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7701. Pre-Implementation Activities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2023 - Pre-Implementation Activities Guidance for Teaching Section 4: Implementation Who Should Teach and Learn These Topics Only instructors with substantial experience teaching and implementing TeamSTEPPS across an organization or units should use the material in section 4: Implementation. Ideally, multiple trai…

7702. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/cauti-tools/implementation-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-c.docx
      January 01, 2017 - BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 AHRQ Safety Program for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals AHRQ Safety Program for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals Appendix C. Sample Bladder Scan Policy Purpose To provide guidelines for the use of a bladder scanner. Definition The bladder scan measures ultrasonic reflections within th…

7703. Nurses' Role in Diagnosis, Through the Lens of Distributed Cognition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/distributed-cognition-er-nurses3.html
      August 01, 2022 - Distributed Cognition and the Role of Nurses in Diagnostic Safety in the Emergency Department Nurses' Role in Diagnosis, Through the Lens of Distributed Cognition Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Distributed Cognition and the Role of Nurses in Diagnostic Safety in the Emergency Department …

7704. Part 2: Trends in Priorities of the Heckler Report—Care for Substance Use Disorders | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2018 - Chartbook for Hispanic Health Care Part 2: Trends in Priorities of the Heckler Report—Care for Substance Use Disorders Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Chartbook for Hispanic Health Care Acknowledgments Health Care For Hispanics National Quality Strategy Priorities: Patient Safety N…

7705. Measures of Inefficiency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2018 - Chartbook on Care Affordability Measures of Inefficiency Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Chartbook on Care Affordability Acknowledgments Care Affordability Care Affordability Trends and Measures Measures of Access Problems Due to Health Care Costs Measures of Inefficiency Supp…

7706. Elements of Access to Health Care: Timeliness | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2018 - Chartbook on Access to Health Care Elements of Access to Health Care: Timeliness Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Chartbook on Access to Health Care Acknowledgments Access to Health Care Elements of Access to Health Care Elements of Access to Health Care: Services Elements of Acce…

7707. Tip 6. Use Caution With Readability Formulas for Quality Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2015 - Tip 6. Use Caution With Readability Formulas for Quality Reports There are several dozen readability formulas, including the Fry formula, SMOG, and Flesch tests (Flesch-Kincaid and Flesch Reading Ease). You can use the formulas to score text by hand or use computerized versions that are built into word proces…

7708. AHRQ Webcast Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates - Parast (pdf file)
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      June 02, 2025 - AHRQ Webcast Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates - Parast Testing the Feasibility of the Emergency Department Patient Experience of Care (EDPEC) Survey Layla Parast, RAND Corporation 23 Disclosure This study was conducted under contract number GS-10F- 0275P/75FCMC18F0061, “National Impl…

7709. One-Pager-Influenza (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2021 - Diagnosis • Influenza should be suspected during influenza season (October–March) in nursing home residents with typical symptoms: sudden onset of fever, headache, sore throat, cough, myalgias, rhinorrhea.1-3 • Influenza testing should occur for residents with recent onset of signs and symptoms suggestive of i…

7710. Table A.4.1. Verisk condition classifications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - ARRA ACTION: Comparative Effectiveness of Health Care Delivery Systems for American Indians and Alaska Natives Using Enhanced Data Infrastructure Table A.4.1. Verisk condition classifications Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents ARRA ACTION: Comparative Effectiveness of Health Care Delivery Sys…

7711. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2022 - Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Diagnosis1,2 • Relatively sudden onset of redness, warmth, tenderness, and swelling of the skin o Nonpurulent: no evidence of abscess/phlegmon  Most cases caused by beta-hemolytic streptococci (usually group A strep but also B, C, or G) that are suceptible to penicillin (P…

7712. Combining Healthcare Quality Measures Into Composites or Summary Scores | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      September 01, 2019 - Combining Healthcare Quality Measures Into Composites or Summary Scores The more data you provide on individual measures, the more likely it is that users will be faced with information overload. Combining measures is one way to quickly reduce the number of data points included in your report. This page discuss…

7713. 047-Evidence-Behind-Decolonization-Strategies-Notes (doc file)
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      October 01, 2024 - What's striking about this graph, however, is that neither of the other two arms showed any improvement

7714. Final Progress Report: Proactive Risk Assessment in the ED: Building the Safety Case (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/wears-perry-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - Assessing risk: the role of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) in patient safety improvement.

7715. Care Coordination Quality Measure for Primary Care (CCQM-PC) - Development and Pilot Test of the CCQM-PC (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2016 - Similarly, for quality improvement (QI) applications, primary care practice-level reliability is not

7716. NPSD Data Spotlight: Patterns of Fall Interventions (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2023 - of the Network of Patient Safety Databases (NPSD) as authorized by the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

7717. Final Progress Report: Care and Safety Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Home-Based Long-Term Services and Supports (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Care and Safety Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Home-Based Long-Term Services and Supports Title: Care and Safety Practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Home-Based Long-Term Services and Supports Principle Investigator and Team Members: Carrie Wendel-Hummell, PhD; PI1 Tracey LaP…

7718. Session 2 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Module 1: Detecting Change in a Resident's Condition Session 2 Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Module 1: Detecting Change in a Resident's Condition Learning and Performance Objectives Session 1 Session 2 Conclusion Additional Tools and Resources Changes That Matte…

7719. Final Progress Report: Clinical Decision Support Simulations for Medication Administration Safety (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Clinical Decision Support Simulations for Medication Administration Safety Clinical Decision Support Simulations for Medication Administration Safety Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Moss, PhD, RN Co-Investigator: Eta S. Berner, EdD University of Alabama at Birmingham Dates of Aw…

7720. AHRQ Stats | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2025 - Improvement in Patient Safety Measures From 2000 to 2016, more than two-thirds of patient safety measures … Measures showing the most improvement included reduced adverse events among hospital patients receiving … The improvement saved about $8.3 billion in 2015.