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1861. Final Progress Report: Labor and Delivery Nurse Staffing: A Patient Safety Intervention (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/wilson-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - ’– a condition or state responsive to the action of the nurse. … and historical data, it is not always clear how that will, or should, be done. … It was applied to a large sample of low-risk, term births for which gestation was restricted to at least … 37 weeks with respect to the likelihood of having a C-section. … great deal for these outcomes in which there do not appear to be optimal staffing hours protocols.

1862. Voluntary Hospital Coalitions to Promote Patient Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Rask.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - Included here is a description of PHA structure, how hospitals become actively engaged in implementation … A hospital may see how it benchmarks against similar facilities, whose aggregate information is available … Because this reporting system is still in development, it is too early to say how hospitals are able … The challenge remains how to implement such a program while continuing to streamline the collection … Diffusion, dissemination, and implementation: who should do what?

1863. Collecting Performance Data Using Chart Audits and Electronic Data Extraction (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-14-collecting-performance-data.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - When a practice is engaged in a Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycle, daily performance audits may be needed … Having data in a raw format like an unprocessed spreadsheet will help you do this. … It is worth a significant investment of your time to learn as much as you can about how to coax data … , you may need to take this task on initially to increase their capacity to eventually do this on their … as one way to do this.

1864. Health Care-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/hais/index.html
      June 01, 2018 - To support this mission, AHRQ has funded numerous projects to reduce healthcare-associated infections … The financial burden attributable to these infections is estimated at $28 to $33 billion in excess health … to AHRQ-funded research and initiatives to reduce HAIs.   … guidelines on drug-resistant organisms, including MRSA The Joint Commission: Five Things You Can Do … To Prevent Infection: A Speak Up Initiative Links to a PDF brochure on how to prevent HAIs.

1865. Quality Improvement Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/asthma/qi-strategies.html
      July 01, 2021 - how improvement efforts are implemented. … While all of the approaches described above have merit, the PQMP grantees charged with testing how to … data to determine how and where to intervene using QI strategies based on the Institute for Health Improvement … At the initial meeting, participants are educated on the Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles, and data … The following example illustrates how one group of healthcare teams used this approach.

1866. AHRQ Summit to Address Emergency Department Boarding (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/ed-boarding-summit-report.pdf
      March 01, 2025 - larger EDs, do not reduce boarding because these programs do not address hospital capacity or ED outflow … such as a chemical release, patients will come to the ED regardless of how many patients are already … All of these programs may have myriad other benefits, yet they do not reduce boarding because they do … that requires Level 1 and Level 2 accredited facilities to monitor how long adults ages 65 and older … in Medicare and Medicaid, such changes offer a powerful tool for leveraging changes to how hospitals

1867. Final Progress Report: Patient Safety Learning Laboratory to Enhance the Value and Safety of Neonatal Interfacility Transfers in a Regional Care Network (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/umoren-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - Umoren, MBBCh, MS Megan Gray, MD Taylor Sawyer, DO, MEd, MBA Zeenia Billimoria, MD Robert Digeronimo … the number of professionals involved on neonatal transports increase the risk of medical error, as do … Furthermore, current systems do not provide information on team proximity to the referring and receiving … Flow diagramming and storyboarding techniques were used to create a diagram of how, when, and where … Furthermore, current systems do not provide information on team proximity to the referring and receiving

1868. Strategies for Improving Patient Safety in Small Rural Hospitals (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Tupper_73.pdf
      March 20, 2008 - National hospital patient safety initiatives promoted by purchasers and others do not always consider … The Demonstration was conceived and undertaken in the context of a growing recognition of how the differences … First, the smaller size and lower census in rural hospitals means that they do not experience a sufficient … Third, smaller hospitals often do not have the information technology infrastructure and/or resources … Each hospital agreed to commit to a 2-year demonstration and was provided a modest stipend to cover

1869. Interim Report of the Subcommittee of the NAC on Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund Investments and Future Activities (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/organization/nac/interim-pcortf-snac-report.pdf
      October 01, 2022 - /index.html - 4 - how training could reach more types of professionals and prepare them for a range … Subcommittee members indicated that many safety net providers do not have the resources to fully participate … A range of perspectives emerged about how to ensure that health equity is a cross-cutting and pervasive … Those initiatives varied in how they were evaluated, and they yielded a range of outcomes in terms … Jacobson has a diverse portfolio of research united by an interest in understanding how healthcare policies

1870. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health - National Institute for Research on Safety and Quality (NIRSQ) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/mission/budget/2021/FY_2021_CJ_NIRSQ.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - network and to explore how to close the loop on diagnostic tests, referrals, and symptoms to prevent … care units to how primary care practices can find and use the best evidence to reduce their patients … feedback to health care practitioners about how to make care more patient-focused, which ultimately … To do its work, the Task Force uses a four-step process: 1. Step 1: Topic Nomination. … To do this, the USPSTF commissioned a systematic review of the scientific evidence.

