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  1. 023-Optimizing-Evc-One-Pager (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/023-optimizing-evc-one-pager.docx
    October 01, 2024 - Culturing1-3 · Samples are swabbed from HTs and cultured in a microbiology lab to identify and quantify … · Labor intensive and requires lab expertise. · Delayed results; no immediate feedback. · Not standard

  2. 113-Cleaning-Monitoring-Methods-One-Pager (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/113-cleaning-monitoring-methods-one-pager.docx
    April 01, 2025 - Culturing1-3 · Samples are swabbed from HTS and cultured in a microbiology lab to identify and quantify … · Labor intensive and requires lab expertise. · Delayed results; no immediate feedback. · Not standard

  3. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39986/psn-pdf
    November 10, 2010 - finding corroborates other studies documenting persistent failure to comprehensively follow up abnormal lab … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/ambulatory-care-safety https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/notification-abnormal-lab-test-results-electronic-medical-record-do-any-safety-concerns

  4. Spotlight Case [MONTH] 2003 (ppt file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.149_slideshow.ppt
    May 01, 2007 - Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1999;123:822-823. Soldin SJ. Free drug measurements. When and why? … Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1999;123:822-823. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi? … Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1999;123:822-823. Soldin SJ. Free drug measurements. When and why? … Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1999;123:822-823. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi? … Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1999;123:822-823. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

  5. Design Guide for Implementing Warm Handoffs (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/warmhandoff-designguide.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - For example, maybe team members currently walk patients to the lab for bloodwork, but the lab technician … In the adjusted workflow, the team member would still walk the patient to the lab and the lab technician … However, for a warm handoff, the team member would verbally explain to the lab tech, in front of the

  6. 2019 Hospital Survey Pilot Test Results Part II (pdf file)

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    September 01, 2019 - LVN/ LPN Supv, Mgr, Clinical/Sr Leader Support Staff -Tech nologist/ Technician (EKG, Lab … / LPN Supv, Mgr, Clinical/Sr Leader Support Staff -Tech nologist/ Technician (EKG, Lab … LVN/ LPN Supv, Mgr, Clinical/Sr Leader Support Staff Tech- nologist/ Technician (EKG, Lab … Care Units Other Clinical Svcs Path/ Lab Peds, NICU, PICU Phar- macy Psych/ Behav … Care Units Other Clinical Svcs Path/ Lab Peds, NICU, PICU Phar- macy Psych/ Behav

  7. Apr-2017-Cholesterol-Wg-Notes (doc file)

    cds.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/workgroups/231/apr-2017-cholesterol-wg-notes.docx
    January 01, 2017 - transient and is no longer a risk or issue and what is relevant (e.g., a healed ulcer or bleed) · Would lab … It is more challenging on the outpatient side. · Kidney and liver disease might be defined by lab values … allow the provider a chance to clean up the med list if it is no longer active. · Consider specifying a lab … driven or data driven (usually a new LDL-C result) · One system’s CDS presents during visits and during lab

  8. Final Progress Report: Multi-Method Proactive Risk Assessment (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2024 - system and used to guide the development of an Action Plan focused on either medication management, lab … On the other hand, high-risk medication monitoring, medication-pregnancy monitoring, lab and imaging … The most common errors involve lab testing errors. … Often, medication monitoring involves lab testing, and, if this system was not working well, the push … Thus, they suggested that the Action Plan include both medication monitoring and lab test tracking,

  9. Washington Final Report

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/WAFinalReport042309.jsp
    July 01, 2016 - Late in the project the DOH team followed up on the lab data currently collected in the department’s … Utilizing the lab reporting system established under the CDC’s National Electronic Data Surveillance … The PHL plans to continue and expand that augmented lab collection to all state hospitals, either by … their lab data electronically. … States often capture lab data in other divisions and programs.

  10. Outside case review of surgical pathology for referred patients: the impact on patient care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/outside-case-review-surgical-pathology-referred-patients-impact-patient-care
    July 13, 2016 - Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2013;137(2):233-40. doi:10.5858/arpa.2012-0088-OA. … Arch Pathol Lab Med . 2013; 137 (2) :233-40 . … Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2013;137(2):233-40. doi:10.5858/arpa.2012-0088-OA.

