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281. Final Progress Report: Sociotechnical Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Home Health Care (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/silver2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Study Procedures This study was an active collaboration across disciplines and perspectives. … Review procedures and data collection forms were developed by the study team, with the structure for … These sessions generally followed this procedure: • 9AM to 1PM: Clinical and systems review – Clinical … Study procedures, including focused dialogue between investigators and providers, provided the basis … Methods 5. Results 5. Publications and Products 6.

282. Appendix B. Example Data Collection Tools (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Background A Practical Guide for Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation Synthesis Report: Methods … Methods to calculate costs: Since there may be multiple methods used to estimate the costs for each … A detailed description of the allocation method used to distribute total provider costs. … Methods to calculate costs: Since there may be multiple methods used to estimate the costs for each … A detailed description of the allocation method used to distribute total provider costs.  

283. 026-Assessing-Evc-Essential-One-Pager (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/026-assessing-evc-essential-one-pager.docx
     October 01, 2024 - More information on EVC, including other methods to monitor quality of cleaning, can be found on the … Methods to evaluate environmental cleanliness in healthcare facilities. … Application of a fluorescent marker with quantitative bioburden methods to assess cleanliness.

284. 114-Fvc-Aspects-Steps-One-Pager (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - More information on EVC, including other methods to monitor quality of cleaning, can be found on the … Methods to evaluate environmental cleanliness in healthcare facilities. … Application of a fluorescent marker with quantitative bioburden methods to assess cleanliness.

285. Primary Care Research Webinars | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2025 - Health in Primary Care (September 5, 2024) Research on Person-Centered Care (June 27, 2024) Research Methods … March 7, 2024) Innovative Use of Technology for Primary Care Delivery (September 14, 2023) Qualitative Methods

286. Section 5: Determining Where To Focus Efforts To Improve Patient Experience (Page 2 of 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/5-determining-focus/section5part2.html
     January 01, 2020 - Written or other data collection procedures seem inappropriate. Who should do the observing? … Methods of Observation To choose an observation method, start by answering these questions: What … (Read about these methods below.) … They go through a clinic, service, or procedure exactly as a patient and family do. … For many who do this, it is the first time they have ever entered their clinics, procedure rooms, or

287. Final Progress Report: Unexpected Clinical Events: Impact on Patient Safety (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - A popular method is to examine adverse events that have occurred and “trace back” to attempt to pinpoint … Although this method is resource intensive, it captures the fine-grain complexity of factors that affect … psychological scaling technique, applied to judgments of conceptual pairwise relatedness is a valid method … when the anesthesia providers read, they have the appearance of being less attentive to the surgical procedure … A Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) technique, the Critical Decision Method, was used during 1- to 2-hour

288. Protocol - Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Medicare Eligible Patients (pdf file)
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     June 09, 2020 - advancement device) o Exclude bariatric surgery (as a comparator treatment) o Exclude surgical OSA procedure … Methods Contextual Questions and Key Question 2a To address the CQs, we will follow standard methods … Practice parameters for the indications for polysomnography and related procedures. … Procedure Manual. … Methods References

289. Formatting CAHPS Questionnaires for Mail, Web, and Phone Administrations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2024 - Formatting CAHPS Questionnaires for Mail, Web, and Phone Administrations To ensure consistency across surveys, please observe the following guidelines when formatting your survey to be administered by mail, web, and/or phone. Survey users should carefully consider which mode(s) would be the most desirable and a…

290. Final Progress Report: Shared Decision Making in Vulnerable Populations (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Methods: I devised a career development strategy that involved training in the field of shared decision … A decision support tool for contraceptive method selection was developed for a relational agent preconception … Methods: We analyzed data from 826 male VA patients for whom CCATH was indicated and who participated … Methods: Modified grounded theory approach to analyze 40 transcripts that were audio recorded interviews … I identified evidence-based contraceptive methods to include in decision tool, which were presented

291. AHRQ CAHPS Program: Addressing Emergining Needs for Patient Experience Measurement & Improvement webcast-GINSBERG (pdf file)
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     January 01, 1995 - surveys for quality improvement − Research to advance the science of patient experience, including best methods … interested in updates to CAHPS Health Plan, CAHPS Clinician and Group surveys. 12 Area 2: Survey methods … research aimed at achieving health equity • Applicants must propose at least one study of survey methods … trademarking Area 1: Survey and supplemental item set development, revision, trademarking Area 2: Survey methods

