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1561. Fiscal Year 2011 Research on Child and Adolescent Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/children/new-starts/2011.html
      October 01, 2014 - There is scant empirical information to describe how, why, and for what purpose nurses use paper-based … This doctoral candidate will use a descriptive mixed-methods multiple case study design to investigate … A set of recommendations will be developed for how subsequent iterations of the project could be improved … six aims of quality as they relate to pediatric sedation; (2) recommendations on how quality can be … Do various surgical techniques differ in their ability to treat OME?

1562. III. Intervention Steps and Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crctoolkit/crctoolkit3.html
      April 01, 2018 - do what and when. … provider should do during each step of the process ( Tool 1.a-1 ). … The SEA form also provides a check box for patients to indicate that they do not want to participate … the intervention takes place and how that context likely affected your ability to implement SATIS-PHI … Please refer to CNA's final report to see how they used this framework in their assessment of implementing

1563. PowerPoint Presentation
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/022-ss-mrsa-surveillance.pptx
      April 01, 2025 - (MRSA) surveillance Understand the pros and cons of different MRSA surveillance approaches Outline how … Active surveillance as part of a layered approach to infection prevention remains important13,17 … Wear gloves and gown to enter a patient room or area regardless of whether patient contact will occur … recommendations in this presentation are those of the authors, who are responsible for its content, and do … Khader K, Thomas A, Stevens V, et al.

1564. Availability of Outpatient Maternal Fetal Medicine and Specialty Care for Women with High-Risk Pregnancies (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-133-fullreport.pdf
      January 01, 2019 - Section 2: Detailed Measure Specifications Provide sufficient detail to describe how a measure would … However, data demonstrate that many women do not see a subspecialist when one is necessary. … Many practices do not have the trained personnel and/or referral sites to meet the psychosocial needs … We asked the Bioethics Consortium to extrapolate the primum non nocere (First, do no harm) principle … do that.

1565. 2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Data Sources (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2018qdr-datasources.pdf
      October 01, 2019 - A software package (SURVS-TB) for data entry, analysis, and transmission of case reports to CDC was … Beginning in 2009, case reports no longer had a specific software requirement. … do so. … The core of the survey contains 21 items that ask “how often” or whether patients experienced a critical … More than 1,500 participating hospitals respond to a call for data, submitting case reports for a specified

1566. CLABSI Investigation Process: Walk the Process (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/clabsi-invest.html
      April 01, 2013 - And I said, “How often is the blood being drawn?” And they said, “Once a day.” … They asked their nurses to go in and do the dressing change on a model patient, a dummy, whatever you … to determine what their policy and practice is going to be with how long to scrub the hub. … Do you have a reference, a study, on that? … But what’s important, regardless of how you do it, the “Z” method or around, is to make that friction

1567. Improving the Safety of Heparin Administration by Implementing a Human Factors Process Analysis (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Harder.pdf
      May 19, 2003 - New data entry procedure When a nurse is about to initiate the administration of heparin to a patient … would respond, “Do you mean 5 ft/60 in/152.4 cm?” … respond, “Do you mean 396 lb/180 kg?” … A limited number of nurses and pharmacists demonstrated how to use the protocol; they discussed safety … Address correspondence to: Kathleen A.

1568. Step 4: Communicating and Reporting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/hsrguide/hsrguide4.html
      October 01, 2014 - agency: Do they prefer to meet on an unscheduled, as-needed basis or to hold meetings by a defined schedule … and presentations are a major metric for assessing how successful you and your organization are. … Go to Figure 6 for a list of leading health services research publications. … Conferences also give you exposure to funding agencies that sponsor the type of work you do. … Maximizing Success How you choose to communicate with funding agencies, the research community, and

1569. Use of Higher-Than-Recommended Doses of Antipsychotics in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-177-fullreport.pdf
      May 01, 2018 - to a broad audience. … how a measure would be calculated from the recommended data sources, uploading a separate document … Although submission of formal programming code or algorithms that demonstrate how a measure would be … Relationship to Other Measures (if any) Describe, if known, how this measure complements or improves … However, measures that specify a list of medications that must be regularly updated do exist.

1570. An Employee Questionnaire for Assessing Patient Safety in Outpatient Surgery (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Carayon.pdf
      February 01, 2005 - Workload 1 Caplan et al.c How often is there a great deal to be done? … Staffing 1 Gray-Toft and Andersond How often is there not enough staff to adequately cover the center … et al.i How have you been feeling during the past week……nervous a Shortell SM, Rousseau DM, Gillies … We have demonstrated how a structured method (i.e., the employee questionnaire) can be developed for … Donabedian A. The quality of care. How can it be assessed? JAMA 1988;260(12):1743–8.

