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9361. Quality improvement to decrease specimen mislabeling in transfusion medicine. | PSNet
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      September 11, 2024 - Study Quality improvement to decrease specimen mislabeling in transfusion medicine … Quality improvement to decrease specimen mislabeling in transfusion medicine. … Quality improvement to decrease specimen mislabeling in transfusion medicine. … November 2, 2012 Surgical specimen identification errors: a new measure of quality in … August 26, 2011 Mislabeled units of umbilical cord blood detected by a quality assurance

9362. Risk Assessment for Cardiovascular Disease With Nontraditional Risk Factors: US Preventive Services Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2020 - CAC score is obtained by electron-beam or multidetector CT, which measure the calcium content in the … ABI, hsCRP level, or CAC scores are needed to measure the effect of adding nontraditional risk factors … Calibration measures the agreement between ob- served and predicted outcomes, discrimination measures … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2018. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2015.

9363. Management of Infantile Hemangioma (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2016 - observation Improvement in IH 2 studies (143 subjects) Pulse dye laser more effective NA ��� Quality … strength of a body of evidence when comparing medical interventions— Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … ��Studies used multiple and variable outcome measures to assess resolution of lesions, which makes it … Research to improve standardization of outcome measures is, therefore, crucial. … Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-2010-0009-I for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

9364. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      November 19, 2018 - safety culture is considered a best practice supported by both the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … They then conducted interviews with quality leaders from those institutions.

9365. Asthma Care Quality Improvement Workbook and Resource Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2016 - Asthma Care Quality Improvement Workbook and Resource Guide The Asthma Care Quality Improvement … quality improvement strategies. … The Asthma Care Quality Improvement Workbook and the Resource Guide can be used to: Assess the quality … Measuring the quality of asthma care (staff specialists). … from the "2004 National Healthcare Quality Report."

9366. Patient Safety Executive Walkarounds (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2004 - Furthermore, research is already underway to measure improvement in caregiver attitudes as a result … High performance on internal and external patient safety measures. … A survey instrument developed by the University of Texas that measures attitudes toward teamwork climate … This internal survey is distributed annually to all KP employees and physicians in order to measure … Scores by medical center on this measure are evaluated for improvements following the walkarounds.

9367. Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitation (HYCR) Expanding Capacity Implementation Guide (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2022 - Safe, high-quality CR is non-negotiable, regardless of setting. … inexpensive exercise and monitoring equipment (e.g., resistance bands, inexpensive heart rate monitors, scales … How does your organization measure its success? … (see example in RG 1E Aultman Virtual Rehab Packet Sample) Exercise resources Resistance bands Weights … identified as useful by Workgroup members included: • SF-12: A commonly used quality of life measure

9368. MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE AND HYDRALAZINE (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2010 - Inform Decisions about Effectiveness) Center under contract to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. March 2010. … Patient Population We used the set of ICD-9 codes proposed for use in performance measures for HF10 … to Develop Heart Failure Clinical Performance Measures) Endorsed by the Heart Failure Society of … Comorbidity measures for use with administrative data.

9369. Artificial Intelligence-Supported Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support: A Summary of Considerations | CDSiC
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      June 18, 2025 - AI-supported PC CDS to ensure these tools support, rather than compromise, shared decision making and care quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2025.  … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville

9370. Quartz App to Support Medication Adherence: Usability and Feasibility Assessment | CDSiC
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      September 26, 2024 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2024. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville

9371. PAIGE Chatbot for Patient-Clinician Communication: Usability and Utility Assessment | CDSiC
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      September 26, 2024 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2024. … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville

9372. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 14, 2014 - Therefore, the business case for this quality improvement measure is purely for the payers, and the … intervention-decrease-catheter-related-bloodstream-infections-icu https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/business-case-quality-economic-analysis-michigan-keystone-patient-safety-program-icus

9373. Urinary Retention Dilemma | PSNet
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      March 01, 2013 - 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 … Time void patients by the clock every 4 hours postprocedure, measure, record. … Check bladder volume instrument (BVI) after void, measure, record. … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

9374. EHC Research Protocol (Amended): Treatments for Acute Episodic Migraine (pdf file)
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      January 09, 2020 - Measures of diagnostic accuracy KQ 1g-h. … Non-Opioid Therapy: Pain, function, pain relief satisfaction, quality of life, and quality of life … appropriate (i.e., more than 2 studies address the same PICOTS and provide point estimates and dispersion measures … Similar thresholds will be used for other outcomes measures. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2014.

9375. Linking clinical Data to Administrative Data
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      September 01, 2012 - Procedure Classes for ICD-9-CM Surgery Flags for ICD-9-CM HCUP Supplemental Files NIS-Trend Weights … Supplemental Variables for Revisit Analyses American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files AHRQ Quality … maintained by Regenstrief Institute In public domain Assign unique code for test, method, unit of measure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata … Search Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD

9376. Archived: Evidence Summary: Dementia in Older Adults: Screening, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      June 03, 2003 - In most clinical research on Alzheimer's disease, function is measured by 1 or both of two scales: the … Both the ADAS-Cog and the CIBIC scales are stable and sensitive to clinical change over time. 106 The … The evidence is mixed, however, about the effects of cholinesterase inhibitors on functional measures … taking placebo in the development of behavioral and psychological symptoms, although not all trials measure … an approximate 3 percent difference in cognitive scales between Ginkgo biloba and placebo groups.

9377. Using a Tiered Approach With CUSP Principles Slides
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      April 01, 2022 - Learn from defects Summarize the evidence in a checklist Identify local barriers to implementation Measure … or Central Line Catheters TECHNICAL WORK ADAPTIVE WORK COMMON PROBLEMS LOCAL PROBLEMS Prework: Measure … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

9378. Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC) | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2025 - potential to increase the use of PCOR-evidence incorporation into CDS at the point of care to improve the quality … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2024. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2023. … digital tools that allow patients and clinicians to take advantage of available evidence to improve the quality … engages patients or caregivers via apps, patient portals, or in different settings, to improve the quality

9379. Hospital Deaths for Common Heart Conditions Increased While Hospitalizations Decreased During the First Year of COVID-19 (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2023 - Data stratified by race and ethnicity are not available for this measure because the NHQDR does not … routinely report on this measure, so data were obtained from AHRQ’s Data Tools website. … Additional racial and ethnic data for this measure are available at https://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/. … at https://qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/measures/IQI_TechSpec. … care even when they had symptoms that warranted prompt evaluation and treatment.5 Thus, public health measures

9380. 2017 Health Information Technology Annual Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2017 - well as implementing, evaluating, and scaling ways to collect and utilize patient-reported outcome measures … CDS; recommend ways to implement PCOR findings as CDS; reinforce facilitators for effective CDS use; measure … and Evaluation of New Health IT Strategies for Collecting and Using Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures … settings through the scale and spread of successful, health IT-enabled practice models that use PRO measures … measures and only one published opioid CDS specification.