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4321. Screening for Cervical Cancer in Primary Care: A Decision Analysis for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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      August 21, 2018 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Lifetime number of tests, colposcopies, disease detection, false-positive … professional organizations.4 Although empirical studies such as randomized clinical trials pro- vide high-quality … cervical cancer based on survival data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program … indicated that the incidence and mortality rates from cervical can- cer are underestimated by the SEER program … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017.

4322. Characteristics of Inpatient Hospital Stays Involving Sickle Cell Disease, 2000-2016 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb251-Sickle-Cell-Disease-Stays-2016.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - No more than one readmission is counted within the 30-day period, because the outcome measure assessed … NHEA spending or revenue measures the amount of income received by the hospital for treatment and other … Hospital stays billed to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) may be classified as … Medicaid or Other, depending on the structure of the State program. … Discharge weights for national estimates are developed using the target universe of community hospitals

4323. Feasibility Study of a Mobile Digital Personal Health Record for Family- Centered Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs | Digital Healthcare Research
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      September 29, 2024 - HS028699 Funding Mechanism(s) Health Information Technology (IT) to Improve Health Care Quality … Using pre/post analyses of baseline and 6-month family-reported survey measures, they will explore associations

4324. ahrq29a - Screening for Hepatitis C in Adults - Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2004 - Preventive Services Task Force, c/o Program Director, USPSTF, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … estimated to be 230,000 cases per year and has declined to 25,000 cases in 2001 with the advent of measures … Studies are also needed to evaluate the effect of diagnosis and treatment on the quality of life. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. March 2004. … Performance characteristics and results of a large-scale screening program for viral hepatitis and risk

4325. Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Young Children: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      February 16, 2016 - interventions can be delivered in a home or school setting and are generally time-intensive, with some programs … website pro- vides links to training resources for professionals (available at http://mchb.hrsa.gov/programs … 18 and 24 months with later screening or case-finding on educational, behavioral, functional, and IQ measures … children) re- ported that these interventions improved cognitive scores by 11 to 16 points (Mullen Scales … Twelve RCTs of play- or in- teraction-based interventions reported significant improvements in some measures

4326. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights: Improving Healthcare Safety by Enhancing Healthcare Facility Design (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2023 - ■ Developing, implementing, and evaluating healthcare facility design tools, toolkits, programs, and … 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 Final Report 2013- 2014 $99,821 Purpose: Identify, measure … The model strategically used systems engineering tools to measure, characterize, and optimize the environment

4327. Health Information Exchange | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - Indiana Network for Patient Care, an integrated citywide medical record system that promotes health quality … Rigorous evaluation of the effect on quality may only need to be done for a handful of projects, with … Program evaluation across several projects may help set future policy. … We observed a trend toward cost savings at one of two hospitals and no differences in the quality measures … AHRQ-Funded Projects The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has funded organizations

4328. Final Recommendation Statement: Skin Cancer Prevention: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/RecommendationStatementFinal/skin-cancer-counseling
      March 20, 2018 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … included mail-based, face-to-face or telephone counseling, and technology-based (text messages, online programs … The web program study reported reduced sunburns after the intervention, which provided information on … However, most individual measures were not statistically significant, and it was difficult to determine … Three of these interventions promoted sun protection with tailored mailings, 2 used interactive online programs

4329. Postdischarge Follow-Up Phone Call | PSNet
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      May 19, 2021 - Most of the successful transitional care programs, including the Transitional Care Model ( 6 ), the Care … Many phone call programs are provided by hospitals, which may exclude PCPs or home care providers from … Given the dearth of strong evidence linking follow-up phone calls to decreased readmissions, some programs … Postdischarge phone call programs, like the one employed in this case, allow hospital providers a simple … National Quality Forum (NQF).

4330. Low on the Totem Pole | PSNet
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      October 01, 2003 - concerns to the pilot, and the pilots welcome these questions.( 2 ) Crew Resource Management (CRM) programs … and pharmacists) recently received a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to begin such a program … There are a number of superb, validated tools to measure the institutional culture of safety.( 6-8 ) … This will take leadership, new training programs, and specific reporting protocols. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2005.

