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3321. Final Progress Report: Development of a toolkit for dissemination and implementation of the OR crisis checklists (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/berry2-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Specific Aim 1: Measure the current status of CC/EM implementation in the United States Objective 1A: … and Quality, 2014). … To measure implementation success, we used the following survey item: “At my facility, the tool is used … performance is not new, the efforts to spread the idea more widely and to develop robust training programs … Translating Research Into Practice: Speeding the Adoption of Innovative Healthcare Programs: Commonwealth

3322. Patient And Family Engagement In The Ed Transcript (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/Patient_and_Family_Engagement_in_the_ED_transcript.docx
      July 07, 2015 - My name is Sarah Dalton, and I am a Program Specialist at the Health Research and Educational Trust. … Development Lead and works with teams guiding the CUSP CAUTI acute and long-term care in team steps programs … programs nationally, so we focus on every element of health care, and especially on what many refer … family presence policy, even such that patients' families are allowed to be a part of resuscitative measures … Encouraging patient advisors to serve on safety and quality performance improvement teams, especially

3323. Diagnostic error in mental health: a review (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-mental-health-bmjqs.pdf
      April 15, 2024 - Nevertheless, a lack of clear consensus on how to conceptualise, defne and measure errors in diagnosis … biases can interfere with this process.4–6 Validated psycho- logical tests and symptom reporting scales … More detailed conceptual and operational defini- tions for diagnostic errors are needed to measure and … Factors associated with depression detection in a new Hampshire mental health outreach program. … A program to provide Clinicians with feedback on their diagnostic performance in a learning health

3324. Appendix B. Guide to Administering the AHRQ Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture and Reviewing Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/improve/discussion.html
      October 01, 2019 - Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture and Reviewing Results AHRQ Safety Program

3325. Final Progress Report: Determinants of Intrapartum Quality of Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/bailit-aron-love-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Comparisons were made between risk-adjusted cesarean rates and hospital structural and process measures … infant the second leading cause of hospitalization in the US.1, 2 AHRQ has included several childbirth measures … of quality in its Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).3 An ideal quality measure for inpatient … the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s list of accredited obstetric residency programs … Bootstrapping provides a method to estimate measures of statistical precision when no formula is otherwise

3326. Module 16: Academic Detailing as a Quality Improvement Tool (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-16-academic-detailing.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - Quality U.S. … interested in becoming academic detailers, and several states have implemented academic detailing programs … Thus, most initial visits require explaining the nature of the program and making it clear that it is … What the academic detailing service is: Why the sponsoring group has established the program. … • Ineffective key messages: • HbA1c levels are indirect measures of glucose levels.

3327. Final progress Report: Improving Over-the-Counter Medication Safety for Older Adults (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/chui-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - The Senior Section improved the quality of pharmacist encounters with older adults. … These measures informed our understanding of the feasibility and sustainability potential of widespread … Measures Primary Outcome Measure - OTC Medication Misuse Misuse Analysis Three pharmacists with clinical … Using the pi score, the following weights were constructed: 1/pi for the treated observations, and 1 … Hamacher Resource Group enhances category management program to assist independents.

3328. Final progress Report: Anticholinergics and Cognitive Decline in the Elderly with Depression (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/aparasu-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - data on physical and psychosocial functioning, behavioral symptoms, use of psychosocial intervention programs … Previous studies reported strong inter-rater reliability and internal consistency of scales used in MDS … CMS Programs & Information. Available at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ (Accessed April 2014). 44. … A Data Book: Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program (June 2010) Available at: http://www.medpac.gov … Minimum Data Set Plus (MDS+) scores compared with scores from five rating scales.

3329. Physician Use of Hand-held Computers for Drug Information and Prescribing (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Galt.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - Subjective norm is the person’s perception of what other people think.9 Behavioral intention measures … This initial training program was held in their office-based practices. … technology literature at the time of this work revealed few reports that provided valid measurement scales … Research should be conducted on the effectiveness of technology teaching programs that incorporate the … The sickness impact profile: development and final revision of a health status measure.

3330. Final Progress Report: Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/graber-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - AV services were in general of high quality, with a few glitches here and there. … The length of the program was appropriate. 1 4 6 14 24 10. … Overall, I found thec onference to be a high-quality educational event. 1 2 1 12 39 12. … Authoritative experts on program. … Great hotel, balanced program content.

