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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/workflowtoolkit/GroundRulesForConductingaRiskAssessment.pdf
January 01, 2010 - Ground rules for conducting a proactive risk assessment
Ground Rules for Conducting a Risk Assessment
• Clearly define the process. (For example, “followup for high risk diabetics.”)
• Limit the scope. (For example, “diabetics with poor compliance.”)
• Ensure that the process selected is relevant to the health …
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/enhancing-providers-ability-followup-abnormal-test-results
January 01, 2023 - Enhancing Providers' Ability to Follow Up on Abnormal Test Results
Project Final Report ( PDF , 632.73 KB) Disclaimer
Disclaimer
The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the v…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/08-0085_bcma.pdf
August 01, 2008 - Layout 1
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov Health IT
AHRQ's Health IT Portfolio. AHRQ’s health information technology (health IT) initiative is
part of the Nation’s strategy to put information technology to work in health care. By developing
secure and privat…
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/yellowlees-peter-m
February 28, 2023 - Yellowlees, Peter M.
A Clinical Trial to Validate an Automated Online Language Interpreting Tool With Hispanic Patients Who Have Limited English Proficiency - Final Report
Citation
Yellowlees P. A Clinical Trial to Validate an Automated Online Language Interpreting Tool With H…
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/root-cause-analysis
January 01, 2023 - Root Cause Analysis
Acronym
RCA
Examples
Latino RJ. The "5 PS" concept. Patient safety: the PROACT root cause analysis approach. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; 2009. p. 77-86.
Latino RJ. Case studies. Patient safety: the PROACT root cause analysis approach. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; 2009. p. …
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/fault-tree-analysis
January 01, 2023 - Fault Tree Analysis
Acronym
FTA
Description
Fault tree analyses (FTAs) study specific system, process, or product failures using a tree diagram . The process can be used to study a failure that actually occurred, or it could study a potential failure. The technique starts with the failure an…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/transforming-guidelines-action-qas-06152023.pdf
June 15, 2023 - AHRQ Webinar: Transforming Guidelines Into Action: Clinical Decision Support at the Point of Care - Q&As
AHRQ National Webin…
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/pareto-chart
January 01, 2023 - Pareto Chart
Also Known As
Pareto Diagram
Description
A pareto chart is a bar graph where the bars appear in decreasing length from left to right. The bar length corresponds to time, frequency, or amount.
Uses
When you want to find the most significant causes or problems from a l…
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/needs-assessment
January 01, 2023 - Needs Assessment
Examples
Walker J, Bieber E, Richards F, et al. Appendix 2: physician reporting and digital storage system needs assessment - endoscopy suite. In: Walker J, Bieber E, Richards F, editors. Implementing an electronic health record system. London: Springer; 2005. p. 183-91.
Des…
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/development-and-evaluation-patient-reported-outcome-score-visualization-improve
January 01, 2023 - Development and Evaluation of Patient-Reported Outcome Score Visualization to Improve Their Utilization (PROVIZ)
Project Final Report ( PDF , 1.06 MB) Disclaimer
Disclaimer
The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its conte…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs018205-kearns-final-report-2012.pdf
January 01, 2012 - hypothesis was that increased path
tortuosity would predict falls, and that changes in tortuosity occurring … Similarly, current path
tortuosity and falls was expected to be related to past fall history, hence falls occurring … Investigators independently evaluated fall records to identify falls
occurring while ambulating, attempting
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs024538-adelman-final-report-2022.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Develop and Validate Health IT Safety Measures to Capture Violations of the 5 Rights of Medication Safety – Final Report
Final Progress Report to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Title of Project
Develop and Val…
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/decision-tree
January 01, 2023 - Decision Tree
Also Known As
Decision Process Flowchart
Logic Diagram
Description
Decision trees are tools that can be utilized to navigate several courses of action to arrive on one choice. Their structure allows one to evaluate multiple options and explore what the potential outcomes ar…
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017157-carrow-final-report-2012.pdf
January 01, 2012 - flow issues, including the prescriber practice of batching
e-prescriptions identified in the study as occurring … All other items occurring were reported to have been
experienced fewer times than prior to the pilot,
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs026505-wallace-final-report-2020.pdf
January 01, 2020 - The only technical difficulties occurring during data collection
occurred due to wireless network interruptions … , primarily occurring during in the first two months
of the intervention. … All such heuristics were noted as staff
“judgment calls” occurring within moments of meeting the patient
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs016155-connelly-final-report-2009.pdf
January 01, 2009 - We excluded ED deaths from further analysis after finding only a single death
occurring in any of the … Other frequently occurring chronic diseases should be
studied to better characterize parameters that
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017258-gardner-final-report-2010.pdf
January 01, 2010 - The calls, occurring during initiation of medication treatment and potential
dose changes, provide clinically … If the
screen was a false positive (meaning, no adverse event is occurring), the nurse logged the data
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/data-display
January 01, 2023 - Data Display and Organization
Social Network Analysis
Description
A social network analysis (SNA) shows relationships between people, technology, and groups and allows one to evaluate these relationships. The method is used to find the type, importance, and quantity of relatio…
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/process-0
January 01, 2023 - Process Mapping
Use Case
Description
A use case is a set of instructions that an individual in a process completes to go through one single step in that process. It describes what the user does to interact with a system.
Value Stream Mapping
Descr…
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digital.ahrq.gov/organization/university-california-davis
January 01, 2023 - University of California, Davis
School-Based Tele-Physiatry Assistance for Rehabilitative and Therapeutic Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs Living in Rural and Underserved Communities
Description
This study examined parent and provider experiences and care c…