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1801. Primary Care Physicians' Experiences With and Attitudes Toward Pediatric Quality Reporting (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/chipra-primary-care-physician-reporting.pdf
      December 01, 2016 - have the skills and time to do the improvement work, which is not typically a reimbursed activity. … Introduction of a limited number of measures at a time “If you really want to do somethingwith QI, you … How Are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Using Quality Reports to Drive Health Care Improvements … How Are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Encour- aging Health Care Providers to Put Quality Measures … Why do some primary care practices engage in practice improvement efforts whereas others do not?

1802. 2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Data Sources (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2021qdr-datasources.pdf
      December 31, 2021 - 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

1803. Methods (continued, 4) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2017 - AHRQ's Development of a Planning Tool to Guide Research Dissemination h is intended to help researchers … In addition, when deciding how to implement change at their hospital, one key informant noted that they … Strategies to speak up include tips on how to communicate most effectively, not only with providers but … they do speak up. … with patients and family members and should give specifics on how to include patients and family members

1804. AHRQ Tribal Consultation Policy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/mission/strategic-plan/tribal-consultation-policy.html
      August 01, 2014 - This Agency also disseminates evidence to help local policymakers understand what they can do to improve … at hand, potentially affected Tribes, any Agency positions on the issues, the type of input sought, how … Meeting(s): If a meeting is considered necessary, AHRQ will try to schedule it to correspond with another … AHRQ will send a minimum of two written notifications to tribes—one at least 45-60 days prior to the … AHRQ shall, to the extent practicable and permitted by law, render a decision upon a complete application

1805. Meeting Minutes, November 2016 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2017 - How AHRQ Makes a Difference Dr. … It can seek to determine how collected information can be fed back into a system to improve care. … determine how to create behavioral change. … Ling raised the idea of what we do not measure. How can we measure functional limitation? Dr. … McGlynn stated that we need to determine how to create a synergy that keeps people learning over long

1806. Development of a Screening Tool for Safe Wheelchair Seating (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Gavin.pdf
      January 01, 2001 - Of those who do enter nursing homes, 55 percent can expect to spend a total of at least one year there … This was the ability of a resident to sit upright in a wheelchair for 30 seconds, when asked to do so … The raters were unsure how to respond when the resident’s feet were on the floor rather than on footrests … Question # 3, “Do elbows rest at natural height on armrests?” … to a community nursing home.

1807. Chapter 3. Description of Methods | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2022 - setting, so these numbers do not add up to 100 percent) Findings. … to consumers and it does not " do anything with this data . " Objections to the PSOs related to the … do perform root cause analysis. … Many systems do not specify how (or whether) reported information is disseminated. … how these design features may be organized within a consumer reporting system, and a discussion of limitations

1808. Rapid Response for Perinatal Safety: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/rapid-response/rapid-response-fac-guide.html
      July 01, 2023 - Slide 2: Learning Objectives Say: In this module, we will do the following: Define components … A rapid response system is more than a team that responds to emergencies. … rapid response system to determine how the elements will be implemented within a hospital. … In the rest of this presentation, we will highlight each of these key safety elements and how they apply … to establishing a rapid response system.

1809. Presentation: Program Overview
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      January 01, 2017 - Low tidal volume ventilation is a lung protective strategy that seeks to prevent ventilator-associated … providing reasonably large tidal volumes at a respiratory rate not exceeding 14 to 16 per minute, and … ‹#› AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients 42 Address Variability in Practice Do … If a provider orders settings outside of LTVV strategy parameters, is a change to the order required? … How is the order modified? Do your providers comply with protocols?

1810. Final Progress Report: Reducing Diagnostic Error to Improve Patient Safety in COPD and Asthma (REDEFINE Study) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/joo-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - We propose a comparative effectiveness study to better understand the epidemiology of DE and to evaluate … When a patient participant agreed to participate, they were instructed to arrive 90 minutes before their … Spirometry Utilization for COPD: How Do We Measure Up? Chest. 2007;132(2):403-9. 7. … Asthma in African Americans: What can we do about the higher rates of disease? … A description of 4454 patient visits to 138 family physicians.

