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1801. Neonatal Intensive Care All-Condition Readmissions Without Gestational Age: Full Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-208-fullreport.pdf
      May 13, 2019 - To avoid bias, testing of the metric was limited to data with known, rather than imputed gestational … Unsurprisingly, children with special healthcare needs were more likely than healthy children to have … Exceptions included Idaho, where rural was significantly lower than urban cluster or urbanized area … Gestational age is missing to a much larger degree than birth weight, with gestational age missing in … Re-hospitalization in infants younger than 29 weeks' gestation in the EPIPAGE cohort.

1802. Interim Report of the Subcommittee of the NAC on Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund Investments and Future Activities (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/organization/nac/interim-pcortf-snac-report.pdf
      October 01, 2022 - This group of issues may be best addressed across the portfolio’s priority areas rather than as freestanding … • Implementation science may offer metrics that would be better for measuring systems change than … Bakken’s program of research has resulted in more than 300 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. … She has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, 60 government reports, and 2 books. … Savitz has more than three decades of experience in healthcare delivery and health services research

1803. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/highlights/ps-project-highlights-pfe.pdf
      January 01, 2023 - An additional 12% of measures included in the ROHL-MS addresses more than one OHL domain. 2 https … The guide dissemination efforts reached more than 18,000 people and resulted in more than 60,000 page … perceptions of staff competency to provide safe care are not solely based on skills and expertise, but rather … The project team disseminated more than 16,600 medication lists and 7,800 medication bags at more than … This increase was significantly better than changes seen in the comparison group (p < 0.001).

1804. Final Progress Report: Quality Improvement and Practice-Based Research in Neurology Using the EMR (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/maraganore-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Our enrollment in the mild cognitive impairment trial was slower than for the migraine trial, as initially … The outcomes were measured by design at 12 months rather than at 6 months (by contrast to the migraine

1805. 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

1806. 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

1807. Suicide Risk Response: Enhancing Patient Safety Through Development of Effective Institutional Policies (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Bonner.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - This work is not presented as a rigorous evaluation of suicide policies; rather, we demonstrate the … practices, and will determine whether the TIDES intervention is more effective for these patients than … Preferably, the team should perform more than one test, at different times of day, to account for different

1808. Improving the Emergency Department Discharge Process: Environmental Scan Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/edenvironmentalscan/edenvironmentalscan.pdf
      December 01, 2014 - This totals 282, indicating that 65 publications address more than one aim. … returns.1 Because of correlation to other risk factors, age may be a surrogate for other conditions, rather … than an independent risk factor. … In another study, being older than 75 years was a risk for hospital readmission.35 In Hawaii, older … Taking more than three medications. The performance of this tool was not assessed.

1809. AHRQ Transforming Primary Care Grants Bibliography | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/bibliography/index.html
      February 01, 2017 - Grants Bibliography This bibliography includes citations for and short summaries of the more than … suggest that telephone encounters and, to a lesser extent, secure electronic message threads complemented rather … than substituted for office visits for these patients. … before, the difference was not significantly greater than that in controls. … While the mean performance rates of HCH clinics were higher than those of non-HCH clinics, there was

1810. AHRQ Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/tpcbib/index.html
      May 01, 2015 - Grants Bibliography This bibliography includes citations for and short summaries of the more than … suggest that telephone encounters and, to a lesser extent, secure electronic message threads complemented rather … than substituted for office visits for these patients. … before, the difference was not significantly greater than that in controls. … While the mean performance rates of HCH clinics were higher than those of non-HCH clinics, there was

1811. 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

1812. 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

1813. 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

1814. 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

1815. Ratio of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans to Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Seizure: Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0197-fullreport.pdf
      November 01, 2019 - technology is readily available (Ginde, Foianini, Renner, et al., 2008), fast, and less expensive than … (Note: some contraindications are guidelines rather than strict rules. … In children younger than 5 years, about 20 percent of the active bone marrow is in the cranium, compared … Reliability Conclusions The reliability is very good; observed reliability was consistently greater than … CT scans are simple to order because the technology is readily available, fast, and less expensive than

1816. Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography Screening Among Children With Sickle Cell Anemia (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-139-fullreport.pdf
      May 01, 2017 - In children with genotypes other than SCA (e.g., HbSB+-thalassemia or HbSC), do not perform screening … However, other less stringent case definitions resulted in substantially more misclassification than … be used to perform cross-State comparisons of TCD screening among children with sickle cell anemia, rather … than data acquired directly from individual Medicaid 15 programs. … Younger children (ages 2-6) were more likely to receive TCD screening than older children (chi- square

1817. 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

1818. Chartbook on Patient Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/npsd-chartbook-2020.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - a larger sum than a count by REPORT TYPE. … Reports could be associated with more than one EVENT TYPE. … For these EVENT TYPES Near misses were reported less frequently than Incidents, representing less than … regarding harm arising from or associated with plans or actions taken during the provision of healthcare rather … than an underlying disease or injury.

1819. Diagnosing Diagnosis Errors: Lessons from a Multi-institutional Collaborative Project (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/advances/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.”

1820. 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.”