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1. Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process Toolkit (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/lab-testiing/lab-testing-toolkit.pdf
   December 01, 2017 - Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process Toolkit c IMPROVING YOUR LABORATORY TESTING … and Quality Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov PATIENT SAFETY IMPROVING YOUR LABORATORY … • Staff may choose to focus on a particular type of test or the performance of a particular laboratory … Using the Tool • Meet with critical staff relevant to the laboratory testingPLANNING FOR IMPROVEMENTS … • Brainstorm solutions. • Map the "ideal state" for laboratory testing process within your practice

2. Patient Safety Learning Labs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/topics/patient-safety-learning-labs.html
   Topic: Patient Safety Learning Labs Patient safety learning laboratories (PSLLs) take a systems engineering … The learning laboratories use cross-disciplinary teams to address the patient safety-related challenges … Overview of Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (PSLL) Projects

3. 5 Tk2 P2T6-Sample Laboratory Data Printout Phase2 (doc file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P2T6-Sample_Laboratory_Data_Printout_Phase2.doc
   May 01, 2014 - Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit: Phase 2 Sample Laboratory Data Printout Note. … The red box shows that this laboratory had 36 isolates of E. coli, and 35 were tested for levofloxacin … The blue box shows that the laboratory tested 35 isolates for nitrofurantoin, and 91 percent were sensitive

4. Calculating Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Laboratory Test Percent Positivity: CDC Methods and Considerations for Comparisons and Interpretation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/calculating-sars-cov-2.html
   May 01, 2022 - Calculating Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Laboratory Test Percent Positivity … Interpretation Resource: Calculating Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Laboratory … and Interpretation This webpage contains information about the formula for calculating  SARS-CoV-2 laboratory

5. 5 Tk2 P2T6-Sample Laboratory Data Printout Phase 2 (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P2T6-Sample_Laboratory_Data_Printout_Phase_2.pdf
   May 01, 2014 - Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit: Phase 2 Sample Laboratory Data Printout Note. … The red box shows that this laboratory had 36 isolates of E. coli, and 35 were tested for levofloxacin … The blue box shows that the laboratory tested 35 isolates for nitrofurantoin, and 91 percent were sensitive … -0022-7-EF http://www.ahrq.gov/NH-ASPGuide Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit: Phase 2 Sample Laboratory

6. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Laboratory-Identified Event (LabID Event): Surveillance for C. difficile Infection (CDI) and Drug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2022 - National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Laboratory-Identified Event (LabID Event): Surveillance for … ) and Drug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) Resource: National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Laboratory-identified

7. Final Progress Report: Automated Lab Test Followup To Reduce Medical Errors (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/greenes-report.pdf
   January 01, 2025 - Key Words: laboratory results, patient safety PURPOSE Introduction Failure to respond to abnormal laboratory … pending laboratory results from previous days have now become available. … Sample size: Our database from Phase 2 include 924 late-arriving laboratory results. … Overall in this analysis, 324 laboratory results were reviewed. … The most common types of abnormal laboratory values are shown in the table below.

8. Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Intervention to Improve Ambulatory Drug Monitoring and Safety (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/field-report.pdf
   January 01, 2024 - monitoring.1 Laboratory monitoring errors occur when there is failure to conduct the indicated laboratory … Medication orders and renewals, laboratory test orders, instantiation of orders, and laboratory results … ordering of laboratory tests 1. … Baseline laboratory test ordering across study drugs ranged from 37.4% to 94.8%, and follow-up laboratory … Laboratory tests for drugs with baseline laboratory assessment recommendations in BBWs were more commonly

9. 5 Tk2 P1O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase1 Assessment And Planning Final (doc file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P1O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase1_Assessment_and_Planning_final.doc
   June 02, 2025 - · Review the status of the contract with the clinical laboratory. … based on laboratory data. … · If more than one laboratory is used, all will need to be engaged to ensure that the necessary laboratory … · Because clinical laboratories already store microbiological data in formats that are either automatically … The clinical laboratory may be a resource for these contacts.

