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281. Nurses' and patients' appraisals show patient safety in hospitals remains a concern. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nurses-and-patients-appraisals-show-patient-safety-hospitals-remains-concern
     October 16, 2012 - Over this time frame, about 20% of hospitals showed significant improvements in work environment scores … December 21, 2017 Effect of changes in hospital nursing resources on improvements in

282. National trends in patient safety for four common conditions, 2005–2011. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/national-trends-patient-safety-four-common-conditions-2005-2011
     August 03, 2016 - However, there were no measurable overall improvements for patients admitted with pneumonia or surgical … patient safety initiatives have led to real progress in some areas but have not created across-the-board improvements

283. Patients' perspectives of diagnostic error: a qualitative study. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patients-perspectives-diagnostic-error-qualitative-study
     February 10, 2012 - Suggested strategies to reduce diagnostic error included improvements to clinical management, increase … patient access to clinicians, communication improvements between patients and clinicians and between

284. Influencing organisational culture to improve hospital performance in care of patients with acute myocardial infarction: a mixed-methods intervention study. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/influencing-organisational-culture-improve-hospital-performance-care-patients-acute
     February 21, 2018 - Out of the 10 participating hospitals, 6 demonstrated improvements in culture, and these same hospitals … August 20, 2018 National quality program achieves improvements in safety culture and

285. A systematic review of the effects of resident duty hour restrictions in surgery: impact on resident wellness, training, and patient outcomes. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/systematic-review-effects-resident-duty-hour-restrictions-surgery-impact-resident-wellness
     March 19, 2018 - effects of duty-hours reform on surgical trainees, this systematic review concluded that there were no improvements … Even though some improvements in residents' quality of life were observed after the first duty-hours

286. Effect of a quality improvement intervention with daily round checklists, goal setting, and clinician prompting on mortality of critically ill patients. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-quality-improvement-intervention-daily-round-checklists-goal-setting-and-clinician
     June 25, 2014 - More recently, checklists have failed to yield improvements in some settings, highlighting that successful … The intervention group showed some improvements in a few process measures, such as use of low tidal volumes

287. PowerPoint Presentation: Premortem for Sustainability
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_premortem.pptx
     December 01, 2017 - barriers and complications to aid project implementation Anticipate problems to help teams sustain improvements … potential barriers to and complications of project implementation can help teams prepare to sustain improvements … scenario might look like. 7 Premortem Exercise Step 2 Generate the reasons for this failure to sustain improvements

288. Treatments for Schizophrenia in Adults: A Systematic (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/executive-summary-2017-schizophrenia-adult.pdf
     January 01, 2017 - Ideally, improvements in symptoms translate to long-term, clinically relevant, positive changes in … Benefits Outcomes for Key Questions 1 and 2 • Functional – Improvements in social and occupational … Women had greater improvements than men in core illness symptoms with clozapine and in quality of life … Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) resulted in improvements in global function and quality of life ( … SGA comparisons Core Illness Symptoms: Improvements in Negative Scale Scores • Olanzapine was more

289. Impact of sleep deficiency on surgical performance: a prospective assessment. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-sleep-deficiency-surgical-performance-prospective-assessment
     November 29, 2023 - April 24, 2018 National improvements in resident physician-reported patient safety after … March 10, 2021 Effective implementation of work-hour limits and systemic improvements

290. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/build-businesscase-facguide.docx
     January 01, 2017 - several elements including cost efficiency, real cost reduction, revenue enhancement, balance sheet improvements … , and intangible improvements. … Slide 17 Balance Sheet Improvements ASK: How can quality improvement impact balance sheets? … Slide 18 Intangible Improvements SAY: The parts of the basic business cycle addressed so far can be … How can we realize these savings and patient improvements?

291. Context is Critical: Understanding When and Why Electronic Health Record-Related Safety Hazards Happen | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/context-critical-understanding-when-and-why-electronic-health-record-related
     January 01, 2023 - This allows for a robust analysis of the root cause of EHR errors that subsequently can inform improvements … A system for reviewing errors could inform improvements in EHR design and usability. … This allows for a robust analysis of the root cause of EHR errors that subsequently can inform improvements … no system in place to retrospectively identify and review those potential errors, which could inform improvements

292. Autism-Update Executive (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/autism-update_executive.pdf
     August 01, 2014 - Improvements were most often seen in cognitive abilities and language acquisition, with less robust … Children’s symptom severity often decreased during treatment, but these improvements often did not … exceeded improvements related to the impact of ameliorated anxiety itself. … Limitations of the Evidence Base Despite improvements, the existing literature still has significant … across settings and continued improvements in methodologic rigor.

293. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Culture Check-Up Tool (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/supporting/culture-checkup-tool.docx
     May 01, 2017 - This exercise will help you better understand your culture and consider interventions that lead to improvements … complete the Culture Item Discussion Form (next page) to document issues that surface and any suggested improvements

294. Policy Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/professionals/clinicians-providers/resources/rice/ceproj.html
     October 01, 2014 - The project goal is to facilitate and guide improvements in this process. … Their report will include questions to address and suggestions for process improvements in a future,

295. National Quality Strategy Priority: Effective Treatment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part3-nqs5.html
     October 01, 2015 - renal replacement therapy improved overall and among Whites but there were no statistically significant improvements … There were no statistically significant improvements overall or among any ethnic group.

296. CDS Connect Maintenance and Update Final Report Year 4 2020 (pdf file)
     cds.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/AHRQ_Final_Report_2020.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - Accordingly, during this period of maintenance and update, the team introduced the following improvements … Aided by these improvements, members of the CDS community repurposed the CDS Authoring Tool to develop … These improvements will continue in the new artifact schema. … The team made many general system improvements to the Repository during year 4. … Improvements To better support adoption and modification by other organizations, the team improved

297. Garg AX et al. 2005 "Effects of computerized clinical decision support systems on practitioner performance and patient outcomes - a systematic review." | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/garg-ax-et-al-2005
     January 01, 2005 - [Link] Abstract "Context: Developers of health care software have attributed improvements in patient … Fifty-two trials assessed 1 or more patient outcomes, of which 7 trials (13%) reported improvements. … Of the 27 trials measuring patient outcomes, 5 (18%) demonstrated improvements."

298. A Tale of Three Practices: How Medical Groups are Improving the Patient Experience (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/reports-and-case-studies/CaseStudyPatientExperience_July2011FINAL_revised20110728.pdf
     July 01, 2011 - This brief presents an account of how three practices in different parts of the country have achieved improvements … improving, it took nearly two years for operations and patient experience data to reflect these improvements … Performance data continue to be reviewed to 13 monitor for ongoing improvements as a result of … The program intends to drive change in local health care markets that will result in measureable improvements … Plan: Targeting After Visit Information Do: Implementing the After Visit Summary Study: Tracking Improvements

299. Cumulative effect of flexible duty-hour policies on resident outcomes: long-term follow-up results from the FIRST trial. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cumulative-effect-flexible-duty-hour-policies-resident-outcomes-long-term-follow-results
     July 15, 2020 - November 16, 2022 National improvements in resident physician-reported patient safety … April 24, 2018 Effective implementation of work-hour limits and systemic improvements

300. Development and Implementation of the REmote Telehealth User-Reported caNcer Surveillance (RETURNS) Program for Lung Cancer | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/development-and-implementation-remote-telehealth-user-reported-cancer
     September 30, 2023 - will evaluate barriers and facilitators to remote surveillance care and use that information to inform improvements … the effect of RETURNS on adherence to surveillance guidelines, reduction of surveillance disparities, improvements