1871. Chartbook on Care Coordination: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/carecoordination/carecoordination-slides.html
      June 01, 2018 - Slide 19 Adult hospital patients who strongly disagreed or disagreed that they understood how to … strongly disagree or disagree that they understood how to manage their health after discharge. … strongly disagree or disagree that they understood how to manage their health after discharge. … When care is not well coordinated and some providers do not know about all of a patient's medications … Hasan O, Meltzer DO, Shaykevih SA, et al.

1872. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2023, Hospital Linkage File, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/2023-os-linkage-techdoc.pdf
      January 01, 2023 - for researchers, policymakers, and other interested parties who want to understand how health systems … Outpatient sites located in neither a metropolitan nor micropolitan statistical area do not have an … More detailed information on how we use the definition to identify Compendium systems is available in … not link together neatly (for example, related outpatient sites do not always nest neatly under a group … Outpatient sites with missing corporate parent information do not have a corporate parent identified

1873. 2. Synthesis of Key Findings by Category | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/final-report/section2.html
      October 01, 2015 - multiyear learning collaborative focused on quality improvement (plan-do-study-act) cycles. … Many primary care providers do not use adolescent risk screening tools effectively or efficiently. … Facilitators also focused on training staff in these practices on how to use EHR functionalities that … determine how to make Format requirements applicable to practice workflow. 2. … Project staff in several States also learned how to leverage data and analysis generated through the

1874. Creating an Accurate Medication List in the Outpatient Setting Through a Patient-Centered Approach (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Leonhardt_35.pdf
      March 15, 2008 - patient-centered care and medication reconciliation are strongly recommended, but few studies have described how … medication safety and the importance of communication with providers, as well as instructions on how … A member of the clinic staff contacted patients prior to their appointment and asked them to bring a … Comments from the providers regarding the project included “I think patients are more aware of how this … manage their medications.20 Patients who do not receive positive reinforcement from providers may feel

1875. Final Progress Report: Adverse Event-Directed Analysis in Ambulatory Primary Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/kennerly-ballard-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - detect events that do not result in a provider visit, are subject to response bias and all the limitations … achieve as complete an understanding as possible of both the types of events occurring and how a process … for proactive patient risk reduction activities. 8 A case-study approach, as described by Yin, … To do so, the nurses who review charts provide a formal description in a structured format (Situation … Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications; 1994. 45.

1876. CHIPRA 119 Section 5, Literature Review and Discussion (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-119-section-5-lit-review.pdf
      March 19, 2012 - Despite the variations in methods it has been demonstrated that interventions to warm infants do improve … Despite the variations, it has been demonstrated that interventions to warm infants do improve outcomes … All of these affects do not support the statement that double wall incubators have any benefit on long … Editorial Warming our Cesarean section patients: why and how? … Two problems identified: Trying to define a „normal‟ temperature (which depends on how it is measured

1877. Chapter-3 - Sepsis Recognition (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/sepsis-1.pdf
      March 01, 2020 - guidelines about how to treat septic patients, with aggressive interventions and timeframes. … The focus of the PSPs contained in this chapter is the afferent phase: how clinicians and hospitals … Because of the changing criteria for sepsis, the PSPs do not compare the accuracy of the various diagnostic … .3,4 3.1.2 Methods To answer the question, “Do sepsis screening tools improve patient outcomes?” … have poor positive predictive value and do not improve mortality or length of stay.

1878. Chapter-8 - Diabetes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/diabetes-1.pdf
      March 01, 2020 - In this update, we more narrowly focus on medication management in hospitals and how to better equip … public-private partnership to disseminate a research-based lifestyle change program intended to prevent … to a manual titration protocol in a trauma intensive care unit. … say in their own words what they understand the clinician has instructed them to do. … Harms Due to Diabetic Agents 8-14 Appendix A.

1879. Analyzing Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals’ Financial Measures Across Key Characteristics, 2016-2019 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-stat-brief-3-financial-measures.pdf
      March 01, 2024 - ● For-profit hospitals had a Net Income to Total Fixed Assets ratio more than double the national … assets and the burden cost of providing uncompensated and unreimbursed services for which hospitals do … It might be possible to tease out the separate contributions in a multivariate model. … We also invite you to tell us how you are using this statistical brief and other Data Innovations products … and to share suggestions on how Data Innovations products might be enhanced to further meet your needs

1880. 6. Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata6.html
      May 01, 2018 - Entities may also want to design their information system to have a way to track whether a person has"declined … reasonable time to questions about how to code specific groups if they are not on the initial lists. … OMB race and Hispanic ethnicity categories takes into account responses that do not correspond to one … assess how information technology or its absence affects communities with known health disparities and … For others that do not yet have the capability to collect the specified data directly, methods are available