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  1. A quality improvement initiative to improve patient safety event reporting by residents. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/quality-improvement-initiative-improve-patient-safety-event-reporting-residents
    March 08, 2023 - Study A quality improvement initiative to improve patient safety event reporting by residents. Citation Text: Herchline D, Rojas C, Shah AA, et al. A quality improvement initiative to improve patient safety event reporting by residents. Pediatr Qual Saf. 2022;7(1):e519. doi:10.1097/pq9.0…

  2. Improving diagnosis by improving education: a policy brief on education in healthcare professions. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-diagnosis-improving-education-policy-brief-education-healthcare-professions
    August 28, 2019 - Commentary Improving diagnosis by improving education: a policy brief on education in healthcare professions. Citation Text: Graber ML, Rencic J, Rusz D, et al. Improving diagnosis by improving education: a policy brief on education in healthcare professions. Diagnosis (Berl). 2018;5(3):…

  3. Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology: Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System (SURPAS) - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024124-meguid-final-report-2018.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - SURPAS improved patients’ understanding and comfort with planned operations and the shared-decision … adverse operative outcomes to the surgical team, patient, and relevant hospital personnel leads to improved … Patients reflected that this improved their understanding and comfort with the planned operation.

  4. Disposition of Comments Report for Acute Migraine Treatment in Emergency Settings (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/migraine-emergency_disposition-comments.pdf
    November 27, 2012 - relieved and the pain came back whereas ‘persistence’ means the headache never resolved (even though it improved … usability Although alternative phenothiazines exist, prochlorperazine is preferred due to its relatively improved … Page 29 Improved compared to what?

  5. July Teleconference Transcript (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/July%20Teleconference%20Transcript.pdf
    June 16, 2021 - We still have issues with incomplete compliance with scanning, that has improved over time, but there … purchased so that physicians could always get on a computer to identify what meds have been given and improved … detail about that, you can see the performances perceptions included things like, it increased – it improved

  6. Kidney-Disease-Medicine Executive (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/kidney-disease-medicine_executive.pdf
    January 01, 2012 - Clinical outcomes •E.g., reduced mortality, CVD complications (i.e., MI, CVA, CHF), and incident ESRD; improved … of CKD or of CKD progression might be beneficial if outcomes in these patients are significantly improved … • Only limited RCT data address whether treatments improved outcomes in CKD subgroups in which

  7. Renal-Cancer Research-Protocol (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/renal-cancer_research-protocol.pdf
    April 20, 2015 - recommended treatment for T1 renal masses, yet the single randomized, prospective study demonstrated improved … believed that nephron-sparing approaches (partial nephrectomy or thermal ablation) are associated with improved … surgical nephron loss or injury) is dramatically different, with stable long-term renal function and improved

  8. Disposition of Comments: Technical Brief No. 39_Disparities and Barriers to Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Care (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/tech-brief-39-pediatric-cancer-survivorship-comments.pdf
    March 01, 2021 - we haven't demonstrated that decreasing barriers to survivorship care can actually translate to improved … This has also been an important contextual factor in improved treatment that has increased survival … We agree and have added this to include hematopoietic stem- cell transplantation as a reason for improved

  9. Exploring Financial and Non-Financial Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology: The Impact of an Ambulatory Electronic Health Record on Financial and Workflow in Primary Care Practices and Costs of Implementation (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r03hs018220-fleming-final-report-2011.pdf
    January 01, 2011 - Perceived benefits of health IT are weighted more heavily towards patient care (improved access to medical … information, workflow, patient communications, and clinical decision making) than financial performance (improved … improvement activities, by Corrigan et al.10 To complicate the decision further, evidence exists that improved

  10. DEMENTIA INCLUDING ALZHEIMER'S #04 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/dementia_horizon-scan-high_impact-1306-revised.pdf
    July 09, 2013 - evidence was adequate to determine whether PET imaging of brain beta-amyloid changes health outcomes (improved … savings might be realized through a variety of mechanisms, experts commented; mechanisms include improved … Investigators reported that the insulin treatment “improved delayed memory (P <0 .05),” “preserved

  11. AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/final-impact-synthesis-report.pdf
    July 22, 2015 - For example, in Pennsylvania, learning collaborative participants improved diabetes process and outcome … Structured peer-to-peer learning improved capacity at all levels of primary care transformation support … First, the relationship between external QI support and improved clinical outcomes merits further study

  12. Preventing CAUTI in Specialized Patient Populations: The ICU | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/preventing-cauti-specialized-populations-icu.html
    December 01, 2017 - So, we started her on Flagyl and she again improved. … And she slowly improved. We were wondering if she had toxic megacolon at that time. … I was in a meeting in New Zealand and someone was talking about how they improved their adherence to

  13. Paul Tedrick (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/preventing-cauti-icu-transcript.doc
    May 13, 2014 - So, we started her on Flagyl and she again improved. … And she slowly improved. We were wondering if she had toxic megacolon at that time. … I was in a meeting in New Zealand and someone was talking about how they improved their adherence to

  14. Final Progress Report: TIPI Systems To Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/selker-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - inadvertently sent home during the baseline period, 5.0% of patients with AMI or UAP were sent home, which improved … An improved TIPI-IS may be more easily disseminated, especially in smaller and community hospitals, … primary target of this project, the reduction of ED patients with ACS being inadvertently sent home, improved

  15. Final Progress Report: Improving Patient Safety by Reducing Medication Errors (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/strom2-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - characteristics of these systems that protect against errors and those that do not so that these systems can be improved … Improved patient education and delivery of medication organization systems are immediate opportunities … Finding the missing link between healthcare information technology and improved healthcare outcomes:

  16. Presentation: Program Overview

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/onboarding/onboarding_overview_impmodel.pptx
    December 01, 2017 - Yet, for the most part, these improvements have not translated into reduced infection rates or to improved … The second reason these improvements have likely not translated into improved outcomes is that, for many … Maybe no one even ever heard of Safety Program for Surgery and patient care hasn’t improved.

  17. Depression Screening and Follow-up for Adolescents and Adults (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-246-fullreport.pdf
    December 01, 2019 - Measure Categories CHIPRA legislation requires that measures in the initial and improved core set, taken … evidence exists for the relationship between immunizing a child or adolescent (process of care) and improved … Department of Health and Human Services accept the measure for the 2014 and/or 2015 Improved Core Measure

  18. Overuse of Imaging: Policy for ALARA Specific to Imaging Children (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-243-fullreport.pdf
    August 01, 2019 - Measure Categories CHIPRA legislation requires that measures in the initial and improved core set, taken … evidence exists for the relationship between immunizing a child or adolescent (process of care) and improved … Department of Health and Human Services accept the measure for the 2014 and/or 2015 Improved Core Measure

  19. Implementation of an Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements in Patient Safety Culture at UNC Medical Center Webcast Transcript (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/unc-webcast-transcript.pdf
    January 01, 2020 - perception of patient safety and quality, patient safety and quality issues, and total positive responses improved … software usability workgroup, which focused on optimizing our event reporting platform, an interface for improved … group recommended a number of technical changes that we made to our reporting software interface that improved

  20. Cesarean Delivery for Nulliparous (NTSV) Women (Appropriate Use) (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/perinatal/chipra-0082-fullreport.pdf
    March 01, 2016 - Measure Categories CHIPRA legislation requires that measures in the initial and improved core set, taken … evidence exists for the relationship between immunizing a child or adolescent (process of care) and improved … Department of Health and Human Services accept the measure for the 2014 and/or 2015 Improved Core Measure
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