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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=1
January 01, 2024 - Teamwork, Diagnostic Safety, Emergency Care Publication Date: December 2022
Acute Care Learning Laboratory … s): Diagnostic Safety, Human Factors Approaches To Improve Patient Safety, Patient Safety Learning Laboratory … Publication Date: November 2022
Cancer Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (CaPSLL): Preventing … Factors, Human Factors Approaches To Improve Patient Safety, Measure Development, Patient Safety Learning Laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/magid-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Significance of Medication Errors in Renal Dysfunction, Laboratory
Monitoring, and among Patients 65 … Errors in Laboratory Monitoring
Laboratory parameters, such as liver function tests or blood counts, … Appropriate laboratory monitoring can reduce the risk of adverse events. … Research
on adherence to laboratory monitoring recommendations has only been
conducted for selected … Improving Laboratory Monitoring at
Initiation of Drug Therapy: A Randomized Trial.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/fed-IWG-dxsafety-Nov19mtg.pdf
November 15, 2019 - Diagnostic Safety Capacity Building Contract (press release forthcoming)
• Patient Safety Learning Laboratories … (6 awarded)
• Grants To Enable Diagnostic Excellence (4 awarded)
CDC • Literature review linking laboratory … error to patient outcomes
• Updated Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments Regulations
• Advancing … Laboratory Diagnostic Stewardship Meeting (12/2019)
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-exhibit2-10.html
November 01, 2014 - Two physicians, one from the ED, one from the catheterization laboratory from the ED. … One staff person from the catheterization laboratory.
Return to Document
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/reporting-results-testing.html
April 01, 2022 - Facilities
This video provides guidance on how nursing homes can enter point of care (POC) SARS-CoV-2 laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P4O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase_4_Monitoring.pdf
May 01, 2014 - schedule will depend on the size of the nursing home, volume of
microbiological specimens sent to the laboratory … , and willingness of the laboratory to generate new data. … data, smaller nursing homes and those that send smaller
numbers of microbiological specimens to the laboratory … As the laboratory and
the facility staff are now familiar with antibiograms, revisions and updates
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P4O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase4_Monitoring.doc
January 01, 2005 - schedule will depend on the size of the nursing home, volume of microbiological specimens sent to the laboratory … , and willingness of the laboratory to generate new data. … data, smaller nursing homes and those that send smaller numbers of microbiological specimens to the laboratory … As the laboratory and the facility staff are now familiar with antibiograms, revisions and updates should
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/diagnostic/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-apr2025.pdf
August 01, 2025 - CDC, Division
of Laboratory
Systems
Clinical Laboratory Outreach To Advance Diagnostic Excellence … Collaboration with DHQP on a blood culture contamination NQF
laboratory measure
Development of communication … A video demonstration on how to properly collect blood cultures for
phlebotomy for clinical laboratories … a Model To Improve Quality and Safety
of Diagnosis (Issue Brief 21; August 21, 2024)
Division of Laboratory … This testing is not
FDA-approved and is being performed at private laboratories as laboratory-
developed
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www.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/help-clinicians-choose-the-right-antibiotic/toolkit3-develop-implement-antibiogram-program.html
November 01, 2016 - antibiogram is a report that displays the organisms present in clinical specimens that nursing homes send for laboratory … Development ( PDF ) ( Word )
Nursing Home/Clinical Laboratory Communication
The Antibiogram … Antibiogram Program: Antibiogram Development Tool Workbook ( Excel )
The Antibiogram Program: Sample Laboratory … This phase focuses on working with clinical laboratories and developing an antibiogram.
Phase 3.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Raebel_53.pdf
May 07, 2008 - High-risk drug lab
monitoring4, 5
Laboratory evaluation
according to guidelines
(increase)
At … High-risk drug lab monitoring.4, 5 Pharmacists were alerted to missing recommended
laboratory tests … Randomized trial to improve laboratory safety
monitoring of drug therapy in ambulatory patients. … Patient safety improves with laboratory monitoring of
potentially toxic medications. … Laboratory Network;
2005 Nov 16. 6. Raebel MA, Carroll NM, Kelleher JA, et al.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/imaging-quality-long-desc.html
April 01, 2021 - Patient Imaging Quality and Safety Laboratory (PIQS Lab)
Principal Investigator: Leora Horwitz
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/brain-health-long-desc.html
April 01, 2021 - Brain Health Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (Brain Safety Lab)
Principal Investigator: Christopher … No.: HS24384
Project Period: 09/30/15-03/31/20
Description: The overall goal of this learning laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-150-section-5-appendix-1-tables-1-5.pdf
October 22, 2013 - disorder.3
“Psychopharmacological interventions require baseline and follow-up symptom, side effect, and laboratory … 2001) “The use of antipsychotic agents requires….. documentation any required baseline and follow-up laboratory … waist circumference, blood pressure, and neurological examination for
extrapyramidal symptoms), and laboratory … Ranges from 1A
(strong) to not
recommended
depending on the
specific medication,
laboratory test … utilization parameters for
foster children.7
Practitioners should document appropriate monitoring of laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/cauti-surveillance/assessment.docx
March 01, 2017 - The form combines the resident’s health assessment and laboratory findings, and gives direction if the … The form combines the resident’s health assessment and laboratory findings, and gives direction if the … Reason for Catheter Insertion: ____________________
1 or more of the following signs and symptoms, and laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/research/shuttered/toolkitchecklist/medancillary.html
July 01, 2018 - Date: __________ Location: ________________ Team Member: _______________________________
Laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_T3-Concise_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Using_WHONET_to_Create_Your_Antibiogram.doc
May 01, 2014 - The software is used in laboratories worldwide for the management and analysis of microbiology laboratory … The first three tutorials—“Getting started,” “Excel, text files, other applications,” and “Laboratory … comprehensive list of antibiotics that isolated bacteria are commonly tested against in microbiology laboratories … b) The antibiotic may not have been added when setting up your laboratory in WHONET. … · Open WHONET and confirm that the antibiotic is properly listed for your laboratory..
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/167-hospital-level-gap-analysis.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Is there a microbiology laboratory on site?
Yes
No
Question 13. … Does your laboratory have the capacity to process surveillance cultures either on-site or by sending … samples to a reference laboratory? … Is surveillance for MRSA bacteremia laboratory identification (LabID) events performed? … Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI): Off
Question 12:
Is there a microbiology laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/od/klein.html
July 01, 2025 - addition, he has served as a medical, strategic, and regulatory consultant in the biotechnology, clinical laboratory … Pathology, the College of American Pathologists, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Clinical Laboratory
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/diagnostic/IAWG-October2024-mtg.pdf
January 17, 2025 - CDC,
Division of
Laboratory
Systems
• Clinical Laboratory Outreach To Advance Diagnostic Excellence … • Collaboration With Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion on a
Blood Culture Contamination NQF Laboratory … o A video demonstration on how to properly collect blood cultures for
phlebotomy for clinical laboratories … and clinician community on July 15 with a Laboratory
Outreach Communication System (LOCS) call. … This testing is not FDA-approved and is being
performed at private laboratories as laboratory-developed
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/friese-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Laboratory testing processes
Waiting for laboratory results before beginning infusions can delay the … Laboratory
results are reviewed to indicate if the chemotherapy is safe to administer to the patient … (Infusion Nurse)
In response to laboratory processing times and chemotherapy treatments contingent … on the
patient’s results, practices are encouraging patients to have their laboratory work completed … As our study findings showed, patients’ access to laboratory services in rural
areas and dependence