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301. Section 1, Tables 1 to 3 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0230-section-1-tables-1-3.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Evidence of infection includes positive findings on clinical exam, imaging, or laboratory tests (e.g

302. Final Progress Report: Developing Metrics for Measuring Hospital Response Capability for Mass Casualty Incidents (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/mccarthy2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - METHODS The conference was held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in … The conference organizers utilized the Warfare Analysis Laboratory (WAL), which is a specialized facility … critical care, trauma, etc.), administrative, engineering, safety and security, mortuary, pharmacy, laboratory

303. Final Progress Report: Clinical Decision Support Simulations for Medication Administration Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/moss-berner-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - reports and linked to data describing each patient in terms of medical orders, physiological data, laboratory … Simulation Laboratory The simulation laboratory was built to resemble an actual patient care area … three computer screens (nursing station, medication cart, and patient bedside) were projected on the laboratory … Showing laboratory data related to ordered medications to assist in decisions regarding whether to give … For example, nurses could benefit from viewing the latest potassium level pulled from laboratory data

304. Meeting Minutes, March 2018 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2018-03-nac/nacmtg0317-minutes.html
     July 01, 2018 - AHRQ’s Patient Safety Learning Laboratories, through 13 grant projects, are designing and testing solutions … The Agency produced an updated guide/toolkit, “Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process,” to improve … standardization and systemization of laboratory testing processes.

305. Tables 1-7 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chirpa-215-scd-ed-tables.pdf
     January 01, 2002 - These facilities should have 24‐hour access to medical consultants, hematology and microbiology laboratories … pulse oximetry reading (compared, if possible, to the patient’s normal pulse ox reading, if known) … Laboratory

306. A System to Describe and Reduce Medical Errors in Primary Care (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Kaprielian_9.pdf
     January 01, 2007 - Errors in getting the right laboratory tests done for the right patient at the right time. 3. … Errors in responding to abnormal laboratory test results.8 Studies have found that most errors in … an interdisciplinary staff of nurses, pharmacists, social workers, dieticians, psychologists, and laboratory … Fortunately, a call to the cardiac studies laboratory resolved the problem within a week.

307. Timeliness of Confirmatory Testing for Sickle Cell Disease (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-132-fullreport.pdf
     January 23, 2017 - dissemination of results among caregivers, thereby improving communication of confirmatory testing from laboratories … Reviewing a laboratory result for newborn screening may be 18 captured by the EHR in the places … The ONC’s Health IT Standards explicitly address the receipt of laboratory results into EHRs, which … Electronically display in human readable format any clinical laboratory tests that have been received … Enable a user to electronically update a patient's record based upon received laboratory test results

308. Current State of Diagnosis Education | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/education-dx-outcomes-3.html
     March 01, 2022 - testing is limited and inconsistent across the health professions, even though medical imaging and laboratory

309. TeamSTEPPS Research/Evidence Base: Safety Culture and Safety Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/evidence-base/improvement.html
     June 01, 2023 - in medical team communication: Results of quality improvement efforts in a cardiac catheterization laboratory

310. National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/index.html
     care practices implement the best evidence Practice-Based Research Networks Clinical laboratories

311. Improving the Quality of Care for Women With Urinary Incontinence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-anger.html
     January 01, 2025 - Anger received a 5-year AHRQ-funded  Patient Safety Learning Laboratory grant in 2023. 

312. Section 2: Explanation of Key Concepts and Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/index.html
     July 01, 2023 - Laboratory results Repeat back laboratory results conveyed over the phone to confirm the receiver heard

313. Unique Challenges in Approaching Diagnostic Safety in Older Adults | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-older-adults2.html
     September 01, 2024 - Further laboratory workup showed she was positive for anti-GAD and anti-ICA antibodies and her HbA1c … Many of the common reference values for laboratory diagnostic tests are determined in young and healthy … inappropriate UTI diagnosis in older women 90 and hematological reference intervals for frequently used laboratory

314. One-Pager-Influenza (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/one-pager-influenza.pdf
     June 01, 2021 - suggestive of influenza or acute respiratory illness, even if it’s not influenza season.4 − Once a laboratory-confirmed

315. Appendix B. Clinical Materials to Share With Primary Care Providers (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/nicu/packet/apb3.html
     December 01, 2013 - If poor growth or abnormal laboratory results, recommend neonatal dietitian consult to assess need for … Recommendations Infants with birth weight <1800g or poor growth history, fluid restriction, or abnormal laboratory

316. Appendix B. Clinical Materials to Share With Primary Care Providers (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/nicu/packet/apb3.html
     December 01, 2013 - If poor growth or abnormal laboratory results, recommend neonatal dietitian consult to assess need for … Recommendations Infants with birth weight <1800g or poor growth history, fluid restriction, or abnormal laboratory

317. 012-Blood-Culture-Practices-Webinar (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/012-blood-culture-practices-webinar.docx
     October 01, 2024 - Blood Culture Contamination SAY: Monitoring and reporting blood culture contamination rates is a laboratory … The Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recommends calculating monthly rates of blood culture … Cultures, 2nd Edition · CDC: Preventing Adult Blood Culture Contamination: A Quality Tool for Clinical Laboratory … It is an established laboratory quality best practice, which integrates well into patient safety improvement

318. 3. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-current-state3.html
     January 01, 2024 - include any failure in timely access to care; elicitation or interpretation of symptoms, signs, or laboratory … Previous studies suggest that 6.8 to 62 percent of abnormal laboratory tests and 1.0 to 35.7 percent … order entry (CPOE) systems. 219 Experts and research studies propose that integration of CPOE with laboratory … Failure to close the loop can occur due to failures in timely followup of abnormal laboratory results … Such teams include experts in diagnostic specialties such as laboratory medicine and are available for

319. Ambulatory Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/tools.html
     February 01, 2018 - They enhance the reliability of laboratory testing in medical offices; establish a culture of patient

320. Final Progress Report: TOP-MEDS CERT: Tools for Optimizing Medication Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lambert-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - conducted a study to assess the association between real-world drug name confusion error rates and laboratory-based … Results Laboratory test error rates (and other metrics) significantly predicted real-world error rates … Cross-validation analyses confirmed these results, showing that laboratory tests also predicted errors … from a second pharmacy system, with 45% of the variance being explained by the laboratory test data … Cognitive tests predict real-world errors: the relationship between drug name confusion rates in laboratory-based