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5141. Toolkit for Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices_Toolkit Overview and Recommended Prelaunch Activities (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/introduction/intro-overview.pdf
      March 01, 2022 - improvement program. • Address how to construct the basic infrastructure that underlies general quality … HAI performance has been adopted as a core safety measure by many state regulatory agencies, CMS, and … o Infection prevention program: The hospital infection prevention and control program may be one of several … If so, it will be important that the initiator ensures that the entire infection prevention program ( … Effectiveness of measures to eradicate Staphylococcus aureus carriage in patients with community-associated

5142. CDS Connect Implementation Guide Draft (doc file)
      cds.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cds/artifact/18/Implementation%20Guide_USPSTF%20Statin%20Use%20for%20the%20Primary%20Prevention%20of%20CVD%20in%20Adults_Final.docx
      October 01, 2017 - Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of CVD in Adults Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2017. … Patient self-care/family caregivers can use the artifact as part of self-assessment or health maintenance programs … Delta runs an overall general health self-assessment or cardiac risk self-screen as part of a self-care program … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

5143. Trends in Observed Adult Inpatient Mortality for High-Volume Conditions, 2002–2012 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb194-Inpatient-Mortality-High-Volume-Conditions.pdf
      November 01, 2014 - Hospital inpatient mortality is one quality measure that can reflect both improvements in health care … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … At the time of this analysis, NIS trend weights for making national estimates compatible between 2002 … of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care programs, and outcomes of treatments … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

5144. Open & Act: Tracking Healthcare Team Response to EHR Asynchronous Alerts - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs023661-cutrona-final-report-2017.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - Project Officer: Steve Bernstein Funded by a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … The GEE models account for clustering of measures within PCPs since some PCPs received multiple alerts … bivariate association between total number of InBasket notifications (using this variable as a continuous measure … Data Sources/Collection and Measures Alert Opening In the previous study (R18 HS017203), we generated … University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Program on Clinical Informatics (February 2016), Chapel

5145. Archived: Evidence Summary: Prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Preexposure Prophylaxis | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/prevention-of-human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-june-2019
      June 11, 2019 - Main Outcomes and Measures:  HIV acquisition, mortality, and harms; adherence to PrEP; and diagnostic … One study was rated good quality 18 and the others were rated fair quality. … fmol/punch or greater on dried blood sampling (consistent with ≥4 doses/wk). 52-54 Using the same measure … series paper 4: assessing harms when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the effective health-care program … Accuracy of self-report and pill-count measures of adherence in the FEM-PrEP clinical trial: implications

5146. First, Do No Harm: Value-driven Patient Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/first-do-no-harm-value-driven-patient-safety-neonatal-intensive-care-unit
      October 30, 2019 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Racial/ethnic disparity in NICU quality of care delivery. Pediatrics. 2017;140:e20170918. … NS: Right now, there are efforts to try to figure out how we measure patient experience with something … Whether it's C-sections or maternal mortality, any one measure is really the canary in the coal mine … October 5, 2022 Implementing a robust process improvement program in the neonatal intensive

5147. Implementation, Adoption, and Scaling Workgroup: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities for Patient Engagement, Implementation, Adoption, and Scaling Through PC CDS Case Studies (pdf file)
      cdsic.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/Final%20IAS%20PC%20CDS%20Case%20Studies%20Report_2.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Document Review To select the nine projects for analysis from AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program … Approximately 60 percent of the concepts used to measure adherence to the clinical guideline recommendations … Evaluate Data Quality. … to PC CDS, additional funding mechanisms and approaches for aligning PC CDS with value-based care programs … and Quality.

5148. Archived: Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/hepatitis-b-virus-infection-screening-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 … because their clinicians are unfamiliar with perinatal transmission of HBV and recommended preventive measures … Efficacy of a mass hepatitis B vaccination program in Taiwan.

