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3461. Establishing a Program of In Situ Simulations: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2023 - Simulation Say: In situ simulation training offers many practical benefits: It provides a method

3462. Appendix P. Focus Group Risk Factors | 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. … Feasibility Immunosuppression     Degree of spillage/wound contamination     Procedure

3463. Step 3: Planning the Infrastructure Support | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - will have a thematic focus: the research should feature a specific topic area, population, or research method … Clarify deadlines, submission method, and submission details. … Data protections and security policies and procedures must be in place for managing data. … One method we observed had individual investigators meet with the PI, another senior advisor, or an outside … Maintaining commonality of content and/or methods across projects.

3464. Exhibit 11. Performance on SSI types using test set | 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. … Rpart algorithm refers to the algorithm derived using the Rpart procedure. ( ) = percentage of total

3465. 2014-Women-Chartbook (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - ethnic disparities in rates of childhood immunization and rates of adverse events associated with procedures …  Introduction and Methods section of the 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report … contains information about methods used in the chartbook … Effects of Care  Importance: Adverse effects of medical care can arise from medical and surgical procedures … concludes that counseling and medication are both effective tools alone, but the combination of the two methods

3466. ADAPT to Adult-Focused Health Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/outcomes/chipra-146-section-2.pdf
      September 01, 2011 - Sampling procedure For large practices, hospitals, or health plans, use Simple Random Sampling (SRS) … To use SRS as the sampling method, randomly select the desired final sample size from all eligible patients … In addition, the sampling procedure should ensure that no more than 20% of the patients in the NC-CD … Data cleaning protocols Basic data cleaning procedures that include identifying out-of-range values … Pediatric Medical Complexity Algorithm: A New Method to Stratify Children by Medical Complexity.

3467. Indwelling Urinary Catheter Indications Facilitator Notes (doc file)
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      April 01, 2022 - which is the focus of this presentation, and to optimize the use of alternative urinary collection methods … measurement being used to provide treatment and volume status cannot be assessed adequately by other methods … Anticipated urinary retention due to paralytic medications · A recent urologic or gynecologic diagnosis or procedure … , number 4, is, does the patient have urinary incontinence that cannot be addressed by non-catheter methods … that would meet this criterion are hemodynamic and respiratory instability, strict immobility post-procedure

3468. Is There an Association Between Patient Safety Indicators and Hospital Teaching Status? (pdf file)
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      April 28, 2008 - Methods: We applied Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs … status and potentially preventable adverse events.3, 5 There is some correspondence of finding to method … We calculated the surgery volume for each facility based on counts of valid operating room procedures … 13) 422 (43) Mean RN + LPN hours per patient day 12.8 9.4 12.7 8.5 12.3 10.9 12.7 10.5 Mean OR procedures … safety suggest that the meaningful relationships are at the levels of specific providers and types of procedures

3469. Data Collection Instruments and Analysis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2021 - In addition to surveys, evaluation teams also collected qualitative data via a range of methods including … Evaluations of complex interventions like those implemented across the EvidenceNOW cooperatives warrant mixed-methods … Thus, the evaluators from across EvidenceNOW employed a wide range of qualitative methods including interviews … Internal factors included: practice structure, staffing, priorities, change processes, and methods of

3470. VI. Summary and Conclusions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2016 - Evaluation Aims, Methods, and Results V. Challenges Identified and Lessons Learned VI. … the pilot project findings, it will be important to assess both the relative value of this particular method … The hotline demonstrated that phone and online reporting are feasible methods for collecting patient … Incorporating both reporting methods would maximize the accessibility to users with different needs and … preferences, but using a single method would reduce costs of data collection Soliciting reports

3471. I. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2016 - Evaluation Aims, Methods, and Results V. Challenges Identified and Lessons Learned VI. … Other groups have used similar methods to elicit patient reports in the emergency department and in a … One important design decision is whether to use “prompted” methods or “passive” strategies to generate … Overview of Methods The research team employed a variety of methods to design, develop, and evaluate … Chapter IV describes the aims, methods, and results of the evaluation.

3472. Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities: Training Modules (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2012 - Consider Your Teaching Method(s) Most instructors find that a combination of methods – lecture and interactive … Debrief About the Teaching Method › Ask participants what methods they think you used. … Consider Your Teaching Method(s) Most instructors find that a combination of methods – lecture and interactive … Debrief About the Teaching Method › Ask participants what methods they think you used. … Debrief About the Teaching Method › Ask participants what methods they think you used.

3473. Practical Solutions for Supporting Primary Care Quality Improvement with Health Information Technology (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2018 - Metrics • The rate of ABCS delivery for all practices • Measures of practice capacity • Mixed methods … attachments/Using Health IT Technology to Support QI.pdf http://www.pcmh.ahrq.gov/ Methods … and staff require knowledge and skills to: - extract and analyze health IT data - execute QI methods … - redesign practice workflows Processes and Workflows • Structured procedures … Current Status Factors and tools that promote greater use of health IT for QI Overview of White Paper Methods

3474. Access to Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Neurodevelopmental Pediatricians, and Developmental-Behavioral Pediatricians (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-236-fullreport.pdf
      October 01, 2018 - The method for establishing the reliability of a measure will depend on the type of measure, data source … Explain your rationale for selecting the methods you have chosen, show how you used the methods chosen … developmental-behavioral and neurodevelopmental pediatricians who were identified by the combined method … The method for establishing the validity of a measure will depend on the type of measure, data source … Explain your rationale for selecting the methods you have chosen, show how you used the methods chosen

3475. Creating Safety in the Testing Process in Primary Care Offices (pdf file)
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      February 19, 2008 - Each office visit is supported by systems of individuals, procedures, technologies, regulations, and … For example, at one office, the procedure was as follows: a physician ordered an imaging test at a local … Within offices, the procedure for ordering tests and managing results occasionally varied among individual … Localized Safety The vast majority of testing process safety procedures were created by individuals … Organization • Top level commitment • Learning Culture Staff and management write policies and procedures

3476. Exhibit 51. ICD-9 codes associated with followup visits in modified Denver Health algorithm | 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.

3477. Exhibit 47. Surgeon specialties and health system affiliations | 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.

3478. Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2018 - Table of Contents Guide to Patient and Family Engagement Executive Summary Introduction Methods … an explanation of something that they did not understand (91 percent); to question the reason for a procedure … Fewer respondents were likely to ask for identity confirmation before a procedure (40 percent) or ask … In one survey assessing patient and family wishes for family presence during invasive procedures, both … , family members responded that it was their right to participate in a resuscitation or an invasive procedure

3479. Material Use Guide - Patient and Family Engagement in the Surgical Environment Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2017 - Slides 8-10 Barriers, Facilitators, and Motivators Slides 11-18 General Communication Methods … Topic: Defining Patient and Family Engagement and its Benefits Method: In a meeting, ask staff how they … staff, including pre- and postoperative care staff Topic: Barriers, Facilitators, and Motivators Method … for Engaging Patients and Family Members Method: Hand out slides 19-21 and facilitator notes at meeting … post-operative care staff Topic: Opportunities for Patient and Family Engagement in Your Facility Method

3480. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2012 - Like adults, children are at risk for having foreign bodies left in the surgical field following a procedure … Best Processes/Systems of Care Introduction: Essential First Steps • Engage key perioperative/procedure … • Consider use of computer-assisted methods for counting, including use of a barcoding system on … 4 Tool D.4c • If they are not implemented routinely, consider implementing additional screening methods … , procedures that convert from laparoscopic to open, emergency procedures).1 Educational Recommendation