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421. AHRQ Final Progress Report: Developing an Integrated Engineering-Based Model to Reduce Infections in the ICU (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/mastrangelo-report.pdf
     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

422. 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

423. 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

424. Daily Huddle Component Kit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/huddles-comp-kit.html
     June 01, 2017 - communication behaviors, and related safety work to address by training, coaching, and revising tools and methods … addressed by manager/supervisor immediately after the huddle may be escalated according to agreed-to procedure … starts at the designated time Choose a consistent time to meet (e.g., 15 minutes before first procedure … Identify patients who could have safety issues arise: “issue and plan” List of patients and procedures … huddle for no more than 10 minutes at the start of the day to look back and look ahead to assure safe procedures

425. 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.

426. 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

427. 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 .

428. In conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/finalsummary/finalsummary8.html
     September 01, 2015 - Evaluation Methods Guided by a detailed plan that specified research questions and methods for data … Further details regarding our evaluation methods are available at www.ahrq.gov/chipra/demoeval/ .

429. 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

430. System Redesign Responses to Challenges in Safety-Net Systems (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/system/systemredesignsafetynet/systemredesign.pdf
     June 01, 2015 - Midway through the project, staff began to feel that strict adherence to Lean procedures was slowing … At Hospital B, consultants insisted that new procedures be tested the same day following a planning …  Lean improvement methods: Lean is a process improvement method and managerial approach that has …  Six Sigma improvement: Six Sigma is a process improvement method originally developed by Motorola …  DMAIC: This is a Six Sigma process improvement method that stands for: (D) Define goals and scope

431. 017-Ss-Importance-Ssi-Mrsa-Prevention-Fg (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/017-ss-importance-ssi-mrsa-prevention-fg.docx
     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

432. Final Progress Report: Challenges and Innovations in Evaluation of Quality of Care (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/williams-galimbertti-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Methods: A 2-day conference was organized and held at the Dallas Fort Worth Marriott, in Dallas, TX … Presenters were invited based on their expertise in research methods and their ongoing work in the … METHODS a. … Day One: Two keynote conferences and four research presentations on statistical methods to address the … METHODS 5. RESULTS 6.

433. Appendix A. Grantee Profiles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/candor-demo-program/plan-grants/appa.html
     August 01, 2022 - Many patients have an incomplete understanding of the clinical procedures for which they must provide … Complaints involving informed consent or SDM were more commonly associated with clinical procedures ( … At the same time, most nurses agreed in the satisfaction survey that the IRIS program’s safety procedures … The analysis identified the most common procedures (surgeries, medication administration, diagnostic … tests, use of equipment, and labor and delivery-related procedures) and diagnoses (cancer, fractures,

434. Final Progress Report: Improving Patient Safety by Reducing Medication Errors (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/strom2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Methods: For individual project methods, please refer to each Project Summary. … All acute diagnoses, procedures, and service days listed in the discharge summary were retrieved and … number of days (0, 1, or 2) of elevated risk associated with chronic diagnoses, acute diagnoses, or procedures … was remarkable because of the inherent nature of a job that employs potentially dangerous drugs and procedures … Each method of detection and reporting is subject to systematic bias.

435. The CAHPS Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/about-cahps/cahps-program/index.html
     April 01, 2023 - mandate the use of any CAHPS surveys or the use of any specific CAHPS sampling or survey administration methods … Survey methods research, including efforts to improve the effectiveness of survey administration methods

436. 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…

437. Calculating Response Rates for CAHPS Surveys | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/survey-methods-research/calculating-response-rates.html
     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…

438. 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…

439. Chapter 4. Assessing Surgeon Acceptance of Risk Adjustment Models | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssi4.html
     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. … The use of redundant documentation methods to augment moderator and researcher recollection ensures the … acknowledge the possibility that additional risk factors specific to CABG or hip and knee arthroplasty procedures … A second manuscript focusing specifically on the results from and methods utilized for Chapter 3 of

440. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/appendix-p-transcript.docx
     June 02, 2025 - I'm going to introduce two formal methods that you can use relatively easily to evaluate different products … (Slide 13) There are two main methods that I want to introduce today that have been proposed by the World … what the acceptable user characteristics or qualities are for rating new products, according to WHO methods … (Slide 19) Both WHO method one and method two specify much more advanced outcome measurements including … Then the link to WHO method one and method two is available from World Health Organization Clean Hands