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7661. 3 Tk1 T5-Draft Policies And Procedures For The Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Final (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK1_T5-Draft_Policies_and_Procedures_for_the_Antimicrobial_Stewardship_Program_final.pdf
      October 01, 2016 - Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Implement, Monitor, & Sustain a Program Toolkit 1. Start an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Tool 5. Draft Policies and Procedures for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program This tool includes a draft policy and a draft set of procedures. As needed, the antimi…

7662. 3 Tk1 T5-Draft Policies And Procedures For The Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Final (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK1_T5-Draft_Policies_and_Procedures_for_the_Antimicrobial_Stewardship_Program_final.docx
      October 01, 2016 - Tool 5. Draft Policies and Procedures for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program This tool includes a draft policy and a draft set of procedures. As needed, the antimicrobial stewardship program team should request the nursing home’s management or corporate office to help develop, review, edit, and approve all policies …

7663. 4 Tk2 T2-Antibiotic Pocket Cards (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK2_T2-Antibiotic_Pocket_Cards.pdf
      May 01, 2014 - Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Nursing Home Infection Control Guidelines for C. Difficile When to Perform Toxin Assay on Stool: • Resident symptomatic with diarrhea ( >3 loose/watery stools a day). • Especially consider in residents who received…

7664. Best Practices for Promoting Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being Among Nursing Home Staff (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/mental-health-and-emotional-wellbeing.pdf
      March 01, 2022 - Best Practices for Promoting Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being Among Nursing Home Staff Best Practices for Promoting Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being Among Nursing Home Staff Nursing home staff routinely face stressful and emotionally draining working co…

7665. 5 Tk1 T2-Working With A Lab Final (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2016 - Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Help Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic Toolkit 1. Working With a Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing Tool 2. Step-by-Step Guide to Working With a Laboratory To Obtain an Antibiogram 1. Contact the nursing home’s lab to inquire about creating an antibiog…

7666. 5 Tk1 T2-Working With A Lab Final (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK1_T2-Working_with_a_lab_final.docx
      October 01, 2016 - Tool 2. Step-by-Step Guide to Working With a Laboratory To Obtain an Antibiogram 1. Contact the nursing home’s lab to inquire about creating an antibiogram Identify the correct contact at the laboratory to determine if it is able to create an antibiogram report. Most labs have this capability and producing the report r…

7667. A-25. Measure 22: The quality of the service provided by community resource to a practice  (GP-LI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/ccrm-atlas-suppl/ccrm-apptabA-25.html
      October 01, 2013 - Potential Measures for Clinical-Community Relationships A-25. Measure 22: The quality of the service provided by community resource to a practice  (GP-LI) Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Potential Measures for Clinical-Community Relationships Acknowledgements Executive Summary Introd…

7668. Coping-Staff-Challenges-Slides (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/coping-staff-challenges-slides.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - Affinity Group: Coping with Staffing Challenges in Today’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs H i c h a m S k a l i , M D , M S c S e p t e m b e r 1 6 , 2 0 2 0 Welcome and Background Welcome and greetings from TAKEheart, AHRQ and CDC Update on status of TAKEheart:  Resumption of TAKEheart cohort 1 sched…

7669. Racial and Ethnic Minorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/topics/racial-ethnic-minorities.html
      March 23, 2023 - Racial and Ethnic Minorities For decades, public health, health services research, and medical studies have continued to show evidence that racial and ethnic minority groups experience healthcare disparities that can lead to dramatic differences in health outcomes. The care they receive as patient…

7670. Cholesterol Management in Primary Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol-academic-detailing-guide.pdf
      July 07, 2015 - Cholesterol Management in Primary Care Healthy Hearts for Oklahoma (H20) The Oklahoma Cooperative for AHRQ's Evidence NOW ADVANCINGI I';�\, HEART HEALTH I.'�\ IN PRIMARY CARE :l Cholesterol Management in Primary Care ([) • • Aspirin when appropriate Blood pressure control Cholesterol manage…

7671. Approach to Residents With Reported Penicillin Allergy (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/penicillin-allergy.pdf
      June 01, 2021 - Approach to Residents With Reported Penicillin Allergy Ask about the associated antibiotic, timing, and outcome of the reaction o What antibiotic was the resident taking when he or she had the reaction?_________________ o What year was it or how old was the resident when the reaction happened? ______________…

7672. New AHRQ SOPS™ Health Information Technology Patient Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals - (Yount) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/healthitwebinar/sops-hit-webcast4-yount.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - New AHRQ SOPS™ Health Information Technology Patient Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals - (Yount) Introducing the AHRQ SOPS Health IT Patient Safety Supplemental Items Naomi Yount, PhD Westat Health IT Patient Safety Supplemental Items • Supplemental item set that can be added to the end of the Hospit…

7673. AHRQ’s Primary-Care Related Data Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/data-resources/index.html
      September 01, 2024 - AHRQ’s Primary-Care Related Data Resources AHRQ's Compendium of U.S. Health Systems The Compendium is the foremost public resource for data on characteristics of healthcare organizations over time. Enumerating each organization and detailing its key features, the annual files enable users to see the changing la…

7674. Appendix C. What Is a Diabetes Prevention Program? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkitapc.html
      March 01, 2014 - Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity Appendix C. What Is a Diabetes Prevention Program? Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesi…

7675. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2024 - CAHPS Supplemental Items Supplemental items are optional questions that survey users can add to their standardized CAHPS instruments to meet the needs of their organizations, local markets, and/or audiences. For example, a user of the Clinician & Group Survey may want to ask patients to comment on their experie…

7676. Tool 7. Documenting the Conversation in Your Charts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity/obpcp-tool7.html
      May 01, 2014 - Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based Resources to Manage Obesity Tool 7. Documenting the Conversation in Your Charts Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based Resources to Manage Obesity Acknowledgements Support Foreword …

7677. Social Determinants of Health Database | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/sdoh/data-analytics/sdoh-data.html
      June 01, 2023 - Social Determinants of Health Database Download Data AHRQ's database on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) was created under a project funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Trust Fund. The purpose of this project is to create easy to use, easily linkable SDOH-focused data to use in PCOR re…

7678. Standardized infection ratios for central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections, 2009–2012
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/2014nhqdr-hispanichealth-pt4.pptx
      January 01, 2014 - We also include links to some successful quality improvement interventions from the AHRQ Health Care

7679. Appendix III (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/report/apiiid.html
      June 01, 2010 - modular-individual scales and measures can be selected or left out, depending on the research and quality improvement

7680. Final Progress Report: Measuring and Mitigating Patient Safety Threats Due to Strains on ICU Capacity (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/halpern-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Successive variables are then entered, individually and in tandem, to assess improvement in model fit