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3421. 019-Perioperative-Infection-Prevention-Strategies-Notes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-surgery/019-perioperative-infection-prevention-strategies-notes.docx
      April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI Perioperative Infection Prevention Strategies … Lastly, viewers will be able to apply the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) framework to … They also stated that more high-quality RCTs with low risk of bias were needed. … Hemoglobin A1c can be a measure of the average blood glucose over a 3-month period. … No. 25-0029 April 2025 Perioperative Infection Prevention | 1 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention

3422. 019-Ss-Periop-Infection-Prevention-Fg (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/019-ss-periop-infection-prevention-fg.docx
      April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI Perioperative Infection Prevention Strategies … Lastly, viewers will be able to apply the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) framework to … They also stated that more high-quality RCTs with low risk of bias were needed. … Hemoglobin A1c can be a measure of the average blood glucose over a 3-month period. … No. 25-0029 April 2025 Perioperative Infection Prevention | 1 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention

3423. Chapter 3. Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - Each site developed programs based on their specific data-retrieval needs to access and collect the data … This data is accessed via either chart review or through prebuilt reports that require a coded program … VASQIP data represents an extensive surgical quality improvement program and data collection tool. … Evaluate the Quality of the Risk-Adjustment Relative to Method Complexity and Data Collection Costs … After the data was loaded into the statistical program, it was then further cleaned and any missing or

3424. 1. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen1.html
      April 01, 2018 - task order under the ACTION (Accelerating Change and Transformation In Organizations and Networks) program … of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) between October 2007 and July 2010. … Finally, it describes our sources of data for the assessment, our assessment outcome measures, and the

3425. Documentation of Mandated Discharge Summary Components in Transitions from Acute to Subacute Care (pdf file)
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      March 31, 2008 - 10 percent of each abstractor’s discharge summaries were re-abstracted by a second abstractor to measure … The kappa statistic and percent agreements were calculated to measure abstraction reliability.17, 18 … thank Bruce Grau, RNP for assistance in data collection and form development, Inna Larsen for research program … Quality assessment of a discharge summary system. CMAJ 1995; 152: 1437-1442. 3. … Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. 2008 National Patient Safety Goals Hospital Program

3426. Final Progress Report: Profiling the Needs of Dying Children (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - To measure and value individual patient and family needs by developing a proactive and systematic approach … Measure the change in prevalence of children with terminal CCCs on the wards of children’s hospitals … these studies will ultimately inform the development and trial of a longitudinal needs assessment program … MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Site of death. … MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Travel driving distance between home residence and hospital were calculated using

3427. Developing a Taxonomy of Anesthetists’ Nontechnical Skills (ANTS) (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2004 - be used to guide professional syllabi, offer a method for evaluating performance, and improve the quality … industry responded to this problem with the development of Crew Resource Management (CRM) training programs … of high-fidelity patient simulators, several CRM-type Advances in Patient Safety: Vol. 4 326 programs … then introduced through a well-supported process for successful integration into existing training programs … support debriefing during anesthesia simulation training, and to allow the assessment of performance to measure

3428. Final Progress Report: MOVES: Patient-Based Strategy To Reduce Errors in Diabetes Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/oconnor-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - be considered a nested (patients within physicians) cohort design due to the presence of repeated measures … and (b) an analysis of post-intervention data with regression adjustment for the pre-intervention measure … and there was no evidence of differences across intervention groups in any of the pre-intervention measures … For some measures, tailored feedback of error information to physicians or patients had the unintended … A workplace health education program that reduces outpatient visits.

3429. Appendix A. Members of the Technical Expert Panel | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2022 - Member Participated * Steve Jencks (MD, MPH) Independent Consultant in health care safety and quality … D, 1, 2, 3 Nancy Foster Vice President for Quality and Patient Safety American Hospital Association … (AHA) D, 1, 3, 4 Rosemary Gibson (MSc) Senior Program Officer Robert Wood Johnson Foundation … Managing Director Institute for Healthcare Safety 3 Martin Hatlie (JD) CEO Coalition for Quality

3430. Reducing the Use of Short-acting Nifedipine by Hypertensives Using a Pharmaceutical Database (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2005 - completed in March 2001, again with recommendations for the VISN Formulary Leaders Committee to take measures … The downside of the approach was the amount of time and effort required for the program to reach its … VHA Office of Quality and Performance. Clinical Practice Guidelines Home Page. … VHA Office of Quality and Performance. The Hypertension Workgroup. … The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States.

