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1581. Pediatric Diagnostic Safety: State of the Science and Future Directions (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dxsafety-pediatric-safety.pdf
      September 01, 2023 - asthma exacerbations), or ■ Common symptoms that are far more likely to be associated with benign rather … than serious illness (e.g., fever or abdominal pain).15 2 While “the chance of serious disease … When definitive tests exist, such tests may expose children to greater risks than similar testing in … biases.41 Frequency gambling, the bias of attributing a child’s symptoms to a benign common condition rather … might help clinicians focus on the cognitive science of decision making that affects all clinicians rather

1582. PowerPoint Presentation
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/esrd/clinical-care/clinicalcare_slides.pptx
      September 03, 2014 - Some are more effective than others. … a short amount of time, but try timing yourself one time and you may realize it is actually longer than … The National Kidney Foundation aims for no more than 10 percent of patients with catheters. 24 Clinical … The National Kidney Foundation aims for no more than 10 percent of patients with catheters within a given … Are your infection rates stagnant or increasing rather than falling?

1583. Final Progress Report: Safe delivery of primary care to vulnerable populations: Using simulation to assess team performance in responding to behavioral and social determinants of health (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/zabar-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Providers were more likely to elicit and follow up on SDoH related to housing than social isolation. … More than 80 percent of Bellevue’s patients come from the city’s medically underserved populations, … cases when providers elicited appropriately, they more frequently elicited housing-related issues rather … than social issues. … Attending physicians’ core clinical skills do not appear to be any better than those of their residents

1584. Final Progress Report: Incorporating Temporary Health States into Decision Support (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/col-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Women who experience hot flashes are much more likely to seek medical care than those who do not (50% … Rather than use a decision aid to tell patients what treatment decision is “best” for them based on … These studies revealed that the length of vasomotor symptoms is longer than previously thought. … for trying to make an informed decision, all participants found the “full” version to be more useful than … While most preferred the bar graph as a better format for displaying the risk report than the pictograph

1585. Final Progress Report: Quality Factors in Nursing Home Choice (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/congdon-magilvy-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - agreement exists that the quality of nursing homes should be raised and that high-quality care is more than … Furthermore, quality is defined in a very narrow manner, often in negative rather than positive terms … Because family members were more likely than residents to make the choice or selection of a nursing … When the list included more than three facilities, they often experienced confusion and frustration … found in the quality indicators and staffing indicators; however, some indicators were more stable than

1586. Webinar Transcript - The National Quality Strategy and the Public Sector: Federal Agency Alignment to the Six Priorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/events/webinar-federal-agency-alignment-to-the-six-priorities.html
      November 01, 2016 - Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) charged us with, which is why the framework is broader than … of all deaths in the U.S., and cardiovascular disease, stroke, and cancer together account for more than … We think that early elective deliveries can be less common than they are now, and we joined with many … maternal-fetal medicine, who would then have a conversation about the medical implications for that procedure rather … than convenience implications.

1587. Search FAQs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/cahps/faq/index.html
      January 01, 2019 - Although this format means that CAHPS surveys may have more pages than survey instruments that use a … If a sponsor needs to field a CAHPS survey in a language other than English or Spanish, are there any … This approach tends to result in higher response rates than any single method alone. … such adjustment, score differences between entities could be due to differences in external factors rather … than true differences in performance on the CAHPS measures.

1588. Final Progress Report: Trial of Decision Support To Improve Diabetes Outcomes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/cebul-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - There was more web portal adoption among patients in the PA-E and “both” groups than in the group with … The disease and its complications are more prevalent among African Americans and Hispanics than among … (58) reported many instances in which HIT applications seem to foster errors rather than reduce their … If the patient attempted to enter a glucometer reading that was less than 20 or greater than 699, he … Values entered that were less than 65 or greater than 299 resulted in a message informing the patient

