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321. Building Infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Protocols “BICEP” (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/mcc/lynch_r24grant.pdf
     September 01, 2013 - Develop extraction, mapping, linking, and triangulation methods to routinely obtain and convert key … Develop methods for a balanced stratification and risk adjustment of numerous heterogeneous patient … Innovative methods used include triangulation of disease concepts from multiple clinical sources, comorbidity … Methods for assembling useful data for observational comparative effectiveness research on complex patients … CER Methods for overcoming privacy issues: Removing identifiers and dealing with missing data.

322. AHRQ Training Projects Funded by PCOR Trust Fund | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2024 - Using a mixed-methods approach, the evaluation involved surveys, interviews, and bibliometric analyses … Act provides an opportunity to build capacity in PCOR, specifically with regard to training in the methods … Researcher Training and Workforce Development in Methods and Standards for Conducting Patient-Centered … Health Outcomes Research Studies This project provides basic, advanced, and experiential training on the methods … advanced training component creates a national collaborative learning network on new and innovative methods

323. Final Progress Report: Surveillance for Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Pediatrics (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/bailey-kilbridge-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Methods: A rule-based expert system was used for discrete data, and a natural language processing method … The automated method took 66.7 hours of pharmacist review time, whereas the chart review took 565 hours … Incidence and nature of adverse events during pediatric sedation/anesthesia for procedures outside the … A computerized method for identifying incidents associated with adverse drug events in outpatients. … A method for estimating the probability of adverse drug reactions.

324. Preventing CAUTIs in the ICU Setting
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     September 01, 2015 - for an indwelling urinary catheter Identify causes of CAUTI in the intensive care unit (ICU) Describe methods … Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals 5 HICPAC Indications for a Urinary Catheter Perioperative use for selected procedures … catheter use in hospitalized medical patients: results obtained by using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method … Catheter Use in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Results Obtained by Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method … catheter use in hospitalized medical patients: results obtained by using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method

325. Environmental Cleaning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2025 - Describe strategies and considerations of quality of cleaning monitoring methods, with a focus on fluorescent … Review methods for effective data feedback to drive improvement efforts and accountability of an EVC … Effectiveness – Facilitator Guide (DOCX, 5 MB) One-Pagers One Pager: Environmental Cleaning: Monitoring Methods … 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

326. Rachel Hogg Graham - Sample Grant Application (pdf file)
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     May 19, 2021 - The Dillman Total Design Survey Method. Canadian Family Physician. 1986;32:2366-2368. … Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling, Data Collection, and Analysis Techniques in Mixed-Method … Mays has been using this method with Project ACHEIEVE data and I anticipate building the necessary skills … The Dillman survey method will be used with the goal of reaching a 70% response rate, although previous … Specifically, we will use qualitative descriptive analysis, an inductive, low-inference method designed

327. Evaluating and Predicting Patient Safety for Medical Devices with Integral Information Technology (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Zhang.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - The first method is a modified discount-usability method called heuristic evaluation. … Task analysis is the process of identifying the procedures and actions to be carried out, and the information … level domain structure and ideal task space independent of implementations Task Analysis: identify the procedures … will describe the usability heuristics, the scale for severity rating of usability problem, and the procedure … Heuristic evaluation of two 1-channel infusion pumps We applied the 14 heuristics and the procedures

328. Final Progress Report: Composite Measures of Surgical Performance (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Methods: Using data from the ACS NSQ Improvement Program, we studied patients undergoing four procedures … Although the statistical methods used to create these measures are described in detail elsewhere, we … Because we used empirical Bayes methods, which adjust each hospital’s composite for imprecision (i.e … four procedures (Table 1). … For each procedure, we found that adding risk-adjusted morbidity rates with “other” procedures enhanced

329. Platelet-Rich Plasma for Wound Care in the Medicare Population: Disposition of Comments (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2020 - For those trials, efforts to homogenize the production method variables are necessary to better evaluate … Diversity of different types of PRP in preparation method and content has been discussed 10 … products in several key respects, such as composition, structure and mechanism of action, production method … and assessment method. … Methods Re.

