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1541. Putoolssect7 (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressureulcertoolkit/putoolssect7.docx
      February 16, 2011 - It is shorter than the Pieper but has not been as widely used. … Skin Temperature Most clinicians use the back rather than the palm of their hand to assess the temperature … Rarely eats more than 1/3 of any food offered. … OR receives less than optimum amount of liquid diet or tube feeding. 3. … than 24 hours (STOP ABSTRACTION) 5.

1542. Executive Summary: Implementing PCOR To Increase Referral, Enrollment, and Retention in Cardiac Rehabilitation through Automatic Referral with Care Coordination (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications2/files/takeheart-executive-summary.pdf
      August 01, 2023 - Comprehensive re-recruitment efforts took place as more than 50% of hospitals needed to drop Final … One result of these changes was that we obtained less direct information than originally sought from … The TAKEheart team implemented an earlier-than-planned launch of Learning Community and focused its … strategy of engaging a large community around PHE-focused topics – meeting hospitals where they were, rather … than “not bothering them” until the pandemic subsided – paid off when recruitment targets were met

1543. Medication Management Transactions and Errors in Family Medicine Offices: A Pilot Study (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Lynch_37.pdf
      March 21, 2008 - To make completion easier than open-ended reporting, the data collection form included a set of responses … For transactions that involved more than one medication, only one data collection form was used. … include medication management processes from either the patient’s or the pharmacist’s viewpoint, other than … mitigation transactions, the measures reflected processes occurring when the error was discovered rather … than the circumstances at the time that the error occurred.

1544. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Implementation Handbook) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy2/Strat2_Implement_Hndbook_508.pdf
      April 30, 2013 - One study found that more than 70 percent of adverse events are caused by breakdowns in communication … responsive, empathetic, and attuned to patients’ needs are judged to be of higher quality by patients than … Professional culture and practice norms have traditionally been based on individual autonomy rather … than teamwork and patient-centered practices.18 Clinicians lack experience with models that encourage … If your hospital is implementing more than one of the bedside strategies (Communicating to Improve

1545. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Implementation Handbook) (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy2/Strat2_Implement_Hndbook_508.docx
      April 30, 2013 - One study found that more than 70 percent of adverse events are caused by breakdowns in communication … responsive, empathetic, and attuned to patients’ needs are judged to be of higher quality by patients than … Professional culture and practice norms have traditionally been based on individual autonomy rather than … modeling behavior, providing feedback, and practicing skills.21 If your hospital is implementing more than

1546. Sustainability Module: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/fac-notes.html
      October 01, 2020 - Therefore, the goal would be to embed safe practices within your organization rather than allow for backsliding … Continued success may be different than initial success and the team’s goal may need to be modified along … Early adopters, or opinion leaders, are the next group to react to change and tend to adapt earlier than … An overall score greater than 60 indicates a likelihood that the change will be achieved, while a score

1547. Training-Tools-Facnotes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/training-tools-facnotes.docx
      May 01, 2017 - Therefore, the goal would be to embed safe practices within your organization rather than allow for backsliding … Continued success may be different than initial success and the team’s goal may need to be modified along … Early adopters, or opinion leaders, are the next group to react to change and tend to adapt earlier than … An overall score greater than 60 indicates a likelihood that the change will be achieved, while a score

1548. 2. Developing and Running a State-Based Extension Program To Support QI in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/how-to-guide/guide2.html
      August 01, 2024 - facilitators in their region of focus provided access to a workforce that was larger and better distributed than … their own practice facilitators or partnering with one organization. 12 In addition, relying on more than … cohesive group of partners working toward shared goals from a common understanding typically took more than … Building and Maintaining a Network of Primary Care Practices ) rather than here.

1549. 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 - results to determine if the time the result was reported electronically by the laboratory is later than … We believe that daily assignment of the task of reviewing the log is more failsafe than asking individual … logistical delays in the implementation of ALARMS for clinical use, Phase 2 was continued for 8 months rather … than the 3-month period initially planned. … Data were collected until there were late- arriving abnormal laboratory results for more than 300 distinct

1550. Common Cause Analysis: Focus on Institutional Change (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Browne_5.pdf
      January 20, 2008 - Necessary improvement actions may be broader in scope than a particular case may reveal. … When an error results in harm to a patient, it should be regarded as a consequence rather than cause … Each year, action items in the RCA database that were less than 100 percent complete were sorted so … Institutional experience with FMEA suggested a standard for an RPN cutoff point of 250; themes scoring higher than

1551. Adolescent Assessment of Preparation for Transition (ADAPT) to Adult-Focused Health Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/outcomes/chipra-146-fullreport.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - 6 months between pediatric and adult care than those who were more prepared (Garvey, Wolpert, Rhodes … health outcomes has been shown to be stronger when patient-centeredness is measured by patient report rather … than provider or researcher 11 assessment (Stewart, et al., 2000; Theunissen, Vogels, Koopman, … quality of HCT preparation is based on adolescent-reported responses collected in the ADAPT survey, rather … than on existing data.