10. 5 Tk2 P2O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase 2 Development (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P2O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase_2_Development.pdf
    May 01, 2014 - ISBN Number: 1-56238-692-1 Nursing Home/Clinical Laboratory Nursing Home/Clinical Laboratory Agreement … on Request for Specific Laboratory Results • A data request should be submitted to the clinical laboratory … Obtain Summary Data From the Clinical Laboratory • The clinical laboratory should be able to generate … The clinical laboratory should save these data in a common computer format. … Please note that the format of the reports will differ across laboratories, but all the reports should

11. 5 Tk2 P2O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase 2 Development (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P2O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase_2_Development.doc
    February 05, 2009 - Nursing Home/Clinical Laboratory Nursing Home/Clinical Laboratory Agreement on Request for Specific Laboratory … Results · A data request should be submitted to the clinical laboratory. … Obtain Summary Data From the Clinical Laboratory · The clinical laboratory should be able to generate … The clinical laboratory should save these data in a common computer format. … Please note that the format of the reports will differ across laboratories, but all the reports should

12. Diagnostic Stewardship in Action | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship6.html
    August 01, 2024 - Diagnostic stewardship is a collaborative effort that requires building and sustaining partnerships between laboratory … upstream” to guide appropriate use of testing and prevent false positives and overdiagnosis. 19 , 71 Laboratory … stewardship 72 and diagnostic stewardship, but their contributions are central in the latter. 71 Laboratory … The DMT is a multidisciplinary effort, often led by the laboratory with collaboration of clinical specialists … In some cases, these professionals serve within clincal laboratories.

13. Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce Diagnostic Error | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship5.html
    August 01, 2024 - including emails to clinicians and modifications to the CPOE system and order sets, daily inpatient laboratory … order volume decreased 60 percent, even as overall routine laboratory order volume remained stable. … It refers to an expanded decision-making role of the laboratory professional, such that the decision … In reflective testing, laboratory professionals were allowed to add tests they believed were indicated … Development should involve laboratory professionals, clinician end users, patients, 66 and ideally,

14. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcarae Meeting (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-nov2023.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - Diagnostic Safety in Ambulatory Care: Strategies and Interventions (R18) • Patient Safety Learning Laboratories … CDC • Division of Laboratory Systems o Clinical Laboratory Outreach To Advance Diagnostic Excellence … Services, and FDA are all part of the clinical laboratory regulatory program, CLIA (Clinical Laboratory … docs/april-2023/CLIAC_SUMMARY_APR2023_1.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/cliac/ 4 Agency Update nation’s laboratories … , laboratory and clinical professional organizations, and Hospital and Laboratory Accreditation programs

15. Ambulatory Care and Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/topics/ambulatory-care-and-surgery.html
    Culture of Safety in the Ambulatory Surgery Environment: Implementation Guide Improving Your Laboratory

16. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare: March 2024 Meeting (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-mar2024.pdf
    July 26, 2024 - CDC • Division of Laboratory Systems (DLS) o Clinical laboratory outreach to advance diagnostic excellence … See Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC). … DLS is developing a communications plan to reach the nation’s laboratories, laboratory and clinical … DLS is also partnering with VA Hospital Systems Laboratories and sharing best practices and lessons … This testing is not FDA approved and is being performed at private laboratories as laboratory-developed

17. Exhibit 23. Data sources for the SSI common risk factors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Utilization Fee Basis Health_plan.health_plan_cd Demographics Postop_hematocrit Lab laboratory … Clinical_event Laboratory data Postop_admit Utilization/ Surgery ADT   Laboratory … data Preop_hematocrit Lab laboratory Clinical_event Laboratory data Preop_hemoglob … Lab laboratory Clinical_event Laboratory data Postop_hemoglob Lab laboratory Clinical_event … (calculation) ADT & surgery Proeop_albumin Lab laboratory Clinical_event Laboratory

18. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety: July Meeting Summary (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-jul2023.pdf
    November 03, 2023 - Why Patient Narratives Matter ▪ Volume 2: Eliciting Patient Narratives • Patient Safety Learning Laboratories … CDC • Division of Laboratory Systems (DLS) o Clinical laboratory outreach to advance diagnostic excellence … : A novel clinical laboratory outreach approach will launch later this year. … See Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC). … DLS is developing a communications plan to reach the nation’s laboratories, laboratory and clinical

19. 5 Tk2 P1O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase 1 Assessment And Planning Final (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P1O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase_1_Assessment_and_Planning_final.pdf
    May 01, 2014 - • Review the status of the contract with the clinical laboratory. … based on laboratory data. … - If more than one laboratory is used, all will need to be engaged to ensure that the necessary laboratory … - Because clinical laboratories already store microbiological data in formats that are either automatically … The clinical laboratory may be a resource for these contacts.

20. Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief 21 Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications2/files/dx-safety-21-diagnostic-stewardship.pdf
    August 01, 2024 - In some cases, these professionals serve within clincal laboratories. … Effectiveness of practices to support appropriate laboratory test utilization: a laboratory medicine … Practical guidance for clinical microbiology laboratories: a comprehensive update on the problem of … laboratory stewardship. … on laboratory test ordering.