292. Study Identifies Trends in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Medication Misuse | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2025 - Methods Emerge for Evaluating AI Documentation Tools . Register for Upcoming Webinars . … regular benchmarking reports, and receive expert consultation and tools to promote infection prevention procedures … Methods Emerge for Evaluating AI Documentation Tools AI-powered ambient digital scribing (ADS) tools … Two recent AHRQ-funded studies offer practical methods for evaluating these tools to ensure they’re integrated … Systematic Review (draft open for comment through August 7): The Performance of Fusion Procedures for

293. Using CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - Learning from Patient Narratives Through Innovative Feedback Reporting Methods  (Webcast). … Improving Patient Experience: Data Analysis Methods (Webcast).   … Advancing Methods of Implementing and Evaluating Patient Experience Improvement Using CAHPS® Surveys. … Learning from Patient Narratives Through Innovative Feedback Reporting Methods . 

294. Final Progress Report: Emotional Influences on Diagnostic Error in Emergency Medicine: An Experimental Approach to Understand Diagnostic Failure and Facilitate Improvement for Patients with and without Mental Illness (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/isbell-boudreaux-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - (2) Mixed methods. … METHODS Aim 1. … nurses’ names and postal addresses from the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and followed the same procedure … These modified cases were pilot tested in an iterative manner with four emergency nurses using a procedure … A comprehensive multi-method approach may facilitate the discovery of key findings, which may allow

295. Conceptual Paradigms of Diagnostic Quality, Safety, and Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2025 - of structures, processes, and outcomes and is heavily reliant on metrics and rapid cycle improvement methods … governing bodies. 9 Lean methodology is one example of use of the quality paradigm to improve care, a method … A combination of improvement methods can be used, but because the outcome and harm are linked to the … While the name “root” implies a single cause, the method as described allows for multiple contributing … of harm and achievement of success through methods from safety science.

296. Final Progress Report: Solutions for Vertigo presentations in the Emergency Department (SOLVE) Project (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2025 - Prior studies have been performed to identify bedside methods to discriminate stroke from non-stroke … However, these prior studies are limited by a retrospective or referral-based case capture method and … In addition, the collective value of these previously developed methods has not been assessed. … Case Identification To identify potentially eligible cases, we used several methods. … Additional active surveillance methods included study research assistants routinely reviewing the ED

297. Final Progress Report: A Formal Approach to Detecting and Correcting Simultaneous Masking in the IEC 60601-1-8 International Medical Alarm Standard (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - AIM 3: DEVELOP A PROCEDURE TO DESIGN AND TEST NEW ALARMS. … This procedure will allow engineers to both test whether an alarm design contains masking and use the … Table 3: IEC 60601-1-8 Alarm Design Parameters METHODS AIM 1: METHOD UPDATES. … AIM 3: PROCEDURE AND DESIGN APPROACH. … AIM 3: PROCEDURE AND DESIGN ANALYSIS RESULTS.

298. Cognitive Artifacts’ Implications for Health Care Information Technology: Revealing How Practitioners Create and Share Their Understanding of Daily Work (pdf file)
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     July 07, 2002 - A surgeon, for example, may come into the operating rooms, perform a single procedure, and leave. … The coordinator changes the projected end time for the procedure in A3 from 3:30 to “?”. … The method that is described in this paper provides a basis to develop and evaluate future IT systems … Qualitative research and evaluation methods. 3rd ed. … Methods to research acute care cognition Figure 3.

299. Chapter 6. Conclusions and Recommendations | 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. … Culture Type Map to Procedure Types Appendix F. Algorithms Appendix G. … This study found that SSI risk factors are dependent on the type of surgical procedure. … Although superior, the SIR still is not broadly applicable to all procedures and settings. … We should consider exploration of more sophisticated decision support methods that deliver the probability

300. Optimizing Environmental Cleaning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2025 - One-Pager: Environmental Cleaning: Monitoring Methods One-Pager (DOCX, 371 KB) This one-page document … originally designed for fluorescent gel monitoring, this tool can be adapted for use with other evaluation methods … originally designed for fluorescent gel monitoring, this tool can be adapted for use with other evaluation methods