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381. Examples of Sample Frame Elements | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/survey-methods-research/sample-frame-elements.html
     February 01, 2025 - Examples of Sample Frame Elements The sample frame that a CAHPS survey sponsor provides to a vendor would ideally include the following information (data elements). Elements for an Adult Survey Unique patient ID (typically provided by provider or insurer). Name of person (first and last names in separate fields…

382. Calculating Response Rates for CAHPS Surveys | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2024 - Calculating Response Rates for CAHPS Surveys Response rates are determined by the number of completed surveys (numerator) versus the number of individuals who were eligible to complete the survey (denominator). What counts as a completed survey and the number of eligible individuals depends on which response ra…

383. Tracking Returned CAHPS Questionnaires and Assessing Their Completeness | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/survey-methods-research/tracking-returned-questionnaires.html
     August 01, 2024 - Tracking Returned CAHPS Questionnaires and Assessing Their Completeness Survey sponsors and/or vendors must track the disposition of returned questionnaires and determine the extent to which they are complete. Most survey vendors will provide summaries of the data they have collected. A crucial component of the…

384. Module 1. Detecting Change in a Resident's Condition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2018 - Consider Your Teaching Method(s) Most instructors find that a combination of methods—lecture and interactive—works … Suggestions for ways to use these methods are in the " Recommended Teaching Methods " section of this … Does your nursing center have procedures to follow when you see a change in a resident, such as Ms. … Debrief About the Teaching Method Ask participants what methods they think you used. … There is a method at work here, and the method is described in the next section, "Quality Improvement

385. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 1: Instructor’s Guide to Using the PCPF Curriculum (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Incorporating Adult Learning Methods. … , change management 9 Using Appreciative Inquiry with Practices QI methods, practice assessment … 10 Mapping and Redesigning Workflow QI methods, change management 11 Using Root Cause Analysis … 29 Implementing Care Teams QI methods Cultural Competency 30 Building Teams in Primary Care … accessing its resources, and becoming familiar with its exercises, your next step is to decide on a method

386. Final Progress Report: Profiling the Needs of Dying Children (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Methods: Cohort and population-level case series designs along with survey methods. … DESIGN & METHODS: We identified all deaths of patients 0 to 24 years of age that occurred in the 60 … Outcomes were the timing and duration of hospitalizations and the nature of hospital procedures during … METHOD: A cross-sectional mail survey of pastoral care providers at children’s hospitals throughout … Policies, procedures, and the irony of protections. West J Med 2002;176(1):22. 18.

387. Public Reporting of Patients' Comments with Quality Measures: How Can We Make It Work? (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - 35 www.cahps.ahrq.gov Assessing Our Elicitation Efforts: Methods • • Matched Sample • • … emotions, and other aspects of relationships Part Three Assessing Our Elicitation Efforts: Methods

388. Subcommittee Member: Lucy A. Savitz | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2022 - At AcademyHealth, she is immediate past chair on the Methods & Data Council and now serves as the inaugural … Her current area of international thought leadership focuses on evolving the methods and metrics needed

389. Making Acute Care More Patient-Centered | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2020 - Applying user-centered design methods to the development of an mHealth application for use in the hospital … Mixed-methods evaluation of real-time safety reporting by hospitalized patients and their care partners … Hull S, et al, Patients as partners in the hospital setting: engagement methods in research, quality … Applying user-centered design methods to the development of an mHealth application for use in the hospital … Mixed-methods evaluation of real-time safety reporting by hospitalized patients and their care partners

390. 100-Skin-Prep-Prior-Incision-One-Pager (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - alcohol.5 · Broach et al., 2017: This single-center RCT of patients undergoing elective colorectal procedures … alcohol: · Charehbili et al., 2019: This multicenter crossover RCT of patients undergoing many surgical procedure … patients who received either CHG with alcohol or PI with alcohol, though there are some concerns about the methods … This multicenter cluster-randomized crossover RCT examined the two agents in abdominal and cardiac procedures … Instructions will contain information about the amount or skin area each applicator covers, the application method

