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4281. Appendix 1-B. Pre/Post-Test Questions and Answers for Module 1 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities Appendix 1-B. Pre/Post-Test Questions and Answers for Module 1 Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities Introduction Module 1. Detecting Change in a Resident's Condition Module 2. Commu…

4282. Part Three: Three Strategies for Continuous Improvement of Physician Feedback Reporting Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2016 - In addition to providing a feedback loop for improving data quality, the mere visible presence of a correction … Corrections to reports that are used solely to support good patient care and quality improvement may … written safeguards that such protected information will be used only for authorized purposes, including quality … The “holy grail” measure of success is not whether a report has been read and understood, but whether

4283. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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      January 01, 2017 - can impact patient safety and apply design approaches that can be used to improve patient safety and quality … factors, such as shift patterns and equipment maintenance · Team factors, such as team structure and quality … our work, such as low tidal volume ventilation strategies or procedures for supporting early mobility measures … This video demonstrates the value of having diverse and independent input through the course of your quality

4284. Appendix N. Part 1: A Clear View of Flexible Endoscope Processing: Transport, Leak Testing, Cleaning - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2017 - Appendix N. Part 1: A Clear View of Flexible Endoscope Processing: Transport, Leak Testing, Cleaning - Implementation Guide Slide 1: Appendix N. Part 1: A Clear View of Flexible Endoscope Processing: Transport, Leak Testing, Cleaning Susan Klacik B.S., CRCST, CIS, FCS Slide 2: Objectives After this v…

4285. Final Progress Report: Videotaping communication between physicians and nurses: A methods study (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - This project was supported by grant number R03HS024760 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Interventions and Measures As this was a study to determine the feasibility of a method, there are … no interventions or measures to report. … Note: This publication received a “revise and resubmit” decision from BMJ Quality & Safety and has … Context, culture and (non-verbal) communication affect handover quality.

4286. Rehospitalization for Childhood Asthma: Timing, Variation, and Opportunities for Intervention (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2014 - Depart- ment of Health and Human Services Agency for Health- care Research and Quality and Centers for … Measures Program Centers of Excellence under grant number 1 U18 HS 020513-01 (PI: M.S.). … Outcome measures were repeat admission to the same hospital for asthma (APR-DRG v20 141) within 7, 15 … We were un- able to determine how much of this variation was due to substandard quality of care. … Hospital-level compliance with asthma care quality measures at children’s hospitals and subsequent asthma-related

4287. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety--March Meeting Summary (pdf file)
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      March 08, 2019 - Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality … for public-private partnerships and the development of centers of excellence to improve diagnostic quality … attended by representatives from the following agencies: AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … released Revised Safer Dx Instrument provides a strategy and framework for healthcare organizations to measure … • Partnership with AHRQ to develop the Quality and Safety Review System.

4288. Improving Nonsurgical Management of Urinary Incontinence in Women (pdf file)
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      October 14, 2022 - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) Mission www.ahrq.gov To … and other measures. … • Specific Aim 3a: To measure the effect on patient outcomes including symptom severity, disease-specific … quality of life, patient knowledge, and perceived shared decision making … • Can the quality of care for UI, as measured by adherence to evidence-based quality-of- care indicators

4289. CAHPS Moving Forward: Innovations in Tools and Research (Webcast) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2018 - Recording Transcript Related Material Summary On October 12, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Director, CAHPS Division Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Agency for Healthcare Research … and Quality Presentation Slides (PDF, 208 KB)   Paul Cleary, Ph.D. … KB) Related Materials Examining the Role of Patient Experience Surveys in Measuring Health Care Quality

4290. Practical Strategies for Gathering Feedback Directly from Patients (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2012 - She's an expert in quality improvement and leads the quality improvement team for Yale. … why improving patient experience is so important and some of the factors that are important to any quality … Susan Edgman-Levitan What we're going to be reviewing today is the measure that focuses on helping practices … Susan Edgman-Levitan A patient survey tells you where you have problems, but these other measures are … And from the organization's perspective, again it improves the quality of the service and the programs