  11. Interpretive diagnostic error reduction in surgical pathology and cytology: guideline from the College of American Pathologists Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center and the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/interpretive-diagnostic-error-reduction-surgical-pathology-and-cytology-guideline-college
    February 10, 2012 - Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2016;140(1):29-40. doi:10.5858/arpa.2014-0511-SA. … Arch Pathol Lab Med . 2016; 140 (1) :29-40 . View more articles from the same authors. … Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2016;140(1):29-40. doi:10.5858/arpa.2014-0511-SA.

  12. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and ED Visits - Transfer Note and Intake Note (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/prevhosp/prevehosp-trans-intakenotes.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - pain/joint disorder  Weakness Other Changes in Condition, Not Specified Elsewhere:  Abnormal lab

  13. Re-engineering Postnatal Unit Care and the Transition Home to Reduce Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/re-engineering-postnatal-unit-care-long-desc.html
    April 01, 2025 - management plan that reduced the overall use of opioids after childbirth. 3 In response to findings, the lab … Beyond hospital-based interventions, the lab had a significant impact on national policy and practice … The lab has presented its work at multiple national conferences, including the Society for Maternal-Fetal

  14. Microbiologic-Specimens-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/microbiologic-specimens-facilitator-guide.docx
    June 01, 2021 - Transfer to lab or refrigerator within 15 minutes. … Check SAY: Second, why is it important to refrigerate the specimen if it can’t be transported to the lab … obtain the specimen in a sterile container. · If urine samples cannot immediately be transported to the lab … covering, you transfer the fluid from the cup into a sterile container and send the specimen to the lab … Transfer the specimen to the lab or refrigerator promptly.

  15. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42966/psn-pdf
    November 21, 2018 - These mainly focused on ensuring appropriate follow-up of abnormal lab tests (particularly cancer screening … As failure to appropriately follow-up on lab abnormalities is a common source of patient harm in ambulatory

  16. Urine a Tough Position | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/urine-tough-position
    January 01, 2009 - already placed in the cabinet by a different patient had not yet been labeled and processed by the lab … , the requesting doctor, and/or the patient.( 7 ) In another article describing the epidemiology of lab … In this case, the patient placed the urine specimen in the cabinet adjacent to the lab. … Often, patients deliver throat swabs, lab requisitions, x-rays, and other clinical items to various sites … patient identification should be used for blood samples ( 12 ), and this should apply to any kind of lab

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49420/psn-pdf
    October 01, 2003 - parents presented to the ED and said they were there for a "blood test" and were referred to a local lab … At the lab, they were informed that the doctor had not called in any lab test orders. … The lab asked the patient´s family to wait while the physician was called, but while waiting the infant … He was informed that the patient had been sent to the lab and was not seen in the ED. … provider, the ED failed to obtain an adequate history from the patient’s family before sending him to the lab

  18. Nlm-Intramural-Research-Script--Audio-Description-Sample (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/publications/pubcomguide/NLM-Intramural-Research-Script--Audio-Description-Sample.docx
    March 31, 2022 - The research that we do uses mathematics and computer science techniques A woman works in a medical lab … Porter is working in a lab with vials, wearing a white coat and protective goggles. 01:45 to be able … to work with them and I’m really happy to be here and be able Porter is working in a lab wearing a

  19. Lost in the Black Hole | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/lost-black-hole
    December 01, 2005 - mammograms) are transmitted to the relevant provider ( 13 ), and one could make the same argument for key lab … usual HIV ELISA screening assay been run (whose results return "positive" or "negative" for HIV), the lab … If the former, the lab treats the result as it would any new diagnosis of HIV and contacts the responsible … follow-up test results, such as designating a single responsible physician, nurse, or clerk to check all lab … check tests, mandating that laboratories or radiology departments contact providers about critical lab

  20. 5.d-1 Chart Audit Review Form | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crctoolkit/crctool5d1.html
    April 01, 2018 - Tracking and Improving Screening for Colorectal Cancer Intervention 5.d-1 Chart Audit Review Form Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Tracking and Improving Screening for Colorectal Cancer Intervention I. Introduction II. Background III. Intervention Steps and Tools IV. References 1.…
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