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www.ahrq.gov/es/hai/universal-icu-decolonization/universal-icu-rationale.html
September 01, 2013 - of inpatients harbor MRSA.9 Other hospital-wide surveys have found estimates of 6-7 percent. 10,12 … Prevalence is even higher in ICUs. 13 Among 12 ICUs in 5 academic hospitals, we found 18 percent of … patients carried MRSA 14 A worldwide ICU study of infection has shown that 18 percent of patients are … The REDUCE MRSA Trial found negligible rate of skin reactions (<1 percent) from CHG use; two other large … scale studies reported the incidence of skin reactions to be no greater than 2 percent. 23 , 49,50
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/ihs/chap6tab23.html
December 01, 2017 - diabetes or CVD
Average number of ECM visits
0.3
1.2
1.0
1.5
0.5
1.0
Percent … 3.4
4.5
3.0
Distribution of the number of visits among those with at least one visit
Percent … who had 1 ECM visit
53.2%
42.3%
40.8%
37.2%
53.6%
43.3%
Percent who had 2 ECM visits … 18.1%
21.3%
18.2%
20.1%
11.6%
20.5%
Percent who had 3 ECM visits
10.4%
13.9% … 12.5%
14.6%
4.9%
13.1%
Percent who had 4 or more ECM visits
18.3%
22.5%
28.5%
28.1%
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/outcomes.html
October 01, 2015 - At Group Health, Reid and colleagues found that the sharp increase in secure messaging and a 20 percent … and an 18.5 percent decrease in emergency department visits. 36 Among diabetes patients, however, a … more modest 10 percent increase in secure message threads and phone encounters was associated with a … Ninety percent of the practices studied indicated that their patients usually or always saw the same … at baseline to 42.4 percent, and rates of reported burnout decreasing from 32.7 to 25.8 percent. 2
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/key-study-outcomes.html
March 01, 2017 - At Group Health, Reid and colleagues found that the sharp increase in secure messaging and a 20 percent … and an 18.5 percent decrease in emergency department visits. 36 Among diabetes patients, however, a … more modest 10 percent increase in secure message threads and phone encounters was associated with a … Ninety percent of the practices studied indicated that their patients usually or always saw the same … at baseline to 42.4 percent, and rates of reported burnout decreasing from 32.7 to 25.8 percent. 2
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/crane.html
August 01, 2017 - 78 percent
82 percent
Patient care tracking and followup
68 percent
67 percent
77 percent … safety and quality
61 percent
56 percent
74 percent
Staff training
59 percent
57 percent … 72 percent
Leadership support for patient safety
60 percent
68 percent
67 percent … 59 percent
65 percent
Patient safety and quality issues
49 percent
42 percent
50 percent … percent
54 percent
46 percent
a.
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www.ahrq.gov/pcor/potential-of-the-pcortf/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Public Health Service Act, beginning in FY 2011, and continuing with the reauthorization, a total of 20 percent … credited to the PCORTF are transferred each year to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – 16 percent … to AHRQ and 4 percent to the Office of the Secretary. … AHRQ receives 16 percent of the PCORTFfor these purposes. … Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) also receives 4 percent
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/969.html
August 01, 2025 - They found that 3.7 percent of young adults, ages 19 to 30, misused ADHD medications in 2023, a decrease … from 7.8 percent in 2022. … A new statistical brief from AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey shows that 74.5 percent of adults … Another 18.0 percent received medications but had no visits, and 15.1 percent had no medical treatment … Only 6.0 percent of adults aged 45 to 64 and 1.4 percent of those aged 18 to 44 had treatment that year
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/037-ss-bed-bathing-chg-cloths-protocol.docx
April 01, 2025 - for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Pre-Op Surgical Decolonization Protocol for Staff: Bathing With 2 Percent … decolonization to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs) in the preoperative area using impregnated 2 percent … bathing prior to surgery
· Do not apply CHG to patients with known CHG allergy
What You Will Need
· Six 2 percent … Chlorhexidine (CHG) 2 Percent Bathing Cloths – Key Points
· Cloths should be used to bathe the skin with … CHG 2 Percent Bathing Process
Use the six cloths for bathing all body areas.