4291. A Model-based Approach to Prioritizing Medical Safety Practices (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2004 - Engineers use instruments attached to the model to measure the lift forces and air resistance of the … We can then measure the error rate produced by the model as we vary its “angle of attack” by varying … error rate as a function of workload, where the number of prescriptions filled per half hour was the measure … The result range and workload parameters, for example, have relatively large weights. … These “weighted value” scores are just the sum of the error reduction weights of parameters that are

4292. Final Progress Report: Engineering Highly Reliable Communication and Coordination Systems for High-Risk Patients, Referrals, and Tests (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/singer-benneyan-phillips-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - populations at risk for harm. 5 Methods (Study design, data sources/collection, interventions, measures … Aim 4: We identif ied measures for assessing redesigned processes. … However, data acquisition for this ongoing measurement varied across teams and measures. … The least improvement was in identifying process and outcome measures and making them available for … Methods (Study design, data sources/collection, interventions, measures, limitations) Project Activities

4293. Appendix U. Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Risk Stratification and Outcome Detection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      September 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Appendix U. Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Risk Stratification and Outcome Detection Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection R…

4294. Webinar Transcript - The National Quality Strategy: Best Practices to Improve Community Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2016 - Importance of the National Quality Strategy, Nancy Wilson, B.S.N., M.D., M.P.H. … for Healthcare Research and Quality. … They felt like it made a huge difference in their quality of life. … This framework is showing that we have measures of health outcomes, quality of life, and the cost analysis … and the data that informs those measures.

4295. Venous Thromboembolism Safety Toolkit: A Systems Approach to Patient Safety (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2008 - logging in, all providers will be asked to complete a brief demographic questionnaire and pretest to measure … connector organizations, identifying and overcoming barriers to implementation, developing success measures … Patients include any recipients of assessment, treatment, or preventive measures for VTE from either … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2005. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2005.

4296. ADHD: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of ADHD in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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      February 02, 2012 - Do behavior rating scales remain the standard of care in assessing the diagnostic criteria for ADHD … Here, the criteria for enrollment (and, therefore, medication use) included measures of severity that … review.5 The di­ versity of interventions and outcome measures makes meta-analysis of the effects … ­ tion for multiple tests in the primary analysis.64 However, a secondary anal­ ysis of a combined measure … treatment compared with medication alone did offer greater improvements on academic and conduct measures

4297. Creating an Improvement Culture (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2011 - This is part of a series of podcasts on quality improvement, or QI. … national implementation of the CAHPS Hospital Survey by CMS, hospitals have a very strong incentive to measure … We began to spend more money to grow our image and we began a very deliberate look at quality and focusing … We’re calling to check on the quality, but we’re also checking to see the level of service that they … on are those low performers who may not meet our standards in consistently delivering great service quality

4298. 043-Vap-Prevention-Notes (doc file)
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      October 01, 2024 - were not objective enough to be considered valid or reliable, and consequently were not widely used as measures … of quality of care. … They find and decide to use the ICU Mobility Scale to measure activity levels achieved by patients. … This includes rates of HAI, but also process and outcome measures. … a feature in the hospital newsletter, and a "Best Practices" award from the overall health system’s quality

4299. In Situ Simulation: Challenges and Results (pdf file)
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      May 05, 2008 - assurance, quality improvement, and training. … Quality assurance and quality improvement. … differences in performance were not statistically different.18 However, since performance is difficult to measure … , it may be that the impact of video feedback was simply obscured by the variability of the measures … quality assurance).

4300. Surveillance of Surgery-related Adverse Events in Missouri Using ICD-9-CM Codes (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2004 - Both harm and the degree to which the AEs were due to care management were operationalized by rating scales … Each code was rated by a minimum of three and a maximum of nine panelists along three scales: medical … event and harm, Surveillance Using ICD-9-CM Surgery Codes 249 and required the reviewer to use scales … classification of diseases, 9th revision, Clinical modification codes in discharge abstracts are poor measures … Comparing hospitals that perform coronary artery bypass surgery: the effect of outcome measures and