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1621. 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.

1622. 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

1623. 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

1624. 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.

1625. 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

1626. 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

1627. 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

1628. 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

1629. 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.

1630. Quality Improvement Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/antipsychotic/qi-strategies.html
      July 01, 2021 - context, the various strategies each plan implemented are noted below, as each plan implemented more than … These key components were not specific to improvement on any specific measure, but rather appeared to … These challenges were not found to be specific to one particular measure but rather global in nature.

1631. Appendix A. Details on Scan Data Set, Manual Reviews, Algorithm Classification Methods, and Supplemental Scan Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/hspc-research-study/appendix-a.html
      June 01, 2020 - Manually Reviewed Projects Grouped by Extent of Reviews Some projects were reviewed more than once … approach, the algorithm did not take into account sentence structure or relationships between words, but rather … variation in results that might occur during the manual review process; the manual review results are rather

1632. Screening for Family and Intimate Partner Violence: Systematic Evidence Review (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/prevent/pdfser/famviolser.pdf
      March 01, 2004 - All studies primarily assessed parents, rather than children directly, and none utilized specific physical … Also, at the 2-year assessment, nurse-visited toddlers showed a higher developmental quotient than … The previously validated Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS) was modified to detect present abuse, rather … These studies reported higher detection rates with questionnaires than with interviews. … survey of nurses and physicians, 71% of respondents rated the identification of maltreatment as ‘rather

1633. Final Progress Report: Risk Models To Improve Long-Term Care Medication Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/higginson-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - The group agreed to shift its vision to improving safety rather than compliance. … Bed size ranged from 88 to 214 licensed beds; the average was 120 beds, which was somewhat higher than … ALF/RCF bed size ranged from 60 to 122, averaging 73 beds—again, somewhat larger than the statewide … or a dose or frequency administered other than what was ordered. … First, the top-level event is not an “adverse drug event” in the sense that it has resulted in harm; rather

1634. 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.

1635. 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

1636. Final Progress Report: Society for Pediatric Sedation Consensus Meeting: Great Expectations— Defining Quality in Pediatric Sedation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/connors-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - Many centers reported small (no more than 2000 sedation events) case series of sedation processes and … important adverse events and had already appropriately moved the discussion toward rescue skills required rather … than simply monitoring rates of any particular event.7 The safety group thought it would be important … In today’s 8 environment, true “effectiveness” requires more than just accomplishing the procedure … ; rather, a sedation “event” should be compared to the “ideal” sedation.

1637. Technical Review 17: Nutritional Research Series, Vol. 1: Application of Systematic Review Methodology to the Field of Nutrition (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/nutrtp1.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - nutrition-related topic, it is important to include nutrition scientists and at least one scientist with a wide rather … than narrow range of views and expertise on the topic under review. … In the rare instances where many more potentially relevant articles may be available than feasibly can … can be particularly important for systematic reviews where absolute intake/response relationships rather … than relative intake response relationships are needed to assess the public health importance of a

1638. 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

1639. 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

1640. 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