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4681. Screening for Ovarian Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      February 13, 2018 - This recommendation applies to asymptomatic women who are not known to have a high-risk hereditary cancer … unnecessary surgical interventions in women who do not have cancer. … A hereditary cancer syndrome occurs when a genetic mutation is passed from parent to child that increases … do so and can lead to harm by causing healthy women to undergo surgical removal of their ovaries when … The USPSTF also provided more infor- mation on how it considered evidence from specific studies.

4682. Strategies for Patient, Family and Caregiver Engagement: Technical Brief Protocol (pdf file)
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      December 31, 2019 - studies which demonstrated effects on patients, changes to services available to patients, and changes … A flow chart will show how studies can be sorted into related subsets of evidence. … To create a summary map of evidence, we will use figures, such as a bubble plot, to show how the number … into the clinical context of the technology/intervention, how it works, how it is currently used or … Key informants do not do analysis of any kind nor contribute to the writing of the report and have not

4683. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      March 21, 2009 - Appreciate how emergency physicians and inpatient physicians differ in their approach to patient diagnoses … facility patients, there is no legal requirement to do so. … These "ring downs" are necessarily brief, do not include identifying information (beyond patient age … EMS providers must transfer care to a provider with a higher scope of practice, most often a registered … The authors are solely responsible for this report’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do

4684. Trauma-Interventions-Maltreatment-Child Executive (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2013 - Type of setting (i.e., specialty or nonspecialty service- delivery settings) KQ 4: How do interventions … bias but do not have flaws that are likely to cause major bias. … or how much of an intervention is needed to affect change. … in future research is how scientists should approach probabilistic estimates of effects and how to … “dose” or how much of an intervention is needed to effect change.

4685. Noninvasive Treatments for Low Back Pain: A Summary of the Research for Adults (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2016 - Low back pain can make it hard to do your daily activities. … Your health care professional may talk with you about your history of low back pain and may do a physical … EMG (electromyography) biofeedback ��A type of therapy in which a machine tracks how you tense the … ��Tricyclic antidepressants do not help to improve pain. … � How much time do you have to spend on treatment?

4686. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2024 - We previously discussed (see section on Vasopressor Administration & Monitoring above) how norepinephrine … Variations in how ICU nurses manage vasoactive medications and identification of practice variations … Do smart pumps actually reduce medication errors? … Actions that the healthcare community can do now to improve infusion system safety [Internet]. … The authors are solely responsible for this report’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do not

4687. Final Report: GestureClean: A Touchless Interaction Language for the Operating Room (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - For instance, when subjects do not agree on a gesture, agreement-based approaches are bound to select … These gesture lexicons were further utilized to analyze the how well surgeons agreed on gestures and … Simplicity - how straightforward are the movements; 3. … Salience - how discriminative is the movement of the hand; and 6. … Critical Errors: Critical errors are the errors that either lead to wrong outcome or do not lead to

4688. Early Mobility Guide for Reducing Ventilator-Associated Events in Mechanically Ventilated Patients (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2017 - ........... 13 Educate: What Do We Need To Mobilize Critically Ill Patients? … .......... 18 Evaluate: How Will We Know That Our Efforts Make a Difference? … • Access: Do clinicians have convenient access to the equipment or supplies required to implement the … Educate: What do we need to mobilize critically ill patients? 3. … Evaluate: How will we know that mobilizing our patients made a difference?

4689. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2016 - Recognize the twin issues of "denial and delay" and understand how they lead to poor outcomes for obstetric … Second, these volumes do not take into account careful research suggesting that the blood loss at delivery … wait a bit longer for it to "wear off." … The first step to implement such a program is to create a team that includes key obstetricians, nurses … The authors are solely responsible for this report’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do not

4690. Chapter 3. Care Coordination Measurement Framework | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2014 - framework that define each box, and that are noted in bold in Figure 2 , are core components that we do … For an explanation of how our Care Coordination Measurement Framework might be envisioned as a subset … An important limitation is that it does not provide insight into how to match capacity with needs or … how to assess fit (short of measuring the ultimate outcomes of interest). … The intent is to help Atlas users understand how care coordination measures were mapped to the framework

4691. 3. Breadth and Focus Areas of Federal Agency Research Portfolios in HSR and PCR | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2021 - generate HSR with a mission to do so across the U.S. healthcare system, has a unique focus within its … by NIH and how that compares to research on broader systems-level outcomes: NIH funds health services … A federal interview participant from NIH noted how those broader system outcomes, “because they’re not … How can we change health care systems to impact patient outcomes? . . . … A federal interview participant from CDC explained how “our population is quite a bit broader than .

