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1721. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States supporting the use of care coordinators? Evaluation Highlight No. 9 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight09.pdf
      September 08, 2015 - permitted practices to access technical assistance with care coordination from DPH on an on-call basis rather … than deploying a care coordinator to the practice site on a set schedule. … Define CSHCN needs broadly so that a care coordinator focuses on more than just high- utilization patients

1722. Preventing CAUTI in the ICU Setting: Transcript (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/cauti-tools/cauti-icu/preventing-cauti-icu-setting-transcript.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - 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

1723. Identifying Key Areas for Delivery System Research (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/casalino_idkeydsr.pdf
      February 01, 2014 - physicians go the extra mile for patients—staying late to see a patient in the office, for example, rather … than sending the patient to the emergency department. … But I believe that, in suggesting these areas, it is better to be specific and to be wrong than to … measurement—reliability, validity, the possibility of unintended consequences, and the difficulty of measuring more rather … components, though for the most part the focus remains on processes. 16 Although a method rather

1724. Identifying Key Areas for Delivery System Research (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/system/delivery-system-initiative/casalino/paper/casalino_idkeydsr.pdf
      February 01, 2014 - physicians go the extra mile for patients—staying late to see a patient in the office, for example, rather … than sending the patient to the emergency department. … But I believe that, in suggesting these areas, it is better to be specific and to be wrong than to … measurement—reliability, validity, the possibility of unintended consequences, and the difficulty of measuring more rather … components, though for the most part the focus remains on processes. 16 Although a method rather

1725. Observing Nurse Interaction with Infusion Pump Technologies (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Carayon.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - According to Drury,6 “A process chart is nothing more than a plant (or office, etc.) layout with the … Patients’ rooms were observed to be more often quiet than the medication room. … Patients’ rooms tended to be more quiet than the medication room. … The data on sequence of steps (tasks) demonstrate a rather large diversity for each of the three types

1726. Supplemental Document No. 1 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/measure_retirement/supplemental-materials/supplementaldoc1.pdf
      September 01, 2014 - provides details on the search for evidence pertaining to the focus of the measures that scored less than … For comparison, Medicaid fee-for-service expenditures were $171,665,179,984 for enrollees younger than … measure NOTE TO SNAC: SNAC agreed with AHRQ’s recommendation that only those measures with less than … Most studies did not specifically address timeliness and/or frequency, but rather the content of prenatal

1727. AHRQ EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity: Interim Evaluation Report II (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/en-bsc-interim-report-2.pdf
      July 01, 2024 - Recruitment into the QI project was challenging for all grantees, although some struggled more than … in a larger practice Networked practices may or may not have higher practice capacity than individual … • Quality improvement should not be treated as a side effort in primary care, but rather as a key … As one respondent put it, “a politician would rather fix a pothole than worry about somebody’s health … • Quality improvement should not be treated as a side effort in primary care, but rather as a key

1728. Improving Customer Service and Access in a Surgical Practice (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/reports-and-case-studies/Case_Study_Specialty_Practice_Updated.pdf
      October 01, 2011 - Most of the patient complaints came from liver patients rather than general surgery patients, and the … than 8 percent 10.6 percent Patient MD bump rate Less than 5 percent 2.3 percent Customer experience … measures Patient access composite (based on CAHPS survey; 0-100 mean score) Greater than 75 … 73 Helpful office staff composite (based on CAHPS survey; 0-100 mean score) Greater than 85 86 … CAHPS scores went up more at the case study specialty practice than at the other specialty practices

1729. Diagnosing Diagnosis Errors: Lessons from a Multi-institutional Collaborative Project (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Schiff.pdf
      January 01, 2005 - importance of diagnosis errors and summarize challenges we have encountered in our review of more than … Hence, while diagnosis error remains more in the shadows than in the spotlight of patient safety, this … Diagnostic accuracy should be viewed as a system property rather than simply what happens between the … months earlier and finds several notes stating that “the patient has probable Munchausen syndrome rather … than pancreatitis.”

