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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/962.html
June 01, 2025 - Hospital Unit Lowers C. diff Infections Using AHRQ Safety Program
Issue Number
962
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
June 17, 2025
AHRQ Stats: Federal Insurance Spending for Diet-Related Care Among all federal health insurance providers, Medicar…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/953.html
April 01, 2025 - Two New Issue Briefs Examine Diagnosis Improvement and Healthcare Excellence
Issue Number
953
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
April 15, 2025
AHRQ Stats: Trends in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia by Hospital Type Overall, the rate of ventilator…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/945.html
February 01, 2025 - Better Nurse Staffing Levels Associated With Lower Rates of Cesarean Section
Issue Number
945
AHRQ News Now is a weekly newsletter that highlights agency research and program activities.
February 11, 2025
AHRQ Stats: Rates of Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infections by Hospital Type The rate of ce…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/impact-id-success-story.pdf
April 01, 2015 - North Carolina IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care Transformation in Idaho
North Carolina IMPaCT: Catalyzing Primary Care
Transformation in Idaho
A key goal of AHRQ’s IMPaCT grants is to learn
strategies for spreading successful primary care
transformation programs from State to State. Each IMPaCT
grantee State w…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/diy-run-chart-tool.xlsx
June 02, 2025 - Instructions
Safety Net Medical Home Initiative Do-It-Yourself Run Chart Tool
Instructions
This is a tool to create run charts for the measures sites are t…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK3_P3T4-Training_Slides_for_Prescribing_Clinicians_Phase_3.docx
May 01, 2014 - Slide Title and Commentary
Slide Number and Slide
Title Slide
Toolkit 3. How To Develop and Implement an Antibiogram Program
Phase 3. Implementation
Training Slides for Prescribing Clinicians
[PRINT OUT COPIES OF THE VIGNETTES AND ANTIBIOGRAMS FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS. PASS OUT THE VIGNETTES EARLY, THEN PROVIDE THE ANTI…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/candor-demo-program/plan-grants/summary.html
August 01, 2022 - Planning Grants Final Evaluation Report
Executive Summary
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Planning Grants Final Evaluation Report
Executive Summary
Introduction
Methodology
Findings
Appendix A. Grantee Profiles
Appendix B. References
On September 9, 2009, Presid…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/cauti-interim/cauti-interim4a.html
July 01, 2013 - Eliminating CAUTI: Interim Data Report
Outcome and Process Measures
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Eliminating CAUTI: Interim Data Report
Executive Summary
Introduction and Objectives
Methods
Results
Outcome and Process Measures
Culture Measures
Conclusions
C…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/strategy6c-opennotes.html
March 01, 2020 - Strategy 6C: OpenNotes
Contents
6.C.1. The Problem
6.C.2. The Intervention
6.C.3. Benefits
6.C.4. Implementation
6.C.5. Challenges
References
Download Strategy 6C:
OpenNotes
(PDF, 273 KB)
6.C.1. The Problem
For a long time, patients have been deliberately excluded f…
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www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/care-planning/errors/20tips/20tipssp.html
August 01, 2018 - Veinte consejos para ayudar a evitar errores médicos
Los errores médicos pueden ocurrir en cualquier parte del sistema de atención médica: en hospitales, clínicas, centros de cirugía, consultorios médicos, hogar de ancianos, farmacias y en el hogar de los pacientes. Estos consejos le indican qué pue…
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/clinician/ahrq-works/burnout/index.html
November 01, 2023 - Physician Burnout
The health care environment—with its packed work days, demanding pace, time pressures, and emotional intensity—can put physicians and other clinicians at high risk for burnout. Burnout is a long-term stress reaction marked by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a lack …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/109-performing-premortem-project-assessment-fg.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Mini Presentation:
Performing a Premortem Project Assessment
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Slide Title and Commentary
Slide Number and Slide
Mini Presentation: Performing a Premortem Project Assessm…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-nov2022.pdf
March 01, 2023 - Federal Interagency Workgroup--Diagnostic Safety: November Meeting Summary
Federal Interagency Workgroup:
Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare
November Meeting Summary
Workgroup Goal: Established in response to Senate Report 115-150. The Senate Committee on
Appropriations requested that “AHRQ …
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/preventing-clinical-deterioration-long-desc.html
January 01, 2025 - Cancer Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (CaPSLL): Preventing Clinical Deterioration in Outpatients
Principal Investigator: Matthew Weinger, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Co-PI: Daniel France, M.P.H., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN AHRQ Grant No…
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www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/prevent/pdfser/famviolser.pdf
March 01, 2004 - families
Above Families in the original
study were contacted;
81% of the original
sample agreed to
participate … All 400 participants in
the original study were
contacted to
participate. … project of a
local health
department between
1977 and 1978; 92%
of those approached
agreed to participate
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/multichronic/summit-bios.html
November 01, 2021 - AHRQ Multiple Chronic Conditions Research Summit: Speaker Biosketches
Melinda Abrams, MS
The Commonwealth Fund
Ms. Abrams, as Senior Vice President, oversees The Commonwealth Fund's Delivery System Reform and International Health Policy programs. Since coming to the Fund in 1997, Ms. Abrams has worked…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/ced-topic-refinement.pdf
November 01, 2022 - Analysis of Requirements for Coverage With Evidence Development (CED) - Topic Refinement
Topic Refinement
Analysis of Requirements for Coverage With Evidence
Development (CED) – Topic Refinement
Prepared for:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
5600 Fishers La…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospvaluepilotreport.pdf
November 01, 2017 - AHRQ Hospital Pilot Study Final Report
Results From the 2014 Pilot Study of the AHRQ
SOPS™ Value and Efficiency Supplemental Items for
the Hospital SOPS Survey
Prepared for:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
www.ahrq.gov
Contract No. HHSA 290201300003C
Manag…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-Codebook.pdf
December 01, 2023 - Synthetic Healthcare Database for Research Description of Data Elements (Codebook)
Synthetic Healthcare Database for
Research (SyH-DR)
A Synthetic Nationally Representative
All-Payer Claims Database
DESCRIPTION OF DATA ELEMENTS
(CODEBOOK)
AHRQ Publication No. 24-0019-3-EF
December 2023
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