1811. Final Progress Report: Problem Density, Workload, and Medical Error in Primary Care Practice: a WREN Study (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/temte-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Demographics of Study Clinicians Descriptor Number Percent Clinician MD/DO 24 77.4 NP/PA … of 4 to 16 on a 4- to 28-point scale (Figure 20). … do ● demanding, questioning, worked up, high maintenance, nonresponsive patient Achievement of … How many problems do family physicians manage at each encounter? a WReN study. … Event reporting to a primary care patient safety reporting system: a report from the ASIPS collaborative

1812. Implementation of an Electronic Care Plan for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions, Version 2: Evaluation Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2025 - the synthesis of external data and do not allow write-back to include patient- reported data or data … do not constitute information blocking.”18 Information blocking is a practice that is likely to interfere … Patricia received a paper copy of her care plan and was guided on how to access and update it using … As a result, most health apps do not store PHI but rather query and present the information as needed … 1; therefore, many EHR vendors do not support it.

1813. Final Progress Report: The National Quality Forum National Annual Policy Conference 2006 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/nishimi-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - She also discussed the PROMETHEUS payment system and how it can better align payment with quality. … Secretary observed that one of the outcomes of the employer-based healthcare system is that consumers do … Before a hospital can participate in the database, staff need to be trained on how to collect the data … Rother spoke about how the consumer’s perspective of accountability is changing. … Additionally, VHA has contributed funds and we anticipate United Healthcare will do so as well.

1814. Barcode Medication Administration: Lessons Learned from an Intensive Care Unit Implementation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Wideman.pdf
      April 20, 2004 - Using a series of Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles (a technique originally developed and described by Langley … Staff members were briefed on how long to wait before activating the contingency plan, and tabletop … knew that a critical patient had just arrived in ICU, would this help you do your job better?” … As we learn more about the BCMA procedure and how it supports functionality and safety at our institution … Future plans include the development of teams to continue the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles for identifying

1815. Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief 21 Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2024 - The authors are solely responsible for this document’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do … The findings and conclusions in this report do not necessarily represent the official position of the … how these practices can enhance diagnostic safety. … Here, however, we focus on how diagnostic stewardship reduces the risk of diagnostic errors and patient … Wolfson D, Suchman A. Choosing Wisely®: a case study of constructive engagement in health policy.

1816. 2013 Child Core Set Measure Retirement Process Summary of SNAC Scoring: Round II – Final Scoring (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2014 - Performance extremely low but given importance of assessing, needs focus on how to improve or make easier … resources to do so). … measure follow up on positive screens, and to measure how well the loop is closed between referral … Understand that data collected by CDC but hard to know how this translates re: feasibility. 68 … It should be a federal priority to do studies with this measure and system capacity.

1817. Final Progress Report: Real-time assessment of risk factors for medication errors (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/dresselhaus-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Consenting subjects agreed to carry a palm handheld unit for a 1-week period. … Subjects were prompted by a handheld-generated audible alarm to initiate a survey. … However, they do permit some level of interpretive analysis, even with incomplete error data points. … We hope that an improved understanding of how these factors are influenced by workplace activity patterns … , as well as how psychosocial characteristics affect medication error events, can be used in future

1818. Final Progress Report: Risk Assessment of Pediatric Emergency Transfers (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/holl-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - research conducted in healthcare setting that provides what a handoff is, how to perform it, and how … retrospective and a prospective analytic method that (1) predicts how and where processes may fail and … A number of the participating referring hospitals do not have computer access in their Emergency Departments … ”  The receiving hospitals’ physician and bedside nurse do not, typically, use a standardized tool … Distributed cognition: how hand-off communication actually works.

1819. Final Progress Report: Automated Image Analysis for the Prevention of Radiotherapy Delivery Errors (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/lamb-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - This approach was used in order to estimate how the model would perform on unseen data from new institutions … Unfortunately, we were not able to secure institutional approval to perform such a search. … Thus, our development of a real- time gating interface is currently on hold, however, we do expect to … systematic or confined to a single fraction. … algorithms are novel and unique (no other research or commercial group has produced algorithms that do

1820. Chipra-89-Adhd-Behavior-Section-5-Attach-5 (pdf file)
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      February 02, 2012 - The recommendations in this report do not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as a standard … How accurate are these tests in the diagnosis of ADHD compared with a reference stan- dard (ie, what … more detail about how to implement the guidelines but is, necessarily, based less on avail- able evidence … Preschool- aged children are not likely to have a separate observer if they do not attend a preschool … To pro- vide more detailed information about how the recommendations of this guideline can be accomplished