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6461. Disposition of Comments for Treatment of Glaucoma: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/glaucoma-treatment_disposition-comments.pdf
      April 01, 2012 - and following comments. … Mansberger, and Paul P. … Glaucoma and Disability). Which tasks are affected, and at what stage of disease? … and strengthen future research. … and strengthen future research.

6462. Getting Started Resource Guide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/getting-started-resource-guide.pdf
      March 01, 2023 - And data and reports are also essential to support care coordination and to ensure that your investment … program and hospital leadership … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. … Russell, R D Reid, et al Effect of Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral Strategies on Utilization Rates: … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Million Hearts: Tools and Protocols.”

6463. Final Progress Report: Cook County & Rush Developmental Center for Research in Patient Safety: Diagnosis Error Evaluation and Research (DEER) Project (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/schiff-mcnutt-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - ) and departments (primarily Departments of Medicine and Emergency Medicine); 2) develop, test, and … and for understanding the epidemiology and causes of diagnosis errors; 3) develop, validate, and apply … and dissect. … Speaker: Electronic linkage of lab and pharmacy data: a powerful DUR lever Symposium on Drug Utilization … Areal view of diabetes utilization patterns: Understand dynamic in a public hospital outpatient clinic

6464. Final Progress Report: Encoding and Processing Patient Allergy Information in EHRs (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/zhou-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - OpenEHR---and evaluated their coverage on a corpus of inpatient and outpatient notes. … applying both rule-based and machine learning approaches, and it can be used to identify and encode … food, drug, and environmental allergies and allergic reactions. … The prevalence of each drug and drug class was calculated and compared by sex and race/ethnicity. … and atorvastatin.

6465. Building Capacity for Patient Safety | PSNet
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      July 31, 2023 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … to continue learning and adapting to new best practices and evidence-based practices for approaching … evidence-based practices to improve healthcare delivery and ultimately patient and population outcomes … clinicians, and patients.

6466. Overuse of Imaging: Policy for ALARA Specific to Imaging Children (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-243-fullreport.pdf
      August 01, 2019 - • Severity of condition and burden of condition on children, family, and society (unrelated to cost … For both adult and pediatric patients, imaging has gained primacy and is in the vanguard of tools that … Baseline Considerations for ALARA: Prevalence and Incidence of Malignancy in Children ALARA and its … In Michigan, facilities with CT scanners submit survey data in order to document sufficient utilization … Increasing utilization of computed tomography in the pediatric emergency department.

6467. In Conversation with... Regina Hoffman about Building Capacity for Patient Safety | PSNet
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      July 31, 2023 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Our advisors have decades of experience in patient safety and infection prevention and come from varied … clinicians, and patients. … like ours in every state to come together and start to work on common goals and share freely.

6468. Disposition of Comments for CER 183 Tonsillectomy for OSDB (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/tonsillectomy-disposition-170415.pdf
      January 17, 2017 - Clarity and Usability: The report is well structured and organised, clearly presented and lends itself … Clarity and Usability: The report is well-structured and easy to follow. … The definition is arbitrary and somewhat restrictive, and not used generally. … We note in the section discussing strength of evidence that “PTH and related utilization was low across … Studies are clearly described, key messages are explicit and applicable, and figures, tables and appendices

6469. The NSTEMI Curbside Consultation | PSNet
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      August 04, 2021 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Villablanca, MD, and Gordon X. … Wong, Ulfat Shaikh, and Saivageethi Nuthikattu (author(s) and reviewers) for this Spotlight Case and … Villablanca, MD, and Gordon X. … Utilization of early invasive management strategies for high-risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation

6470. Strategies to Improve Patient Safety: Draft Report to Congress for Public Comment and Review by the National Academy of Medicine (pdf file)
      pso.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/strategies-to-improve-patient-safety_draft-report.pdf
      December 21, 2021 - billion in healthcare costs.56 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports and Chartbooks … , and resident and family engagement. … reduction in the CAUTI rate as measured by the number of CAUTIs per 1,000 catheter days.88 Catheter utilization … did not decrease significantly, likely in part because utilization rates were low at the start. … observed that strategies implemented as a result of the program other than those focused on catheter utilization

6471. Using Reported Primary Care Errors to Develop and Implement Patient Safety Interventions: A Report from the ASIPS Collaborative (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/West.pdf
      September 01, 2005 - Quality Improvement (CQI); Six Sigma; and Healthcare Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (HFMEATM).9 … s work and recommendations. … and communication activities, and interfaces with external organizations. … and efficiency. … individuals and to create and maintain momentum.

