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241. Adapting Hypertension and Diabetes Guides for Hard-to-Reach African American Men (pdf file)
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     December 19, 2014 - were changes in indicators such as blood pressure and blood glucose level. 4) Develop and assess methods … African American men Health Condition Addressed Hypertension Diabetes Dissemination Tool and/or Method

242. CAHPS Elicitation Protocol Webcast (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2017 - encourages participation and completion of the 5Q protocol to increase response rates  Improve methods … for processing and reporting the information to medical practices and clinicians  Consider future methods

243. Building an Ambulatory Patient Safety Learning Laboratory for Diverse Populations (ASCENT) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2021 - digital literacy and engagement in user-centered design in a diverse, safety-net population: mixed methods … Efficiency and interpretability of text paging communication for medical inpatients: a mixed-methods … Implementation science for ambulatory care safety: a novel method to develop context-sensitive interventions … A mixed-methods study of patient-provider e-mail content in a safety-net setting .

244. Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - Lurie Children’s Hospital • Getting Ready for Change Self- Assessment (Tool A.3) • Improvement Methods … Schroeder that drew on materials from the Pediatric QI Toolkit, including the Improvement Methods Overview … physicians and other staff are also better able to successfully coordinate biopsies, imaging, and other procedures

245. Operational Measurement of Diagnostic Safety: State of the Science (pdf file)
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     April 02, 2020 - Many methods have been suggested to study diagnostic errors.32 While most of them have been evaluated … problems.37 Information should be used to inform system fixes and related organizational processes and procedures … ■ Use of a single method to identify diagnostic error, such as manual chart reviews or voluntary reporting … specific safety events that can be coded with good sensitivity (e.g., retention of foreign objects during procedures … reflecting varying degrees of confidence in the determination of error.20,94 Depending on the measurement method

246. Henry Ford Hospital's Hematology-Oncology Unit Uses AHRQ Safety Program to Lower Bloodstream Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2022 - CUSP is a method that can help clinical teams make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical … The Core CUSP toolkit gives clinical teams the training resources and tools to apply the CUSP method … "This is a sterile procedure, and the room has to be cleaned before the procedure can begin." … A unit nurse explains the upcoming procedure and the need for a daily chlorhexidine bath to the patient … Those messages are reinforced when the PICC team arrives to perform the procedure, Alejandria said.

247. AHRQ Tools To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria About the CUSP Method … reduce these HACs and other adverse events in hospitals, frontline clinicians and others use many of the methods

248. TeamSTEPPS Limited English Proficiency Module: Course Evaluation (pdf file)
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     July 25, 2012 - The teaching methods and aids were used effectively 1 2 3 4 5 3.

249. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2015 - ICU staff can use the toolkit to apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based … ASCs can use the toolkit to apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based

250. Using Digital Health Tools to Improve Patient Safety during Acute Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Dalal received a 3-year grant in 2023 to design, develop, implement, and evaluate methods for allowing … These methods will enable the patient’s current facility to gain an understanding of the treatments and

251. Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement (pdf file)
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     June 05, 2016 - • Establish procedures for acting on identified problems. … Develop Report Formats To Communicate Clearly The “best” methods to display monitoring data are the … Two principles apply to all data display methods: • Display only the most important information from … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety Establish Procedures … Establish a Schedule for Regular Reporting Develop Report Formats To Communicate Clearly Establish Procedures

252. AHRQ Challenge on Integrating Healthcare System Data With Systematic Review Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - A recent EPC methods report articulates specific scenarios with examples where healthcare system data … The recent EPC methods report also outlines important limitations and considerations when using unpublished … ., challenges with internal validity of healthcare system data analysis related to study design and methods … including the use of clinical advisories, clinical pathways, clinical decision support, or any other method

253. Appendix 2: CED Compiled Public Comment Themes (xls file)
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     October 12, 2022 - provided CMS with evidence of hospitals discontinuing or never adopting these clinically advanced imaging procedures … The methods section in the report does not provide any rationale as to why representatives from the life … Flexibility in determining the most appropriate study design, data, outcomes, and analysis methods is … The methods section in the report does not provide any rationale as to why representatives from the life … provided CMS with evidence of hospitals discontinuing or never adopting these clinically advanced imaging procedures

254. Return on Investment Tool (doc file)
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     January 01, 2013 - This tool provides a step-by-step method for calculating the ROI for a new set of actions implemented … / Improvement investment costs CEA = Improvement investment costs / Effectiveness The step-by-step procedure … The ROI analysis needs to capture when those actions change the hospital’s operating procedures over … Prepare these costs using the same methods used for program budgeting. … Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes. 2nd ed.

255. Previous TeamSTEPPS Webinars: 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2017 - December Webinar: Integrating Quality Improvement Methods to Improve Teamwork and Patient Safety This … webinar, "Integrating Quality Improvement Methods to Improve Teamwork and Patient Safety," featured … Their presentation focused on methods such as Lean and TeamSTEPPS and approaches for using aspects of

256. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol: Home Mechanical Ventilators (pdf file)
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     February 02, 2018 - If meta-analysis is deemed appropriate, we plan to use the DerSimonian and Laird random effect method … included in the analysis is larger than 1817; otherwise, the DerSimonian and Laird random effect method … Assessing Applicability - We will follow the procedures outlined in the EPC Methods Guide for Comparative … Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews. … Methods V. References VI. Definition of Terms VII. Review of Key Questions VIII.

257. 2013 Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate and Estimates of Cost Savings and Deaths Averted From 2010 to 2013 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2015 - The data are based on 17 major surgical procedure types, composed of the 12 operations included in … The methods to estimate the national HAC rate are described in detail in the document “Methods Used … contain encounter- level, clinical, and nonclinical information, including all-listed diagnoses and procedures … Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers 1,060,000 32.5 Surgical Site Infections NHSN (2013) SSIs for 17 selected procedures … Hospital- Acquired Conditions MPSMS (2013) Femoral Artery Puncture for Catheter Angiographic Procedures

258. TeamSTEPPS Video Debrief Guide: CUS and Teach-Back on Inpatient Medical Unit (pdf file)
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     August 31, 2023 - TeamSTEPPS Tool or Concept CUS Tool and Teach-Back Method. … How was the Teach-Back Method used in the video? Discussion Answers 1.

259. AHRQ Tips for Grant Applicants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2021 - How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services … Proposed methods not appropriate to answer research questions. … Lack of generalizability of findings or methods. Investigator lacks expertise in methodology.

260. Module 2: How To Manage Change (doc file)
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     August 24, 2017 - Links to quality improvement expertise—someone with expertise in systematic process improvement methods … Instructor’s Note: The specific type of quality improvement method/framework/tool used is not important … You can use colored sticky notes, as in this example, or some other method, and work with the unit staff … problems are specific to each unit, because of differences in patient population, medications, and methods … , considering: Are we following these policies and procedures?