1.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/ktcquips80.html
October 01, 2014 - A baseline audit showed that medication lists developed at admission were complete only 55 percent of … physicians' discharge summaries and medications in the patients' discharge instructions matched only 76 percent … Mary's match rate improved from 76 to 94 percent. … in the emergency department resulted in medication reconciliation accuracy improvement from 17 to 57 percent … improved by 13.6 percent; and unreconciled medications per 100 admissions improved by 36.5 percent.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/hudsonscholle.html
December 01, 2017 - Approximately 85 percent of practices reported receiving some form of physician and staff training. … Nearly 70 percent of practices received financial incentives for PCMH transformation, and 80 percent … Almost 70 percent of surveyed practices involved front-line staff in improvement efforts, but only 15 … percent included patients on quality improvement committees or teams. … More than 60 percent of practices delegated some aspects of self-management support or other elements
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK1_T3-Not_all_Infections_need_antibiotics-_final.pdf
May 01, 2014 - Between 50 percent and 70 percent
of residents will receive a systemic
antimicrobial agent during … Anywhere from 20 percent to
30 percent of residents may receive
multiple courses of antibiotics. … Unnecessary use of antibiotics in nursing home residents
ranges from 17 percent to 89 percent. … A study in two Rhode
Island nursing homes showed that 8.5 percent of residents treated with antibiotics
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/northwest.html
March 01, 2021 - Reach
Number of Participating Practices: 209
Location
45 percent urban
18 percent rural … 36 percent suburban
1 percent suburban
Number of Clinicians
18 percent solo
53 percent … 2–5 clinicians
17 percent 6-10 clinicians
12 percent 11 or more clinicians
1 percent unspecified … Ownership
40 percent clinician owned
39 percent hospital or health system-owned
17 percent
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/technical/intro-daily-care-facguide.html
February 01, 2017 - of practitioners in Germany, 40 percent of practitioners in Canada, and 40 percent of practitioners … Thirty-five percent of the respondents reported that lack of a physician order was a barrier, 11 percent … a barrier, 26 percent reported concerns about respiratory comprise, and 13 percent reported patient … This slide shows a 63 percent increase in SATs, a 16 percent increase in SBTs, and an 81 percent increase … These changes were associated with a 37 percent decrease in VAEs, 65 percent decrease in IVACs, a 2.4
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201605.html
May 01, 2016 - Readmissions decreased to 6 percent from 29 percent, with 70 percent of patients reporting top ratings … One clinic's readmission rate fell to approximately 9 percent from more than 13 percent. … The hospital readmission rate fell to less than 10 percent from about 13 percent.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/find2.html
December 01, 2012 - It includes 2.2 million people, which is almost 4 percent of the total Medicaid population. … Older adults make up the largest subpopulation (44%), with I/DD at 26 percent, SMI at 13 percent; and … under 65 with physical disability at 24 percent. … Approximately 45 percent used 1915(c) waiver services, and most of these (34% of the HCBS population) … Approximately 47 percent were enrolled in a 1915(c) waiver, indicating that most enrollees used services
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/039-mrsa-surveillance-slides.pptx
October 01, 2024 - An estimated 5 to 7 percent of hospitalized patients harbor MRSA (carrier prevalence). … In pediatric ICUs, 47 percent of children who acquired MRSA developed invasive MRSA infections. … in 2013 to 69 percent in 2018. … Frequency of positive results (sensitivity ranges from 48 to 93 percent). … 25 percent 0.06
All body sites cleared 25 percent 18 percent 0.40
MRSA Infection 6 percent 14 percent
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/2022-hsops2-database-report-appendixes.pdf
January 01, 2022 - positive score (67 percent) than
Teaching hospitals (61 percent) on the Hospital Management Support … • Nonteaching hospitals had a higher average percent positive score (54 percent) than
Teaching hospitals … Pace composite measure (55 percent); Investor owned hospitals had
the lowest (49 percent) … ); Support Staff had the lowest (21 percent) … ); Telemetry had the lowest (62 percent)
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-West_102.pdf
March 31, 2008 - Results: Clinical harm to the patient was reported in more than 10 percent of the 608 medical
error … Through August 2003, 67 percent of reports were from clinicians; 24 percent were
from other clinical … staff; and 7 percent were from nonclinical staff;12 66 percent of the reports
were submitted confidentially … percent), it was too early to tell whether harm had occurred; 39
error reports (6.4 percent) were related … (65 events,
10.7 percent); and providers of patient care outside the office (137 events, 22.5 percent
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/heart-month-tools.html
February 01, 2023 - ; it also reduces hospital admissions by 28 percent and the risk for long-term readmissions by 25 percent … 25,000 American lives could be saved yearly if cardiac rehabilitation participation increased from 20 percent … to 70 percent. … and 50 percent higher, respectively, than for White men and women. … About 70 percent of 136 participating hospitals reported progress on implementing automatic referrals
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-0121-tables-7-10.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Tables 7-10
TABLE 7
Quantile
Percent in Poverty
Maximum 49.9%
99 37.5%
95 28.9% … TABLE 9
UIC_2013
UIC_2013 Frequency Percent
1 432 13.74
2 735 23.39
3 130 4.14
4 … 10 189 6.01
11 125 3.98
12 182 5.79
TABLE 10
UIC_2013
UIC_2013 Frequency Percent … Cumulative
Frequency
Cumulative
Percent
1 1.672E8 55.07 1.672E8 55.07
2 91886000 30.27 2.5909E8