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21. The Effective Health Care Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - designed to inform health care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms … effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Relevance The EHC Program develops products that present the benefits and harms

22. Final Progress Report: Patient Safety in Hospice Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - (Specific Aim 2: Outcomes and harms) 4. … Description of actual and potential harms: The interviewer then expanded and clarified the participant … not only physical harms but also the potential for psychological or emotional harms from the incident … Severity of harms: The interviewer then asked the participant to describe the most significant harms … Harms ranged from small facial burns to significant structural fires causing death.

23. Making Healthcare Safer III: Structured Abstract | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2020 - The PSPs were chosen for inclusion in the report based on the high-impact harms they address and interest … PSPs that are more well-established are now being investigated in light of emerging harms, such as the … Similarly, emerging PSPs are being investigated for use to address well-established harms, such as the

24. Reducing Harms from Unsafe Use of Antibiotics and Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - Grantee Profile Reducing Harms from Unsafe Use of Antibiotics and Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic … increases the risk of antibiotic resistance, adverse drug reactions, damage to the microbiome, and other harms … field understand the disparities in the use of antibiotics and help develop interventions to reduce harms

25. Interim Update on 2013 Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate and Estimates of Cost Savings and Deaths Averted From 2010 to 2013 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2014 - Efforts To Improve Patient Safety Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Patient Harms Interim Update on 2013 … Page Table of Contents Efforts To Improve Patient Safety Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Patient Harms

26. Comparison Tables for Making Healthcare Safer Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2025 - seminal National Academy of Medicine report that elevated awareness of longstanding risks and patient harms … Making Healthcare Safer report was commissioned in 2022 as a continuous updating of patient safety harms … Table of Contents Adverse Drug Events (ADEs): General Medication Topics ADEs: Harms Due to Anticoagulants … ADEs: Harms Due to Diabetic Agents ADEs: Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults ADEs: Harms Due … Reconciliation and Handoffs (Not reviewed) (Not reviewed) Summary of Evidence (Not reviewed) ADEs: Harms

27. Antimicrobial Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    research-based resource that offers materials to help nursing homes improve antibiotic use and decrease harms

28. Probability and the Diagnostic Pathway | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - While many clinicians do not frame diagnostic testing in terms of patient benefit and harms, tests, like … outcomes or it may expose a patient to toxic substances, inconvenience, or unnecessary care for which harms … These benefits and harms vary widely in magnitude. Step 4: Test interpretation. … Step 3: Selection of a diagnostic test: Provide information on probability of potential benefits and harms … While few clinicians currently conceptualize tests through a lens of benefits and harms, the approach

29. Bibliography for the AHRQ Research Centers for Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/cfe_bibliography.pdf
    September 18, 2014 - Center core which help to advance the field of their area of focus (health equity, reducing patient harms … The psychological harms of screening: the evidence we have versus the evidence we need. … The harms and benefits of modern screening mammography. BMJ. 2014 Jun 17;348:g3824. … Have screening harms become newsworthy? … The harms of screening: A proposed taxonomy and application to lung cancer screening.

30. Strategies to Better Manage Lipids – Statin Pearls
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    November 01, 2016 - I: The balance of benefits and harms cannot be determined. … The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms … The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms

31. Transdisciplinary Learning Lab To Eliminate Patient Harm and Reduce Waste | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2020 - Developing an interactive situational awareness platform to eliminate multiple harms. … (ML) techniques to develop a prediction model for the susceptibility of ICU patients to preventable harms … percent. 5 These highly encouraging results suggest that ML may be useful for predicting common ICU harms

32. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2023 - and its outcomes can enrich clinicians’ understanding of patient and family experience and reduce the harms … through both changes in clinician-patient interactions and system-level responses that address the harms

33. Research Centers for Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2018 - Baker, MD, MPH—Center Director Michael Wolf, PhD, MPH—Collaborative Scientific Lead Reducing Patient Harms … University of North Carolina Overuse of some medical screening tests exposes patients to avoidable harms … of potentially harmful screening tests * , understanding physicians' and patients' perceptions of harms

34. With TeamSTEPPS 3.0, AHRQ Refreshes a Landmark Patient Safety Training Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - s mission and its central role in the Nation’s expanding efforts to protect patients from avoidable harms … Together with Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra, we are committed to reducing avoidable harms

35. Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Topic Refinement - Project ID: CRDT0913 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - What are the comparative short- and long-term complications and harms (e.g., periprocedural or device-related … harms) associated with AF catheter ablation in the general adult and Medicare populations? … Analytic Framework (KQ 1) (KQ 2) (KQ 1) KQ 3: Differential efficacy, effectiveness, or harms … is the second choice for rhythm control.4 The proposed report will focus on the effectiveness and harms … if specifically designed to evaluate harms and/or adverse events, have a minimum of 100 patients and

36. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 12. Infusion Pumps (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2020 - Measured clinical outcomes included the number of medication errors, severe harms adverted, and adverse … The authors found that the aggregate number of severe harms averted (defined as high risk drugs being … The study found the costs avoided because severe harms were averted came to $367,500 at the end of the … The lower cost is associated with lower numbers for severe harms averted due to the use of smart pumps … Severe harms averted dropped from 0.68 to 0.44 post- implementation.

37. Section 2. Implementing Recommendations in Academic Curricula | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2022 - Here, the USPSTF clarifies the benefits, harms and balance between the two. … Question 4: What are the harms of mammography for an average 40-year-old woman? … (5 minutes) The USPSTF realizes that harms can take many forms. … The balance of harms and benefits becomes increasingly unfavorable for persons at lower risk, such as … However, these harms have not been adequately studied.

38. AHRQ Grantee Profiles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2025 - Researchers to Watch  |  AHRQ Grantee Profiles, 2014-2022 Eliminating Preventable Harms During Pediatric … analyzed these datasets to provide clinicians with knowledge to improve surgical outcomes and reduce harms … More >>   Reducing Harms from Unsafe Use of Antibiotics and Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance

39. Caregiver Innovations to Reduce Harm in Neonatal Intensive Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - to help identify various individual-, team-, and unit/organizational-level factors associated with harms … This core obtained data to detect preventable harms in the NICU and the impact of parent engagement on … They found that parents of hospitalized infants in the NICU observe and can report problems/harms, if

40. Understanding Omissions of Care in Nursing Homes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2019 - Research has shown that many resident harms are avoidable and may be caused by situations in which residents