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241. Using Information Technology to Improve the Quality of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Management (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/using_it_to_improve_the_quality_of_cardiovascular_disease__cvd__prevention___management_2010_pdf__2.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - Organization: Kaiser Foundation Research Institute Mechanism: RFA: HS07-002: Ambulatory and Safety … related physicians’ prior index scores to subsequent disease incidence and to care utilization in their patients … scores would be associated with lower rates of incident CVD and health care utilization within each patient … addressed including organizational deficiencies, clinician failure to recommend appropriate services, and patient … In settings where EMR data are accessible to providers and patients, the PI and DMI evaluate care based

242. Using IT to Improve the Quality of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention and Management | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - Completed Grant Number R18 HS017016 Funding Mechanism(s) Ambulatory Safety … addressed include organizational deficiencies, clinician failure to recommend appropriate services, and patient … In settings where EMR data are accessible to providers and patients, the PI and DMI evaluate care based … details Close Factors affecting medication adherence trajectories for patients … Factors affecting medication adherence trajectories for patients with heart failure.

243. Health IT Hazard Manager Beta-Test (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/HealthITHazardManagerFinalReport.pdf
     May 01, 2012 - The Patient Safety Act focuses on learning from retrospective analysis of safety incidents and adverse … If patient harm cannot be ruled out, such teams typically forward the information to the patient-safety … Patient-safety teams are usually aware of the severity of patient harm resulting from a safety incident … The NPSD aggregates patient safety reports from Patient Safety Organizations, using the AHRQ Common … Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care.

244. Develop and Validate Health IT Safety Measures to Capture Violations of the 5 Rights of Medication Safety – Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs024538-adelman-final-report-2022.pdf
     January 01, 2022 - safety events or documentation in the medical record; 2) immediate, capturing patient safety events … Patients. … Since all patients are at risk for an order error, orders placed for all patients during the study period … Wrong patient orders in obstetrics: an unrecognized patient safety risk. … Network of patient safety databases chartbook, 2022.

245. Enhancing Quality in Patient Care Project (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/enhancing_quality_in_patient_2009_update_2.pdf
     January 01, 2009 - Enhancing Quality in Patient Care Project ENHANCING QUALITY IN PATIENT CARE PROJECT …  Utilize the EHR/data warehouse to facilitate continuous improvement of health care quality and safety … net providers, to improve health care quality and safety. … These include: a) utilization of the chronic care model to manage disease and populations of patients … readiness, which aided in the smooth and rapid transition for point-of- care staff who continued to see patients

246. Systematic review of scope and quality of electronic patient record data in primary care | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     May 17, 2021 - Systematic review of scope and quality of electronic patient record data in primary care Authors … Purpose of Study:  Assess data quality in electronic patient records in primary care. … Outcomes:  Sensitivity and positive predictive value of electronic patient record data. … Summary: Settings:  Primary care Intervention:  A variety of patient record systems Evaluation Method … :  Comparison of electronic patient data to a reference standard to assess quality.

247. Comprehensive Information Technology (IT) Solution for Quality and Patient Safety - 2009 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/comprehensive-information-technology-it-solution-quality-and-patient-safety/annual-summary/2009
     January 01, 2009 - Comprehensive Information Technology (IT) Solution for Quality and Patient Safety - 2009 … Project Name Comprehensive Information Technology (IT) Solution for Quality and Patient Safety … Specific Aims Improve pediatric patient safety by reducing medication errors. ( Achieved ) Improve … Approximately 160 patient charts were examined for each time period: 40 patients from each general care … Using staff perceptions on patient safety as a tool for improving safety culture in a pediatric hospital

248. Rural Trial of Clinic Order Entry with Decision Support - 2008 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/rural-trial-clinic-order-entry-decision-support/annual-summary/2008
     January 01, 2008 - , point-of-care-based clinical decision support tool designed to help clinicians manage patients with … Information previously entered about the patient such as age, allergies, and weight was integrated into … respiratory infection resulting in the prescribing of an antimicrobial agent, and 3) proportion of adults patients … safety, provider productivity, and office efficiency. ( Ongoing - final analyses in progress * ) Assess … clinical practice domains were studied, linked to the tool’s decision support features: medication safety

249. Improving Direct Notification of Abnormal Test Results via Patient Portals | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2023 - It can also prevent test results from being overlooked, a common patient safety concern, and help coordinate … Patient engagement and follow up was increased with portal use, as patients who received abnormal results … Portal Population: Adults Improving diagnostic safety in primary care by unlocking digital data … Improving diagnostic safety in primary care by unlocking digital data. … Releasing test results directly to patients: A multisite survey of physician perspectives.

250. Health Information Technology and Improving Medication Use (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/u18hs016970-bates-annual-summary-2012.pdf
     January 01, 2012 - These cross-disciplinary cores supported projects soliciting information from patients about adverse … Interactive voice response is linked to a patient EHR to monitor patients taking these medications by … safety. … safety in the future. … nal of the American Informatics Association, and the Journal of Patient Safety.

