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201. All-Payer Claims Databases Measurement of Care: Systematic Review and Environmental Scan of Current Practices and Evidence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/envscan/index.html
     June 01, 2017 - APCDs are large-scale databases that systematically collect professional, facility, pharmacy, laboratory

202. Chapter 8. Lessons Learned and Suggestions for Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/ihs/chapter8.html
     December 01, 2017 - Clinical Measures Cholesterol Laboratory Test Values On average, LDL cholesterol test values were … cholesterol among persons with diabetes and CVD, it may be worthwhile asking project sites to report some laboratory

203. Key Driver 3: Optimize Health Information Systems to Extract Data and Support Use of Evidence in Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/optimize-health-it.html
     November 01, 2018 - functions in electronic health records (EHR) and use other information systems, such as registries and laboratory … Creative use of other data sources such as a patient web portal, a laboratory system, a billing system

204. Acute Care ASP Development
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/improve/program-part1-slides.pptx
     November 01, 2019 - involvement in relevant decisions regarding electronic health records and other software Microbiology Laboratory … Sepsis Core Measure) Patient Safety Department Resources for interventions to improve antibiotic use or laboratory

205. 110-Ss-Lfd-Sample (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/110-ss-lfd-sample.docx
     April 01, 2025 - N/A Were laboratory technicians adequately in-serviced or educated? … N/A Was there adequate staffing in the laboratory to run results? … Example: There were three dedicated laboratory technicians to run stat results.

206. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/156-what-are-4es.pptx
     October 01, 2024 - Practical guidance for clinical microbiology laboratories: a comprehensive update on the problem of blood … Contamination: An Overview For Infection Control And Antibiotic Stewardship Programs Working With The Clinical Laboratory … Preventing Adult Blood Culture Contamination: A Quality Tool For Clinical Laboratory Professionals. … Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. 2022.

207. Voluntary Adverse Event Reporting in Rural Hospitals (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Schade_63.pdf
     January 01, 2007 - For example, if an AE is misidentification of a laboratory specimen, an appropriate measure of risk … of exposure might be the number of laboratory specimens obtained within a specified time interval. … Smaller numbers focused on infections, devices, laboratory errors, surgical errors, and falls. … We surveyed participants to ascertain ability to supply counts of laboratory tests, employee work days … in treatment Delay in test/treatment Specimen Labwork delay 8 0.91 1.17 0 – 1.37 1.37 Laboratory

208. Final Progress Report: Regional Approach for THQIT in Rural Settings – Implementation (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/richards-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - These costs led us to develop a point-to-point approach to sharing regional laboratory results. … re-use this point-to-point architecture to develop a many-to-many interface solution in which multiple laboratories … Web-based tutorial: LOINC for the Laboratory – A Primer for mapping laboratory codes to LOINC. … Workshop: Laboratory Interoperability. … Laboratory Interoperability: A Closer Look. 2007.

209. Impact of Staff-Led Safety Walk Rounds (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Montgomery_42.pdf
     March 05, 2008 - trainees), staff nurses, and staff representatives from respiratory therapy, pharmacy, and the clinical laboratory … • Inadequate hand-off tool between staff of the cardiac catheterization laboratory, the post- anesthesia … Communication • Incomplete hand-off from cardiac catheterization laboratory to other areas. … directions for our safety walk rounds include visiting non-patient care areas such as the clinical laboratory

210. Nursing Home Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/search.html?page=13
     January 01, 2022 - Updated Testing Requirements in Nursing Homes & Laboratories This presentation provides guidance for … nursing homes and clinical laboratories for use of SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Testing, with links to helpful

211. How to Use This Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/shuttered/toolkitchecklist/surgetkit1.html
     July 01, 2018 - Review outsourced services (food preparation, laundry, laboratory) for problems or suggested improvements … Services   X X Pharmaceutical services   X X Radiologic services   X X Laboratory … records X X X Pharmaceutical services X X X Radiologic services   X X Laboratory

212. Chapter 2. What is Care Coordination? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/coordination/atlas/chapter2.html
     June 01, 2014 - Care practices in a primary care clinic with an electronic medical record (EMR) system and on-site laboratory … The primary care clinic includes a laboratory, but they refer their radiology tests to a nearby radiology … Their specialty practice includes an on-site laboratory, radiology clinic, and pharmacy. Mr.

213. 095-Mrsa-Surveillance (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/095-mrsa-surveillance.docx
     April 01, 2025 - Data collection from pre-existing, clinically indicated samples such as reports of laboratory-identified

214. Final Progress Report: Putting a Face on Hospital Medical Errors: Communication (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/stewart-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Settings The setting for this study was a laboratory setting with individual seating areas (cubicles … The laboratory was located adjacent to a major medical center within a Research Department office. … These volunteers were paid a small cash gift ($10) for coming to the laboratory for the hour-long session … Following preliminary testing and design, we conducted an experiment in the laboratory. … The subjects arrived at the laboratory and were randomly assigned to one of 12 experimental conditions

215. Prescribers-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/prescribers-facilitator-guide.docx
     June 01, 2021 - You call the covering physician to relay the information from the microbiology laboratory. … The fact that a nurse has to call to inform someone about the result of a laboratory test because of … provider to understand that the call is not about clinical concerns, but is driven by a fax from the laboratory … The stool is sent to the laboratory to evaluate for Clostridioides difficile infection.

216. Making Effective Changes in Antibiotic Decision Making (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/safety/changes-facilitator-guide.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - This could have prevented the development of acute kidney injury or AKI, and additional laboratory … Furthermore, there was no mechanism in place for the laboratory to notify the prescriber and/or the … the Risk of the Negative Contributing Factors SAY: There was no mechanism in place for the laboratory … Establish parameters for supratherapeutic vancomycin troughs for the laboratory to call the prescriber

217. Gap-Analysis (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/gap-analysis.docx
     June 01, 2021 - Comments Does the Antibiotic Stewardship Team have a regular meeting with the contracted microbiology laboratory … ☐ Yes ☐ No Does your microbiology laboratory develop an annual antibiogram? … regional facilities ☐ Yes: combined with hospital ☐ No Does your microbiology lab follow Clinical and Laboratory

218. Nursing Home Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/nursing-home/resources/search.html?page=13
     January 01, 2022 - Updated Testing Requirements in Nursing Homes & Laboratories This presentation provides guidance for … nursing homes and clinical laboratories for use of SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Testing, with links to helpful

219. Types of Evidence Used To Assess Diagnosis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-terminology4.html
     April 01, 2025 - Ease of access to laboratory, imaging, consultant, and other results.

220. Final Progress Report: Patient Safety and the Primary Care Testing Process (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/elder-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Recent estimates are that family physicians and general internists order laboratory tests in 29% and … Although some tests are performed in physicians’ offices while patients wait, most are sent to reference laboratories … Toward optimal laboratory use. Problems in laboratory testing in primary care. … Management of laboratory test results in family practice. An OKPRN study. … Classifying laboratory incident reports to identify problems that jeopardize patient safety.