1589. Preventing-Cauti-Icu-Setting-Facilitators-Guide (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/cauti-tools/cauti-icu/preventing-cauti-icu-setting-facilitators-guide.docx
      September 01, 2015 - Guide Please note that for the purposes of this training, you are not expected to be a teacher, but, rather … There is no surer way to lose the attention of a learner than to show that you don’t understand what … diuretics or fluid management in acute respiratory failure requiring large flow rates of oxygen of greater than … However, the temperature increase should warrant a critical evaluation of the patient rather than an

1590. 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Data Sources (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2022qdr-datasources.pdf
      December 01, 2022 - Census Bureau regions Notes NAMCS is a visit-based survey rather than a population-based survey. … This information is generally more accurate and complete than the household information. … 21 items that ask “how often” or whether patients experienced a critical aspect of hospital care, rather … than whether they were “satisfied” with their care. … Survey Sample Design ACS forms are not mailed to specific people, but rather to specific addresses.

1591. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/primary-care-research/results.html
      January 01, 2024 - time, but contracts for primary care research awarded through the ACTION network alone totaled more than … to PBRN work (totaling more than $20 million). … The Transforming Primary Care grants resulted in more than 50 scientific publications. … The focus of spread activities was on creating capacity for improvement through state partnerships rather … than replication of the specific model used by the model state.

1592. Continuity of Insurance: Informed Participation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/duration/chipra-153-fullreport.pdf
      May 23, 2018 - A month is considered “covered” if a child has greater than 14 enrolled days in that month. 3 … A month is considered “covered” if a child has greater than 14 enrolled days in that month. 1.H. … Numerator Exclusions Children older than 18 years of age at the beginning of the 18-month observation … were found to have more frequent emergency department (ED) visits if their insurance was Medicaid rather … than private (Park, Linakis, Skipper, et al., 2012).

1593. Transitioning Newborns from NICU to Home: Family Information Packet, Appendix B (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/nicu_toolkit/nicupacket-apb.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - – Relatively more rapid rate of growth than in term infants. … ■ UTI and urolithiasis do not occur any more frequently than in general population. … – Intestinal adaptation after massive ileal resection is more difficult than after jejunal. … ■ Err on the side of caution, and refer the infant for formal testing early rather than waiting. … 1/8 inch in diameter larger than stoma

1594. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/clabsicompanion.pdf
      October 18, 2012 - Post baseline data rates greater than 25 were re-coded to missing (n=11 data points). … Cohort assignment was found to be significant with cohort 2 having a lower rate than cohort 1. … Articles where CLABSI was assessed in persons younger than 18 years of age (i.e. … Articles published in a language other than English were excluded. … Registered Units n=1,821 units Note: Units with rates>25 post-baseline were not excluded; rather

1595. Surveillance of Surgery-related Adverse Events in Missouri Using ICD-9-CM Codes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Tuinen.pdf
      March 01, 2004 - medical care management (an act of care provided by the hospital or the omission of necessary care, rather … than from a patient’s underlying disease process.) … that could be abstracted for this study, the sample design focused on representing the AE classes rather … than individual codes or hospitals. … Rather, codes defining a PSI tend to be divided among two of our AE classes, or an AE class may contain

1596. Letter to HHS Secretary on Emergency Department Boarding (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/hhs_ed_boarding_may30.pdf
      May 30, 2023 - deaths.1,2 One emergency physician account noted that in addition to average boarding times of more than … One study found that Black patients wait for about one hour longer than non-Black patients before they … the emergency department health care professionals diligently working to care for their patients; rather … As another emergency physician stated, “The crisis is bigger than can be managed by a single hospital

1597. Section 3: Selecting and Targeting Populations for a Care Management Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/medicaidmgmt/mm3.html
      October 01, 2014 - Rhode Island, and Oklahoma do not target specific diseases through their care management program, but rather … 1998, before North Carolina implemented its program, the North Carolina Medicaid program spent more than … could help prevent ER visits and hospitalizations, but the savings might be lower for this disease than … approach might be more successful at managing comorbid conditions by addressing members' entire needs rather … than just a single disease.

1598. 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

1599. 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

1600. 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