5149. Geographic Variation in Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations for Acute and Chronic Conditions, 2005-2011 #178
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb178-Preventable-Hospitalizations-by-Region.jsp
      September 01, 2014 - Procedure Classes for ICD-9-CM Surgery Flags for ICD-9-CM HCUP Supplemental Files NIS-Trend Weights … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) were used … Indicators The Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs; version 4.5), a component of the AHRQ Quality … Indicators (QIs), are a set of measures that can be used with hospital inpatient discharge data to identify … of health services, medical practice patterns, access to healthcare programs, and outcomes of treatments

5150. First Annual Report to Congress on High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/tfannrpt2011.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - primary care referral (such as a colonoscopy to detect colorectal cancer), or behavioral counseling programs … At the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, an education and training program … The University of Washington Medical School has developed a similar program for medical students enrolled … Given the infrequent occurrence of DDH, multicenter studies of interventions that measure functional … Studies designed to identify valid and reliable radiological outcomes of DDH as proxy measures of functional

5151. Designing for Demographics: Optimizing the Usability of Patient Portals - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r03hs026289-ahmed-final-report-2022.pdf
      January 01, 2022 - Health Equity Research, MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Health 9/16/2020 – 4/1/2022 Program … Officer: Mario Teran Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality R03 HS026289 1 … Differences in patient portal usage as a result of suboptimal design may contribute to disparities in care quality … and health disparity researchers with expertise in conducting applied research to improve healthcare quality … comorbid disorders), whether they had a patient portal account or not, Short Form Patient Activation Measure

5152. Inpatient Stays and Emergency Department Visits Involving Traumatic Brain Injury, 2017 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb255-Traumatic-Brain-Injury-Hospitalizations-ED-Visits-2017.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - primarily for muscle strengthening Y93B2 Activity, push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups Y93B3 Activity, free weights … No more than one readmission is counted within the 30-day period, because the outcome measure assessed … Hospital stays or ED visits that were expected to be billed to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program … of health services, medical practice patterns, access to healthcare programs, and outcomes of treatments … Discharge weights for national estimates are developed using the target universe of community hospitals

5153. Primary Care Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/XAaYbGVD_xRoMfQ-huJkJq
      December 10, 2019 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES AAA and all-cause mortality; AAA rupture; treatment complications. … of life (QOL) measures were examined. … 51.1)Western Australia,5 2016 0.99 (0.97-1.01) 100.0Subtotal I 2 = 0.0%, P = .74 0.99 (0.98-1.00) Weights … Ottawa Hospital Research Institute website. http://www.ohri.ca/programs/clinical_ epidemiology/oxford.asp … Outcomes of an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening program.

5154. Clinical Areas | PSNet
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      March 24, 2025 - method of retrospectively analyzing medical records in order to identify errors and adverse events, measure … Survey respondents also endorsed the importance of formal support programs, including peer support, education … non-specific symptom pathways for cancer investigation organised, and what are the implications for safety and quality

5155. Table 2: NIS and NHDS Comparisons by Region, 1999 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/1999NISComparisonReportFinal.pdf
      March 08, 2002 - Information: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Currently, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has agreements with 25 data sources … • We continue to produce two non-overlapping 10-percent sub-samples that allow researchers to test programs … and it was either a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals or it had an AMA-approved residency program

5156. Safety Across The Board | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/safety-across-board
      August 31, 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 … Resources to Support Safety Across The Board CMS through its HIIN program developed a resource … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … June 1, 2010 View More See More About The Topic Continuous Quality

5157. Final Progress Report: Identifying and Reducing Errors in Perioperative Anesthesia Medication Delivery (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/catchpole2-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - Our evaluations were therefore multi-dimensional; based on surrogate measures of clinical performance … Academic Detailing (AD) is an interactive educational program for healthcare professionals with over … Successful AD programs use strategies that include defining a specific behavioral and educational objective … An Academic Detailing program includes seven key elements: introduction to establish credibility, baseline … The results indicated that participants generally were very satisfied with the AD program intervention

5158. Screening and Supplementation for Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anemia: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/8uE22djVfm8hF8wNg7wWYn
      May 01, 2021 - For screening, a surveillance report among Special Supple- mental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants … Tools and Resources The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes resources on perinatal quality … The US Congress mandates that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) support the operations … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2024. AHRQ publication 24-05313-EF-1. 2. … Anemia among pregnant women participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants

5159. Step 2: Fostering a Research Culture | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/hsrguide/hsrguide2.html
      October 01, 2014 - rewards for research participation Institutional funds to support a health services research center, program

5160. Tool 4: How To Deliver the Re-Engineered Discharge to Diverse Populations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool4.html
      March 01, 2025 - Overview Tool 2: How To Begin the Re-engineered Discharge Implementation at Your Hospital How CMS Measures … barriers, cultural differences, and limited health literacy is a critical component of improving the quality … Familiarize yourself with the language assistance programs at your hospital. … Safety for Patients With Limited English Proficiency, available at http://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program … They often assess the quality of care, influence the patient's expression of symptoms, and shape the