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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/sat-sbt-litreview.docx
January 01, 2017 - Tool: SSA
Summary
Spontaneous awakening trials (SAT) and spontaneous breathing trials (SBT) reduce the length of mechanical ventilation, thereby reducing the risk for developing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Since the guidelines were written in 2007, a groundbreaking article by Girard in 20081 showed that SA…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/haut-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Individualized Performance Feedback on Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Practice
Title of Project: Individualized Performance Feedback on Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Practice
Principal Investigator and Team Members: Haut, Elliott (PI); Owodunni, Oluwafemi (Postdoc); Webster,
Kristen Li…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata2.html
May 01, 2018 - Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement
2. Evidence of Disparities among Ethnicity Groups
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement
Summary
Reviewers
1. Intro…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/013-ss-cleaning-fg.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA
Prevention: Targeting SSI
Optimizing Environmental Cleaning
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Slide Title and Commentary
Slide Number and Slide
Optimizing Environmental Cleaning
SAY:
Welcome to this presentation on optimizing e…
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/hrqa99c.html
October 01, 2014 - Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (continued 2)
Text of the Act that reauthorizes the former Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
PART C—GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 921. ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY. (a) ESTABLISHM…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/long-covid/faqs-long-covid.pdf
June 02, 2025 - RFA-HS-23-012: Implementing and Evaluating New Models for Delivering Comprehensive, Coordinated, Person-Centered Care to People with Long COVID (U18)
RFA-HS-23-012: Implementing and Evaluating New Models for
Delivering Comprehensive, Coordinated, Person-Centered Care to
People with Long COVID (U18)
Frequentl…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Savino.pdf
July 01, 2003 - Implementation of an Evidence-based Protocol for Surgical Infection Prophylaxis
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Implementation of an Evidence-based
Protocol for Surgical Infection Prophylaxis
John A. Savino, Jane Smeland, Ellen L. Flink, Angelo Ruperto,
Amanda Hines, Thomas Sullivan, Kerri Galvin, Donald A. Risucci
Abstract
Objective:…
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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-Clarke_8.pdf
January 25, 2008 - Mapping a Large Patient Safety Database to the 2005 Patient Safety Event Taxonomy
Mapping a Large Patient Safety Database to the
2005 Patient Safety Event Taxonomy
John R. Clarke, MD; Janet Johnston, MSN, JD; Monica Davis, MSN, MBA;
Arthur J. Augustine, BS; Matthew Grissinger, RPh; Michael J. Gaunt, PharmD;
…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Meliones_40.pdf
January 01, 2006 - 10-Year Experience Integrating Strategic Performance Improvement Initiatives: Can the Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma®, and Team Training All Thrive in a Single Hospital?
10-Year Experience Integrating Strategic Performance
Improvement Initiatives: Can the Balanced Scorecard,
Six Sigma®, and Team Training All Thrive …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/survey-methods-research/summary-research-meeting.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Summary of the 2018 AHRQ CAHPS Research Meeting
www.ahrq.gov/cahps |
Advances in Survey Methodology:
Maximizing Response Rates and the Representativeness of
CAHPS® Survey Data
Meeting Summary
Introduction
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Consumer Assessment of Healthcare
Provider…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/lab-testiing/lab-testing-casereport.pdf
September 05, 2017 - Case Report on Ambulatory Safety and Quality
PATIENT
SAFETY
CASE REPORT
IMPROVING YOUR
LABORATORY
TESTING PROCESS
c
IMPROVING YOUR LABORATORY
TESTING PROCESS
A Step-by-Step Guide for Rapid- Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Advancing Excellence in Health C…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/romano-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Information about Quality in a Randomized Evaluation (INQUIRE)
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FINAL PROGRESS REPORT
Information about Quality in a Randomized Evaluation (INQUIRE)
Principal Investigator:
Patrick S. Romano, MD MPH
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of California Davis School of Medicine …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-245-fullreport.pdf
December 01, 2019 - Utilization of the PHQ-9 to Monitor Depression Symptoms for Adolescents and Adults: Report
Utilization of the PHQ-9 to Monitor Depression
Symptoms for Adolescents and Adults
Section 1. Basic Measure Information
1.A. Measure Name
Utilization of the PHQ-9 to Monitor Depression Symptoms for Adolescents and Adults
…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Escobar.pdf
February 01, 2005 - Looking for Trouble in All the Right Places: The Legal Implications Associated with “Electronic Signatures” and High-risk Clinical Situations
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Looking for Trouble in All the
Right Places: The Legal Implications
Associated with “Electronic Signatures”
and High-risk Clinical Situations
Gabriel J. Escobar, Bruc…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/schiff-mcnutt-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Selected disease-specific studies also show that
substantial percentages of patients (ranges 2.1%-61%
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/perinatal-care-2/hemorrhage_3_communication.pptx
July 01, 2023 - 54%
Information Management 21% 20% 19%
Note: The majority of events have multiple root causes, so percentages
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/perinatal-care-2/hemorrhage_3-communication-speaker-notes.pdf
July 01, 2023 - 54%
Information Management 21% 20% 19%
Note: The majority of events have multiple root causes, so percentages
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/berry-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Intervention
83% 74%
Only discharges with HIV RNA
data available (n=60)
P=0.31
Although these percentages
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/moore-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Identifying Unnecessary Irradiation of Patients With Suspected Renal Colic
October 31, 2014
Title Page
• Title of Project.
Identifying Unnecessary Irradiation of Patients with Suspected Renal Colic
• Principal Investigator and Team Members.
Christopher L. Moore MD, Cary Gross MD, Ann…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight09.pdf
September 08, 2015 - How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States supporting the use of care coordinators? Evaluation Highlight No. 9
The CHIPRA Quality
Demonstration Grant Program
In February 2010, the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded 10 grants,
funding 18 States, to improve the quality of
health care for chil…