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341. Enhancing Care Coordination | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/care-coordination/index.html
     April 01, 2023 - to the topics covered in the Enhancing Care Coordination training curriculum include: Practical Methods … Rehabilitation Enhancing Care for Heart Failure Patients in Your Cardiac Rehab Program Practical Methods … YouTube embedded video: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/z3x4SJLnsdg Video: Practical Methods … for Improving Care Coordination for Cardiac Rehab Patients (1:00:16) Slides: Practical Methods for

342. Special Considerations for Measurement of Diagnostic Safety (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science-2b.html
     June 01, 2020 - This strategy may be intuitive to patient safety leaders because several other safety measurement methods … specific safety events that can be coded with good sensitivity (e.g., retention of foreign objects during procedures … However, more selective methods can identify a high-yield subset (e.g., reviewing records of patients … risk of being missed, such as colorectal cancer or spinal epidural abscess). 70,71 Such selective methods … reflecting varying degrees of confidence in the determination of error. 20,94 Depending on the measurement method

343. 031-Hand-Hygiene-Monitoring (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/031-hand-hygiene-monitoring.docx
     October 01, 2024 - involvement of all leadership levels for data dissemination.1 References Hand Hygiene Adherence Monitoring Methods … Non-ICU AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | ICU & Non-ICU Hand Hygiene Adherence Monitoring Methods … | 2 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | ICU & Non-ICU Hand Hygiene Adherence Monitoring Methods

344. Optimizing Environmental Cleaning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/environmental-cleaning.html
     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

345. 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)

346. Eliminating CAUTI: Interim Data Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2013 - Contents Eliminating CAUTI: Interim Data Report Executive Summary Introduction and Objectives Methods … Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Contents Executive Summary Introduction and Objectives Methods

347. AHRQ Grant Final Progress Report Template | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2011 - Methods (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures, Limitations). … Purpose: Scope: Methods: Results: Key Words:

348. Final Progress Report: Proactive Risk Assessment in the ED: Building the Safety Case (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/wears-perry-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Methods. … • To adapt the technique of creating a 'safety case' method for presenting or encapsulating the … New methods, such as PRA, offer an alternative procedure for prospectively identifying, analyzing, prioritizing … Healthcare organizations commonly institute major changes in equipment, procedures, and/or operations … ED physician, nurse, tech, private physician • Process information, such as pending or completed procedures

349. HSOPS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final-companion/clabsicomp5a.html
     January 01, 2013 - Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide Preface Methods … Methods HSOPS data were collected during two time periods: at the start of project participation and … carried out to test the change in perceptions of safety culture and to mirror as closely as possible the methods

350. Final Progress Report: Improving the Quality of Pediatric Emergency Care Using an Electronic Medical Record Registry (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/alpern-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Methods: 1) Develop a pediatric emergency care registry from EHR data; 2) utilize the registry to create … METHODS Study Design: Cohort study Data Sources/Collection: EHR clinical data from two EHR vendors ( … signs, clinical scores, clinical care orders, laboratory results, medications, coded diagnoses and procedures … Natural language processing methods are used to identify acute long bone fractures from radiology reports … Strategic use of straightforward natural language processing methods offers the quality improvement

351. Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends and Comparators (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/b5_pdi_assessingtrendscomparators.pdf
     March 20, 2016 - • The method used for risk adjustment (which is not currently available for v6.0 of the QI software … The best way to achieve this consistency is to choose one method for each item and apply the method … Because the measurement methods for the PDIs change from year to year, you will have to use the methods … for one year instead of using the relevant methods for each year. … Once you select a method, it should be applied consistently to rates across your trend timeline.

352. Assessing Indicator Rates Using Trends and Comparators (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b5_combo_assessingtrendscomparators.pdf
     March 20, 2016 - • The method used for risk adjustment (which is not currently available for v6.0 of the QI software … The best way to achieve this consistency is to choose one method for each item and apply the method … Because the measurement methods for the QIs change from year to year, you will have to use the methods … for one year instead of using the relevant methods for each year. … Once you select a method, it should be applied consistently to rates across your trend timeline.

353. Module 3: PowerPoint Presentation
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/problem-solving/problem-solving.pptx
     May 01, 2017 - (1) Expected: Each operating room team will use an agreed-to script during procedure timeouts. (2) … Weekly observation of procedures and work methods by the supervisor, as actually performed, is another … aims to achieve and maintain reliable performance If your organization has a standard problem-solving method … events • Problems raised in huddle Safety Work by Staff • Using surgical checklist • Infection control procedures … Investigate causes • QI* project Integration With Leaders • Senior leader unit review • Escalation from procedure

354. Final progress report: Developing Evidence for Safety Surveillance from Device Adverse Event Reports (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/mao-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Natural language processing is a powerful method to handle complex narrative data in biomedical research … We also identified the advantage of this method as well as the potential difficulties. … • Reoperation procedures: Reoperation procedures were extracted from NLP output. … , other abdominal and gynecologic procedures, and unspecified removal or abdominal procedures … procedure, and unspecified removal or abdominal procedures; • Implantation and reoperation time.

355. Origin | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/origin.html
     March 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW: because changing medical practice is difficult, and people delivering care need proven methods … EvidenceNOW provides that support, as well as an opportunity to identify effective methods for increasing … the ABCS to improve heart health for patients at risk for heart disease, and 2) identify effective methods

356. Job Aid: Practice Assessments and Surveys (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-practice-assessments.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Methods include:  By mail  Email link to survey  SMS (text message) link to survey  Paper … Consider:  How each method will impact accessibility for particular groups and the response rate … Simple methods include:  Rating satisfaction using colored marbles in a jar  Indicating attitude … Include information on methods (who distributed to, how collected, response rate) and note any factors

357. 2. Priority Questions and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/clinical-community-relationships-eval-roadmap/ccre-roadmap2.html
     July 01, 2013 - How might methods of implementation science be best applied to research in this area? … Given the diversity of local circumstances, what are the best methods for assessing and reporting on … What are the most appropriate methods for identifying and reporting on key lessons that may be useful … In many situations, mixed-methods studies using quantitative and qualitative approaches together may … When relevant, researchers should use standardized methods for thorough and transparent reporting of

358. Final Progress Report: Infection Prevention in Emergency Care: A Systems Approach (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/schuur-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Methods A one day conference was held on October 7th, 2012 in Denver, CO, in parallel with American … Methods To accomplish the goals outlined earlier, prior to the conference, the co-chairs invited leaders … Following the conference, materials were disseminated through several methods including the posting … Research Priorities This workgroup worked to develop a research prior prioritization of topics and methods … Precautions • ED Work Environment The key themes that emerged from this session were that Research methods

359. 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

360. AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2020 - Updated Information on the Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate: 2011 and 2012 ( PDF , 200 KB) Methods … AHRQ awarded a contract in 2016 that developed methods and estimated the incremental inpatient financial