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341. Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates     Identify Potential Automated/electronic Sources of Health … Assess Ability of Electronic Detection Methods to Determine Procedure-specific, Organism-specific SSI Rates …     Develop a Risk-adjustment Method That Utilizes the Identified Risk Variables to Validly Compare Rates

342. Hospital Admissions for Uncontrolled Diabetes Improving (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/dataspotlight-aian-diabetes.pdf
     December 01, 2018 - diabetes or are at risk for diabetes.1 American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) have the highest rates … Lower rates are better. … ◆ During this time, admission rates for AI/ANs declined among both males and females; in 2016, there … Lower rates are better.

343. Appendix A, Pt. 3 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Surgical site infection rates were calculated and compared with a historical control period immediately … Finding a Method for Optimizing Risk Adjustment When Comparing Surgical-Site Infection Rates. … Second, the basic SSI rates were calculated using the NNIS System risk index categories. … These findings were in accordance with the SSI rates per category (Table 2). … Infection rates are higher in symptomatic HIV-positive patients.

344. Understanding CAHPS® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Slides 32-38 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-how-are-surveys-administered-fry-webinar.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - • SMS • In-person interviews 35 www.ahrq.gov/cahps Modes That Currently Yield Higher Response Rates … Surveys Sampling Data Collection Modes We Have Tested Modes That Currently Yield Higher Response Rates

345. Section 7.B, Appendix 8, Special Health Care Needs Table (pdf file)
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     June 30, 2009 - APPENDIX VIII: Special health care needs table Informed Coverage rates … ^MT & OR are designated “Mixed Coverage” (PM), or an average of their PE and PI state rates.

346. Improving Diagnosis in the Context of Rurality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2024 - in diagnostic accuracy within rural areas, primarily due to physician shortages and higher poverty rates … 4 Data from a 2017 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report indicate that mortality rates … disease (14% rural vs. and 10% urban) 20 and stroke (18.6% rural vs. 16.9% nonrural),34 mortality rates

347. 2015 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Chartbook on Care Affordability (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2016 - Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better. … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.

348. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Managing Urinary Retention and Catheterization in Intensive Care Unit Patients With Primary Neurologic Disorders (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2022 - months, we have seen a significant increase in our indwelling urinary catheter utilization and CAUTI rates … • Present CAUTI and catheter utilization rates to individual providers and add as part of their … Conclusion Many strategies are available to reduce catheter utilization and CAUTI rates for ICU patients … programme to reduce catheter-associated infections in intensive care units with elevated infection rates … A multi-faceted program to reduce the rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

349. Appendix U. Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Risk Stratification and Outcome Detection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Surgeons must believe rates are reliable Current surveillance methods are perceived as limited … Slide 4 Aims Employ electronic detection algorithms to determine SSI rates for selected procedures … Slide 6 Employ Electronic Detection Algorithms to Determine SSI Rates for Selected Procedures in … The SSI rates varied by site and procedure each year and ranged from 0.0% to 7.1%.

350. Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals
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     June 16, 2017 - Describe an interesting fact about yourself. 2 Compelling Reasons To Implement Program Pressure injury rates … Because of the ever-increasing number of obese, diabetic, and elderly patients, rates are predicted to … 27 $1,165,860 5 5 Prevention Works Multicomponent prevention programs reduce pressure injury rates … Rates can drop 50% to 100%. … How do you measure pressure injury rates and pressure injury prevention practices?

351. Cancer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/effectivetreatment/cancer.html
     June 01, 2018 - At the current rates of improvement, the achievable benchmark could be attained overall in 4 years, in … At the current rates of improvement, Asian Indian women will achieve the benchmark in less than 1 year … At the current rates of improvement, Asian and AI/AN women could achieve the benchmark in less than 5 … At the current rates of improvement, Cubans could reach the benchmark in 2 years, Puerto Ricans in 3 … Note: For this measure, lower rates are better.