330. Final Progress Report: Development Validation and Implementation of Customized Checklists for Safe Surgery (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Methods: The crisis checklists were tested in a randomized-controlled trial by operating room teams … The neurosurgery procedure checklist was tested in two academic medical centers. … The remaining portions of report describe the scope, methods, and results for the three aspects of this … urgency of the procedures, or the type of procedure between the pre- and post-rapid-cycle testing groups … This section doesn’t follow the scope, methods, and results format, because the development of these

331. Notes and References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2021 - Account for What Would Have Happened Without the Intervention Appendix C: Using Solid Analytical Methods … Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences. … Integrating mixed methods in health services and delivery system research. … Social Experiments: Evaluating Public Programs with Experimental Methods. … New methods for more potent ehealth interventions. Am J Prev Med. 2007;32:112‐18. Schochet, PZ.

332. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - that overall rates of complications were similar for patients undergoing either mesh or nonmesh sling procedures … However, patients undergoing the nonmesh procedure were more likely to require a subsequent intervention … They concluded that the methods employed in meta-analyses of test performance have improved with the … Survey of the methods and reporting practices in published meta-analyses of test performance: 1987 to … Res Synth Methods 2013 Sep;4(3):242-55. doi: 10.1002/jrsm.1083. .

333. Final Progress Report: Real-time assessment of risk factors for medication errors (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/dresselhaus-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Methods. Consenting subjects agreed to carry a palm handheld unit for a 1-week period. … Methods. Study Design. … Similar methods were used by each of the participating institutions to report and capture medication … Each of the participating sites also had established procedures for clinicians to report medication … Domain Measurement Method Physician Nurse Risk Assessment Extrinsic Factors Clinical Workload (

334. Research & Results: What We’ve Learned | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2019 - New About EvidenceNOW Evidence for Heart Health Research & Results Results Research Design and Methods … Research Design & Methods Researchers and evaluators can learn more about how EvidenceNOW is measuring … success at the local and national levels by accessing the EvidenceNOW Research Design & Methods pages … How their planned intervention was actually delivered using the methods of implementation science. … Visit the EvidenceNOW Research Design & Methods pages for in-depth research and evaluation information

335. Final Progress Report: Improve Safety, Quality, and Efficiency in Radiotherapy with Automated HIT System (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Compared with two previously developed machine learning error detection methods (Bayesian network method … [13] and the isolated forest method [51]), the association rule method is capable 1) of automatically … • A generic patient documentation processing procedure was developed. • A prototype of automated verification … • A novel hierarchical procedure was developed to automatically segment the whole skeleton [5] in … advanced errors that could not be detected based on simple rules, and 3) common applicable tools and procedures

336. Final Progress Report: Application of Machine Learning to Enhance e-Triggers to Detect and Learn from Diagnostic Safety Events (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/singh-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - clinical and administrative data to identify signals for likely adverse events,4 offer a promising method … Methods Study Design: Aim 1 a. … Aim 2 Test Hypothesis 1 (unsupervised methods for large-scale retrieval): a. … Discussion: Aim 1 Our Safer Dx framework of e-triggers offers an efficient method to detect missed … E-trigger enhanced review procedures overcome several limitations of other safety measurement methods

337. National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research _x000b_Presents Using Large Datasets in Primary Care Research
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     May 24, 2023 - Each one will discuss some of the large datasets and methods they used in a recent study they completed … Social Network Analysis (SNA) is one method that can be used to understand the interaction dynamics and … Otherwise, I think a high level summary of the methods as I’ve put here on the slide is enough: For … the urban-rural continuum 36 Research Aims Aim 1: Changes in frequency of preventive care visits and method … insurance, provider type, date Diagnoses From encounters, problem list, patient-reported medical history Procedures

338. 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.

339. Final Progress Report: Evaluation of Risk by Active Surveillance in the Emergency Department (ERASED) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/hall1-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Methods: This study was conducted in an urban, academic, tertiary care medical center ED with over 45,000 … Powerful evaluation methods, such as active surveillance and HFMEA, have been developed in order to … : (1) Develop a procedure so that ED administration has ability to stop a scheduled downtime Improve … computer downtime procedure: (2) Develop pharmacy order sheets that can be scanned – to be used … for orders during scheduled or unscheduled downtimes Improve computer downtime procedure: (3)

340. Table 28. Logistic regression of characteristics associated with utilization of education and case management visits by adults with diabetes or cardiovascular disease. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - delivery systems and on spreading evidence-based practices through delivery systems; recommendations and methods … CVD: Cardiovascular disease Return to Chapter 5 Related Content Advanced Methods in … Topical Papers and Briefs Presentations, topical papers and briefs on advanced methods, critical areas