3431. Nursing Intervention to Remove Non-necessary Urinary Catheters
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      January 01, 2013 - MHSA Project Consultant Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality … Collaborative: Improve the culture of safety on your unit through the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program … nurse educator, or frontline nurse Optional, but less desirable: nurse from organization at large: quality … /patient safety officer or any physician interested in improving safety and quality 11 11 Building … through the contract, “National Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to

3432. Final Progress Report: Incident Reporting Practices in Nursing Homes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/castle-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - processes (e.g., entering, analyzing). 5 Summated scores is a method of combining several variables to measure … of care in process and outcome measures.40,41 Unfortunately, the use of HIT for incident reporting … These programs may serve as a model for improving incident reporting system in nursing homes. … Health measurement scales: A practical guide to their development and use (4th ed). … Factors influencing nursing home response to quality measure publication: A resource dependence perspective

3433. Final Progress Report: Proactive Risk Assessment of Primary Care of the Elderly (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/karsh-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Methods (Study Design, Data Sources/Collection, Interventions, Measures, Limitations). … would be a criticality of 32 or higher for patient or PCP, or a criticality of 12 or higher on process measure … 11 The HFMEA method says that, if a failure is so obvious and readily apparent that a control measure … The huddle model54 suffers similar problems, and the larger program within which huddles were developed … NVivo qualitative data analysis software [computer program]. Version 8; 2008. 47.

3434. HHS AHRQ Freedom of Information Annual Report - FY 2009 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Report Prepared By: Nancy Comfort (no longer … foiaindx.html#Reports Address for Paper Copies of Report: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … (AHRQ) Division of FOIA Services Program Support Center Department of Health and Human Services 7700 … OPHS—Office of Public Health and Science PHS—Public Health Service PRO—Professional Review Organization PSC—Program … Indian Health Service NIH - National Institutes of Health OIG - Office of Inspector General PSC - Program

3435. HHS AHRQ Freedom of Information Annual Report - FY 2008 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Report Prepared by: Nancy Comfort (no longer … foia/foiaindx.html#Reports Address for Paper Copies of Report: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … (AHRQ) Division of FOIA Services Program Support Center Department of Health and Human Services … OPHS—Office of Public Health and Science PHS—Public Health Service PRO—Professional Review Organization PSC—Program … Indian Health Service NIH - National Institutes of Health OIG - Office of Inspector General PSC - Program

3436. Healthcare Systems and Infrastructure | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2024 - AHRQ's Recent Primary Care Grants and Resources Practice and Quality Improvement Healthcare Systems … Appendix B: Other AHRQ Programs Relevant for Primary Care Research Audiences 7.  … primary care organizations in payment reform models including the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive program … The study team looks at the combined impact of participation in these models on the quality and value … In this program, a health information exchange’s automated electronic alert system notifies primary care

3437. Physician Event Reporting: Training the Next Generation of Physicians (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Nguyen.pdf
      May 01, 2003 - of health care delivery are well placed to champion a multifaceted patient safety program that teaches … At present, few training programs explicitly include patient safety and error evaluation in medical … school, although the interest in such programs is increasing. … Barriers to acceptance of medical errors: the case for a teaching program. … A system for analyzing medical errors to improve GME curricula and programs.

3438. Improving Healthcare Safety by Enhancing Healthcare Facility Design (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/highlights/ps-project-highlights-hcfd-041825.pdf
      April 01, 2025 - and modeling; developing, implementing, and evaluating healthcare facility design tools, toolkits, programs … of Environments Aligned for Patient Safety (IDEA4PS) project led to improvements in the safety and quality … researchers, research consumers, and decision makers of the depth and breadth of the evidence; identify the measures … Networked Feedback for Bed Tilt Compliance 2013-2014 $99,821 Final Report Purpose: Identify, measure … The model strategically used systems engineering tools to measure, characterize, and optimize the environment

3439. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 10: Mapping and Redesigning Workflow (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-10-workflow-mapping.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - McNellis, M.P.H., P.A., Agency for Health Research and Quality Janice L. … Your program may provide these resources or ask that you use them, or you may want to explore them on … measures Yes Someone would be responsible, perhaps practice to CMS or states manager. … The responsible person would need training in CQI, numerators and denominators, measures, etc. … measures to CMS (example: % of diabetes patients with A1c>9) Example flowchart: reminders to patients

3440. Ten Considerations for Easing the Transition to a Web-based Patient Safety Reporting System (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2004 - Measures of success for HFHS would include a substantial increase in the volume of reported patient … quickly on reported information trends, and the successful and timely creation of HFHS-wide safety measures … Doing away with paper and streamlining documentation is one of the fundamental cost-reduction measures … Data security measures in place. 1 2 3 4 5. Data back-up procedures in place. 1 2 3 4 6. … Knowledge of appropriate quality/risk measures and trends. 1 2 3 4 Consideration #4—Integration