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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/CDI-slides.pptx
November 01, 2019 - Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care
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Objectives
Discuss the importance of judicious C. difficile laboratory … Clostridioides difficile
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care
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Common Laboratory … difficile
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care
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Additional Tips Related to Laboratory … Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care
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Take-Home Messages
Judicious C. difficile laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/ihs/chap5tab11.html
December 01, 2017 - Calculated from the last recorded value for the laboratory tests and blood pressure during FY2010.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/communities/pbrn/history/index.html
November 01, 2024 - PBRNs have been described as "new clinical laboratories for primary care research and dissemination." … PBRNs provide a natural laboratory for a wide variety of physician and patient studies and are a rich … short history of primary care practice-based research networks: From concept to essential research laboratories
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK1_T4-Antibiogram_Formats_and_Instructions_final.docx
October 01, 2016 - Your laboratory may also already be familiar with the formatting preferences of physicians in your geographic … This antibiogram has been prepared according to standards established by the Clinical and Laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/khare-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Of the 12 high-risk failures, 58% occurred between ECG and
catheterization laboratory activation. … standard process for changing intravenous lines in the ED prior to transfer to the
catheterization laboratory … , accelerating the transfer time between the ED and the cardiac catheterization
laboratory, and developing … a standardized process for communication with the catheterization laboratory.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/overhage-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - intermediate outcomes – e.g., high blood pressures in patients
with CHF; (5) urgent ambulatory visits; (6) laboratory … IUMG-PC physicians were required for billing purposes
to document “medical necessity” for certain laboratory … physician documentation of a billing indication and its associated ICD-9 code might
lead to decreased laboratory … ordering rates, especially for laboratory tests related to
preventive care (i.e., potential errors … For a defined set of laboratory tests (including lipid profiles, PSA, CBC, hepatic function
tests, TSH
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www.ahrq.gov/faqs/index.html?page=9
September 01, 2016 - established to encourage adoption of Health IT by sharing the findings and lessons from the real-world laboratory … Typically, the EHR would include information on the patient's medication and immunization history, laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/0084textdesc.pdf
January 01, 2012 - Screening-Procedure during [Encounter, Performed:
Postpartum Care Visit]
Intervention, Performed
Laboratory … Laboratory Test
during [Encounter, Performed:
Postpartum Care Visit]
Intervention, PerformedIntervention … LABORATORY TEST
Result
Gestational Diabetes Screening
2.16.840.1.113883.3.526.3.1350
Attribute: Result
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiref.html
April 01, 2018 - A laboratory-based, hospital-wide, electronic marker for nosocomial infection: the future of infection … Contribution of laboratory tests, scintigraphy, and histology to the diagnosis of lower limb joint replacement … Evaluation of laboratory markers for the detection of infections in open-heart surgery patients.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/naughton-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Methods- Data abstracted from the EMR included demographics, laboratory data, clinical data, and 30- … Death Master File from the Social Security
Administration were used to extract the remaining data (laboratory … comorbidities (chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer,
hypertension), laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/index.html
June 01, 2025 - Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/manage-resident-UTI-facilitator-guide.docx
June 01, 2021 - The microbiology laboratory develops an antibiogram by compiling culture results from your facility over … For smaller facilities, the microbiology laboratory may combine culture results from several years or … It’s helpful to ask your microbiology laboratory how they develop the antibiogram for your facility. … increase in creatinine, an increase in potassium and, for people taking warfarin, an increase in a laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK3_P3T5-Training_Slides_for_Nursing_Home_Nurses_Phase_3.docx
May 01, 2014 - Essentially, it presents laboratory results of tests for sensitivities of bacterial strains to different
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www.ahrq.gov/npsd/data/dashboard/info.html
June 01, 2019 - patient (which if not discovered would have become an incident); discovery of a mislabeled specimen in a laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/Generic_Dashboard_Data_2024.xlsx
January 01, 2024 - area (e.g., medical/ surgical unit) 805 5.0%
Perinatal Labor and delivery 13,468 82.9%
Perinatal Laboratory … ., medical/ surgical unit) 29,359 48.5%
Pressure Ulcer Labor and delivery 285 0.5%
Pressure Ulcer Laboratory … care area (e.g., medical/ surgical unit) 341,379 30.8%
Other Labor and delivery 19,146 1.7%
Other Laboratory … area (e.g., medical/ surgical unit) 461,711 34.3%
Incident Labor and delivery 34,361 2.6%
Incident Laboratory … area (e.g., medical/ surgical unit) 95,288 31.0%
Near Miss Labor and delivery 8,056 2.6%
Near Miss Laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiapv.html
April 01, 2018 - We supplemented these data with VA enterprise-wide microbiology, laboratory, admission/discharge/transfer … Maximum values during the eligible time frame were used for laboratory values and vitals. … Another issue is that much of the time, laboratory elements are missing post-operatively. … the rpart algorithm, we also created an “inclusive” algorithm using the presence of any high-normal laboratory … One SSI was missed because laboratories were only available from the outpatient setting.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/impguide/apb.html
August 01, 2022 - implementation with the indirect patient care staff
Housekeeping/maintenance, social services, pharmacist, laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/healthit-ed-2.html
February 01, 2021 - ED patients at an academic medical center and found that less than 10 percent of all radiology and laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/model/profiles/burke.html
March 01, 2021 - Care offers diabetes education, occupational health services and mammography, xray, ultrasound, IV and laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P1T3-Checklist_for_Discussion_with_Local_Hospitals_Providers_ERs_Phase_1.doc
May 01, 2014 - ______________
Email Address ___________________________
Yes
No
Beneficial Contacts
Clinical laboratory