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321. Using Digital Health Tools to Improve Patient Safety during Acute Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Dalal received a 3-year grant in 2023 to design, develop, implement, and evaluate methods for allowing … These methods will enable the patient’s current facility to gain an understanding of the treatments and

322. Appropriate Emergency Department Pain Assessment for Children With Sickle Cell Disease (pdf file)
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     April 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 … Low IRR may be a sign of poorly executed abstraction procedures, such as ambiguous wording in the … 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

323. Henry Ford Hospital's Hematology-Oncology Unit Uses AHRQ Safety Program to Lower Bloodstream Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2022 - CUSP is a method that can help clinical teams make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical … The Core CUSP toolkit gives clinical teams the training resources and tools to apply the CUSP method … "This is a sterile procedure, and the room has to be cleaned before the procedure can begin." … A unit nurse explains the upcoming procedure and the need for a daily chlorhexidine bath to the patient … Those messages are reinforced when the PICC team arrives to perform the procedure, Alejandria said.

324. AHRQ Tools To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria About the CUSP Method … reduce these HACs and other adverse events in hospitals, frontline clinicians and others use many of the methods

325. Monitoring Progress for Sustainable Improvement (pdf file)
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     June 05, 2016 - • Establish procedures for acting on identified problems. … Develop Report Formats To Communicate Clearly The “best” methods to display monitoring data are the … Two principles apply to all data display methods: • Display only the most important information from … Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety Establish Procedures … Establish a Schedule for Regular Reporting Develop Report Formats To Communicate Clearly Establish Procedures

326. Overuse of Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Headache: Report (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - Explain your rationale for selecting the methods you have chosen, show how you used the methods chosen … Provide appropriate citations to justify methods. … Explain your rationale for selecting the methods you have chosen, show how you used the methods chosen … Incidence and nature of adverse events during pediatric sedation/anesthesia for procedures outside the … of surgical procedures.

327. Appropriateness of Red Cell Transfusions in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2017 - 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 … Provide appropriate citations to justify methods. … 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

328. Appendix 2: CED Compiled Public Comment Themes (xls file)
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     October 12, 2022 - provided CMS with evidence of hospitals discontinuing or never adopting these clinically advanced imaging procedures … The methods section in the report does not provide any rationale as to why representatives from the life … Flexibility in determining the most appropriate study design, data, outcomes, and analysis methods is … The methods section in the report does not provide any rationale as to why representatives from the life … provided CMS with evidence of hospitals discontinuing or never adopting these clinically advanced imaging procedures

329. Office-Based Teams Instructor Guide
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     January 20, 2006 - Basic performance improvement trending and tracking methods generally suffice. … For each aim you select, create a testing method by performing the following key actions: Identify who … the training sessions will occur and for how long; Where the sessions will occur; How you will train (method … for data collection; Methods for data analysis and interpretation; Resources required (money, time, … Develop standardized procedures for integrating newly acquired staff.

330. Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) Trigger Tool (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2018 - AEs are associated with increased lengths of hospital stay and additional procedures and medications … Provide appropriate citations to justify methods. … For example, many triggers in GAPPS rely on data regarding procedures, medications, and laboratory test … high accuracy and reliability in EHRs, such as lab results, medication orders, and information about procedures … Postoperative adverse events of common surgical procedures in the Medicare population.

331. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol: Home Mechanical Ventilators (pdf file)
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     February 02, 2018 - If meta-analysis is deemed appropriate, we plan to use the DerSimonian and Laird random effect method … included in the analysis is larger than 1817; otherwise, the DerSimonian and Laird random effect method … Assessing Applicability - We will follow the procedures outlined in the EPC Methods Guide for Comparative … Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews. … Methods V. References VI. Definition of Terms VII. Review of Key Questions VIII.

332. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: A Progress Report on the National 'On the CUSP: Stop BSI' Project, Neonatal CLABSI Prevention (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - ............................................................................................... 4 Methods … The implementation timeline was shortened. 5 METHODS The NCLABSI project time line was … Staff empowered to stop non-emergent procedure if sterile technique not followed As with the … Timeout Procedure Followed 95.8% 1.1% 3.1% Inserter Performed Hand Hygiene 98.8% 0.2% 1.0% Wore … When lines were accessed, procedures followed can be found in Table 5.

333. University of Texas Health at San Antonio, University Health System Used AHRQ Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2019 - This procedure is performed for conditions that require intravenous medications, nutrition, and fluids … For patients undergoing a PICC procedure, for example, the informed consent process helps them understand … Universal Precautions Toolkit and AHRQ’s Patient Educational Materials Assessment Tool Guide, which is a method … on University Health System’s informed consent process will extend beyond patients undergoing PICC procedures … Plans are underway to use it for seven other procedures.

334. Pediatric Lower Respiratory Infection Readmission Measure (pdf file)
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     April 05, 2017 - Readmissions for planned procedures (as measured by our planned procedures algorithm, described in Section … , Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) procedure codes are used for the primary procedure. 3 … Explain your rationale for selecting the methods you have chosen, show how you used the methods chosen … Provide appropriate citations to justify methods. … Explain your rationale for selecting the methods you have chosen, show how you used the methods chosen

335. Metabolic Monitoring for Children and Adolescents on Antipsychotics (pdf file)
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     February 14, 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 … Provide appropriate citations to justify methods. … 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

336. Planning and Implementing the Patient Advocacy Reporting System in the Sanford Health System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2017 - Methods . … Policies and procedures that address expectations for professional conduct and professional accountability … The methods employed during the pre-launch planning phase are presented and then followed by the methods … Methods Setting. … The use of patient satisfaction surveys and alternative coding procedures to predict malpractice risk

337. Availability of Multidisciplinary Outpatient Care for Women with High-Risk Pregnancies (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - severe maternal morbidity, receive a potentially life-threatening diagnosis, or require a life-saving procedure … of the CAPQuaM 360 degree method. … Explain your rationale for selecting the methods you have chosen, show how you used the methods chosen … Explain your rationale for selecting the methods you have chosen, show how you used the methods chosen … National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2005 annual summary with detailed diagnosis and procedure data.

338. AHRQ Tips for Grant Applicants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2021 - How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services … Proposed methods not appropriate to answer research questions. … Lack of generalizability of findings or methods. Investigator lacks expertise in methodology.

339. AHRQ Challenge on Integrating Healthcare System Data With Systematic Review Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - A recent EPC methods report articulates specific scenarios with examples where healthcare system data … The recent EPC methods report also outlines important limitations and considerations when using unpublished … ., challenges with internal validity of healthcare system data analysis related to study design and methods … including the use of clinical advisories, clinical pathways, clinical decision support, or any other method

340. Preface | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2022 - Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Preface Introduction Part 1: Use of Adult Education Methods … systems-based practice and other competency domains where knowledge and skills of quality improvement methods