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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/qdr-data-spotlight-heart-failure-hospital.pdf
July 01, 2023 - differences in access to hospitals and differences
in risk of dying while in the hospital. … First, hospitals may
have been treating patients who were on average sicker and thus more likely to … disruptions experienced by many hospitals during the first year of the COVID-19 PHE. … Pandemic-Driven Deferred Care Has Led to Increased Patient Acuity
in America’s Hospitals. … Hospitals Reported That the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Significantly Strained Health Care
Delivery.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/data/chsp-brief2-us-health-system-characteristics-2016.pdf
January 01, 2016 - one
hospital with a high
uncompensated
care burden
193
(30.8%)
include at least one
hospital … Systems include 63.4% of all
U.S. hospitals with high
uncompensated care burdens
Hospitals with … if a majority
of non-Federal general acute care hospital beds in the system
are in children’s hospitals … beds in the system are in hospitals … general acute care system hospital in the top
quintile of DSH patient percentage among hospitals paid
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/index.html
October 01, 2022 - Available from AHRQ
Tools
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Hospitals … More topics in this section
Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits
Acute Care Hospital … Toolkits To Improve Antibiotic Use
Select your clinical setting below:
Acute Care Hospital Toolkit … Access the Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals . … The AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use helped clinicians in hospitals, doctors offices,
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/yale-center-long-desc.html
June 01, 2020 - Available from AHRQ
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Hospitals … (YNHH) from outside hospitals and emergency departments (EDs). … Communication among hospitals upon patient arrival improved from 38 percent to 91 percent.7 This project … Hospital readmission from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs): perspectives of hospital and SNF providers … Care transitions between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities: perspectives of sending and receiving
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sdoh/clas/index.html
July 01, 2023 - Available from AHRQ
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Hospitals … Promote CLAS
Re-Engineered Discharge Toolkit
The Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit helps hospitals … re-design their discharge processes to reduce readmissions and post-hospital emergency department visits … Geared particularly hospitals that serve diverse populations, delivering CLAS is addressed throughout … focuses on how hospitals can better identify, report, monitor, and prevent medical errors in patients
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/topics/index.html?page=1
January 01, 2012 - Available from AHRQ
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Hospitals … Falls Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital … AHRQ’s tools, training, and research on preventing falls in hospitals and nursing homes. … Hospital Readmissions Reducing preventable hospital readmissions is a national priority for payers, providers … AHRQ’s tools, data, and research to help hospitals reduce preventable readmissions.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/es/topics/index.html?page=1
January 01, 2012 - Available from AHRQ
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Hospitals … Falls Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital … AHRQ’s tools, training, and research on preventing falls in hospitals and nursing homes. … Hospital Readmissions Reducing preventable hospital readmissions is a national priority for payers, providers … AHRQ’s tools, data, and research to help hospitals reduce preventable readmissions.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/news-events/psaw-2024/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Featured
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Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
Education & Training
Hospitals … Available from AHRQ
Tools
Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals … Supplemental item sets can be added to the SOPS Hospital and Nursing Home Surveys to assess workplace … Other supplemental item sets assess health information technology and patient safety in hospitals, diagnostic … safety in medical offices, and value and efficiency in hospitals and medical offices.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/hac-rates-decline.html
August 01, 2018 - Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
Education & Training
Hospitals … Available from AHRQ
Tools
Featured
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Hospitals … Home
Data & Analytics
Data Infographics
Declines in Hospital-Acquired … Conditions from 2014 to 2016
Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions from 2014 to 2016 ( … PDF, 6.9 MB)
Source: AHRQ National Scorecard on Rates of Hospital-Acquired Conditions .
