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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/casalino/paper/idkeydsrapd.html
February 01, 2014 - However, even when references are given, the data available on the topic area are in all cases far from … Adv Data  2006 Jun 23;374:1-33. … Available at:  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad374.pdf . (933 KB) Accessed January 9, 2014. … to outpatient, or between nursing home and hospital, but also from outpatient to inpatient and referrals … Policy options to improve discharge planning and reduce rehospitalization.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/929.html
September 01, 2024 - Report to Congress Describes Sepsis’ Burgeoning Burden on Hospital Care The number of sepsis-related inpatient … From 2016 to 2021, the aggregate hospital cost for inpatient stays due to sepsis at non-Federal acute-care … AHRQ’s comprehensive federal analysis, based on data from the agency’s  Healthcare Cost and Utilization … It is based on data from AHRQ’s  Quality and Safety Review System (QSRS) , a new one-of-a-kind national … Impact of automated alerts on discharge opioid overprescribing after general surgery .
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/hisph-slides-pt2.html
May 01, 2018 - likely to be prescribed angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker at discharge … a non-Federal community hospital in the United States with acute myocardial infarction as principal discharge … and until 1976, most other common measures of alcohol-related problems such as arrest and hospital discharge … Source:  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Treatment Episode Data Set, Discharge … Data Set, 2005-2011.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/hospital/about/measures-child-hcahps-909.pdf
March 20, 2017 - use a scale of 0 to 10 to measure 
parents’ assessments of the hospital in which their child had an inpatient … The CAHPS Web site suggests several 
resources related to using the CAHPS Hospital Survey to improve inpatient … The survey also asked whether the provider explained symptoms or problems to look for after 
discharge … and whether the parent was given written information about symptoms or problems to look 
for after discharge … their care, asked teens questions about 
readiness to leave, and talked with teens about care after discharge
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/pt-experience-measures.pdf
March 20, 2017 - use a scale of 0 to 10 to measure 
parents’ assessments of the hospital in which their child had an inpatient … The CAHPS Web site suggests several 
resources related to using the CAHPS Hospital Survey to improve inpatient … The survey also asked whether the provider explained symptoms or problems to look for after 
discharge … and whether the parent was given written information about symptoms or problems to look 
for after discharge … their care, asked teens questions about 
readiness to leave, and talked with teens about care after discharge
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/chaudhry-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Scott Sussman, MD 
Director of Quality, YNHH Hospitalist 
Organizational Recovery Orientation in VA Inpatient … Staff to Optimize an Electronic 
Handoff Tool 
Sharon Smyth, MSN, RN, HVC Clinical 
Program Director Inpatient … their patient census, either 
through promptly discharging hospitalized patients who no longer need inpatient-level … 38 (1.9%) 30 (2.4%) 0.27
Within 30 days of discharge 154 (7.6%) 94 (7.7%) 0.95
Inpatient Readmission … Within 7 days of discharge 180 (8.9%) 95 (7.7%) 0.26
Within 30 days of discharge 500 (24.7%) 298 (24.3%
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/45-iscr-pathway-audit-tool.xlsx
June 01, 2023 - for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery (ISCR) implementation, your hospital should begin reviewing data … Data are the foundation for optimizing ISCR implementation and evaluating the impact of your team’s efforts … can help ISCR teams plan how to share data, highlight improvements, and identify processes that are … Inpatient Unit Pathway Component	Number of Patients Who Received Pathway Component	Number of ERAS-Eligible … Discharge planning initiated before admission or upon presentation 	0	0	ERROR:#DIV/0!
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/goldman-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - community-acquired pneumonia report for the 
pneumonia sample, and the Agency Healthcare Research and Quality Inpatient … there was a long-standing history for reporting POA in patient discharge data. … Patient Discharge 
Data File Documentation January-December Secondary Patient Discharge Data File 
Documentation … Inpatient Quality Indicators Overview. AHRQ 
Quality Indicators. … Secondary Inpatient Quality Indicators Overview.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/b2b_pdi_ratesgenbywin.pdf
March 01, 2016 - configurations: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008 (if 
the dataset contains more than about 4.5 million discharge … Identify outcomes in inpatient records. 