1730. Getting Started Resource Guide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/getting-started-resource-guide.pdf
      March 01, 2023 - • What happens to patients admitted to general medical floor rather than a cardiology floor? … workflow processes, but inadequate data or other factors make our current coordination less effective than

1731. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights: Improving Healthcare Safety by Enhancing Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/highlights/ps-project-highlights-hit-hie-2025.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - iii The total number of projects is greater than 60 as some projects used more than one approach to improving … The researchers found CPOE to be a better method than paper ordering, with anticipated savings of $133 … cost-effective when VTE risk exceeds 0.8%, with this threshold being highly dependent on life expectancy rather … than bleeding risk. … homes experienced a lower rate of potential delirium onset, overall hospitalization, and mortality than

1732. Case 3. Grand Hospital Center | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-case3.html
      November 01, 2014 - The CEO described local competition as greater than national competition; however, he noted that his … One Lean participant noted that Lean efforts were more concentrated and visible than those related to … stated that it would be easier to schedule followup visits, since more of those slots would be open rather … than being assigned as new patient slots. … As expected, barriers to implementation were identified much more often than facilitators.

1733. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 25: The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Principles and Recognition Processes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-25-pcmh-principles.pdf
      September 01, 2015 - Care within the primary care setting is delivered by a team rather than a single clinician, so professionals

1734. Who Are You Talking To? New Insights Into the Audience for Consumer Reports on Health Care Quality (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20110511/talkingquality-audience-webcast-20110511-transcript.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - people know that they need it in their life and they understand what makes a product better or worse than … But if the condition worsened, if they didn’t feel better than they were very apt to try to find a different … Yeah, so I think I'm talking to a lot of people who are more like my sister than me. … You can have more than one. … So rather than using socioeconomic information, we were looking at do people have a fairly secure life

1735. Who Are You Talking To? New Insights Into the Audience for Consumer Reports on Health Care Quality (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/talkingquality/resources/podcasts_webinars/TalkingQuality_Audience_Webcast_2011_05_11_Transcript.pdf
      January 01, 2011 - people know that they need it in their life and they understand what makes a product better or worse than … But if the condition worsened, if they didn’t feel better than they were very apt to try to find a different … Yeah, so I think I'm talking to a lot of people who are more like my sister than me. … You can have more than one. … So rather than using socioeconomic information, we were looking at do people have a fairly secure life

1736. Two More “Es” and How To Spread (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/how-to-spread.html
      April 01, 2013 - attention for the last 11 or 12 calls now, probably this implementation framework has popped up more than … It’s no longer this new thing that we’re doing, this different thing that takes me more time, but rather … and, you know, we do have some patients whose lines are maintained in different parts of the hospital than … They’re really set up differently than we are.” Or “They have a different culture than we do.” … I think probably most of the hospitals in the nation are still a little more decentralized than that,

1737. Final Progress Report: Mentored Implementation of I-PASS for Better Handoffs and Safer Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/landrigan-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - previously developed and implemented a bundle of interventions we hypothesized would be synergistic, rather … than implementing teamwork training alone or changes to the verbal or written handoff process in isolation … I-PASS techniques; adherence with I-PASS processes in 75% of verbal and written handoffs; and greater than … Of more than 80 hospitals that applied to participate, we selected a distribution of academic (n=20) … Although this mechanism of error surveillance was less intense than methodologies used in some of our

1738. Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors, Volume 1: Why Patient Narratives Matter (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dxsafety-patient-experience-vol1.pdf
      July 01, 2023 - diagnostic experiences, it is important to ask questions about diagnostic issues using broad language, rather … than trying to give patients and families more precise definitions of “medical errors” or “mistakes … Start by communicating more than medical jargon. There’s zero compassion! … Note: For each source, the percentages in the columns total more than 100 percent because narratives … clinicians across multiple settings, the after-effects may be more difficult to constructively manage than

1739. Attachments 5.1 through 5.5 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/chipra-145-materials-v-a.pdf
      June 25, 2014 - approval, however, was based on less stringent criteria in force when the medication was approved rather … than on empirical evidence of its safety and efficacy in this age group. … o Boys (12%) continue to be more than twice as likely than girls (5%) to have ADHD. … o Boys (12%) continue to be more than twice as likely than girls (5%) to have ADHD. … Notably, follow-up care diminished from more than 90% of visits to 75%.

1740. Steps for Increasing Urinary Incontinence Screening: A Guide for Primary Care Practices (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/mui/mui-screening-toolkit.pdf
      April 01, 2025 - Urinary incontinence affects a large number of women, with more than 50 percent of women in the United … More Than 50 Fewer Than 30 of women have UI symptoms of these women receive treatment https://www.ahrq.gov … It may be benefi- cial to prioritize volunteer-based champions rather than assigning individuals to … Patients may respond better to the use of “bladder control” or “bladder leakage” rather than “urinary … Enjoying Work Matters More Than You May Realize. 2024 Feb 13; Available from: https://www.bcg.