-
www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/areas/improve-discharge.html
August 01, 2024 - Resources and Tools To Improve Discharge and Transitions of Care and Reduce Readmissions
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality supports research on the quality and safety of the hospital discharge process and care transitions. Improvements in these areas can lead to reductions in potentially avoidable …
-
www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/about/impact-stories/increasing-access.html
April 01, 2025 - Increasing Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Rural Communities Through a Virtual Clinician Training and Support Program
AHRQ Impact: A research team in New Mexico applied the Project ECHO© model to train rural primary care clinicians in New Mexico to provide evidence-based care for pat…
-
hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/natstats/commdx/table2.pdf
February 11, 2011 - 56
Table 2
The top 100 principal dia gnoses and their associated principal procedures: HCUP Nat ionwide Inpatient Sample, 1996
Top 100 ranked diagnoses with top 5 procedures ranked below Percent discharges w/ of all Mean Median Mean Median1
[CCS category in brackets] died Total this diagnosis discharges …
-
digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/taha-podcast-transcript.pdf
June 16, 2021 - Taha Podcast Transcript
Podcast 2
Factors that Influence Successful Use of a Patient Portal (Dr. Jessica Taha)
Narrator: Welcome to Health IT Spotlight from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Web‐based patient portals have the potential to facilitate patient involvement in managing
their health car…
-
digital.ahrq.gov/organization/citizens-memorial-hospital-district
January 01, 2023 - Citizens Memorial Hospital District
Standardization and Automatic Extraction of Quality Measures in an Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record - 2009
Principal Investigator
McColm, Denni
Project Name
Standardization and Automatic Extraction of Quality Measures in an…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41701/psn-pdf
September 26, 2019 - The CUSP Method
September 26, 2019
The CUSP Method.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cusp-method
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), originally developed at Johns Hopkins Hospital
by Dr. Peter Pronovost and colleagues, has been instrumental in driving patient safety improvement in
several landmark pat…
-
digital.ahrq.gov/location/usa-mt-billings
January 01, 2023 - USA, MT, Billings
Evaluation of Effectiveness of a Health Information Technology-Based Care Transition Information Transfer System
Description
This project developed, implemented, and evaluated a care transition information transfer system to improve provider-to-provider commu…
-
digital.ahrq.gov/location/usa-hi-honolulu
January 01, 2023 - USA, HI, Honolulu
Holomua Project-Improving Patient Hand-Offs in Hawaii
Description
Developed approaches to share data on patient clinical and diagnostic information across systems and created an implementation plan for systems integration.
Grant Number
P20 HS015248
…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43142/psn-pdf
June 15, 2014 - Development and sustainability of an inpatient-to-
outpatient discharge handoff tool: a quality improvement
project.
June 15, 2014
Moy NY, Lee SJ, Chan T, et al. Development and sustainability of an inpatient-to-outpatient discharge
handoff tool: a quality improvement project. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2014;40(5…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39767/psn-pdf
August 18, 2010 - Improving safety culture on adult medical units through
multidisciplinary teamwork and communication
interventions: the TOPS Project.
August 18, 2010
Blegen MA, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK, et al. Improving safety culture on adult medical units through
multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TO…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42048/psn-pdf
July 01, 2013 - Striving for a zero-error patient surgical journey through
adoption of aviation-style challenge and response flow
checklists: a quality improvement project.
July 1, 2013
Low DK, Reed MA, Geiduschek JM, et al. Striving for a zero-error patient surgical journey through adoption
of aviation-style challenge and respon…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40784/psn-pdf
September 21, 2011 - Do remote community telepharmacies have higher
medication error rates than traditional community
pharmacies? Evidence from the North Dakota
Telepharmacy Project.
September 21, 2011
Friesner DL, Scott DM, Rathke AM, et al. Do remote community telepharmacies have higher medication
error rates than traditional commu…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45444/psn-pdf
December 04, 2016 - Alarm fatigue: use of an evidence-based alarm
management strategy.
December 4, 2016
Turmell JW, Coke L, Catinella R, et al. Alarm Fatigue. J Nurs Care Qual. 2016;32(1):47-54.
doi:10.1097/ncq.0000000000000223.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/alarm-fatigue-use-evidence-based-alarm-management-strategy
Reducing nuisance…
-
digital.ahrq.gov/medical-condition/multiple-sclerosis
January 01, 2023 - Multiple Sclerosis
A Decision Support Tool for the Discontinuation of Disease Modifying Therapies in Multiple Sclerosis
Description
This research will develop, validate, and evaluate a decision support tool using a machine learning algorithm to standardize the approach to disc…
-
digital.ahrq.gov/location/usa-al-birmingham
January 01, 2023 - USA, AL, Birmingham
Building and Implementing a Predictive Decision Support System Based on a Proactive Full Capacity Protocol to Mitigate Emergency Department Overcrowding Problems
Description
This research will use deep learning models to move a reactive full capacity protoc…
-
digital.ahrq.gov/health-care-theme/protected-health-information-data-sharing
January 01, 2023 - Protected Health Information Data Sharing
Crossing the Quality Chasm in Eastern Rural Kern County
Description
Developed a regional collaborative and business plan for implementing health IT in a rural region; also conducted a telemedicine demonstration project to assess the ba…
-
digital.ahrq.gov/rheumatology-informatics-system-effectiveness-patient-reported-outcome-rise-pro/citation/leveraging
January 01, 2024 - Leveraging the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to develop the American College of Rheumatology's Toolkit for implementation of rheumatoid arthritis outcome measures in clinical practice: A qualitative study.
Citation
Nasrallah C, Schmajuk G, Hamblin A, Wilson C, Kersey E, Young C, …
-
digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/holve-erin
January 01, 2023 - Holve, Erin
Connect, Collaborate, Communicate: The Story of the EDM Forum
Citation
Adams L, Edmunds M, Johnson B. Connect, Collaborate, Communicate: The Story of the EDM Forum. AcademyHealth. http://www.academyhealth.org/EDMForumStory. March 2017.
Principal Investigator …
-
digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/reiling-john
January 01, 2023 - Reiling, John
Safe design of healthcare facilities.
Citation
Reiling JG. Safe design of healthcare facilities. Qual Saf Health Care 2006 Dec;15 Suppl 1:i34-40.
Principal Investigator
Reiling, John
Project Name
Improving Patient Safety/Quality with Health…
-
digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/friedman-amy
January 01, 2023 - Friedman, Amy
Web-based Renal Transplant Patient Medication System - Final Report
Citation
Friedman A. Web-based Renal Transplant Patient Medication System - Final Report. (Prepared by Yale University under Grant No. R01 HS015038). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research…