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241. Healthcare System Level Strategies to Address Racial/Ethnic and Related Disparities in Health and Healthcare | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2022 - health services organization, financing, and delivery, healthcare organizational culture and quality improvement … Systematic Review: Closing the Quality Gap Series: Quality Improvement Interventions To Address Health … https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/disparities-quality-improvement/research PICO Portal New … services research/ or outcome assessment, health care/ or quality assurance, health care/ or quality improvement

242. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
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     February 23, 2012 - Organizational learning strategies (e.g., quality improvement collaboratives22), and any theoretical … These designs can yield valid evidence about quality improvement interventions. … Quality improvement strategies for hypertension management: a systematic review. … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies. … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies.

243. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2009 - breathing Comparator(s): Treatment as usual (bronchodilators and inhaled steroids) Outcome(s): Improvement

244. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0136_07-21-2009.pdf
     January 01, 2009 - oophorectomy Comparator: Nonsurgical treatments including pharmacologic and behavioral Outcomes: Improvement

245. Topic 0548 Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments for MDD NSD FINAL SJ (pdf file)
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     June 21, 2013 - Outcome(s): Improvement in symptoms of depression; reduced suicide risk; improved social and occupational

246. Newer Medications for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) Associated with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - a list of these instruments, basic psychometric properties, and relevant thresholds for classifying improvement … symptomatic) 0 to 7: Mild symptoms 8 to 19: Moderate symptoms 20 to 35: Severe symptoms -3=slight improvement … b -5.1=moderate improvement b -8.8=marked improvement b BPH Impact Index (BII) 0 to … 13 Higher scores represent increased perceived impact of BPH-LUTS on overall health -0.5=slight improvement … b -1.1=moderate improvement b -2.2=marked improvement b I-PSS Quality of Life Due to Urinary

247. Disposition of Comments for CER 212 Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Women (pdf file)
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     August 08, 2018 - We have added cure, improvement, and satisfaction more explicitly into the PICOTS table. … The authors defined their outcomes of cure or improvement in UI. … This outcome is included as improvement. … There is evidence regarding cure, improvement, and satisfaction. … BTX resulted in the highest percentages of women with cure, improvement, and satisfaction.

248. Strategies To Improve Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2016 - issues with access to care and the failure of systems and providers to adopt established quality improvement … We defined success as having a statistically significant improvement in either a majority of practitioner … Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 1: Series Overview … Effectiveness of a quality improvement intervention for adolescent depression in primary care clinics … Long-term benefits of short-term quality improvement interventions for depressed youths in primary care

249. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Response: Acute Care Nursing Staff Shortages That Compromise Patient-to-Nurse Ratios (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2025 - Unit- based quality improvement projects found an acuity tool improved registered nurse satisfaction … The most common intervention was holistic nurse sleep improvement strategies, which was a component … Many quality improvement initiatives are like initiatives occurring in other hospitals. … Director Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Evidence-based Practice Center Division Liaison Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement Agency

250. Topic 0562 Treatments for Biploar Disorder NSD FINAL SJ (pdf file)
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     April 10, 2013 - psychosocial interventions, somatic treatments, combinations of these, and placebo/sham Outcome(s): Improvement

251. TND-0543_05-24-2013 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - revealed a 2006 AHRQ systematic entitled, “Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement

252. Tonsillectomy for Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing or Recurrent Throat Infection in Children (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2017 - The clinical significance of this improvement is likely influenced by baseline disease severity and … As discussed above, both groups showed improvement in AHI at 6-month followup, with maintenance at … We also found consistently greater improvement in sleep-related quality of life with tonsillectomy vs … of Apnea Hypopnea Index with tonsillectomy compared with no surgery Significant improvement in … This short-term improvement must be weighed against a roughly 4 percent frequency of PTH.

253. Clinical-Care-Rapid-Review-Appendix-C (xls file)
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     January 01, 2018 - Qualitative outcome data of event reviewing for included studies Quality improvement Evidence Table … Continuous outcome data of qualitative improvement for included studies Evidence Table C-9. … Qualitative outcome data of quality improvement for included studies Communication and relationships … “In April 2002, UMHS began linking the investigation process with peer review and quality improvement … NA NA The reported event is investigated by the Quality Improvement (QI) Department.

254. Distributed Ambulatory Research in Therapeutics Network (DARTNet): Summary Report | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - final organizational structure of the network, define the selection process for research and quality improvement … for bringing populations of primary care practices together to design, track, and evaluate quality improvement … that use electronic health records (EHR) and that have agreed to collaborate in research and quality improvement … (OCER) and secondary aim of conducting a full spectrum of practice-based research involving quality improvement … This approach enhances and sustains both the OCER model and the PBRN model of practice improvement and

255. Cervical Degenerative Disease Treatment: A Systematic Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     February 01, 2024 - There was low strength of evidence of no difference between these approaches for improvement in pain, … evidence to suggest that use of a PEEK cage results in a greater likelihood of fusion and function improvement … review provides additional evidence that operative approaches to management of CDD generally result in improvement … Excluding these populations from surgical intervention studies, because postoperative improvement may … Future studies should also report the proportion of patients who experience a clinically important improvement

256. Urinary-Incontinence-Treatment Executive (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2012 - While definitions of continence are similar, the definitions most commonly applied to improvement in … Women define improvement according to reduced lifestyle restrictions or improved overall perception … of bladder symptoms, especially resolution of urine leakage, whereas researchers define improvement … This review examines improvement thresholds of clinical importance in validated scales and checklists … Significant improvement in UI with fesoterodine compared to placebo was dose responsive.

257. Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - ; RCT=randomized controlled trial; TKA=total knee arthroplasty; QI=quality improvement; VA=Veterans … Effectiveness of the Lean process compared to other quality improvement initiatives on length of stay … Question 1-Quality improvement, Process improvement We identified eight completed and in-process SR … that focused on quality improvement or process improvement interventions … • Continuous Quality Improvement.

258. Cancer Quality-ASSIST Supportive Oncology Quality Indicator Set: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity Testing (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2010 - used.4 To accurately assess quality of care and provide tools for targeting and evaluating quality improvement … training, a nurse project manager and three professional nurse abstractors from Delmarva, a Quality Improvement … Improvement in oncology practice performance through voluntary participation in the Quality Oncology … American Medical Association Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. … assessment before or on the next visit to the same outpatient site of whether or not there was an improvement

259. Research Protocol: Care Interventions for PeopleWith Dementia (PWD) and Their Caregivers (pdf file)
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     February 22, 2019 - Guiding Question: Any quality improvement or implementation science study that informs the dissemination … Guiding Question: Any quality improvement or implementation science study that informs the dissemination … While we are not expressly looking for studies identified as quality improvement interventions, we … For outcomes measured with instruments that lack established thresholds to measure improvement, we will … of quality improvement intervention publications.

260. Care Interventions for People Living With Dementia and Their Caregivers | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2020 - Guiding Question: Any quality improvement or implementation science study that informs the dissemination … Guiding Question: Any quality improvement or implementation science study that informs the dissemination … While we are not expressly looking for studies identified as quality improvement interventions, we recognize … For outcomes measured with instruments that lack established thresholds to measure improvement, we will … of quality improvement intervention publications.