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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/ssi_investigation.docx
January 01, 2017 - SSI Investigation Tool
Surgical Site Infection Investigation Tool
Introduction
Problem Statement
Your team cannot always predict which patients will develop a surgical site infection, but you can learn from them when they occur. To improve, perioperative teams need a structured approach to investigate infections at …
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/chesapeake-regional-healthcare.html
February 01, 2024 - Chesapeake Regional Healthcare’s Success in Preventing Falls in Hospitals
The hospital can be a dangerous place for a patient, due in part to the unfamiliar environment. This can increase the patient’s risk for falling while hospitalized. Approximately 25% of hospital falls result in injuries, including fractur…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/diagnostic-safety-workgroupmeeting-notes-july2022.pdf.pdf
November 03, 2022 - Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare
Federal Interagency Workgroup:
Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare
July Meeting Summary
Workgroup Goal: Established in response to Senate Report 115-150. The Senate Committee on
Appropriations requested that “A…
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol2-4.html
June 01, 2023 - Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors
Learning From Narratives About Diagnostic Experience
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Table of Contents
Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnosti…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/UTI-one-page.docx
November 01, 2019 - Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)
Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)
Diagnosis
· First, ask about SYMPTOMS
· Acute cystitis: dysuria, frequency, urgency, suprapubic pain
· Pyelonephritis: fever, flank pain
· Catheter-associated UTI (CAUTI): subrapubic pain and fever; patients with catheters may not report dysuria, frequenc…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/literacy/interpreter-hp-cahps-adult-spanish-2157-4b.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Supplemental Interpreter Services Items for the CAHPS Health Plan Survey
12/1/2017 Page 1
Document No. 2157-4b
www.ahrq.gov/cahps
Supplemental Items for the CAHPS®
Health Plan Survey 5.0
Topic: Interpreter Services
Population Version: Adult
Language: Spanish
Users of the CAHPS® Health Plan Sur…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/guides/implguide-pt4.html
October 01, 2015 - Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide
Measurement
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Table of Contents
Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide
Overview
Frameworks for Change…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK1_T2-Clinician_letter_Final_0.pdf
October 01, 2016 - Nursing Home
Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat
Toolkit 1. Suspected UTI SBAR Toolkit
Tool 2. Clinician Letter
[PRINTED ON NURSING HOME OR MEDICAL DIRECTOR’S STATIONERY]
[Date]
[Prescribing Clinician Name]
Recipient Address
City, State Zip]
Re: Change in protocol regarding u…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/competency-check-vs-observational-audit.pdf
March 01, 2021 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Competency Check vs. Observational Audit
Competency Check vs. Observational Audit
Validate Nursing Home Staff Performance To Improve
Infection Prevention Processes for COVID-19
This document explains the difference between the competency check you complete to me…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/curriculum/teamstepps-module-4-slides.pptx
June 02, 2025 - TeamSTEPPS Mutual Support Module 4
Mutual Support
Module 4
1
Objectives
Mutual Support
Describe how mutual support affects team processes and outcomes.
Discuss specific strategies to foster mutual support (e.g., task assistance, feedback).
Identify specific tools to facilitate mutual support.
Describe conflic…
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www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/mutual/tools/feedback.html
June 01, 2023 - Tool: Formative Feedback
While feedback in general can be verbal or nonverbal and intentional or unintentional, formative feedback is information deliberately provided to improve team performance. The ability to communicate self-improvement information in a useful way is an important skill in the team improveme…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/curriculum/teamstepps-module-3-slides.pptx
June 02, 2025 - TeamSTEPPS Situation Monitoring Module 3
Situation Monitoring
Module 3
1
Situation Monitoring Exercise:
Rebuild Your Tower
Situation Monitoring
Rules:
Same goals and rules as the earlier tower building exercise except one BIG change:
The Color Guide cannot speak or write the name of any color.
The Length Guide…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-0217-scd-pain-specifications.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Sickle Cell Disease Measure 16: Appropriate Emergency Department Pain Assessment for Children With Sickle Cell Disease
1
Sickle Cell Disease
Measure 16: Appropriate Emergency Department Pain Assessment for Children with
Sickle Cell Disease
Description
The percentage of children identified as having S…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/coordination/atlas/chapter4tab5.html
June 01, 2014 - Care Coordination Measures Atlas Update
Table 5. Other EHR-based Care Coordination Measures
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Table of Contents
Care Coordination Measures Atlas Update
Chapter 1: Background
Chapter 2. What is Care Coordination?
Chapter 3. Care Coordination Measurement Framework
Chapter…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/reid.html
October 01, 2015 - Transforming Primary Care: Evaluating the Spread of Group Health’s Medical Home
Principal Investigator: Robert Reid, MD, MPH, PhD
Institution: Group Health Cooperative
AHRQ Grant Number: R18 HS019129
Number and Type of Practices
This project included 26 practices in an integrated…
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/clinical-community-relationships-eval-roadmap/ccre-roadmap-apa.html
July 01, 2013 - Clinical-Community Relationships Evaluation Roadmap
Appendix A: Conceptual Framework
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Table of Contents
Clinical-Community Relationships Evaluation Roadmap
Executive Summary
1. Introduction and Purpose
2. Priority Questions and Recommendations
3. Conclusion
Reference…
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March 01, 2014 - The incidence of lung cancer
increases with age and occurs most commonly in persons
aged 55 years or … Overdiagnosis of
lung cancer occurs, but its precise magnitude is uncertain.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/distributed-network-ambulatory-therapeutics_research.pdf
July 01, 2009 - hallmark of PBRN research is the ability to collect data on patients,
conditions, and care as it occurs—at … definitions of just
what is shared, who is allowed to share, and the conditions under which sharing occurs … If the data extraction occurs directly against the CDR (as it does
Effective Health Care Research
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September 04, 2018 - evaluated the
prozone phenomenon using rapid plasma reagin (RPR) testing.18
The prozone phenomenon occurs
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Schillinger.pdf
January 01, 2004 - We found that
clinician-patient discordance in the weekly warfarin regimen is common, but
occurs less