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5941. 2. Overview of AHRQ's Recent Investments in Primary Care Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2024 - Safety 5. … Medical Homes P8: Do Telemedicine Visits Provide Similar Quality and Safety as In-Person Visits? … P9: Using a Mobile Health Tool to Improve Patient-Centered Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes P10 … Safety appropriation. $6.7 million in grant funding from Digital Healthcare Research appropriation. … A relatively large percentage of grants (24%) were related to Patient Safety, while a similar percentage

5942. THE HCUP NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SAMPLE (NEDS), 2014
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      January 01, 2014 - Variables for Revisit Analyses American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files AHRQ Quality Indicators … There is no uniform patient identifier available that would allow a patient-level analysis to identify … National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) of the DHHS' CDC and the US Consumer Product Safety … of discharge records for patients with HIV diagnoses. … patient died in the ED, (98) ED visits in which patient was not admitted, destination unknown, (99) ED

5943. Spotlight (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2022 - Learning Network, a collaborative project convened by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Patient … Safety Research and Practice, and the State of Massachusetts Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety … 1980s, travels frequently to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Central America 6 Case Details • Patient … present case. 13 DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT 14 Diagnosis and Treatment • A key issue for this patient … • Any patient who is being considered for treatment with steroidal or immunosuppressive medications

5944. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2012 - the surgery in this patient population. … Along with updates to safety information about ongoing or completed studies, included in the response … Experts expressed a desire for further data evaluating safety and efficacy of these modifications to … combination therapy (with oral hypoglycemic agents and insulin) and to assess its cardiovascular safety … That FDA committee voted to not recommend approval because of safety concerns and the company submitted

5945. Aspirin for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2002 - Effectiveness of Aspirin Chemoprevention in Patient Subgroups The majority of participants in the 5 … patient-years in controls; RR, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.41 to 0.81). … in the aspirin group vs 2.1/1,000 patient years in controls; RR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.49 to 1.31). … Efficacy and safety of different aspirin dosages on vascular disease in high-risk patients: a metaregression … Aspirin for primary prevention of coronary heart disease: safety and absolute benefit related to coronary

5946. Final Progress Report: Validation of an Innovative Approach to Error Reduction (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - Key Words: emergency department, patient safety, errors PURPOSE The objectives of the study are to ( … of ED patients regardless of diagnosis. … We excluded transfer patients and patients who were ineligible due to any of the following criteria … safety experts. … acuity (proportion of patients arriving by ambulance).

5947. Measure: Developmental Screening Follow-up: Follow-up with Patient Family After Developmental Screening (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2016 - Measure: Developmental Screening Follow-up: Follow-up with Patient Family After Developmental Screening … Pediatric Measurement Center of Excellence (PMCoE) Numerator Denominator Exclusions Data Source(s) Patients … Patients were selected from practices and early intervention programs in 13 counties in Pennsylvania … Feasibility testing was conducted in the primary care networks of the Chicago Pediatric Quality and Safety … in their medical records, compared with 42 percent of black patients and 55 percent of Hispanic patients

5948. Evaluating Smart Forms and Quality Dashboards in an EHR - 2009 | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2009 - Diabetes, Heart Disease Summary: This project evaluated the potential for improving the management of patients … The project sought to increase patient safety and quality and address the combined needs of clinical … Patient education materials on self-management skills can also be generated from the same screen. … using SFs as a CDS tool provide for more up-to-date documentation of clinical data, particularly of patients … an EHR-based QD system to provide additional benefit beyond a CDS tool like SF in the management of patients

5949. Patient Allergies and Electronic Health Records | PSNet
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      August 21, 2005 - Other safety mechanisms should include the addition of drug allergy status to all correspondence between … Penicillin allergy: a study of incidence as reported by patients. Br J Clin Pract. 1994;48:5-7. … safety reporting systems: sustained quality improvement using a multidisciplinary team and "Good Catch … safety situations in transplantation. … July 6, 2022 Allergy safety events in healthcare: development and application of a classification

5950. Chronic-Kidney-Disease-Anemia-2011 Executive (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2011 - Objectives The purpose of this review is to evaluate the impact on patient-centered outcomes of the … Key Questions and Analytic Framework (Figure A) As test results have little direct impact on patient … Key Question 1 What is the impact on patient-centered outcomes of using newer laboratory biomarkersa … through decisions and treatments, and then report on patient outcomes. … Safety issues with intravenous iron products in the management of anemia in chronic kidney disease.

