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  1. Planning and Implementing the Patient Advocacy Reporting System in the Sanford Health System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/pichert.html
    August 01, 2017 - health care leaders a useful pre-launch heuristic for identifying needs and addressing readiness of quality … Annual SHS Complaint Report Capture, June 2007–July 2011, plotted as a function of CPPA pre-PARS launch indicators … Vice President for Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and School … Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care, Vol. 2: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. … Bethesda, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008; Vol. 2, pp. 421-30. 6.

  2. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)

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    September 01, 2015 - Operations Manual September 2015 Revision Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Horizon Scanning System is operated by … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2015. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Stephanie Chang, M.D., M.P.H. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality iv Contents Introduction ...............

  3. Horizon Scanning Protocol and Operations Manual September 2015 Revision (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/ahrq-healthcare-horizon-scan-protocol-operations-manual-151001.pdf
    September 01, 2015 - Operations Manual September 2015 Revision Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Horizon Scanning System is operated by … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2015. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Stephanie Chang, M.D., M.P.H. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality iv Contents Introduction ...............

  4. How CUSP Enables Nurse Empowerment (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    April 01, 2013 - CUSP can complement the other quality tools, and you’ll find that you need a whole bunch of tools in … We’ve chosen at our organization that metric one needs to focus on quality and safety, and that metric … You can see the quality metric — and I’m on Slide 9 — was sepsis. … But we also use the NDNQI which is National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators. … And just for example, in that survey it asks: One, my coworkers are committed to high-quality care.

  5. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: An evidence-based prevention resource for nurse practitioners (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/epbnursep.pdf
    November 01, 2007 - - ing shortfalls in the quality of health care in the United States, including the quality of preventive … As described above, quality-of- care indicators document very well the gaps between rec- ommended preventive … References Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2000). … . (2006). 2006 National Healthcare Quality Report. … . (2008a). 2007 National Healthcare Quality Report.

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

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    March 28, 2019 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2019. … its contents, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Quality of antidepressant medications prescribed8. … , modification of the Beers Criteria or a footnote to the Beers Criteria that emphasizes the poor quality

  7. Chapter 6. Measure Maps and Profiles (continued, 3) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    June 01, 2014 - Agency for Health Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

  8. Disposition of Comments for CER 176 Management of Gout (pdf file)

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    March 15, 2016 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2016. … #2 Quality of Report Superior Thank you TEP Reviewer #2 Quality of Report Superior Thank you … Peer Reviewer #3 Quality of Report Superior Thank you TEP Reviewer #3 Quality of Report Superior … Thank you TEP Reviewer #4 Quality of Report Fair Thank you TEP Reviewer #5 Quality of Report … But the paper provides a clear report of very good quality.

  9. The Effectiveness and Risks of Long-Term Opioid Treatment of Chronic Pain (pdf file)

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    September 19, 2014 - in the prior APS review to ensure consistency in quality assessment. … Two investigators independently assessed the quality of each study. … Pain, function, quality of life Insufficient No studies c. … Pain, function, quality of life Insufficient No studies d. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

  10. Practice and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2025-annual-report/quality-improvement.html
    August 01, 2025 - AHRQ’s Investments in Primary Care Research for 2023 and 2024 Practice and Quality Improvement … improvement is often used to refer to efforts to improve care within an individual practice whereas quality … Practice improvement and quality improvement efforts can be used in primary care to reduce inefficiency … Another 30 grants have some focus on practice and quality improvement and are described in other topic … We summarize the 17 grants focused on practice and quality improvement below, organized by subtopic.

  11. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/highlights/ps-project-highlights-hit-hie-rev-0724update.pdf
    July 01, 2024 - https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/index.html 3 Promoting Clinical Quality … Improvement Several AHRQ-funded projects aimed to help providers improve the quality of their clinical … ■ Improve health outcomes by providing quality data to providers and integrating order entry tools … of care and costs, using the Quality-Cost Framework developed under this grant. … Improved Patient Safety With Information Technology 2001-2005 $1,518,420 Purpose: To identify “indicators

  12. PREGNANCY, INCLUDING PRETERM BIRTH #12 (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2012 - Potential High Impact Interventions Report Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … report incorporates data collected during implementation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … for Healthcare Research and Quality Elise Berliner, Ph.D. … Task Order Officer Center for Outcomes and Evidence Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  13. Microsoft Word - NEDS_2006_Introduction v4.doc (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2006 - FEDERAL-STATE-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP IN HEALTH DATA Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Issued June 2009 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Healthcare Cost and Utilization … Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Missing Values • Missing data values can compromise the quality of estimates. … Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S.

  14. Appendicitis Research-Protocol (pdf file)

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    December 09, 2013 - QUADAS-2: a revised tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies. … Evaluation of QUADAS, a tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Effective Health Care Program Website. … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2012 Jun. Chapter 7. 64. … HHSA-290-2012-0012-I from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S.

  15. Assess-Resident-Rti-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/assess-resident-RTI-facilitator-guide.docx
    June 01, 2021 - Sometimes this is because it’s hard to help residents position themselves in order to get a good quality

  16. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacteremia (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/bacteremia-facilitator-guide.pdf
    November 01, 2019 - Staph aureus bacteremia is defined as endocarditis excluded with a TEE (in select cases a very good quality

  17. Disposition of Comments Report for Comparison of Characteristics of Nursing Homes and Other Residential Long-Term Care Settings for People With Dementia (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/dementia-nursing-home-characteristics_disposition-comments.pdf
    October 23, 2012 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. October 2012. … TEP Reviewer #1 Results Poor quality is not typically a reason for exclusion. … For this reason, we do not include poor quality studies in our analysis. … Overall, the results emphasize that there is little quality research in this area. Thank you. … The report is superior even though the substrate is generally of poor quality.

  18. Reforming the Medical Liability System in Massachusetts: Communication, Apology, and Resolution (CARe) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/sands.html
    August 01, 2017 - Van Niel Abstract Introduction: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded a planning … frequency, transactional costs, incidence of litigation, and time to resolution and found that all of these indicators … Van Niel, MBA, Project Manager, Health Care Quality, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA … Grant HS 19537-01 funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2011; 5. … Process for Provider Quality Analysis & Research Committee (PQARC), chairs/co-chairs is documented.

  19. Archived: Reducing Risk for Mother-to-Infant Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Hepatitis C: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/reducing-risk-for-mother-to-infant-transmission-of-hepatitis-c-virus-a-systematic-review-for-the-us-preventive-services-task-force/hepatitis-c-screening-2013
    November 15, 2012 - Fourteen studies (2 good-quality, 4 fair-quality, and 8 poor-quality studies) found no clear association … Fourteen studies (2 good-quality, 2 fair-quality, and 10 poor-quality studies) found no association between … poor quality. … Ten of the 11 studies (1 good-quality 16 , 2 fair-quality 4 , 23 , and 8 poor-quality 17 , 18 , 20 , … Two studies were rated good quality 5 , 15 , 2 fair quality 19 , 23 , and 10 poor quality 17 , 20 , 24

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 01, 2014 - Quality Processes and Risk Management Lastly, more robust quality control processes may reduce the likelihood … education about medications and how to protect themselves from errors • Encouragement of patient input n quality … improvement and safety initiatives Quality processes and risk management • Systems for identifying … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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