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www.ahrq.gov/hai/universal-icu-decolonization/universal-icu-ape.html
September 01, 2013 - Do MRSA-negative patients receive decolonization? … Do contact precautions apply for patients who are discovered to be MRSA+ because of a screening swab … Contact precautions apply to all MRSA+ patients regardless of how or when the MRSA status came to be … Do contact precautions continue to apply to other MDROs?
Yes. … How firmly should I apply CHG cloths to a wound?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-119-fullreport.pdf
May 01, 2018 - Section 2: Detailed Measure Specifications
Provide sufficient detail to describe how a measure would … Those infants who are LBW and do not require admission to the advanced care nursery
may be at risk to … measure set includes a measure that assesses how frequently a temperature is taken and
recorded within … Other
studies reported in the literature do not find such a difference, so this may be thought of as … Therefore, we do not offer such specification.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/u18hs024849-blumenfeld-final-report-2020.pdf
January 01, 2020 - Year 4
• Sarah Krüg spoke about the patient voice, how to ensure it is heard, and how to get patient … These included:
• How to grow the Resource Center, adapting it to the opioid focus
• How to efficiently … add and manage site content
• How to better utilize the AFA
• How, and to what degree, to integrate … to introduce a new feature/functionality
• How to address usability issues
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https://pccds-ln.org … "The trick is not to get to the members of this society who will
do things for themselves," he said.
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemredesignsafetynet/systemredesign-slides.html
December 01, 2017 - The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent any U.S. government agency … Slide 4
AHRQ objectives in commissioning this project
Learn more about how to foster effective … Example: Adopt a single set of measures to hold all health care systems, including SNSs, accountable. … How five leading safety-net hospitals are preparing for the challenges and opportunities of health care … Cunningham PJ, Bazzoli GJ, Katz A.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/966.html
July 01, 2025 - Join the IDEAS Project To Advance Diagnostic Safety
Issue Number
966
AHRQ News Now is a weekly … This is your opportunity to share how the Quality Indicators work for you and how they could work even … diagnostic success in the emergency department (ED), according to a recent AHRQ-funded study in the … patient’s symptoms by “connecting the dots” with a feasible narrative—to reach a correct diagnosis. … documented penicillin allergy label do not have a true allergy, “delabeling” those who can safely take
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/process/grant-app-basics/esstplan.html
January 01, 2017 - The research plan should be written to address the following questions:
What do you intend to do? … How are you going to do the work? … Innovation
The Innovation subsection will—
Explain how the application challenges and seeks to … Describe how the scientific environment in which the research will be done contributes to the probability … Do not include number of person months or direct costs.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-10-workflow-mapping.pdf
September 01, 2015 - How will you use this with a practice? … Workflows represent how work actually gets done, not the protocols that have been established
to do … • How often do you have to do each step? … Lab result follow-up after workflow mapping
Example 2a: How not to do Rx refills
Example 2b: … • Map out the improved process
How not to do workflow mapping
• Map out the processes you wish
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2021-07-nac/nacmtg071421-minutes.html
December 01, 2021 - How will primary care offices need to adjust workflow and staff for a digital future? … How can telehealth expand access to underserved communities?
Dr. … AHRQ has a framework for the needs of primary care practices. How do we engage practices? … How do we address their economic struggles?
Patrick S. … We need to determine how to incorporate interpreters and perhaps create best practices.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/taylor-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - If they failed to do so, they were prompted by the moderator.