4331. National Center for Pediatric Practice Based Research & Learning - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/p30hs021645-fiks-final-report-2018.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - Fiks mentored a CHOP fellow that participated in the program – Dr. Deepak Palakshappa. Drs. … This would be a tool to guide national efforts to measure outpatient antibiotic stewardship. … Practice-based quality improvement/research networks: full speed forward. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Research Meeting. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Research Meeting.

4332. Surveillance Monitoring to Improve Patient Safety in Acute Hospital Care Units | PSNet
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      April 26, 2023 - But the vital signs are static or intermittent rather than dynamic measures of patient status. … name, and bed number. 5 A qualitative study on clinicians who implemented a surveillance monitoring program … without monitoring to 0.0009% with monitoring (p=0.03). 7 , 8 In addition to these process and outcome measures … Remote monitoring programs have expanded since the COVID-19 pandemic. … These programs could benefit from the lessons learned in this surveillance monitoring approach.

4333. Making Healthcare Safer IV | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2025 - BMJ Quality & Safety 2024 September 26 . … Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Within-Unit Transitions (January 16, 2025) Report Protocol Programs

4334. Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2023 - , training , and reports to help health systems deliver CLAS so that all patients receive high quality … Tips on Writing a Quality Report TalkingQuality offers guidance on producing comparative information … on healthcare quality that's understandable and useful to consumers. … Tip 5: Make a Health Care Quality Report Culturally Appropriate helps readers feel like the report was … HHS Resources Think Cultural Health is a program of the U.S.

4335. Evaluating Smart Forms and Quality Dashboards in an EHR (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015169-middleton-final-report-2009.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - The difference between the intervention practices and control practices served as the outcome measures … All measures data has been collected and is presently in final stages of analysis. … All measures data for the study was retrieved by May, 2009 and is being analyzed. … Control; Smart Form plus Quality Dashboard vs. … The SUDAAN program was used to carry out the modeling, incorporating an exchangeable correlation structure

4336. Person-Centered Preventive Healthcare: Reaching Adolescents to Deliver Preventive Services (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/research/reaching-adolescents-full.pdf
      April 01, 2024 - conduct the Youth Risk Behavior Survey at the state level and, as a result, data are not available to measure … For example, increased funding to support projects like the CDC’s What Works in Schools program to provide … What Works In Schools Program. https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/whatworks/what-works-overview.htm. … Improvement"[Mesh] OR "Quality Measure*"[tiab] OR "Healthy People Programs"[Majr] OR "Health Plan Implementation … Improvement"] OR ("Quality" NEXT Measure*):ti,ab OR [mh "Healthy People Programs"] OR [mh "Health Plan

4337. The presence and potential impact of psychological safety in the healthcare setting: an evidence synthesis. | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/presence-and-potential-impact-psychological-safety-healthcare-setting-evidence-synthesis
      October 20, 2021 - January 19, 2022 Combined impact of Medicare's hospital pay for performance programs … on quality and safety outcomes is mixed. … March 10, 2021 The impact of hospital accreditation on the quality of healthcare: a systematic … View More See More About The Topic Facility and Group Administrators Quality

4338. Racial disparities in preventable adverse events attributed to poor care coordination reported in a national study of older US adults. | PSNet
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      January 18, 2023 - August 10, 2022 Implementation of a discharge education program to improve transitions … September 9, 2015 Burnout and its relationship to self-reported quality of patient care … Annual Perspective Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality … August 18, 2021 The association of nursing home characteristics and quality with adverse

4339. A Toolset for E-Prescribing Implementation in Independent Pharmacies (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2020 - Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. September 2011. … , and how do you make changes to improve quality and safety? … Benchmark measures, such as labor costs per prescription or the typical completion time for various … identity-proofing of prescribers by a certified third party (such as a local hospital), and extra security measures … State Health Information Exchange (State HIE) Cooperative Agreement Program.

4340. Archived: Ovarian Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      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 … sensitivity of 58-79%, a specificity of about 100%, and a positive predictive value of 27%. 31 Another program … Young JL, Percy CL, Asire AJ, eds SEER Program: incidence and mortality, 1973-1977.