352. Final Progress Report: Enhancing the Safety of Warfarin in the Nursing Home (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - also serve as a model for improving the safety of other medication categories associated with high rates … Rates of preventable warfarin-related adverse events were lower in intervention homes, although this … We also tracked rates of preventable warfarin-related adverse events and potential warfarin-related … Rates of preventable warfarin-related adverse events were lower in intervention homes, although this … Rates of preventable warfarin-related adverse events were lower in intervention homes, although this

353. Final Progress Report: Watchful Waiting as a Strategy for Reducing Low-value Spinal Imaging (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/fenton-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - with acute low back pain who saw intervention and control clinicians during follow-up had similar rates … We hypothesized that the intervention would a) reduce rates of lumbar spinal imaging among actual … patients with acute back pain seen by clinicians post-intervention (adjusting for pre-RCT rates … with neck pain seen by study clinicians during the follow-up period (adjusting for pre-RCT rates) … and b) decrease rates of overall diagnostic testing (i.e., all diagnostic imaging and blood testing)

354. Final Progress Report: Automated Lab Test Followup To Reduce Medical Errors (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/greenes-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - In Phase 3, follow-up rates after implementation of ALARMS will be compared to rates prior to implementation … As a secondary measure, rates of adverse events were calculated. … be compared with rates from Phase 2 using chi-squared analysis. … As secondary analysis, we will compare the rates of adverse events in Phases 2 and 3. … Our study may not have adequate power to detect a difference in rates of adverse events.

355. Final Progress Report: Watchful Waiting as a Strategy for Reducing Low-value Spinal Imaging (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/fenton2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - with acute low back pain who saw intervention and control clinicians during follow-up had similar rates … with acute back pain seen by clinicians post-intervention (adjusting for pre-RCT rates); b) increase … We hypothesized that the SP intervention would: a) decrease rates of neck imaging among actual patients … with neck pain seen by study clinicians during the follow-up period (adjusting for pre-RCT rates), … and b) decrease rates of overall diagnostic testing (i.e., all diagnostic imaging and blood testing)

356. Documentation and Coding for the AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators (pdf file)
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     March 15, 2016 - in the coding of diagnoses and procedures from medical records, which will be used to calculate PDI rates … They will also learn about actions they can take to estimate their PDI rates more accurately. … • Track and communicate documentation query response rates by provider. … If documentation or codes are not specific enough, rates can be inflated. … The potential effect of surveillance bias on reported DVT rates after trauma.

357. Guide: Purpose and Use of CLABSI Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2020 - formal and informal opportunities to talk about the intervention and about unit-specific infection rates … Fourth, using baseline data on CLABSI rates on your unit, calculate the potential opportunity to improve … Post publicly the number of people infected per month and your quarterly infection rates. … The document is a set of guidelines for teams that are struggling with persistent CLABSI rates and was … The second step is to track unit CLABSI rates over time.

358. Slide Presentation: Contact Precautions for MRSA Prevention
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     October 01, 2024 - Use if MRSA rates are high or rising. … : Hand hygiene adherence Environmental services monitoring Adherence rates were good What is happening … are an “Essential” practice for MRSA prevention, if other essential practices are in place and MRSA rates … After 6 months, adherence rates rose from 54% to 95%. … MRSA rates dropped a bit over the first quarter.

359. Chapter-2 - Failure-To-Rescue (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2020 - , cardiac arrest rates, and ICU admission rates, as these were the outcomes most relevant to our review … They were still able to demonstrate significantly decreased cardiac arrest and ICU transfer rates. … Winters et al. hypothesized that RRT utilization rates may be low in some studies due to inadequate … It remains unclear whether RRT reduces mortality or ICU transfer rates. … Mortality rates did not change.

360. Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices? 6. … How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices?     … 5.1 Measuring pressure ulcer rates     5.2 Measuring key processes of care     5.3 Checklist for measuring