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5201. Harm From Alarm Fatigue | PSNet
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      February 14, 2018 - 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 … the "too high" or "too low" alarm limit settings; and technical alarms that indicate poor signal quality … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services

5202. Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals: A Toolkit - Section 7, Tools and Resources (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressureulcertoolkit/putoolssect7.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - : Are appropriate orders on file or available for any needed special surfaces or other preventive measures … Upon transfer Does your hospital‟s policy include who, how and when pressure ulcer program … Educational programs may reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers. … Improvement Organization Program. … 5B: Preventing Pressure Ulcers Data Tool Background: This tool can be used to measure

5203. Chapter 3. Description of Methods | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2022 - included experts in patient safety, patient safety event reporting systems, health care delivery and quality … Linking consumer reporting system to quality improvement . … Linkages to quality improvement . … Stakeholders did not suggest linking to programs that offer financial incentives for quality (pay-for-performance … Ideas about linking consumer reporting to other quality and patient safety improvements appeared to be

5204. About the CAHPS Patient Narratives Elicitation Protocol (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2021 - If you are using the CG-CAHPS Narrative Item Set on its own, please acknowledge AHRQ’s CAHPS program … Through a test of alternative wording conducted with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), the … When you think about the things that are most important to you, how did this provider and their staff measure

5205. New Insights on Safety and Health IT | PSNet
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      August 01, 2015 - 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 … one of the challenges and miracles of my day-to-day life, which is I get to toggle between running a program … Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … October 13, 2018 Perspective Building a Safety Program

5206. Statistical Brief #147: Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Inpatient Stays for Seasonal and 2009 H1N1 Influenza, 2008-2009 (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2012 - Patients covered by the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) may be included here. … – Other: includes Worker's Compensation, TRICARE/CHAMPUS, CHAMPVA, Title V, and other government programs … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

5207. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)
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      November 11, 2019 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Physical and mental health summary scales increased from 65.8 to 82.7 (p<0.0001) and 66.2 to 81.1 ( … physician intervention using two tools, the Beers Criteria and the Epocrates online drug-drug interaction program … Physician-led intervention using the Beers Criteria® and the Epocrates online drug- drug interaction program … and faculty medication review using the Beers Criteria® and Epocrates online drug interaction program

5208. Geographic Variation in Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations for Acute and Chronic Conditions, 2005-2011 (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2014 - 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 health care programs, and outcomes of treatments … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

5209. Gjqj 6Nehz7Xahypfhvr33 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2016 - Two other small studies (not dis- cussed here) were based on mammographic screening programs in Spain … States– based studies reflected community practice by use of clinical readings from community screening programs … The introduction of standards and quality measures related to breast density categorization could help … Reproducibility of BI-RADS breast density measures among community radiologists: a prospective cohort … Tailored breast cancer screening program with micro- dose mammography, US, and MR Imaging: short-term

5210. Archived: Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Women: Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/tobacco-use-in-adults-and-pregnant-women-counseling-and-interventions-september-2015
      September 21, 2015 - This program includes the following: 1) Asking every patient about tobacco use, 2) Advising all tobacco … improving smoking abstinence. 8 Evidence on nontailored, print-based, self-help materials; computer-based programs … effectiveness of newer technology platforms for interventions for smoking cessation, such as Internet-based programs … , mobile or smartphone applications, and text-messaging programs. … deaths in 2002. 1 Quitting smoking is one of the most important and yet challenging preventive health measures

5211. T6Tquunynv3Twm65Bfash2 (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2015 - This program includes the following: 1) Ask- ing every patient about tobacco use, 2) Advising all to- … , mobile or smartphone applications, and text-messaging programs. … Quitting smoking is one of the most important and yet challenging preventive health measures a person … following categories: • Most outstanding article with a first author in an internal medicine resi- dency program … or general medicine or internal medicine subspecialty fellowship program • Most outstanding article

5212. Screening for Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infections: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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      September 14, 2021 - Two investigators independently assessed study quality. … MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Complications of infection; infection transmission or acquisition; diagnostic … including HIV, and using different screening intervals) for chlamydia and gonorrhea that reported measures … care clinics in Australia Multifaceted screening program vs usual care (control) 3.1 (mean) … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2005. 14.

5213. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2020, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/2020-Compendium-TechDoc-rev.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - systems serving low-income and potentially underserved populations, the systems list draws on two common measures … Social risk factors and performance under Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing Programs: a report required … A systemwide measure of the count of outpatient centers. … Product We used the 2020 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database to construct measures … Provider-offered Medicare Advantage plans: recent growth and care quality.

5214. Sampling, Weighting, and Synthetization Methodologies (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-Sampling-Weighting-Synthetization-Methodologies.pdf
      December 01, 2023 - Implications of Data Quality in the Medicaid File Due to data quality issues in the Transformed Medicaid … For each crossing of state and domain category, we computed the measure of size (MOS) as: (Medicaid … / Nh) / .3, .20 / .3} SyH-DR 6 Methodologies Otherwise (i.e., nh ≥ 1000), MOSt = 1, MOSt – Measure … Each person was then assigned an overall MOS, which was equal to the maximum of these three measures … target population covered by SyH-DR includes those who were insured either by specific government programs

5215. Archived: Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/latent-tuberculosis-infection-screening-september-2016
      September 06, 2016 - 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 … review guidance from the CDC. 19  The CDC also provides information for public health tuberculosis programs … Resources for TB Programs. http://www.cdc.gov/tb/programs/default.htm . 2014. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2016.

5216. Archived: Evidence Summary: Breast Cancer: Medications for Risk Reduction | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/breast-cancer-medications-for-risk-reduction-2002
      May 06, 2002 - questionnaire, the mean percentages of women reporting a problem on 4 different sexual functioning measures … the findings, we did not combine the three primary prevention tamoxifen trials to obtain a summary measure … David Atkins, MD, MPH, Director; Dana Best, MD, MPH; and Eve Shapiro of the AHRQ Clinical Prevention Program … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2001. … (RCTs) of chemoprevention agents in populations of women without breast cancer in which the outcome measures

5217. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 04, 2024 - Child Abuse America, The Child Abuse Prevention Center) offer either online or in-person training programs … obtained, the findings were appropriately reported to caregivers as well as external agencies, and measures … project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

5218. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2021, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/2021-Compendium-TechDoc.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - Health Systems, 2021, Technical Documentation Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Introduction In 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Comparative … Systems, a list of health systems in the United States with details about their structure, staffing, and program … Social risk factors and performance under Medicare’s Value- Based Purchasing Programs: a report required … Product We used the 2021 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database to construct measures

5219. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2020, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/2020-Compendium-TechDoc.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - Health Systems, 2020, Technical Documentation Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … INTRODUCTION In 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Comparative … , a list of health systems in the United States, with details about their structure, staffing, and program … Social risk factors and performance under Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing Programs: a report required … Product We used the 2020 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database to construct measures

5220. The Evidence-Based Physical Examination as a Patient Safety Practice | PSNet
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      November 01, 2012 - 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 … presence of 4 or 5 of these findings increases probability of pneumonia (likelihood ratio [LR] = 8.2; "LR" measures … It is up to our teaching programs, clinical leaders, and, perhaps, the patient safety movement to change … RW : Have we entered a kind of death spiral phase where nobody knows how to either do a high-quality