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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs021321-joshi-final-report-2014.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Two focus groups were
conducted to examine factors affecting the decision to continue breastfeeding … Follow up assessments was done on day3, day7, week2, week6, month3 and
month6 in both the groups. … Educational session in both the groups lasted for 30 minutes12.
5 … groups. … Breastfeeding support groups
The most commonly reported support groups that aided the participants
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/enhancing-emr-based-real-time-sepsis-alert-system-performance-through-machine
January 01, 2023 - Cases were partitioned into 14 separate risk groups, and variable thresholds were optimized using a genetic … lower than expected at 0.92 percent; however, patients were accurately categorized into the 14 risk groups … Results between patient risk groups varied widely, indicating partitioning patients into separate risk … groups improves ISA’s diagnostic accuracy.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/developing-and-evaluating-online-education-improve-older-adults-health
January 01, 2023 - The specific aims of this project were to:
Convene focus groups to identify older adults' preferences … Focus groups, in-person interviews, and pilot tests were conducted with 94 community-dwelling adults … Knowledge, self-efficacy, and Internet use was compared between the two groups. … Both groups learned a similar amount, and reported being as self-efficacious.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/learning-primary-care-ehr-exemplars-about-health-it-safety
January 01, 2023 - PBRNs are groups of primary care clinicians and practices working together to answer community-based … Conduct key informant interviews with EHR vendor experts to reflect on the findings from the focus groups … The focus groups of physicians found widespread agreement with most of the SAFER recommendations discussed … Vendor representatives largely agreed with the findings from the focus groups and added their perspectives
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/SuccessStory072012_Lapane.pdf
June 16, 2021 - ;
and lowincome groups. … and administered surveys
to groups of lowincome, Englishspeaking seniors and Spanishspeaking … Finally, the team conducted confirmatory focus groups to make sure they had
ecisions. … need for reliable medication management information outside the medical visit:
The focus groups … The majority of white and black participants in the focus groups
felt that their physicians did not
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/mcbride-mr-et-al-2004
January 01, 2004 - Focus groups of clinicians and ethnic older adults were used in order to identify content relevant to … The site contains information on 15 cultures, 12 religions, and 6 ethnic minority cohort groups. … format with hyperlinks and contained "three categories of culture-based information for specific ethnic groups … " ("15 cultures, 12 religions and 9 American minority, cultural, or immigrant cohort groups"): greetings
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017202-bove-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - Significant
reduction in BP was noted in both groups (C: -14±18, T: -18±20, P=0.1). … This group showed equal blood
pressure responses in the telemedicine and the control groups. … No significant differences were noted between the groups for any medication
category.) … differences are noted between the groups.) … These findings were similar in the control and telemedicine groups.
CAHPS Survey.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/developing-and-evaluating-online-education-improve-older-adults-health/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - The project will conduct focus groups to identify older adults' preferences for online learning about … Specific Aims:
Convene focus groups to identify older adults' preferences for online learning about … Fink conducted three patient focus groups to identify older adults' online learning preferences. … The focus groups were conducted in a flexible semi-structured format to allow participants to bring up … Preliminary Impact and Findings: The preliminary findings from the focus groups indicate that the majority
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-meaningful-access-internet-health-information-older-adults/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - Internet-available consumer health IT applications— such as health Web sites—are uneven across user groups … Findings from the focus groups informed additional refinements to the tools. … Both groups will receive general practice on Internet searching, while participants assigned to the aided … Subsequently, both groups will be assigned scenarios and problem-solving tasks to complete. … Preliminary Impact and Findings: Findings from the focus groups conducted as part of the user-centered
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/20130913-health-it-enabled-quality-measurement-presentation-slides.pdf
September 13, 2013 - ▪ To obtain further insights on topics highlighted by RFI
responses, a series of stakeholder focus groups … Consumers Vendors Government Other Total
RFI 26 4 2 2 13 2 14 63
Stakeholder-
Specific
Focus Groups … ▪ It may take various forms (e.g., workshops, collaboratives,
webinars, focus groups). … ▪ The Federal government or other third party may be best
