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921. 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.

922. Implementing the New CAHPS® Protocol for Obtaining Patient Comments About Their Care (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2018 - 40 Phase 2 Methods  Focus Groups to Assess User Needs  Design Sprint for Prototype Development … practice leaders and clinicians to assess ”value added” 51 Plan for Phase Two Study Phase 2 Phase 2 Methods

923. 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

924. Labor and Delivery Unit Safety: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - It includes reviewing patient information, procedure, indications, anticipated complications, risk, medical … Resources for training staff to learn quantification methods are available. … Support implementation of unit procedure with— Staff training and communication. … Pilot test any new procedures to work out any bugs or problems. … Create a mechanism for identifying recurrent nonuse or deviation from the established procedure by clinicians

925. 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

926. 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

927. Access to Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Neurodevelopmental Pediatricians, and Developmental-Behavioral Pediatricians (pdf file)
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     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

928. 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

929. 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

930. 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.

931. 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

932. 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

933. Standardized Simulated Events for Provocative Testing of Medical Care System Rescue Capabilities (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2003 - Pediatric sedation (i.e., the acute treatment of procedure-related pain and stress with medications … Methods Test domain Pediatric sedation for the acute treatment of procedure-related pain and stress … Several settings were selected to test the method. … This methodological study investigates the use of provocative testing in the sedation care domain as … The method we describe has great potential for achieving this aim.

934. 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.

935. Expediting Clinician Adoption of Safety Practices: The UCSF Venous Access Patient Safety Interdisciplinary Education Project (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2003 - Narrated streaming video demonstrations of procedures affecting patient safety, such as VAD removal … along this continuum posed potential difficulties, given the development of an online program (a method … An assignment observing multiple methods for performing the same procedure, as a means of developing … • CEU is independent work • Procedure based on logically sound and precise methods • Assignment … to compare and contrast media files (correct and incorrect) and determine incorrect procedures in

936. Implementing a Systems Engineering Intervention for Improving Safety in Outpatient Surgeries (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2004 - Analyzing job aids, manuals, procedures, and training specifications. 10. … HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW Risk - patient Risk - procedure Systems Intervention … This patient shadowing method is further described in a paper that was presented at the 2003 Congress … (e.g., wrong-site surgery procedure). … An action research approach to workplace health: integrating methods.

937. 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

938. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4q_combo_pdi03-foreignbody-bestpractices.pdf
     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.4q • If they are not implemented routinely, consider implementing additional screening methods … , procedures that convert from laparoscopic to open, emergency procedures).1 Educational Recommendation

939. Measuring IT Sophistication in Nursing Homes (pdf file)
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     January 20, 2008 - Additionally diagnoses, signs and symptoms, and procedures should be structured and coded into clinical … It should be emphasized that descriptive methods are appropriate for this study, but inferential methods … The means procedure was used to describe differences between degree of IT sophistication for these resident … regions, 17 of 29 respondents (59 percent) had incorporated technology into their resident discharge procedures … .26 The online survey method was more efficient without sacrificing survey response rates.

940. Data Evaluation of All-Payer Claims Databases | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2017 - Usefulness of the identifier may be affected by methods used to create identifier. … Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) or ICD-9/10 codes for procedures. … ICD-9 Principal Procedure 3%-22% ICD-9/10 procedure codes are used most frequently in inpatient or … Expected percentage is low, because not all receive procedures. … Secondary procedure codes <10% APCDs vary on number of procedure fields available.