5951. Learn Module Alternate Text | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2013 - The CUSP toolkit is a modular approach to patient safety, and modules presented in this toolkit are inter-connected … and are aimed at improving patient safety.  … with 100 percent certainty that you believe that your hospital does everything it can to protect its patients … Concentric circles show the layered factors of patient safety. … characteristics all have an effect on patient safety.

5952. Part 2: Trends in Priorities of the Heckler Report—Care for Diabetes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2018 - Hispanic Health Care Acknowledgments Health Care For Hispanics National Quality Strategy Priorities: Patient … Safety National Quality Strategy Priority: Healthy Living Part 1: Overviews of the Report and the … Patients who manage their diagnosed diabetes and maintain an HbA1c level <8% and blood pressure <140/ … Utilization Project, State Inpatient Databases, 2001‐2012 disparities analysis files and AHRQ Quality Indicators … Admission rates for uncontrolled diabetes may be reduced by better outpatient treatment and patients'

5953. Final Progress Report: Creation and validation of a training toolkit to ensure safe and proficient use of EHR by medical scribes (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - Interviewee comments and observations indicate that they believe that scribes decrease patient safety … An analysis of electronic health record-related patient safety incidents. … Ill Patients. … Participation in EHR based simulation improves recognition of patient safety issues. … Impact of scribes on performance indicators in the emergency department.

5954. 004-Cusp-Learning-From-Defects (doc file)
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      October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention Learning From Defects ICU & Non-ICU Slide Title and Commentary … to another patient. … The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) encourages them to expand their skills by engaging … One powerful CUSP method is to use the Staff Safety Assessment. … To prevent patient harm and to protect patients from preventable pathogens such as MRSA, it is important

5955. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      December 14, 2022 - Identify patients who should be tested for Strongyloides infection. … Reinfection can continue throughout the lifetime of the host patient, a process known as autoinfection … This patient was from a country in which Strongyloides is endemic and he should have been screened for … Schiff, MD Department of Internal Medicine Associate Director, Center for Patient Safety Research and … Safety Research and Practice, and the State of Massachusetts Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety

5956. Evidence Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 257: Schedule of Visits and Televisits for Routine Antenatal Care: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2022 -  Barriers from both patient and provider perspectives: reduced visits may lead to important gaps …  Barriers from patient and provider perspectives: potential reduced quality of care with televisits …  Barriers from provider perspective: no or limited IT (information technology) literacy of patient … Concerns that televisits may hamper safety, quality of care, and worsen health disparities were noted … Further evidence on patient perspectives is needed from patients themselves (rather than from providers

5957. Final Progress Report: MOVES: Patient-Based Strategy To Reduce Errors in Diabetes Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/oconnor-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Customized patient intervention Patients assigned to Patient Intervention groups (Groups A and C) received … In the two groups that received the patient intervention, older patients tended to have lower A1c … relative to the control (M=100) and patient (M=97) intervention groups; patients not using insulin … In Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. K. Henriksen, J. Battles, D. … In Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. K. Henriksen, J. Battles, D.

5958. Implement Teamwork and Communication for Perinatal Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2023 - Implement Teamwork and Communication for Perinatal Safety AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care … Staff of patient care units where culture scores indicate a poor score in teamwork and safety. … Effective teams place all offers and requests for assistance in the context of patient safety. … Win-Win-Win for patient care team (includes the patient, team members, and team). … Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Patient Safety 2007 Jan;33(1):34-47. PMID: 17283940.

5959. Ch-7-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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      March 29, 2012 - sources of confounding in observational comparative effectiveness studies include provider actions, patient … than for uncomplicated hypertension.1 Any attempt to compare the safety or effectiveness between CCBs … status in their causal models.11, 13 96 Developing an Observational CER Protocol: A User’s Guide Patient … We now live in an era where every interaction between the patient and the health care system produces … the strengths and weaknesses of the data source (e.g., administrative claims, EMRs, chart review, patient

5960. Labor and Delivery Unit Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/labor-delivery-unit/ldusafety_facguide.pdf
      May 01, 2017 - for L&D unit safety are organized into six overarching principles of patient safety derived from … o Risk assessment can then determine the unit’s process for patients based on level of risk, for example … about the use of active versus expectant management, and patient preferences. … Safety 20 SAY: The final consideration is patient and family engagement. … The key safety elements are as follows: • Communicating and educating patients and families around