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9381. 019-Perioperative-Infection-Prevention-Strategies-Notes (doc file)
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      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

9382. 019-Ss-Periop-Infection-Prevention-Fg (doc file)
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      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

9383. 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

9384. Ch-7-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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      March 29, 2012 - system), economic factors (e.g., ability to pay), and institutional factors (e.g., prior authorization programs … The baseline measure of blood pressure is represented by C 0 . … adherence, and a newer class of causal effect estimators, such as inverse- probability-of-treatment weights … approach that one adopts for observational research will depend on the researcher’s knowledge, the data quality … Inverse probability-of-censoring weights for the correction of time-varying noncompliance in the effect

9385. Migraine-Emergency Executive (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2012 - (AHRQ) EPC Program, the Scientific Resource Center, and a panel of Key Informants. … of the main primary outcome of pain relief, the reporting of VAS scores, complete relief, ordinal scales … • Consensus on outcomes and outcome measures, including adverse effects, is needed to ensure consistency … and the Effective Health Care Program; AHRQ series paper 5. … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. November 2012.

9386. 1. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      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

9387. In Conversation with…Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH | PSNet
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      November 01, 2008 - Such confidence in putting in place programs to prevent catheter-related urinary tract infections to … What would be useful from a regulatory point of view is to evaluate some of these process measures to … strategies that focus on UTI itself and other strategies that should be incorporated into a broader safety program … Safety programs must not only aim to prevent infections, but also limit patient risk. … Many facilities do not currently have this capacity and will need to commit resources to such a program

9388. Draft Recommendation: Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      October 29, 2024 - ACL is focused on developing systems and programs that prevent abuse from happening, protecting persons … situations, and supporting persons who have experienced abuse to help them recover ( https://acl.gov/programs … coordinated support for caregivers ( https://acl.gov/programs/support-caregivers/national-family-caregiver-support-program … screening. 1 One RCT (n=591) developed a specific tool, the Consequences of Screening Tool (COST), to measure … Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2024. 2.

9389. Recommendation: Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      October 11, 2022 - They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends: Targeted school-based cognitive behavioral therapy programs … Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends targeted school-based cognitive behavioral therapy programs … Cognitive behavioral therapy was associated with improvement in anxiety outcomes across several pooled measures … of 1 or 2; RR, 2.11 [95% CI, 1.58 to 2.98]; n = 370; 5 trials; I 2 = 18%) but was inconsistent on measures

9390. 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

9391. Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: A Systematic Evidence Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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      February 11, 2025 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Hip, clinical vertebral, major osteoporotic, and total fractures; mortality … and hip fracture) 4 Articles from 4 unique cohorts41,63,91,100 (18 145) Inconsistent calibration measures … Leslie WD, Lix LM, Johansson H, Oden A, McCloskey E, Kanis JA; Manitoba Bone Density Program. … Leslie WD, Aubry-Rozier B, Lamy O, Hans D; Manitoba Bone Density Program. … McClung MR, Geusens P, Miller PD, et al; Hip Intervention Program Study Group.

9392. 12th Annual Report to Congress on High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2022 - Encourage greater consistency and standardization of outcome measures in studies, specifically those … high dropout rates among participants or biased assessment of outcomes or heterogeneity in outcome measures … With Cardiovascular Risk Factors • Encourage greater consistency and standardization of outcome measures … • Encourage greater consistency and standardization of outcome measures in studies, specifically those … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 2019 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report.

9393. Trauma-Child-Interventions Executive (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2013 - Effective Health Care Program The Effective Health Care Program was initiated in 2005 to provide valid … We did not rely solely on measures of statistical significance to evaluate precision for differences … All studies evaluated traumatic stress symptoms, although the specific measure varied by study. … All studies evaluated traumatic stress symptoms, although the specific measure varied by study.14,17,26 … and the Effective Health-Care Program.

9394. In Conversation With... Anjali Joseph, PhD, EDAC and Molly M. Scanlon, PhD, FAIA, FACHA | PSNet
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      June 30, 2021 - course between architecture and public health students, and some students from an interprofessional program … From public health, we know that basic measures will go a long way. … HAIs associated with surface, water, or air transmission might be more environmental risk management programs … This may involve implementation of more robust environmental risk management programs. … January 13, 2021 Restructuring of a general surgery residency program in an epicenter

9395. 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

9396. Improving Teen Care with HIT - Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2020 - Subsequently, we conducted our main analyses on the three primary outcome measures: clinician counseling … with the 3-months summary score using repeated measures analysis. … We did not have data regarding the quality or nature of counseling provided in order to test this possibility … Measuring quality of adolescent preventive services of health plan enrollees and school-based health … American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality

9397. 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

9398. Research Findings #24: Utilization and expenditures for children with special health care needs (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2006 - Because AHRQ was mandated to measure health care quality for a national quality report starting in … 2003, a number of enhancements to measure health care quality were added to MEPS, including a parent-administered … In addition to the CSHCN screener, the PAQ contained health care quality measures of children that were … Program, Colorado Child Health Plan) or private single- service plans (e.g., coverage for dental or … In all, there were 6,581 children with positive SQPQW00F weights, and they produced an estimate of 72,420,907

9399. "The Ultrasound Looked Fine": Point-of-Care Ultrasound and Patient Safety | PSNet
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      December 01, 2012 - System guidelines for POCUS would address all aspects of a program (e.g., leadership, training, competency … Currently, residency programs and clinical departments can determine which combination of assessment … methods best fits the program, learners, faculty, and curriculum. … ACGME Program Requirements Emergency Medicine. … System-wide clinical ultrasound program development: an expert consensus model.

9400. Around the Block | PSNet
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      March 04, 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 … As DVT prevention is one of the top safety priorities of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … In summary, both neuraxial anesthesia and pharmacologic prophylaxis are valuable risk reducing measures … January 10, 2024 Peer support to promote surgeon well-being: the APSA program experience