1552. Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/antibiotic-prescribing-guide.docx
      September 01, 2022 - if there was a concern for community-acquired pneumonia, levofloxacin is not first-line therapy, and rather … Rather, a decision was made to extend the treatment course by an additional 4 days despite no evidence … Her urine culture grows greater than 100,000 colony forming units per mL of E. coli resistant to ciprofloxacin

1553. 5. Moving Toward Sustainability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/how-to-guide/guide5.html
      August 01, 2024 - It could be more effective to pitch parts of your program to certain funders, rather than pitching the … example: Some funders (e.g., local foundations) might be more interested in funding practice facilitators than … easier to show a short-term return on investment from their work (e.g., a reduction in hospitalizations) than … This type of arrangement is appealing to the state because it is easier and more flexible than a contract … health extension program in New Mexico is not limited to primary care or even clinical settings, but rather

1554. Enabling Real-Time Identification of Burnout Risk Among Clinicians in Primary Care Practices (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/about/impact-stories/enabling-real-time.pdf
      January 01, 2023 - patient safety, and the health workforce.1,2 Family physicians suffer from higher rates of burnout than … Burnout is not the result of a deficiency in resiliency among physicians, rather it is due to the systems

1555. Access to Outpatient Specialty Care for Children (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-235-fullreport.pdf
      September 01, 2018 - This included identification of rendering NPIs at the Line Information level, rather than at that Claims … who were older than 70 years. … Rather, this measure facilitates within-specialty tracking of specialist availability across time, as … specialty 30 training and/or certification were no longer delivering specialty care but rather … In addition, provider information may be incomplete due to use of organization billing NPIs, rather

1556. Reporting of Supplemental CAHPS Data Regarding Availability of Treatment or Counseling Services for Children on Medicaid: Final Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-238-fullreport.pdf
      October 01, 2019 - This is not in the core CAHPS survey; rather, it is part of an array of supplemental questions that … This measure also requires States to report the results of this question individually, rather than as … than solely following mental health-related hospitalizations. … It does not require any additional data collection by those States; rather, it only requires States … than only to CMS.

1557. Measure: PROMIS Pediatric Global Health Measure (PGH-7) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/chipra_1416-p013-ef.pdf
      February 01, 2016 - It takes children, youth, and parents no more than 1–2 minutes to complete. … It is not based on the segmentation of the pediatric population by a condition; rather, it is a cross-cutting … For example: ● Children who are black/African-American have lower global health scores than whites … ● Children who are of Hispanic ethnicity have lower global health scores than non-Hispanics. … ● Children with a chronic condition have lower global health scores than children without a chronic

1558. Fundamentals of Medicare Patient Safety Surveillance: Intent, Relevance, and Transparency (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Hunt.pdf
      July 01, 2004 - The MPSMS explicit review is a patient-centered process focusing on patient harm rather than provider … and has the following features: normalized inter-rater reliability; lower cost-per-chart reviewed than … “No system is guaranteed to work properly all the time…humans in the loop may add to the problem rather … than improve it.”5 Patient-centered intent carries huge practical implications in the conduct of a … Rather, the analysis provides a benchmark to providers and payors who might use an MPSMS topic module

1559. Case 2. Central Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-case2.html
      November 01, 2014 - Rather, they will be transferred to another job or area within the hospital. … than improve quality or efficiency. … than taking 3 months. … ED physicians were initially contractors, rather than employees, and were not mandated to participate … than overall getting more efficient."

1560. Bundling Clinical Preventive Services: A Review of Definitions and Concepts from the Literature (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/bundlingcps.pdf
      March 01, 2014 - sector as a tool to attract consumers by offering multiple items purchased together at a lower cost than … not intended to be an exhaustive, systematic review of all published literature on the subject, but rather … were on the subject of bundled payment for services, which refers to payment for episode of care, rather … than per service.