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321. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
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     April 01, 2025 - The final application of CHG is on the morning before procedure. … 13 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services Teaching Patients How to Decolonize Method … 15 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services Teaching Patients How to Decolonize Method … Don’t forget to use CHG on the morning of your procedure! … Mupirocin should be applied one more time, on the morning before their procedure.

322. Appendix B: Implementation Plan Template | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptflow/appendix-b.html
     July 01, 2018 -         Barriers to Successful Implementation (actual or potential) Method

323. Story Guides – Making Comparative Effectiveness Useful for Vulnerable Patients (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/iadapt/allison.pdf
     December 19, 2014 - American Health Condition Addressed Cardiovascular Disease Diabetes Dissemination Tool and/or Method

324. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/index.html
     November 01, 2024 - measurably decrease invasive MRSA infections using AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) method

325. Transforming Primary Care: Evaluating the Spread of Group Health’s Medical Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - spread implementation across 25 clinics using the Lean (also known as the Toyota Production System) method … The Group Health application of the Lean method was generally successful in meeting process targets,

326. A Frontline Management System To Sustain Improvement in Safety Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/kit.html
     June 01, 2017 - surgery centers (ASCs) generally have such standard work firmly in place in the form of policies and procedures … Well-Understood and Routinely Executed Problem-Solving and Escalation Methods . … raised in daily huddles fall into four rough groupings: (1) conformance with established protocols and procedures … through staff coaching, reminders and other reliability techniques, or simple changes in equipment or procedures … The PDSA method essentially describes the scientific method — it is a way of describing hypothesis testing

327. Appendix A. Literature Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - on both adults and children; and 37 performed only one type of procedure (21 of these single-procedure … Methods The study focused on patients over 18 years of age undergoing general surgical procedures … Methods The study followed 305 HIV-infected patients undergoing the following surgical procedures … Methods During the study period, a total of 144,485 patients underwent surgical procedures at the … Methods All consecutive patients with a diagnosis of malignancy who underwent a surgical procedure

328. Sensemaking and Learn From Defects for Perinatal Safety: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - Safety Issues Worksheet, for senior executive partnership, which offers L&D unit teams an organized method … the wrong procedure or rule. … Organizational failures occur when decisional elements, such as culture,procedures, and leadership decisions … There is no absolutely correct method of building a causal tree. … Are staff members using the procedure as intended? Question 4.

329. Fielding the CAHPS Child Hospital Survey (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - The sample needs to be large enough to yield 300 completed surveys per hospital, a cost-effective method … Results from the field tests of the Child HCAHPS Tablet Surveying team indicate that the tablet survey method … is more effective than mail-only method. … Tracking Returned Questionnaires Most vendors have established methods for tracking the sample.

330. Appendix A. Detailed Literature Search Methodology | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2017 - Review and Environmental Scan of Current Practices and Evidence Executive Summary Project Context Methods … To inform this review, the team used some secondary or “chain-method” capture of references in reviewing … However, given the brief nature of the current review, the team used this method only for seminal papers

331. Chapter 2. Determine Surgical Site Infection Rates (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Assessability of Electronic Detection Methods to Determine Procedure-specific, Organism-specific SSI … Estimate the national procedure-specific, organism-specific rates of SSI We used methods similar … The percent of total procedures flagged for review varied by procedure type, and ranged from 15 percent … In 1992, Harvard Pilgrim Health used the same recursive partitioning method on a set of 4,086 procedures

332. 5 Tk2 P2T1-Sample Letter Of Agreement Phase 2 (doc file)
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     May 01, 2014 - The output of the antibiogram created using either method will display the antimicrobial sensitivities

333. Final Progress Report: Safety Advancement in the Emergency Department (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Methods: A variety of methods were employed in the conduct of the research portion that was completed … This method ensures that the design meets the needs and is functional to those for whom the tool was … The first task of the participatory design method involved convening a cross-disciplinary team, consisting … Using a method similar to that successfully used in the ERASED grant, real-time surveillance of the … At the time of the conclusion of the project, we had developed a method to get coordinated data from

334. Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkit-tool8.html
     March 01, 2014 - time for all-staff meetings: ________________ Day/Time:   I prefer the following method

335. EvidenceNOW Supplement in Annals of Family Medicine | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2018 - A Community Engagement Method to Design Patient Engagement Materials for Cardiovascular Health The … A community engagement method to design patient engagement materials for cardiovascular health. … Perspectives on a Facilitated Quality Improvement Program A qualitative look by the Midwest Cooperative at methods

336. 5 Tk2 P3O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase 3 Implementation (doc file)
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     June 02, 2025 - of the person/position responsible for the procedure, the procedure itself, and the required documentation … signed by the person authorizing the procedure. … · Sample policy and procedure documents are in the Materials Included section of this chapter. … A downloadable application (app) is another possible method for disseminating the antibiogram to clinical … Having a direct download will allow prescribers to view the antibiogram offline; this method will save

337. Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated With Selected Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2017 - → 8) Analysis: Apply random-effects models using the DerSimonian and Laird method. … SSI) Infection that occurs prior to discharge and within 30 days following an inpatient operative procedure … that involves any part of the body that is opened or manipulated as part of the procedure. … Thus, for analysis, we applied random-effects models using the DerSimonian and Laird method. 32 , 33 … This method weights studies based on the inverse of the sum of the variance estimated between studies

338. From Here to There: Lessons from an Integrative Patient Safety Project in Rural Health Care Settings (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Cook.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - Advances in Patient Safety: Vol. 1 382 Materials and Methods Participants We enrolled interdisciplinary … Study protocol The multi-method research agenda involved seven sub-studies. … providers viewed their role in reducing medical errors as reporting errors; making recommendations for procedure … like to receive additional resources and information about standards of practices of care; changes in procedures … Abstract Introduction Materials and Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgments Author

339. Measures: Family Experiences With Care Coordination Measure Set (FECC) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/CHIPRA_15-P002-EF-revised.pdf
     March 01, 2015 - ● Both telephone-only and mail followed by telephone methods of survey administration were feasible … Following the RAND-UCLA Modified Delphi Method, a panel of nine experts, nominated by relevant professional … Pediatric medical complexity algorithm: a new method to stratify children by medical complexity. … Toward an understanding of variations in findings and methods across three national surveys. … The RAND/UCLA appropriateness method. In: McCormick KA, Moore SR, Siegel RA, eds.

340. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2025 - CUSP Method that helps clinical teams make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical best practices