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1641. Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process (Page 1 of 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/index.html
      January 01, 2020 - Start your implementation of improvements with small-scale demonstrations, which are easier to manage than … is easier to accumulate evidence for implementation when people are engaged in making something work rather … than focused on the "failure analysis."

1642. Meeting Minutes, July 24, 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2015-03-nac/nacmtg0715-minutes.html
      December 01, 2015 - AHRQ focuses on translation (especially of evidence-based care) rather than discovery. … The report's data are based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities throughout an array

1643. Christiana Care Health System: Safety Mentor Program (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Campbell_94.pdf
      March 30, 2008 - board felt they had responsibility for error prevention but viewed the error-reporting process as less than … Rather, a combination of “best practices” and technology within a culture of patient safety is essential … The AHRQ HSOPSC provides reliable measures with more detail than prior surveys and includes national

1644. 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.

1645. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health - National Institute for Research on Safety and Quality (NIRSQ) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/mission/budget/2021/FY_2021_CJ_NIRSQ.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - The hospitals range from those with fewer than 100 beds to those with more than 500 beds. … (ICUs) have achieved greater reductions in CAUTI rates than ICUs. … All values smaller than 11 (including 0) were set to ‘11’ to protect patient confidentiality. … public use files as early as possible: 1) data editing now takes place in waves (batch processing) rather … multiple data sets now takes place concurrently rather than consecutively, thus multiple processes

1646. Final Progress Report: Rural Trial of Clinic Order Entry With Decision Support (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/samore-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Rates of electronic prescribing were higher among providers in group A clinics than among clinicians … Use of the CCOE tool for laboratory and radiologic test ordering was much lower than for electronic … Ten providers in group A and four providers in group B averaged more than five laboratory orders per … A task was classified as batched when individual requests were purposefully grouped together rather … than managed as a single action.

1647. Final Progress Report: California Intensive Care Outcomes (CALICO) Project Final Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/dudley-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - and calibration Wide variation among project hospitals MPM0III-LOS and APACHE® IV-LOS more accurate than … patients after adjusting for initial mortality risk using various good practice measures and more than … If it can be determined that, when using more than one robust ICU mortality model, there is significant … the effects of good practices employed will not determine if there are better care alternatives but rather … or less than zero, whichever was smaller.

1648. Continuity of Insurance: Duration of First Observed Enrollment (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/duration/chipra-156-fullreport.pdf
      June 01, 2018 - Minority children, especially Hispanic children, are more likely than white children to be uninsured … There is a larger uninsured-insured gap among children in urban settings than in rural settings, and … Children with special health care needs are more likely than other children to have public insurance … were found to have more frequent emergency department (ED) visits if their insurance was Medicaid rather … than private insurance (Park, Linakis, Skipper, et al., 2012).

1649. Final Progress Report: Detecting, Assessing, and Learning from Patient-Perceived Breakdowns in Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/mazor-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - improvement efforts to address significant events (i.e., events in which the patient experienced more than … Some hospitals elected to adapt the WWTK materials to provide hospital-specific telephone numbers rather … than the system-wide WWTK telephone number. … (Some hospitals chose to use local reporting, rather than the centralized WWTK system; data on incoming … models of care); WWTK may be overlooked Some problems difficult to resolve; not doing so is worse than

1650. Implementation of an Electronic Care Plan for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions, Version 2: Evaluation Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ecareplan/reports/ecare-plan-for-mcc-v2.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - were not able to write a goal offered additional information on the completeness of existing data rather … than an experience writing a goal. … As a result, most health apps do not store PHI but rather query and present the information as needed … than accomplishing this in a single operation. … than patient-contributed data.

1651. Chartbook on Healthcare for Asians and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/asian-nhpi/asian-nhpi-chartbook.pdf
      May 15, 2020 - States in the next few decades: • Rapid growth in the Asian population is driven by immigration rather … than births … Racial categories other than 2+ Races exclude people reporting two or more races. … Minority includes all groups other than the non-Hispanic White population. … than Whites on 14% of quality measures.

1652. Implementing an Ambulatory e-Prescribing System: Strategies Employed and Lessons Learned to Minimize Unintended Consequences (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Devine_83.pdf
      April 06, 2008 - Network E-prescribing adoption proceeded more quickly than leadership had anticipated. … Speed is dictated by the type of cable used by the local utility company; fiber optic cable is faster than … The goal is 100 percent accuracy when it comes to prescribing medications; any standard less than this … found that information needed to be organized in a way that would make intuitive sense to clinicians, rather … than to programmers.

1653. Final Progress Report: Developing Definitions, Measurement Strategies, and Links to Medication Errors (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/savage-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Rework seemed more common here than at other points in the process, including repeated calls and faxes … These issues seemed to appear more during daytime hours than night. … On this unit, rather than working around barriers or engaging in rework, the response to a perceived … In one regard, the contribution of this article is the process of examining the workarounds more than … Change order to med that can be obtained via override (e.g., pain meds) W - Chart at earlier time than

1654. Final Grant Report: Using Military & Aviation Simulation Experience to Improve Rural Obstetric Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/guise2-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - More than 75 infants die each day in the United States. … Among the six hospitals, two had fewer than 50 deliveries per year, two had between 50 and 399, and … even evident in a completely new medication-related scenario that we felt to be much more complex than … • Lower-volume delivery units prefer more frequent training than do higher-volume units. … are submitted manuscripts or are planned to be submitted as manuscripts, we present general findings rather

1655. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2016, Hospital Linkage File, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/chsp_linkage_file_tech_doc.pdf
      October 01, 2018 - identified matches based on hospital names and locations, which we considered lower quality matches than … No hospital is linked to more than one health system. IV. … different sites of care under the same parent hospital) as separate entries in the hospital linkage file; rather … 50 percent agreement (Table A.2), which reflects less than 1 percent of all hospitals in Compendium … Among these hospitals, 59 (3.9 percent) have less than 50 percent agreement across their general acute

1656. Chartbook on Black Health Care: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/qdr-blackhealth-slides.html
      November 01, 2020 - compared to the White populations...Relative risk does not indicate the largest numbers of deaths; rather … likely than Whites to receive surgery. … Hispanics could reach the benchmark in less than 8 years and APIs in less than 3 years. … White females had a higher rate than Black females and White males had a higher rate than Black males … Hispanics had worse access to care than Whites for more than two-thirds of access measures.

1657. Puh-Erepguide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruhealing/puh-erepguide.pdf
      February 10, 2014 - by Month Report allows clinicians to use their EMR to quickly see the information on this report rather … than compiling the information manually each month. … This is a count of residents with more than one pressure ulcer. …  Number of Residents With More Than One IHA Pressure Ulcer. …  Number of Residents With More Than One POA Pressure Ulcer.

1658. 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

1659. 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

1660. 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