind of measure involves …
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www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/envscan/conclusion.html
June 01, 2017 - All-Payer Claims Databases Measurement of Care: Systematic Review and Environmental Scan of Current Practices and Evidence
Conclusion
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Table of Contents
All-Payer Claims Databases Measurement of Care: Systematic Review and Environmental Scan of Current Practices and Evidence
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/hacrate2011-12.html
January 01, 2018 - Updated Information on the Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate: 2011 and 2012
This document provides estimates of the national rate of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) for the Partnership for Patients (PFP) program for calendar years 2011 and 2012. The methods used to compute this data are identical to t…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/2st-century-ai.html
October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders
Healthcare’s Next Technological Frontier: 21st Century Artificial Intelligence
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2024
By
Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A.;
Chris Dymek, Ed.D.; and
Kevin Chaney, M.G.S.
In recent days, we at AHRQ have been excited by the ent…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/115-how-to-randomly-order-high-touch.docx
April 01, 2025 - How To Randomly Order Lists of Rooms (Preoperative, Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, and Operating Room) and High-Touch Surfaces
Surgical Services
Read the Evaluating Environmental Cleaning document before you proceed with your randomization process.
A systematic way to pick rooms for fluorescent gel placement is important, …
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www.ahrq.gov/
August 31, 2025 - Explore National Hospital Care Trends
HCUP offers the largest collection of hospital care data across states, including inpatient and emergency services.
See How Americans Use Health Care
MEPS tracks medical services, costs, and coverage for U.S…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/shuttered/hospevac4.html
July 01, 2018 - Hospital Evacuation Decision Guide
Public Health Emergency Preparedness
This resource was part of AHRQ's Public Health Emergency Preparedness program, and focused on post-event evacuations.
Post-Event Evacuation Decision Guide
Post-event evacuations have occurred either following Advanced Warning Events …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/mello-thoms-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - to obtain the desired mammograms from a
different healthcare system; however, because these were generated … residents to
complete the annotations, but the issue with them was their lack of experience, which
generated
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www.ahrq.gov/coronavirus/health-systems-research.html
April 01, 2023 - Health Systems Research
AHRQ invests in research to generate new evidence and evidence syntheses to help healthcare systems and healthcare professionals improve the care of patients. Those investments include research products for use by systems and professionals to address COVID-19.
Among resources available…