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  1. Improving Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/education-dx-outcomes.html
    March 01, 2022 - Improving Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes Next Page Table of Contents Improving Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes Introduction Foundations of Diagnosis Education Current State of Diagnosis Education Competencies To Improve Diagnosis in Health Professions Education  …

  2. Improved Diagnostic Accuracy Through Probability-Based Diagnosis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/probabilistic-thinking.html
    September 01, 2022 - Improved Diagnostic Accuracy Through Probability-Based Diagnosis Next Page Table of Contents Improved Diagnostic Accuracy Through Probability-Based Diagnosis Introduction Fundamental Concepts for Understanding Probability Probability and the Diagnostic Pathway Future Vision for Probabilistic D…

  3. Telediagnosis for Acute Care: Implications for the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/teledx.html
    September 01, 2020 - Telediagnosis for Acute Care: Implications for the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Next Page Table of Contents Telediagnosis for Acute Care: Implications for the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Introduction Evidence Base Supporting Telehealth Impact of Telediagnosis on Every Step of the Diagnost…

  4. Diagnostic Safety Across Transitions of Care Throughout the Healthcare System: Current State and a Call to Action | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-care-transitions.html
    June 01, 2023 - Diagnostic Safety Across Transitions of Care Throughout the Healthcare System: Current State and a Call to Action Next Page Table of Contents Diagnostic Safety Across Transitions of Care Throughout the Healthcare System: Current State and a Call to Action Introduction ED-to-Hospital Transitions …

  5. 5. Improving Data Collection across the Health Care System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata5.html
    May 01, 2018 - Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement 5. Improving Data Collection across the Health Care System Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement Summary Reviewers …

  6. Findings and Lessons From the AHRQ Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/findings-and-lessons-from-the-ahrq-ambulatory-safety-and-quality-program.pdf
    August 09, 2013 - www.ahrq.gov AHRQ Health Information Technology Ambulatory Safety and Quality | Summaryiii Preface The purpose … The investigators used a variety of technologies for this purpose, including regional HIEs, PHRs linked

  7. Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology: Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System (SURPAS) - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024124-meguid-final-report-2018.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - a) a) STRUCTURED ABSTRACT (word count 198) Purpose … Methods; Preoperative risk prediction; unplanned readmission; postoperative mortality and morbidity PURPOSE

  8. Disposition of Comments for Local Nonsurgical Therapies for Stage I and Symptomatic Obstructive Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/lung-cancer-nonsurgical-therapies_disposition-comments.pdf
    June 12, 2013 - As we state elsewhere in this document, the purpose of a CER is to assess the relative clinical benefits … The purpose of a CER is not to define the level of effectiveness of an intervention versus a placebo

  9. CER 229 Evidence Summary: Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-229-opioid-treatments-chronic-pain-evidence-summary.pdf
    April 01, 2020 - CER 229 Evidence Summary: Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain Purpose of Review To assess the effectiveness … was published, the rate of decline increased following its release.9 Rationale for This Review The purpose

  10. On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing: Introduction to Pressure Ulcer Healing Reports Facilitator Training Instructor's Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruhealing/erepguide.html
    December 01, 2016 - We will: Step 1: Review the purpose of the report. … Slide 4: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Assessment Slide 5: Purpose of On-Time Pressure Ulcer Assessment

  11. 6Ngc3Byq9Jeby Pwyvd6Or (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/6Ngc3byQ9jeBy_pwyvD6or
    September 01, 2014 - Purpose: To evaluate evidence on screening and treating asymp- tomatic adults for CAS. … The main purpose of this review is to evaluate the current evidence on whether screening asymptomatic

  12. AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention Training (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/fallspximpl-handouts.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - The purpose of using the reports is to identify persons with risks associated with unsafe behaviors … The purpose of using the reports is to identify persons with risks associated with falls, review care

  13. Layout 1 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/recombinant-factor-viia_executive.pdf
    May 01, 2010 - The purpose of this report is two-fold: (1) To document the full range of clinical indications for which … Key Questions The purpose of this report is to define current patterns of in-hospital, off-label rFVIIa

  14. 8 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-harms_methods.pdf
    November 01, 2008 - during clinic, hospital, laboratory, or pharmacy encounters, rather than for a specific research purpose … When causality is uncertain or the purpose of the Comparative Effectiveness Review is to establish causality

  15. Disparities-Quality-Improvement Executive (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/disparities-quality-improvement_executive.pdf
    August 01, 2012 - defined a QI intervention as a change process in health care systems, services, or suppliers for the purpose … organizational model or (2) a change process in health care systems, services, or suppliers for the purpose

  16. Final Progress Report: Multicenter Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study (MARQUIS) (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/schnipper-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Grant Award Number: 1 R18 HS019598 1 Structured Abstract Purpose: The goals of the Multi-Center … Medication reconciliation Organizational culture Pharmacists/standards *Quality improvement 3 Purpose

  17. Final Progress Report: Medication List Consistency When Patients Transition from Hospital to Community (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/kennelty-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Grant Number: 1R36HS021984 STRUCTURED ABSTRACT Purpose: (1) Examine the agreement of medication lists … Key Words: Medication discrepancies, medication reconciliation, transitions in care PURPOSE The goals

  18. Preventing-Cauti-Engaging-Clinicians-Transcript (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/preventing-cauti-engaging-clinicians-transcript.doc
    May 14, 2013 - And that is we should develop a common purpose, focusing on patient safety, for example, or when talking … We should develop a common purpose, and here the focus is more on safety than efficiency.

  19. Preventing CAUTI: Engaging Clinicians and Senior Leadership to Implement Change (May 14, 2013) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/preventing-cauti-engaging-clinicians-transcript.html
    December 01, 2017 - And that is we should develop a common purpose, focusing on patient safety, for example, or when talking … We should develop a common purpose, and here the focus is more on safety than efficiency.

  20. Final Progress Report: Trial of Decision Support To Improve Diabetes Outcomes (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/cebul-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Borotkanics, PhD Funding provided by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research HS-015123 ABSTRACT Purpose … Key Words: Diabetes, Heath Information Technology, Decision Support 2 PURPOSE Diabetes is epidemic
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