4692. Technical-Brief-31-Mobile-Health-Applications-For-Self-Management-Of-Diabetes (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2018 - app is versus the effect of the additional support and care a patient receives with that app, and how … For example, do apps that require a fee or paid subscription result in larger benefits in outcomes? … An example is a cohort study where the outcomes of those who use an app versus those who do not are … Interviews and surveys could be used to ask why patients continue to use an app or not, and how patients … and system administrators system, how easy it was to use the system and how they would evaluate

4693. Weight-Loss-Surgery Executive (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2013 - How do the long-term benefits and harms of bariatric surgery compare to short-term outcomes (within … s a fe ty o f a lt er n a ti ve a p p ro a ch es to t re a tm en t o f m et a … In other words, we expect the risk of excess weight to be similar for a person with a BMI of 29.5 kg … With the exception of GLP-1T agonists, diabetes medications do not cause significant weight loss. … Additionally, in 76 percent of instances, only a single study contributed data to a particular adverse

4694. Step 6: Planning for Sustainability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Return to Contents   Creating a Sustainability Plan Begin by creating your sustainability plan … Answer these questions: What do you want your program to look like 2, 5, and 10 years in the future … How much money will it take to support this vision? What will be the source(s) of funding? … Summarize these in a one-page document to distribute to potential partners. … Conferences also give you exposure to funding agencies that sponsor the type of work you do.

4695. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2008 - clinical standpoint, providers must take a complete and targeted history to fully understand a patient's … on how risk factors are defined and assessed. … Failure to do so may result in poor or inaccurate histories, and ultimately the lack of a trigger to … would have led to a change in the overall outcome. … did not receive test results.(32,33) Forty to sixty percent of HIV-infected persons do not regularly

4696. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      December 14, 2022 - Expecting a relatively simple outpatient operation, the anesthesiologist opted not to use a Spanish … Language barriers are a frequent impediment to providing safe care and every effort must be made to … Although she tried to convey this knowledge, she was unable to do so because the team decided to forgo … Preoperative evaluation for ambulatory anesthesia: what, when, and how? … The authors are solely responsible for this report’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do not

4697. Febrile-Infants-Diagnosis-Management Executive (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2012 - The clinical dilemma that practitioners often face is how to avoid missing a case of SBI versus how … Case reports, systematic reviews, cost-effectiveness analyses, editorials, or letters were excluded. … How do these findings vary by age within the age range 0–3 months? … How do these findings vary by age within the age range 0 to 3 months? … Discussion and Future Research The clinical dilemma is how to balance the risk of missing an SBI (with

4698. The Inside of a Time Out | PSNet
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      March 01, 2004 - allergy, but the surgeons in attendance quickly came to a "consensus" to administer hydrocortisone and … just prior to placement of a spinal anesthetic, and this is a practice that truly expert teams take … Each institution should decide how the Universal Protocol and time out are documented, but care must … The authors are solely responsible for this report’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do not … July 28, 2010 A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global

4699. Disposition of Comments Report for Medication Adherence Interventions: Comparative Effectiveness (pdf file)
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      September 11, 2012 - That being noted, the authors do a very good job at explaining their rationale and paths to conclusions … , but they need to read vertically rather than horizontally to do so. … A preliminary assessment suggests that a significant proportion of the studies in our review do not … intervention RCTs and how they related to our findings. … The specific issue raised by the reviewer, of how much adherence is necessary to produce a clinically

4700. Meaningful Drug Interaction Alerts – Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2023 - The contents of this report are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official … reports and theoretical pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic considerations. … case reports. … The purpose of this study was to examine how DDI clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are currently … − A review of case reports associated with colchicine-related DDIs identified risk factors associated