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1. Diagnostic Safety Grants Awarded in FY 2019 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2024 - specific factors contribute to risks for diagnostic errors, and to use risk estimates to calculate incidence … categorize patient-reported diagnostic breakdowns and (b) apply this new analytic tool to establish the incidence … To assess the use and impact of this method on the diagnostic process measuring safety (incidence/types … An expert-guided machine-learning approach to estimate the incidence, risk and harms associated with … diseases Principal Investigator: Philip Polgreen, University of Iowa Project Aims: To determine the incidence

2. Grants to Enable Diagnostic Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2021 - specific factors contribute to risks for diagnostic errors, and to use risk estimates to calculate incidence … categorize patient-reported diagnostic breakdowns and (b) apply this new analytic tool to establish the incidence … To assess the use and impact of this method on the diagnostic process measuring safety (incidence/types … An expert-guided machine-learning approach to estimate the incidence, risk and harms associated with … diseases Principal Investigator: Philip Polgreen, University of Iowa Project Aims: To determine the incidence

3. 5. How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2014 - Two types of measures can be monitored: incidence and prevalence rates. … Incidence rates provide the most direct evidence of the quality of your care. … Therefore, your quality improvement efforts should focus on incidence rates. … Incidence rates capture only new pressure ulcers developing during an admission. … This approach allows the determination of both incidence and prevalence rates.

4. COVID-19 Pandemic Led to Long Absences, Reduced Hours, and Job Exits Among the U.S. Healthcare Workforce (pdf file)
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   May 11, 2023 - Yearly work injury rates per 100 full-time-equivalent workers (left) and illness incidence rates per … ◆ The work injury incidence rate for ambulatory healthcare services decreased 19% from 2.1 per 100 … ◆ The illness incidence rate for private industry increased 351% from 12.4 per 10,000 FTE workers … Respiratory Illness Among all industry sectors, the respiratory illness incidence rate was highest … But the illness incidence rates in those industries remained far below the rates for the healthcare

5. Module 5: How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices (doc file)
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   January 01, 2016 - Incidence and prevalence of pressure ulcers. In: Thomas D, Compton M, eds. … Incidence measures hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs). … Incidence rates provide the most direct evidence of the quality of your care. … Therefore, your quality improvement efforts should focus on incidence rates. … This approach allows the determination of both incidence and prevalence rates.

6. How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices
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   July 02, 2008 - It is recommended that you regularly monitor: An outcome measure, preferably pressure injury incidence … ask the Wound Care Team or Nurse. 16 Measures Measures used in monitoring pressure injury rates: Incidence … Prevalence 17 Incidence Rate Describes the number or percentage of patients developing a new pressure … and prevalence rates. 21 Incidence Calculation Monthly Unit Numbers Example # of patients who develop … Completion date for plan Incidence and/or prevalence pressure injury rates are calculated.    

7. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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   May 20, 2016 - of surgical site infections, and appropriate post-surgical wound assessment and help decrease the incidence … risk factors for postoperative wound dehiscence and identify patients at risk.1-3,7 Reduce the incidence … Optimize nutrition before surgery, especially increased protein.1,2 Recommended Practice: Reduce the Incidence … First Steps Recommended Practice: Wound Dehiscence Risk Assessment Recommended Practice: Reduce the Incidence

8. Issue Brief 9: Improved Diagnostic Accuracy Through Probability-Based Diagnosis (pdf file)
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   September 01, 2022 - Im pr ov e C on ce pt s Pa th w ay Initiate management Know community disease incidence … The clinician creates an initial differential diagnosis based on knowledge of disease incidence in the … ■ At Step 1: Developing initial differential diagnosis: Provide easily accessible incidence data for … This exercise will highlight the incidence of common diseases in various populations, train intuition … ■ Enable clinician access to better data on disease incidence.

9. Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
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   January 01, 1995 - The incidence of pressure ulcers is so high that the government has appointed a panel to study risk, … Educational programs may reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers. … The incidence of pressure ulcers is so high that the government has appointed a panel to study risk, … Educational programs may reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers. … treatments · Works with all members to educate patient/family about care · Coordinates prevalence and incidence

10. Final Progress Report: Generalizability and Spread of an Evidenced-based Fall Prevention Toolkit: Fall TIPS (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Impact on injurious falls incidence and associated costs are also outcomes of interest. … Incidence: Our team was interested in the incidence of falls per 1000 patient-days. … We also gathered data to evaluate the incidence of injurious falls per 1000 patient-days. … Patient falls and falls with injury were measured as follows: Falls incidence: Number of inpatient … falls x 1,000 Total number of inpatient days Falls with injury incidence: Number of inpatient falls

11. Research Funding Opportunities for Primary Care Research at AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Funding Available for Incidence and Contributing Factors to Understanding and Improving Diagnostic Safety … AHRQ is interested in learning about the incidence and contributory factors of diagnostic error within

12. In the Spirit of Patient Safety Awareness Week, AHRQ Sharpens Its Focus on Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - Understanding and Improving Diagnostic Safety in Ambulatory Care: Incidence and Contributing Factors … Researchers are encouraged to investigate the incidence of diagnostic errors and their causes, and findings

13. Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated With Selected Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2017 - These documents articulate the goals, priorities, and measures for improving quality and decreasing the incidence … There is broad consensus on the importance of accurately measuring the incidence and impact of HACs from … HACs being targeted and include additional data types, sources, and capabilities to better measure HAC incidence … for New Measurements In addition to the patient safety implications, accurate measurement of HAC incidence … access to clinical data and questions about whether existing HAC definitions can fully capture the incidence

14. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2014 - Step 14: Review Pressure Ulcer Incidence The facilitator works with the team to generate QI monitoring … Review Pressure Ulcer Incidence   Examples of what facility can use: facility’s existing pressure … ulcer incidence reports, CMS quality measures reported on Nursing Home Compare Facilitator assists … the change team in selecting an outcome metric and monitoring pressure ulcer incidence. 15.

15. Final Progress Report: APPLIED STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY (ASIPS) (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - reporting by primary care clinicians, analyze the causes and effects of those errors, and reduce the incidence … Ultimately, ASIPS aims to reduce the incidence and mitigate the effects of medical errors. … INCIDENCE / PREVALENCE At the time of this initial grant submission, very little was known about the … incidence of medical errors in outpatient settings. … We implemented interventions and examined if the intervention reduced the incidence of errors. 5

16. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - They found that most interventions included multiple components, and the pooled postintervention incidence … employer-sponsored health insurance: updated microsimulation estimates and sensitivity to alternative incidence … insurance (ESI) in the United States and explored the sensitivity of estimates to assumptions regarding the incidence … of the ESI tax subsidy and its distribution across firms can be reliably estimated using simplified incidence … employer-sponsored health insurance: updated microsimulation estimates and sensitivity to alternative incidence

17. Sustaining Fall Prevention Practices at Your Hospital (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Examples of Outcome Measures 23 • Fall incidence rate • Fall prevalence rate How To Measure … • Reward the unit with the greatest decrease in fall incidence.

18. NPSD Dashboards | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health and Human Services Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Search all AHRQ sites Search small Search Menu …

19. Research Funding Opportunities from AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Understanding and Improving Diagnostic Safety in Ambulatory Care: Incidence and Contributing Factors

20. 2013 Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate and Estimates of Cost Savings and Deaths Averted From 2010 to 2013 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2015 - 17 In 2011, this work was completed using the best available information to generate 2010 incidences … The incidence and nature of in-hospital adverse events: a systematic review. … Adverse events in hospitals: national incidence among Medicare beneficiaries. … The incidence and nature of in-hospital adverse events: a systematic review. … Adverse events in hospitals: national incidence among Medicare beneficiaries.