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psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/abcdef-bundle-data-literacy-training-performance-measurement-tracking-and-performance
September 23, 2024 - metric and in order to see positive changes in performance metrics (e.g., improvements in compliance rates … These improvements included lower next-day in-ICU mortality, lower next-day in-hospital mortality rates … first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic for both intervention and control groups, but compliance rates … implementation of the intervention, with only clinical education delivered to staff, the compliance rates … the addition of data literacy trainings and the weekly performance reports, intervention compliance rates
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34968/psn-pdf
July 10, 2008 - This clinical trial compared these
strategies on patient infection rates, nurses’ skin conditions, and … Adjusted results showed no difference in patient infection rates or microbial counts, but skin condition … these findings with existing
research and the confounding factors associated with measured infection rates
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/dropped-no
October 30, 2019 - Since multiple studies have shown that error rates are significantly greater (2x–10x greater) with VRS … in reports (perhaps having peers do random report reviews to estimate error rates). … Use of report templates with VRS may help lower error rates. … Voice recognition versus transcriptionist: error rates and productivity in MRI reporting. … The effect of voice recognition software on comparative error rates in radiology reports.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38175/psn-pdf
April 11, 2011 - Fourteen participating hospitals adopted a series of recommended interventions while tracking ADE rates … Investigators discovered a 67% reduction in narcotic-related
ADE rates, and also noted decreased rates
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/863650/psn-pdf
February 28, 2024 - performing.1 The Innovation Team believed three additional components were needed to
improve compliance rates … metric and in order to see
positive changes in performance metrics (e.g., improvements in compliance rates … These improvements included lower next-day in-ICU
mortality, lower next-day in-hospital mortality rates … across both intervention and control group units.1 The Innovation Team
noted that bundle compliance rates … implementation of the intervention, with only clinical education delivered to staff, the compliance rates
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42433/psn-pdf
October 08, 2013 - simple act of hand hygiene has proved to be a formidable obstacle in patient safety, as
hand hygiene rates … The program
resulted in a sustained improvement in hand hygiene rates, an accomplishment that has led … to a drop in
health care–associated infection rates in other studies.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42787/psn-pdf
January 19, 2014 - effects-electronic-prescribing-community-based-providers-ambulatory-
medication-safety
Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) reduces overall medication error rates … Rates of prescribing errors
immediately following CPOE implementation were low, with approximately 6 … These rates were sustained at 1 year following implementation.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44960/psn-pdf
February 14, 2017 - Comparing readmission rates and observation stays for targeted and nontargeted
conditions, this secondary … data analysis examined how observation stay rates changed in parallel with
readmission rates.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41572/psn-pdf
October 29, 2012 - Despite the
continuing utility of autopsies in improving diagnostic performance, autopsy rates in the … United States have
been steadily declining, leading to calls for efforts to increase autopsy rates. … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-errors-next-frontier-patient-safety
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/changes-rates-autopsy-detected-diagnostic-errors-over-time-systematic-review
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39002/psn-pdf
January 03, 2017 - engaging-patient-observer-promote-hand-hygiene-compliance-ambulatory-
care
Efforts to address poor provider hand hygiene rates … This pilot study adopted a tool to engage patients
in auditing provider hand hygiene rates in the ambulatory … Patient observations correlated well to independent direct observations
of hand hygiene rates, suggesting
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33729/psn-pdf
May 01, 2012 - and practical measures of adverse events.(
4-5)
A number of approaches to measuring adverse event rates … approaches
to patient safety measurement is worth pursuing, as dramatically different adverse event rates … However, administrative data sets, which are the source of adverse event rates
identified by AHRQ's … Centers for Medicaid and Medicare
Services (CMS) will require hospitals to report "all cause" harm rates … Temporal trends in
rates of patient harm resulting from medical care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/key-principles-quality-and-safety-radiology
September 09, 2009 - September 9, 2009
Rates of safety incident reporting in MRI in a large academic medical … September 25, 2019
Resident-faculty overnight discrepancy rates as a function of number … April 12, 2023
Hospital-wide code rates and mortality before and after implementation … September 12, 2016
Rates of safety incident reporting in MRI in a large academic medical
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-adverse-events-prescribing-warfarin-patients-atrial-fibrillation-matched-pair-analysis
August 15, 2018 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Association of changing hospital readmission rates … with mortality rates after hospital discharge. … March 27, 2018
Analysis of hospital-level readmission rates and variation in adverse … June 22, 2022
Variability in the measurement of hospital-wide mortality rates.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/35424/psn-pdf
April 09, 2013 - Findings
suggested that error rates were dependent on the institution and an association existed between … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/anatomic-pathology-databases-and-patient-safety
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/changes-rates-autopsy-detected-diagnostic-errors-over-time-systematic-review … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/changes-rates-autopsy-detected-diagnostic-errors-over-time-systematic-review
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42575/psn-pdf
September 26, 2016 - Although some interventions did reduce interruption rates, medication error rates were largely
unaffected … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/methodological-variations-and-their-effects-reported-medication-administration-error-rates
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41031/psn-pdf
February 10, 2012 - purposes and not for direct comparisons between hospitals, they have
been used to track system-level rates … patient-safety-improving-national-trends-patient-safety-indicators-1998-2007
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/temporal-trends-rates-patient-harm-resulting-medical-care … validity-selected-ahrq-patient-safety-indicators-based-va-national-surgical-quality
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/tracking-rates-patient-safety-indicators-over-time-lessons-veterans-administration
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38379/psn-pdf
April 30, 2014 - Hospitals with electronic health records had
lower overall mortality rates, and computerized order entry—particularly … when combined with decision
support—was associated with lower mortality rates in common inpatient conditions … as well as lower rates of
inpatient complications and costs.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73660/psn-pdf
September 01, 2021 - In this analysis of falls within one hospital,
rates and trends varied across six clinical departments … Clinical department, rates, and
trends should be considered when implementing fall prevention strategies
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41283/psn-pdf
April 11, 2012 - Similar error rates have been found in
other contemporary series, indicating that despite more advanced … diagnostics, diagnostic error rates have
likely not decreased significantly. … clinical-diagnoses-and-autopsy-findings-discrepancies-critically-ill-patients
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/diagnostic-errors
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/changes-rates-autopsy-detected-diagnostic-errors-over-time-systematic-review
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39016/psn-pdf
April 04, 2011 - issue/variation-hospital-mortality-associated-inpatient-surgery
Significant variation in mortality rates … reducing
preventable complications, such as a landmark study that successfully reduced complication rates … Although complication rates were largely
similar across hospitals, patients in lower-performing hospitals