251. Improved perioperative antibiotic use and reduced surgical wound infections through use of computer decision analysis | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     July 01, 1989 - Years of study:  1985-1986 Study Design:  Pre-Post Outcomes:  Impact on patient safety, Impact on health … Healthcare Utilization:  Perioperative antibiotic use was considered advisable for 1,621 (50%) patients … in the 1985 sample and for 1,830 (51%) patients in the 1986 sample. … Among these patients, antibiotics were given within two hours before the surgical incision in 638 (40% … Quality of Care and Patient Safety Outcome:  0.4% decrease (1.1% to 0.7%) in total post-operative wound

252. Use of Health IT and HIE in Section 2703 Medicaid Health Homes: What Types of Health IT Can Medicaid/CHIP Agencies Support to Build a Health Home Infrastructure for Medicaid Providers and Beneficiaries? (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/use_of_health_it_and_hie_in_section_2703_medicaid_health_homes_5.pdf
     January 01, 2017 - Community Care Networks ■ Are nonprofit organizations. ■ Seek to incorporate all providers, including safety … ■ Prepare patient for visit; synchronize patient, information, and visit. ■ Activate patients to … , ED use, performance indicators ■ Provider portal 36 Informatics Center Functions 37 Community … planning, □ Risk stratification / patient identification for targeted care management, □ Care alerts … Coupling Performance Measurement with Actionable Information 38 Examples of key performance indicators

253. Medication Monitoring for Vulnerable Populations via IT (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017018-lehmann-final-report-2010.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - Data that is available highlights significant potential for patient safety improvement by improving … For each of the above mentioned providers, the patient population included all adult patients, who were … Providers could indicate patients that should be removed from future bulletins (e.g., “Patient no longer … Questionnaire, which elicit frontline worker assessments of collaboration and patient safety norms and … Optimizing the safety of patients using potentially hazardous medications will require further implementation

254. Improving hypertension quality measurement using electronic health records | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     July 19, 2021 - using electronic health records Simple hypertension outcome measures may not indicate which patients … Counting patients as having adequate care whose last or mean blood pressure was at or below goal raised … Accounting for patients prescribed aggressive treatment raised it to 82.5%. … For diabetes patients, baseline measurement of control was 29.9% (95% CI, 27.6-32.3) and changed to 46.4% … , reduce the encouragement of potentially unsafe practices, and identify patients possibly receiving

255. Improving Safety and Quality with Outpatient Order Entry - 2008 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-safety-and-quality-outpatient-order-entry/annual-summary/2008
     January 01, 2008 - Impact and Findings: Before ACPOE implementation, 15 clinicians were observed, treating 193 patients … ; after ACPOE implementation, 15 clinicians were observed, treating 137 patients. … did not significantly impact the duration of time spent in clinic and time spent face-to-face with patients … analysis is under way to examine the impact on specific clinician clinic activities that occur between patient … communication among clinicians improved, and a decreasing proportion reported a worsening in the quality of patient-physician

256. Providing Evidence and Developing a Toolkit to Accelerate the Adoption of Patient Photographs in Electronic Health Records | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/providing-evidence-and-developing-toolkit-accelerate-adoption-patient
     July 31, 2023 - order errors and have the potential to enhance patient safety. … staff, providers, and patients. … for identifying wrong-patient orders that is endorsed by major patient safety organizations. … order errors and improve patient safety. … orders on the wrong patients.

257. The Medication Metronome Project - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs018648-atlas-final-report-2014.pdf
     January 01, 2014 - patient and provider needs. … Table 1: Patient characteristics by intervention and control group (3655 unique patients prescribed … due to their PCP leaving MGH, 1 patient switched to a new PCP and the remaining patients did not schedule … Results from patient surveys showed no significant differences in patient satisfaction with provider … National Web Conference on the Using Health IT to Reduce Medication Errors and Improve Patient Safety

258. Opportunistic Decision Making Information Needs and Workflow in Emergency Care - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs021236-franklin-final-report-2017.pdf
     January 01, 2017 - safety and health care quality. … safety and healthcare quality. … safety. 6. … Center for Safety in Emergency Care: A Developing Center for Evaluation and Research in Patient Safety … Resident dashboards: helping your clinical competency committee visualize trainees’ key performance indicators

259. Employee / Staff Pre-Go-Live Expectations / Perceptions Clinical Information Systems Survey (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/survey/cis-survey-pre-go-live-physician.pdf
     December 27, 2004 - How often patients are asked the same questions. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 3. … Able to share important information with patients and families. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ … The overall safety of patient care. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 14. … How often patients are asked the same questions. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 3. … The overall safety of patient care. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 14.

260. Improving empirical antibiotic treatment using TREAT, a computerized decision support system: cluster randomized trial | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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     December 01, 2006 - Purpose of Study:  assess the performance and safety of the system as well as the effect of the system … health care effectiveness and quality, impact on efficiency, utilization and costs Summary: Settings:  patients … Quality of Care and Patient Safety Outcome:  In the cohort study, TREAT more often prescribed appropriate … In the controlled clinical trial, patients on the intervention wards were 1.48 times as likely to receive … controlled clinical trial, ecologic and antibiotic costs were significantly lower for intervention patients