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/videos/app-disclosure.html
August 01, 2022 - Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
Education & Training
Hospitals … Available from AHRQ
Tools
Featured
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Hospitals … Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
Hospital Resources
CANDOR
Family-Centered … Toolkit
MATCH Toolkit
NICU Toolkit
Pressure Injury
Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals … https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/videos/app-disclosure.html
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/videos/inapp-disclosure.html
August 01, 2022 - Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
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Hospitals … Available from AHRQ
Tools
Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals … Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
Hospital Resources
CANDOR
Family-Centered … Toolkit
MATCH Toolkit
NICU Toolkit
Pressure Injury
Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals … https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/videos/inapp-disclosure.html
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-dykes.html
September 01, 2022 - With AHRQ funding, I’ve been able to provide hospitals and primary care practices with falls prevention … Dykes evaluated the benefits of a falls prevention toolkit for hospitals and created software that helps … Her assessment found that the evidence-based toolkit reduced hospital falls by 15 percent and fall-related … To use it, clinicians determine a hospital patient’s risk of falling and develop a tailored falls prevention … Then hospital staff talk to patients as part of routine care at the bedside about their risk for falling
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/heart-month-tools.html
February 01, 2023 - rehabilitation has reduced cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality by about 20 percent; it also reduces hospital … The initial cohorts of hospitals recruited to receive the TAKEheart training overrepresented hospitals … in rural and high-poverty areas, as well as hospitals that served higher-than-average proportions of … About 70 percent of 136 participating hospitals reported progress on implementing automatic referrals … growing efforts to improve the heart health of Americans wherever possible, whether in primary care, hospital
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/858.html
April 01, 2023 - Nurse Staffing Gaps Reported in Hospitals With More Vulnerable Maternity Patients, Study Finds . … Nurse Staffing Gaps Reported in Hospitals With More Vulnerable Maternity Patients, Study Finds
Most … hospitals adhere to nurse staffing guidelines, but gaps in staffing are reported more frequently at … In the study, published in Nursing Outlook , researchers estimated the relationship between hospital … They found that nurses reported strong adherence to staffing guidelines in their hospitals; but higher
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/abate/training/index.html
March 01, 2022 - Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
Education & Training
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Tools
Featured
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Hospitals … Documents
FAQs and Talking Points
Reduce CAUTI in LTC Facilities
Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals … Hospitals should use the training materials appropriate to the protocol option that they choose to implement … Training documents in this toolkit are provided in PDF versions as well as editable versions that allow hospitals
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/hac-interim-data-2015.html
April 01, 2018 - Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
Education & Training
Hospitals … Available from AHRQ
Tools
Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals … Home
Data & Analytics
Data Infographics
Patients Safer as Hospital-Acquired … Conditions Decline in 2015
Patients Safer as Hospital-Acquired Conditions Decline (PDF, 309 … KB)
Source: National Scorecard on Rates of Hospital-Acquired Conditions 2010 to 2015: Interim Data
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/enhanced-recovery/measuring.html
June 01, 2023 - Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
Education & Training
Hospitals … Available from AHRQ
Tools
Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals … Decolonization Protocol
Measuring Impact
Tools and Resources To Help Hospitals … Implement an ISCR Program
This section of the Improving Surgical Care and Recovery (ISCR) toolkit walks hospital … This worksheet includes evidence-based recommendations for processes that teams can adapt to their hospital
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/mental-disorders.html
May 01, 2023 - Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
Education & Training
Hospitals … Available from AHRQ
Tools
Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals … The analysis covers inpatients of all ages at community hospitals excluding rehabilitation and long-term … care hospitals.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/hospital/about/fielding-child-hcahps-93.pdf
June 19, 2017 - In order to generate the sample frame, hospitals and their survey vendors must apply
the eligibility … It is the responsibility of the
hospitals/survey vendors to identify any applicable regulations and … Hospitals wanting to compare results at a level other than the hospital-
level (e.g., department, service … that hospitals differ from one another. … Hospitals/vendors must sample a minimum of ten eligible discharges in each stratum
in each month.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports/physicians.html
October 01, 2022 - Available from AHRQ
Tools
Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals … This site also includes information on the quality of care provided by hospitals in Washington. … Subject: Cardiologists and hospitals
Developer: New York Department of Health
Developer Type: … Hospitals in NYS where PCI is performed provide information to the Department of Health for each patient … PCIs but performed at least one PCI per year during the reporting period are grouped together in the hospital