1571. Making Healthcare Safer III: Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/exe-summary.html
      March 01, 2020 - The inclusion of a PSP in the report was based on how many TEP and AG members selected a specific PSP … Case studies show that genotyping provides detail about differences in C. difficile virulence and has … orthopedic units Current literature on this PSP is primarily quality improvement initiatives and case … studies; higher quality studies could help to better understand the impact of implementing elements … We often know what to do, and in these cases, the challenge now is to implement PSPs into a specific

1572. Follow-up Visits for Children Who Are Obese or Overweight with a Weight-Related Comorbidity: Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-0242-fullreport.pdf
      February 01, 2020 - Section 2: Detailed Measure Specifications Provide sufficient detail to describe how a measure would … Some have reported they do not want children to feel stigmatized; others are concerned that families … Patients who are overweight are counseled on how to address the energy imbalance that has led to excess … This measure provides a straightforward means to assess how well basic levels of comprehensive care … This measure provides a straightforward means to assess how well basic levels of comprehensive care

1573. Final Progress Report: Epidemiology, Exploration, and Evaluation: Addressing potentially dangerous medications in children on Medicaid with a mental health diagnosis (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/kleinman-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Dx, 2) do not have FDA-approved Dx but have another BHD, 3) do not have FDA- approved Dx or any BHD … illustrate how we assembled the sample by linking clinicians to practices, first using the site ID … To develop a full list of those in a given practice, we needed to use the cohort identification file … use to benefit my practice. 62.0% Agree or Strongly Agree Q3: How likely are you to change or implement … 96.5% Answered Correctly Q7: What harms do Medication Reconciliation try to avoid?

1574. Health System Participation in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), 2016 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/aco-participation.pdf
      January 01, 2019 - TEACHING Systems with a high teaching intensity are more likely to participate in ACOs. 70% Teaching … The relationships between system type and ACO participation do not adjust for system size or any other … We considered a system to participate in an ACO contract if any of their non-Federal general acute … inclusion of systems that do not provide comprehensive care in the manner intended by the definition … study the characteristics of high-performing health systems and to understand how health systems use

1575. Medical Office SOPS: 2016 User Comparative Database Report, Part I (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/databases/medical-office/2016-report-part-1.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - When there is a problem in our office, we see if we need to change the way we do things. … Staff in this office are asked to do tasks they haven’t been trained to do. … What do others see in the data and how do they interpret the results? … • Should we do it here? • Can we do it here? • How can we do it here? … developing a small-scale plan to test a proposed change (Plan), carrying out the plan (Do), observing

1576. Postpartum Followup and Care Coordination (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/perinatal/chipra-0084-fullreport.pdf
      March 01, 2016 - Section 2: Detailed Measure Specifications Provide sufficient detail to describe how a measure would … Can do today.” • “Feasible with workflow mod/changes to EHR.” • “Non-feasible. … Can do today.” • “Feasible with workflow mod/changes to EHR.” • “Nonfeasible. … Unable to do today.” … Unable to do today.”

1577. Comparative Health System Performance Initiative: Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2018, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/2018-Compendium-TechDoc-update.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - study how healthcare systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care.i AHRQ’s goal is to … A, in which we use the full names of both OneKey databases because we describe how they are related … not be comparable to how we count total physicians in AHA data, and (2) they may not be comparable … sequentially applied three criteria to exclude systems that do not have a qualifying hospital or comprehensive … However, we do not have reason to think this type of misidentification was common.

1578. Medical Failure-to-Rescue Final Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/silber-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - There is currently an FTR measure for surgical patients, but the definitions do not apply … do , it is crucial to be able to distinguish comorbid conditions from those that first … o D efining M edically Complicated P atients: Using the 20% development samples, we investigated how … We also explored how to apply POA coding. … We made several key insights that informed our final decisions on how to apply POA coding. 9

1579. Timely Fluid Bolus for Children With Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0231-fullreport.pdf
      May 01, 2018 - Section 2: Detailed Measure Specifications Provide sufficient detail to describe how a measure would … Another possible performance barrier has to do with hospital type and location. … Abstraction Times In addition to calculating IRR, the study team assessed how burdensome it was to locate … This measure provides families with a straightforward means to assess how well basic levels of comprehensive … to assess how well comprehensive care is provided to children with severe sepsis or septic shock.

1580. How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children’s health care quality? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight13.html
      June 01, 2015 - Learning collaboratives covered several topics—from how to strengthen practices’ QI efforts to how to … Many practices learned how to conduct small tests of change, often using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) … to their peers and how their performance had changed over time. … As a result, the facilitators developed a better understanding of QI processes such as PDSA cycles, how … The State of Quality Improvement Science in Health: What Do We Know about How to Provide Better Care?