Scenario #3: Team Project Meeting. … Even if the tool was meant to be a discussion generator,
users would need clear guidance on how to use … Participants were also asked to describe how they felt the tool would be used in a group setting. … of how to use the
toolkit. … A video tutorial offering suggestions as to how to handle projects of different scales was added to
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening
April 30, 2024 - These recommendations do not apply to persons who have a genetic marker or syndrome associated with a … How to implement this recommendation? … They do not apply to persons who have a genetic marker or syndrome associated with a high risk of breast … The USPSTF commissions decision modeling to help inform how best to target or implement a clinical preventive … It is not possible to directly observe for any individual person whether they have or do not have an
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865412/psn-pdf
March 27, 2024 - Authors, reviewers and others in a position to control the
content of this activity are required to … The
nurse practitioner managing the patient was uncertain as to whether the psychosis was due to a “ … a maladaptive emotional reaction to the diagnosis, rather than to CNS
manifestations of SLE itself. … lesions and hematologic abnormalities appearing later.3
The diagnostic challenge remains regarding how … The authors are solely
responsible for this report’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do not
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/around-block
March 04, 2020 - The Case A 77-year-old woman with multiple medical problems was admitted to the hospital for an elective … A nurse and pharmacist had countersigned the signature block next to this warning. … And, perhaps most importantly, how did this series of events occur despite the presence of the warning … If he did not, how could this happen? … The authors are solely responsible for this report’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do not
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module6/mod6-slides.html
March 01, 2017 - How do you see other projects sustained in your facility? … Learn how to create a sustainable plan.
Educate staff.
Build a measurement system. … Determine what, when, and how to measure performance and who will collect the data. … Image: Staff next to a resident in a wheelchair
Slide 19: 7. … How will you make sure excitement will be the same in a year or two as it is today?
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/context-critical-understanding-when-and-why-electronic-health-record-related
January 01, 2023 - and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do … to find a way to identify near misses. … and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do … wanted to find a way to identify near misses in healthcare. … How small inconsistencies can lead to increased errors
A second example found from the black box analysis
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/nutrtp3.pdf
March 01, 2009 - While these represent consensus guidelines to improve the quality of SRs in
general, they do not provide … A clinical outcome was defined as a measurement of how a
person feels, functions or survives, or the … to improve
understanding of how the SR was conducted. … Systems for evaluating nutrition research for nutrition care guidelines: do they
apply to population … How can a proposed Cochrane diet and nutrition field work
effectively?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/data-change-notes.docx
April 01, 2022 - Sharing raw numerator data to explicitly state how many people have been harmed by a CLABSI or CAUTI … · How will your team know that a change is an improvement? … Do any failures need to be addressed? … Do the remaining kits need to be removed from stock? … · How is data used to engage your CUSP team?
· With whom do you share the data?
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/episodic-migraine-surveillance-report-3.pdf
August 01, 2022 - surveillance report
as of December 30, 2021 (Surveillance Report 2), and to determine how the new evidence … document are those of the authors, who are responsible for its contents; the findings
and conclusions do … How do harms vary depending on: (1) patient demographics (e.g.,
age, gender); (2) patient medical comorbidities … How do harms vary depending on: (1) patient demographics (e.g.,
age, gender); (2) patient medical comorbidities … How do harms vary depending on: (1) patient demographics (e.g.,
age, gender); (2) patient medical comorbidities
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/duration/chipra-155-fullreport.pdf
September 01, 2018 - 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 … How readily are the data
available? … (3) Due to the fact that administrative datasets used for assessment do not include reason
for disenrollment … case study
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-215-fullreport.pdf
August 01, 2017 - Section 2: Detailed Measure Specifications
Provide sufficient detail to describe how a measure would … 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 … Abstraction Times
In addition to calculating IRR, the study team assessed how burdensome it was to locate … This measure provides families with a straightforward measure to assess how well basic levels of
comprehensive
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/anxiety-children_research-protocol.pdf
September 12, 2016 - How does comparative effectiveness of interventions vary according to
child/family characteristics, … How does comparative effectiveness of interventions vary according to child
comorbid conditions, including … Bittner A, Egger H, Costello EJ, et al. What do childhood anxiety disorders
predict? … Technical Experts do not conduct analysis of any kind
nor do they contribute to the writing of the report … They do not review the report, except
as given the opportunity to do so through the peer or public review