2. Identify populations at risk. 
3. … This variable is not required by the 
software but is useful for merging discharge records in the patient-level … Data can then be saved as a CSV file if desired and will remain until 
new data are uploaded. … The program was 
run on a large set of discharge records that would have the best chance of finding events
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpra2.html
April 01, 2018 - National databases of inpatient care, ambulatory surgical care, and emergency department care to provide … Analysis 
 The next source of process factor information was AHRQ's national databases for surgery and inpatient … Discharge databases play an important role in studying SSIs in the ASC environment. … For this study, we analyzed the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) databases for the States of California … In sum, interviewees discussed the steps involved from the preoperative call through patient discharge
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/aboumatar-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - rg ely blam ed for  adve rse events and  
preventable readmissions to the hospital, and about 50% of inpatient … Post-discharge calls and follow up.
5. … post-discharge
with an additional 5, 10, and 14 day post-discharge calls for high risk
patients. … Discharge folder
• Castle Medical Center: A discharge folder was developed that is
provided at admission … Used data feedback to drive improvement. 
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/910.html
April 01, 2024 - Now Available: 2021 Data on Hospital Care . 
 New Research and Evidence From AHRQ . … , is working to address and unravel bias in healthcare data. … Emergency Department Sample (NEDS). 
 2021 Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD). 
 2021 Nationwide Inpatient … Professional Literature 
 A multi-center validation of the electronic health record admission source and discharge … location fields against the clinical notes for identifying inpatients with long-term care facility exposure
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lambert2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Specialty societies have recently introduced new guidelines for the use of anticoagulants in 
inpatients … quality improvement programs should improve the safety and effectiveness of 
anticoagulation therapy for inpatients … Inpatient Lab-Med Linkage
The main lab-med project was composed of an active, multicenter, inpatient … , a second set of inpatient once-a-day alerts was implemented at UIH. … Based on the distribution of [K+] level for inpatients at UIH during the period of January 2009–June
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/spotlights/npsd-spotlight_behavioral-health.pdf
September 01, 2025 - addition, studies have shown that 
the prevalence of substance use disorders is higher among medical inpatients … The prevalence 
of psychiatric disorders in general hospital inpatients: A systematic umbrella review … Discharge against medical advice: how often do we intervene? … The other locations with 25 percent or higher total percentage of BH issues were 
inpatient general … Percent with 
at least one 
BH issue** 
Emergency department 24.3% 6.8% 2.1% 10.0% 43.2% 34.8% 
Inpatient
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/morgan-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - It is used for approximately 25% of inpatients. … The relational database has microbiology, pharmacy, ADT 
(admission discharge transfer), pathology, and … radiology data. … The cohort was 
formed from general (medical and surgical) inpatients who remained hospitalized on 
day … The impact of Contact 
Isolation on the quality of inpatient hospital care.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Tuinen.pdf
March 01, 2004 - data have also been used to assess quality of 
care. … In 2001 there were 123 general acute care hospitals accounting for 874,836 
inpatient discharges. … as an acute care discharge. … collection tool completion, and data entry. … are 
poor measures of complication occurrence in medical 
inpatients.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptflow/section5.html
July 01, 2018 - triaged to fast track are later determined to require a higher level of care" or "Due to a lack of inpatient … days observing and creating a value stream map of all tasks that occur between patients' arrival and discharge … Enabling all fast track computers to print discharge instructions. … Westmoreland Hospital, in Greensburg, PA, focused its efforts on improving communication between the ED and inpatient … Their strategy requires the ED nurse to fax a one-page form to the inpatient unit within 20 minutes of
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/stone-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The most 
useful electronic time-stamped data were admit/transfer/discharge and call light data. … The  data regarding  transfers to and from  
radiology were not consistently reliable (e.g., the discharge … The demands for nursing care are primarily generated from the current inpatients 
(e.g., call button … Direct admission (an NIC intervention) was estimated to have a service time of 38.31, and discharge … Stabilization of inpatient bed occupancy through control of admissions.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Zierler_81.pdf
September 01, 2008 - VTE is one of the most common clinical disorders among both inpatients and 
outpatients, and PE is the … The VTE Prophylaxis Guidelines are used to assess every patient upon admission and discharge 
for their … Dissemination Plan  
Internal dissemination target audiences are inpatient and clinic providers. … For the implementation in 
Phase I, the clinical providers and their patients in the UWMC and HMC inpatient … of hospitalized patients whose VTE risk factors are assessed and 
documented upon admission and on discharge
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/public-health-emergency-refocus.html
May 01, 2023 - spring  2023 Hospital Safety Grade , one of many indicators that measure healthcare quality, provides data … As I have pointed out in public presentations, an AHRQ data  analysis 1  published in  JAMA  showed that … nurse communication, physician communication, staff responsiveness, communication about medicines, and discharge … The safety of inpatient health care.  N Engl J Med  2023 Jan 12;388(2):142-53. PMID: 36630622.