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  1. Sleep Deprivation Leads to Medication Error During Spinal Epidural Anesthesia | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/sleep-deprivation-leads-medication-error-during-spinal-epidural-anesthesia
    January 29, 2021 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Regular breaks are an important safety measure. Excessively long shifts should be avoided. … Duty-hour limits and patient care and resident outcomes: can high-quality studies offer insight into … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

  2. Obstetric Delivery Inpatient Stays Involving Substance Use Disorders and Related Clinical Outcomes, 2016 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb254-Delivery-Hospitalizations-Substance-Use-Clinical-Outcomes-2016.pdf
    January 01, 2016 - mothers who use opioids or stimulants during pregnancy are often born prematurely and with low birth weights … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. www.hcup- us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb193 … HEALTHCARE COST AND UTILIZATION PROJECT Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … These databases enable research on a broad range of health policy issues, including cost and quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

  3. Postdischarge Follow-Up Phone Call | PSNet

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    May 19, 2021 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … passed in 2010, includes provisions focused on decreasing preventable readmissions and improving the quality … National Quality Forum (NQF). … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

  4. The Perils of Cross Coverage | PSNet

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    September 22, 2010 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … weekend coverage teams, such as in this case, makes it important to ensure written signouts are high quality … to update, and information overload, can get in the way of expected improvements in written signout quality … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

  5. Lack of Sepsis Recognition Leads to Delay in Care Following Cesarean Delivery. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/lack-sepsis-recognition-leads-delay-care-following-cesarean-delivery
    November 30, 2021 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … BMJ Quality & Safety 2004;13:i85-i90. Pope, Barbara B. … BMJ Quality & Safety 2009;18:137-140. Randmaa M, Mårtensson G, Leo Swenne C, et al. … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

  6. The Dose Makes the Poison: Medication Error During Procedural Sedation in the Pediatric Emergency Department. | PSNet

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    January 23, 2017 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … experience negative emotional reactions to strangers and pain. 6 Levels of sedation Nearly all sedation scales … Quality Use of Medicines – medication safety issues in naming; look‐alike, sound‐alike medicine names … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

  7. Implementation of a Novel Multi-Platform Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support System | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2024 - knowledge and patient-specific information at the point of care to enhance clinical workflow, outcomes, and quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2022.

  8. Archived: Ovarian Cancer: Screening, May 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/ovarian-cancer-screening-2004
    May 04, 2004 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  9. Hcupmalnutritionhospreport 083018 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/ataglance/HCUPMalnutritionHospReport_083018.pdf
    August 01, 2018 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Available: www.hcup- us.ahrq.gov/reports.jsp. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Updated October 2017. … No more than one readmission is counted within the 30-day period, because the outcome measure assessed … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Discharge weights for national estimates are developed using the target universe of community hospitals

  10. How Community Engagement Can Support Whole-Person Primary Care | The Academy

    integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/products/topic-briefs/community-engagement-for-whole-person-care
    February 01, 2025 - Expert Insight Expert Tips Success Stories Measures … Results While metrics on patient outcomes are difficult to measure in this program, more families are … Supporting whole-person care in primary care practices can increase access to care and quality of care … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2024. … Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care.

  11. Gap Analysis for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/improve/gap_analysis_tool.docx
    November 01, 2019 - Infection control/hospital epidemiology ☐ Department of nursing ☐ Regulatory affairs ☐ Department of quality … ☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ N/A Other Metrics ➕Does the ASP measure the number and type of interventions performed

  12. Overview of U.S. Hospital Stays in 2016: Variation by Geographic Region (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb246-Geographic-Variation-Hospital-Stays.pdf
    February 01, 2018 - HEALTHCARE COST AND UTILIZATION PROJECT Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), National Inpatient Sample (NIS), 2016 KEY FINDINGS BY MEASURE … Accessed June 6, 2018. 6 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

  13. Building a Team and Process to Reduce CAUTI Risk (April 8, 2015) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/building-teamwork-transcript.html
    December 01, 2017 - He is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and quality with specialty in patient … project that it's too great a burden for one individual person who may then be perceived as the unit's quality … For example, a quality improvement professional or infection prevention professional, or sometimes their … You may have a quality or patient safety officer that you think is appropriate or any physician that … you work with that is interested in improving safety and quality.

  14. The Media: An Essential, If Sometimes Arbitrary, Promoter of Patient Safety | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/media-essential-if-sometimes-arbitrary-promoter-patient-safety
    October 01, 2009 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … This focus was provided in large measure by the media. … Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. … Our goal was to ensure that the residents of South Los Angeles had access to the same quality of care

  15. MEDICATION MANAGEMENT USING HEALTH IT FOR THE CARE OF ELDERLY PATIENTS (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medication-management-elderly-transcript-081811.pdf
    June 16, 2021 - pleasure to introduce today’s moderator, Angela Lavanderos with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … made recommendations regarding geriatric-appropriate dosing and recommendations for prophylactic measures … For example in the setting of use of opiolytes (sp) to encourage the use of prophylactic measures to … This time around we were looking at the quality of prescribing. We were looking at errors. … But at least we know that the quality of prescribing was improved.

  16. Clinical Decision Support Systems: State of the Art (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/09-0069-EF_1.pdf
    June 01, 2009 - solely on system performance.18,28 Osheroff and colleagues use the acronym METRIC which stands for Measure … improve health care quality. Institute of Medicine National Roundtable on Health Care Quality. … National Quality Forum; evidence-based medicine. … AHRQ Ambulatory Safety and Quality Program. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2009. … Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare; 2008 July.

  17. Missing a Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke in a Patient with a History of Seizures. | PSNet

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    August 31, 2022 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … many places, this consultative service has been replaced by telestroke systems that may include high-quality … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

  18. Hidden Danger! Insidious Postpartum Bleeding After Emergency Cesarean Delivery. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/hidden-danger-insidious-postpartum-bleeding-after-emergency-cesarean-delivery
    November 25, 2020 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … The obstetric hemorrhage bundle described by the California Maternity Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC … Obstet Gynecol . 2019;134(4):e122-e125. [ Free full text ] California Maternal Care Quality Collaborative … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

  19. About the CAHPS Patient Narratives Elicitation Protocol (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/CG/administering_cg_narrative_items.pdf
    June 01, 2021 - Through a test of alternative wording conducted with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), the … When you think about the things that are most important to you, how did this provider and their staff measure

  20. Archived: Healthy Diet Promotion: Behavioral Counseling, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/healthy-diet-promotion-behavioral-counseling-1996
    January 01, 1996 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … development of coronary atherosclerosis. 21-23 Serum cholesterol levels can in turn be modified by dietary measures … distributed in primary care settings have also been effective in lowering dietary fat consumption. 178 Other measures
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