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  1. Culture Clash No More: Integration and Coordination of Disease Treatment and Palliative Care | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/culture-clash-no-more-integration-and-coordination-disease-treatment-and-palliative-care
    December 23, 2020 - disease-directed therapies, improves patients’ overall quality of life and duration of life. 11 Although the purpose

  2. Frequently Asked Questions - RFA-HS-24-004: State-based Healthcare Extension Cooperatives to Accelerate Implementation of Actionable Knowledge into Practice (U19) (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/funding/fund-opps/RFA-HS-24-004-faq-112524.pdf
    November 25, 2024 - Under a cooperative agreement, AHRQ’s purpose is to support and stimulate the recipients' activities

  3. Healthcare Safety Competencies Affinity Group Environmental Scan (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/engineering-safety-practice/healthcare-safety-competency-environmental-scan.pdf
    March 27, 2025 - a summary of the current state of healthcare safety competencies and the gaps that exist for the purpose

  4. Efforts To Improve Patient Safety Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Patient Harms | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/interimhacrate2013.html
    November 01, 2015 - The purpose of CCTP is to also improve care transitions from inpatient hospitals to other care settings

  5. 015-Ss-Hand-Hygiene-Periop-Fg (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/015-ss-hand-hygiene-periop-fg.docx
    April 01, 2025 - nail coating applied to the nail plate to improve attractiveness (color) and strength, but not for purpose

  6. CER 215 Executive Summary: Adverse Effects of Pharmacologic Treatments of Major Depression in Older Adults (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-215-depression-older-adults-executive-summary.pdf
    March 01, 2019 - Executive Summary: Adverse Effects of Pharmacologic Treatments of Major Depression in Older Adults Purpose

  7. Safe Practices for Better Health Care (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Kizer1.pdf
    April 01, 2004 - Purpose of the consensus set of Safe Practices By achieving consensus on this set of evidence-based

  8. Improving the Value of Patient Safety Reporting Systems (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Pronovost_95.pdf
    June 12, 2008 - Safety Reporting System (ICUSRS), revealed various potential benefits and challenges.10, 11, 12, 13 The purpose

  9. AHRQ WebM&M—Online Medical Error Reporting and Analysis (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Wachter.pdf
    March 11, 2005 - AHRQ WebM&M’s Advances in Patient Safety: Vol. 4 216 content is well suited to this purpose.

  10. Technology for Improving Medication Monitoring in Nursing Homes (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Lapane.pdf
    March 09, 2005 - The purpose of the current manuscript is to describe this unique clinical tool designed for use by pharmacists

  11. The Incident Decision Tree: Guidelines for Action Following Patient Safety Incidents (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Meadows.pdf
    December 01, 2003 - Unacceptable risk The Incident Decision Tree has one purpose—to guide initial management action following

  12. Relationship Between Patient Harm and Reported Medical Errors in Primary Care: A Report from the ASIPS Collaborative (pdf file)

    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 - The purpose of this study is to investigate the 1 Methods Study Population The ASIPS project,

  13. A Model of Care Delivery to Reduce Falls in a Major Cancer Center (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Kline_32.pdf
    March 03, 2008 - identifying patients at risk for falls, but this alone was not going to help reduce falls; for that purpose

  14. Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Airway Management Initiative (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Stalhandske_71.pdf
    February 23, 2008 - intubation, or surgical airway. 6 Some of the specific language of the VA policy is as follows: Purpose

  15. Confidential Performance Feedback and Organizational Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Patient Safety: Results of a Randomized Trial (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Layde_34.pdf
    March 14, 2008 - organizational management visited hospitals assigned to the organizational capacity-building group for the purpose

  16. Statistical Brief #141

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb141.jsp
    September 01, 2012 - For the purpose of this Brief, MS-DRGs were used to distinguish surgical and non-surgical hospitalizations

  17. Statistical Brief #141: Transitions between Nursing Homes and Hospitals in the Elderly Population, 2009 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb141.pdf
    September 07, 2012 - For the purpose of this Brief, MS-DRGs were used to distinguish surgical and non- surgical hospitalizations

  18. Statistical Brief #131: Complicating Conditions of Vaginal Deliveries and Cesarean Sections, 2009 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb131.pdf
    March 01, 2012 - For the purpose of this Brief, "complicating conditions" include all ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes that are

  19. High-Hanging Fruit: Improving Transitions in Health Care (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Perry_49.pdf
    March 27, 2008 - engineering” literature, regards transitions as opportunities for reassessing situations for the explicit purpose

  20. Statistical Brief #131

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb131.jsp
    May 01, 2012 - For the purpose of this Brief, "complicating conditions" include all ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes that are
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