suited to bring together diverse groups … Results were used to develop
questions for focus groups.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/hit-eqm-slides-091313.pdf
September 13, 2013 - ▪ To obtain further insights on topics highlighted by RFI
responses, a series of stakeholder focus groups … Consumers Vendors Government Other Total
RFI 26 4 2 2 13 2 14 63
Stakeholder-
Specific
Focus Groups … ▪ It may take various forms (e.g., workshops, collaboratives,
webinars, focus groups). … ▪ The Federal government or other third party may be best
suited to bring together diverse groups … Results were used to develop
questions for focus groups.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs023875-kazemi-final-report-2018.pdf
January 01, 2018 - Both SONA groups completed surveys at baseline and 6-weeks. … Participants were assigned to 2 groups (Group 1 [n = 4], Group 2 [n = 6]). … Finally, all groups completed 6-week
surveys electronically. … Both focus groups responded favorably to pBMI+SP. … Group 2 also includes two groups, called sona1 and sona2.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-health-information-technology-support-population-based-clinical-practice/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - of current population-based ARI health information resources and decision support tools using focus groups … The original plan to conduct focus groups with providers was changed to an approach involving one-on-one … Activities in 2010 also included two focus groups with parents of patients to help inform the development … The intent of these focus groups was to assess parent information needs relevant to ARI, understand where … Preliminary Impact and Findings: During the focus groups with parents, participating parents reported
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/nicu-2-home-using-hit-support-parents-nicu-graduates-transitioning-home/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - Focus groups have been conducted to collect qualitative data from primary users of the service-parents … A prototype will be developed and subsequent focus groups will provide additional feedback and assessment … Focus groups have been conducted with three groups of stakeholders: 1) mothers and fathers of VLBW infants … The data collected from the focus groups are currently being transcribed, coded, and analyzed.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/rosser-ww-et-al-1992
January 01, 1992 - patient's tetanus vaccination status and to recommend vaccination; those in the other two reminder groups … The difference between that rate and those for the three reminder groups was 19.6% in the physician reminder … Telephone reminder group: "In the telephone and letter groups...at the beginning of each 2-week study … Letter reminder group: "In the telephone and letter groups...at the beginning of each 2-week study period … physicians received reminders were vaccinated, compared to 2.3 percent and 3.2 percent in the two control groups
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/ross-s-et-al-2005
January 01, 2005 - Formulary compliance for these groups did not differ from the overall prescriber population (82.0%). … subanalysis was conducted to assess whether there was a difference in copayment or coinsurance amount between groups … conducted to assess whether differences in formulary compliance would be observed between the study groups … No differences were observed between groups in terms of formulary compliance for these drug classes." … Study Design
Only postintervention with intervention and control groups
Study Participants
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/miller-rh-et-al-2004
January 01, 2004 - Size
Small, medium and large
Other Information
"Organizations included nine large medical groups … physicians each, eighteen solo/small-group practices of ten or fewer physicians, and three medium-size groups … Most of the small groups were primary care only, while eight of the large groups were multispecialty. … In contrast, larger groups tended to have in-house lab and practice management systems that exchanged
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs019092-artinian-final-report-2014.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Methods: In Phase I, we conducted formative research through focus groups with target end
users to … Results: Both usual care and intervention groups showed slight improvements in medication
adherence … Enrolled participants were signed up for one of three
focus groups. … The three focus groups lasted approximately 90 minutes each. … pressure, these
improvements were not significantly different between groups.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/patient-centered-medical-home-information-model/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - (Achieved)
Convene working groups and focus groups for the purpose of model validation. … were focused on developing the information model and validating it through the expert panel, working groups … , and focus groups.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/interactive-health-communication-program-young-urban-adults-asthma/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - Focus groups will be utilized to ensure that the participant’s perspective is fully conveyed. … The findings from the focus groups will be incorporated into a multi-session Internet-based intervention … (Upcoming)
2012 Activities: Focus groups to inform the first aim were conducted during this period … A total of 35 individuals participated in the focus groups.