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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-donahue.pdf
April 01, 2015 - Transforming Primary Care Practice in North Carolina
Transforming Primary Care Practice in North Carolina
Principal Investigator: Katrina E. Donahue, MD, MPH
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AHRQ Grant Number: R18 HS019131
Overview of Transformation Efforts
The North Carolina Area…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/item-sets/index.html
October 01, 2024 - CAHPS Supplemental Items
Supplemental items are optional questions that survey users can add to their standardized CAHPS instruments to meet the needs of their organizations, local markets, and/or audiences. For example, a user of the Clinician & Group Survey may want to ask patients to comment on their experie…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/heart-month-tools.html
February 01, 2023 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders
For American Heart Month, AHRQ Offers New Tools for Expanding Cardiac Rehabilitation
FEB
21
2023
By
Tess Miller, Dr.P.H., and
Michael I. Harrison, Ph.D.
Tess Miller, Dr.P.H.
In healthcare, few things are more regrettable than …
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www.ahrq.gov/policy/electronic/privacy/infosecurity.html
August 01, 2018 - AHRQ Information Security and Privacy Program
This page provides an overview of AHRQ's Information Security and Privacy Program and requirements for protecting against information technology threats and vulnerabilities.
The AHRQ Information Security and Privacy Program fosters an enterprise-wide secure and tr…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/tools/ts-course-evaluation-form.pdf
June 02, 2025 - TeamSTEPPS Training Evaluation Form
TeamSTEPPS Training
Evaluation Form
The TeamSTEPPS course evaluation form that follows is designed for a 2 day course
based on the TeamSTEPPS curriculum released in 2023. If the course you are evaluating
does not include all the material covered in a 2 day cours…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool2_readm_review.docx
June 02, 2025 - Tool 2: Readmission Review Tool
Tool 2: Readmission Review tool
Purpose
Readmission reviews are designed to elicit the “story behind the story”: going well beyond chief complaint, discharge diagnosis, or other clinical parameters to understand the communication, coordination, or other logistical barriers experienc…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/public-notes-meeting-summary-031121.pdf
July 22, 2021 - Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality
1
Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic
Safety and Quality in Health Care
Workgroup Goal: Established by Senate Report 115-150. The Senate Committee on
Appropriations requested “AHRQ to convene a cross agency working group t…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/public-notes-meeting-summary-110620.pdf
March 11, 2021 - Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Health Care
Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic
Safety and Quality in Health Care
Workgroup Goa…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/6_TK1_T5-Suspect_a_Urinary_Tract_Infection_brochure_MA_Coalition_final.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Suspect a Urinary Tract Infection?
How Taking Antibiotics
When You Don’t Need Them
Can Cause More Harm Than Good
Did You Know That…
»Up to 50 percent of all antibiotics prescribed are not
needed or are not prescribed appropriately?
»Confusion or sudden behavior changes don’t
necessarily indicate a urinary tra…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/6_TK1_T3-Resident_Information_Sheet_Antibiotic-Resistant_Bacteria_Final.docx
October 01, 2016 - Tool 3. Resident Information Sheet: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
One of your tests showed that you have a type of bacteria that cannot be treated with the antibiotics you have been taking. [Optional: Insert specific information about the bacteria found, the culture site, and which antibiotics are not effective.] It is…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/two-more/slides.html
May 01, 2013 - Two More E's and How to Spread
Contents
Slide 1. Two More E's and How to Spread
Slide 2. Learning Objectives
Slide 3. Implementation Framework
Slide 4. Implementation Framework
Slide 5. Endure—Plan for Sustainability
Slide 6. Endure—Plan for Sustainability
Slide 7. Endure—Plan for Sustainability
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/ktcquips87.html
October 01, 2014 - Six Texas Hospitals Improve Care With AHRQ Medication Reconciliation Toolkit
Search All Impact Case Studies
November 2011
Between January and September 2010, AHRQ partnered with seven Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) to deliver a series of onsite learning sessions and provider support calls focusing…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/cellulitis-one-page.docx
November 01, 2019 - DiagnosisCellulitis
· Relatively sudden onset of redness, warmth, tenderness, and swelling of the skin
· Nonpurulent: no evidence of abscess/phlegmon; most cases caused by beta-hemolytic streptococci (usually group A strep but also B, C, or G) that are sucepti…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/a1c_combo_pdifactsheet.pdf
October 01, 2015 - Fact Sheet on Pediatric Quality Indicators
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
1 Tool A.1c
Fact Sheet on Pediatric Quality Indicators
What Are the Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs)?
The Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs) are a set of 16 measures (15 st…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-neonatal/nclabsi5.html
January 01, 2013 - Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Neonatal CLABSI Prevention
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Table of Contents
Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Neonatal CLABSI Prevention
Executive Summary
Introduction & Objectives
Methods
Data Collection and An…
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digital.ahrq.gov/2020-year-review/research-summary/designing-intelligent-systems-support-cognitive-work-clinical
January 01, 2020 - Designing Intelligent Systems to Support Cognitive Work of Clinical Providers in Emergency Departments
The use of cognitive engineering systems methodology helps to better understand the interactions of the cognitive and workflow processes of frontline emergency medicine providers. Its use also can inform the desig…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/preventable-deaths-due-problems-care-english-acute-hospitals-retrospective-case-record-review
July 20, 2022 - Study
Classic
Preventable deaths due to problems in care in English acute hospitals: a retrospective case record review study.
Citation Text:
Hogan H, Healey F, Neale G, et al. Preventable deaths due to problems in care in English acute hospitals: a retrospect…
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/making-evidence-based-clinical-decision-support-implementable
January 01, 2023 - Making Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support Implementable in Different Electronic Health Records
Theme:
Supporting Health Systems in Advancing Care Delivery
Subtheme:
Scaling Effective Digital Healthcare Interventions Across Healthcare Systems
Clinical decision support that can be impl…
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digital.ahrq.gov/2018-year-review/research-spotlights/leveraging-health-it-test-solutions-are-replicable-scalable-and
January 01, 2018 - Leveraging Health IT to Test Solutions That Are Replicable, Scalable, and Improve Patient Safety
Impact
“Studies like that by Adelman and colleagues point the way to the creation of a digital learning health care system, in which the results of the interactions between clinicians (and, increasingly, patients …
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digital.ahrq.gov/2019-year-review/research-summary/improving-delivery-health-services-health-systems-level
January 01, 2019 - Improving the Delivery of Health Services at the Health Systems Level
AHRQ-funded research aims to improve the delivery of health services at the health systems or organizational level. Investment in research to improve the delivery of healthcare at the systems level was $36 million over…