3331. Paul Tedrick (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/leveraging-cultural-change-transcript.doc
      August 12, 2014 - clinical nurse leader for this unit, she continues to be an active participant in implementing the quality … Is it that we’re not getting accurate weights? … We didn’t have to buy the thousand dollar scales. … So, it works great, the scales. … We check them every hour or two hours and we can measure that output.

3332. Chapter 2. Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssi2.html
      April 01, 2018 - The discriminability index is a measure of how well the reviewer perceives the differences in signal … The standard approach to SSI surveillance, as implemented by the National Surgical Quality Improvement … Program (NSQIP), facilitates a consistent measurement of SSI across facilities. … The accrual of data contributed is also reviewed to maintain data quality. … A significant amount of work was devoted to ensuring data quality.

3333. Preface | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/advances/preface.html
      July 01, 2022 - Programs, Tools, and Products Dissemination Planning Tool: Exhibit A from Volume 4 … compendium is the result of an impressive collaboration between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … we answer these questions and resolve these issues so that the American public receives the highest quality … Director Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality David N. Tornberg, M.D., M.P.H. … Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clinical and Program Policy Health Affairs Department of Defense

3334. RFA-HS-23-012: Implementing and Evaluating New Models for Delivering Comprehensive, Coordinated, Person-Centered Care to People with Long COVID (U18) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/long-covid/faqs-long-covid.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - In this scenario, there are no special program or budget considerations beyond those specified in the … prefer that the applicant clinic work with their state public health, behavioral health, and Medicaid programs … ECHO Long COVID collaborative, including a local or regional program? … learn more about warm handoffs at Warm Handoff: Intervention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/interventions/warmhandoff.html Page 14 of 14 performance measures

3335. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit Handbook (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cap-toolkit/cap_imptoolkit.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - and recommended site of care while placing low burden on the clinician, and includes the following measures … tests—are all required to be included in EHRs as part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid EHR incentive program … EHR Incentive Program.

3336. Using a Tiered Approach With CUSP Principles Facilitator Guide (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/tiered-approach-notes.docx
      April 01, 2022 - titled “Using a Tiered Approach with CUSP Principles” is part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … , or AHRQ, Safety Program for Intensive Care Units: Preventing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infection … Slide 2 AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units: Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI AHRQ Safety … Program for ICUs: Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI CUSP + Tiered Approach 8 Facilitator Guide … No. 17(22)-0019 April 2022 2 AHRQ Safety Program for ICUs: Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI image1.png

3337. Best Practices: How Successful Units Engaged Their Senior Executive Leaders (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/best-practices.html
      April 01, 2013 - We have all probably experienced programs of the month, programs of the week, when we’re so busy, and … We probably all have trained our nurses or talked to our staff about quality measures or outcomes or … Then, we also did quality contracts with our staff that we had a commitment to quality in our patients … The other thing that we said was that we want to be in the top quartile of public measures. … Darlene Swart: Hi, this is Darlene, and I have to say, when we first started and we were modeling our program

3338. Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors, Volume 1: Why Patient Narratives Matter (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dxsafety-patient-experience-vol1.pdf
      July 01, 2023 - Forum (NQF) identified no newly published measures based on patient experiences with diagnostic errors … patient experience, strategies that can be categorized (in accordance with a recent NQF report) as “measure … information directly from a patient, family or caregiver may be the most optimal way to measure communication … Patient Reported Measures: Potential and Peril for Assessing Diagnostic Excellence (Expert Convening … Patients’ experiences with communication-and-resolution programs after medical injury.

3339. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2013 - to the National On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project Final Report The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … line-associated bloodstream infections (BSIs) in U.S. hospitals by implementing a Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program … Research Group, and the Michigan Health & Hospital Association's Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality … A project of: Health Research & Educational Trust Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research … Group Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality Contents

3340. AHRQ Activities Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Address Health Care Disparities (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/cbprbrief.pdf
      January 01, 2014 - In 2001, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) collaborated with several Federal agencies … participatory research collaborations can help bring in needed funding, assist in developing proposals for new programs … prevention, and management of chronic diseases; and increase support for culturally appropriate health programs … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. August 2004. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. June 2005.