391. AHRQ Final Progress Report: Developing an Integrated Engineering-Based Model to Reduce Infections in the ICU (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Methods: We took an integrated approach, concentrating on catheter-related bloodstream infections, … factors that may be discovered in the future as ones affecting the risk of HA infections. 2 Methods … Age, risk score, length-of-stay risk score, PIM2 score risk score, and the invasive procedure risk … 5.2.2.i Physiological Risk 5.2.2.ii Invasive Procedure Risk 5.2.3 Individual Patient Risk … Two more in progress. 9 AHRQ Final Progress Report Abstract Purpose & Scope Methods Results

392. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Introduction Limitations of the Environmental Scan Model of Patient Safety in Primary Care Methods … of the environmental scan was to identify: Descriptive, qualitative, and quantitative studies on methods … to engage patients and families in their care in primary care settings and the impact of these methods … How family carers engage with technical health procedures in the home: a grounded theory study. … Tools for measuring patient safety in primary care settings using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method

393. Creating a Culture of Safety in the Ambulatory Surgery Environment: Implementation Guide (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/implementation.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - Videos Tabletop simulations are used to do dry "run-throughs" before adopting full implementation of procedures … Endoscopy Infographic This infographic describes steps to prevent infection in endoscopic procedures … Methods for Problem-Solving. … Methods for problems solvable at the front line and skill in improvement methods. … descriptions), information systems (how they are used, what data and reports are produced, review procedures

394. Types of Health Care Quality Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/types.html
     July 01, 2015 - Risk-adjustment methods—mathematical models that correct for differing characteristics within a population … Experts acknowledge that better risk-adjustment methods are needed to minimize the reporting of misleading

395. Material Use Guide - Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/communication-material-guide.html
     May 01, 2017 - Topic: Communication and Teamwork Defined Method: Present slides 4-11 in a meeting using the facilitator … Audience: All employees Topic: Improving Surgical Team Communication With Debriefings and Briefings Method … Materials: Slides 42-47, Example of Speaking Up audio, CUS technique Audience: All employees in operating, procedure … , and recovery rooms Topic: Closed-Loop Communication Method: Present slides 48-51 in a team meeting … Materials: Slides 48-51, Example of Closed-Loop Communication audio Audience: All employees in operating, procedure

396. 017-Ss-Importance-Ssi-Mrsa-Prevention-Fg (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - Organ/space SSIs involve any part of the body opened or manipulated during the procedure, excluding the … and 27 percent of SSIs among cardiac procedures. … Slide 19 Decolonization Methods SAY: For patients colonized with S. aureus, including MRSA, the organism … This antisepsis is intended to be conducted the night before and the morning of the surgical procedure … Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services Importance of MRSA and SSI Prevention Decolonization Methods

397. The Relationship Between Hospital Workload and Patient Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/weissman-rothschild-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Reliability testing: We conducted reliability testing of our chart review method at three levels: the … In other words, adjacent DRGs represent a risk adjustment method that does not adjust out patients’ … are more accident prone.[9] Rudolph and Repenning[10] refer to this as slack and note that existing procedures … , including the Bates’ method. … NLP methods were not included in the computer surveillance methods.

398. Final Progress Report: Proactive Risk Assessment of Primary Care of the Elderly (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/karsh-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - extremely important, and it consists of integrating care that takes place through referrals with different procedures … Neither the traditional HFMEA scoring method, which was developed for inpatient care, nor the traditional … beta-blocker and requires short-term hospitalization to stabilize -Cardiac cath -Short-term dialysis -Invasive procedure … -Sutures removed too soon after minor surgical procedure and wound dehiscence, which requires 6 weeks … there, has nothing, necessarily, to do with whether or not that failure is fixed. 11 The HFMEA method

399. The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-cusp.html
     May 01, 2017 - provides an overview of the challenges with communication and teamwork in this setting and discusses methods … Distinguish between different methods of engaging patients and family members in the health care and … Apply the methods learned to scenarios in the ASC setting. 4 Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program

400. Evaluating the Results of a Quality Reporting Project | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/assess/what-you-evaluate/results.html
     November 01, 2018 - To learn which methods would be most appropriate to answer questions about results, go to Data Collection … Methods: Matching Questions to Methods .