6472. Archived: Visual Impairment: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/visual-impairment-screening-1996
      January 01, 1996 - Resulting permanent amblyopia and cosmetic defects may lead to later restrictions in educational and … case series and case-control studies in humans, that early detection and treatment of amblyopia and … Summary and conclusions. … Symposium on preschool/school vision and eye screening: current techniques and future trends. … Anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia in the age group 2 years and above: a prospective study of the

6473. Preventing CAUTI: What to Do When it’s Time for Plan B (November 4, 2014) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - It also leads to increased morbidity and healthcare costs. … In fact, the utilization rate in ICU is somewhere between 60-80 percent depending on the intensive care … I actually went in and I did the assessment tool and chose my yes and no answers. … discussing Tier 1 and Tier 2, and then the CAUTI GPS, and then Kathlyn’s work validating the GPS. … In medicine we’re constantly toggling back and forth between reflexive and the complex.

6474. Rapid-Reviews-End-User White-Paper (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2016 - all transcripts and verified themes and subthemes. … explicit methods to identify, select, and critically appraise relevant research, and to collect and … scope, assign and coordinate tasks, collect and analyze data, and discuss and edit draft documents … and subthemes. … disease and population affected (e.g., vulnerable populations), and costs (e.g., common and inexpensive

6475. Protocol for Quantitative Assessment of Benefit and Harm analysis of Aspirin for primary prevention (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-balancing-harms-benefits_research.pdf
      February 01, 2014 - hemorrhagic), MI, and GI bleeds were 0.89, 0.45, and 0.20 respectively and we list them in Appendix … Number Needed to Treat and Number Needed to Harm We calculated the NNT for MI and ischemic stroke and … 4A and 4B). … 2 above and in Table 8), and then takes the difference in events between treated and untreated subjects … , and thus the aim of the benefit and harm assessment.

6476. S81 (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2007 - The model for bleeding had very good discrimination and sensitivity at 0.87 and 86% and fair positive … Poisoning and adverse event codes designed for the targeted ADEs had low sensitivities and, when forced … ADE screening and rate estimation. … How- ever, nearly three-quarters of the PSIs are related to surgical and obstetrical complications and … Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). 2007.

6477. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/insulin-blood-sugar-2010_research-protocol.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - Background and Objectives for the Systematic Review Burden of Diabetes and Its Classification … peripheral and autonomic neuropathy) and macrovascular complications (i.e., coronary heart disease … 10 Finally, intensive insulin therapy can also lead to weight gain, due to more efficient fuel utilization … Pregnancy status: GDM and pre-existing Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes? … Pregnancy status: GDM and pre-existing Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes? Table 1.

6478. Evidence Summary: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/unhealthy-alcohol-use-in-adolescents-and-adults-screening-and-behavioral-counseling-interventions
      November 13, 2018 - benefits and harms of screening and counseling for unhealthy alcohol use in populations and settings … harms of screening (KQ1 and KQ3) and interventions (KQ4 and KQ5), randomized clinical trials were included … , and ASSIST. … The effect of an educational intervention on alcohol consumption, at-risk drinking, and health care utilization … Screening and brief intervention for hazardous drinking in an HMO: effects on medical care utilization

6479. Implementation Guide: Factors to Consider in Managing Chronic Pain (pdf file)
      cds.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cds/artifact/476/2024_CDS_Connect_IG_Pain_Management_Summary.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Clarified definitions and relationships between nonopioid and adjuvant medications and value sets. … Employers and Payers who want to manage their cost and quality through patient-facing CDS and health … pain and improve health and wellness are staggering. … , and learning what works and doesn’t work. … environment, and social and economic circumstances

6480. APS-DRGs-Weights_Public.book (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/APS-DRGs%20V22%20Weights%20Manual.pdf
      March 01, 2005 - Leave name and number and brief description of product issue. 2. … Guide 4 Chapter 2: Methods Data AP DATA Data from the 2002 National Inpatient Sample (NIS) of the Healthcare … Cost and Utilization Project were used to develop the weights. … Other MDC and DRG assignments for codes 49.75 and 49.76 (MDC 9, CDRG 267; MDC 21, CDRG 442; and MDC … CDRGs 218 and 220 (Lower Extremity and Humerus Procedures Except Hip, Foot, and Femur). 9.