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21. Preoperative Hair Removal | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/preoperative-hair-removal.html
    April 01, 2025 - should only be completed when indicated, outside of the operating room, and if needed with clippers rather … than razors.

22. Methods To Estimate the Baseline 2010 PFP National Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/methods.html
    December 01, 2017 - The rates of the 21 MPSMS adverse events are expressed as a rate for the whole sample population, rather … originate as a rate, and second, they are an estimate for four specific subpopulations of hospital patients rather … than all inpatients. … In order to estimate MPSMS rates for all patients, rather than simply those with one of the four diagnoses … estimated the adverse event rates for the 21 MPSMS HACs using data from patients with all diagnoses, rather

23. Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better Management of Obesity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkit-tool12.html
    March 01, 2014 - Rather, the objective of MI is not to solve the patient's problem or even to develop a plan; the goal … much of the MI literature emphasizes how the "spirit" of MI is the driving force behind any success, rather … than particular techniques or training. … consultations with patients, whereas the clinician's primary goal is to provide high-quality listening rather … than ready-made answers or advice.

24. Tool 2: Readmission Review Tool (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool2_readm_review.docx
    June 02, 2025 - Rather than looking for the one reason for the readmission, capture all the factors that contributed … It shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. Would that be okay with you?” … reconciliation; such services may exist for some patients but not others or may be delivered as available rather … than consistently).

25. Communication Strategies for Sustainability: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/sustainability/communication-strategies-fac-guide.html
    February 01, 2017 - For instance, focus on specific tasks of performing spontaneous breathing trials rather than general … These negative views are gifts, rather than inconveniences. … This safety program is based on a grassroots approach from the ground up rather than top down lightning … Hopefully, they are more boring for the speaker than for the listener. … Rather than frame your request as all or nothing, provide intermediate options and what each option would

26. Reducing Disparities in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/persell_cvd_disparities.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - starting a statin regiment include: – Primary care clinicians focus on LDL (bad) cholesterol levels rather … than an individual’s overall cardiovascular risk – Patient reluctance to start a new medication  … Interventions that are directed at clinicians to promote statin prescribing (rather than aimed at patients

27. Culture Checkup Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/culture-checkup-tool.html
    July 01, 2023 - the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture) based on a unit’s assessment of patient safety culture rather … than the summary scores (e.g., safety climate). … can be an issue for which the average response is three or below or a domain score that shows less than … This is not a meeting to rationalize or justify concerns, but rather a time to focus on identifying opportunities

28. Channels: Reaching the Audience for a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/placement/channels.html
    January 01, 2023 - Rather than imposing your strategy on these organizations, you want it to be something that responds … cultivate a relationship with these “brokers” so that you are in a position to push information out to them rather … than waiting for them to ask. … Ideally, distribution brokers provide more than just a channel for your quality report. … your audience may visit when searching for information on health care, which they do far more often than

29. Appendix C. What Is a Diabetes Prevention Program? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkitapc.html
    March 01, 2014 - While the original diabetes prevention program research study cost more than $5,000 per participant ( … due to personalized counseling and incentives), the group-based DEPLOY model averaged less than $500 … YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program courses are taught by trained laypersons rather than health care professionals … However, the training is extremely thorough and focuses on helping individuals make decisions to change rather … than offering information in a typical didactic style.

30. Interview with the WI-INTUIT Project Team | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/wi-intuit-interview.html
    November 01, 2024 - Because the practices we worked with volunteered to participate in our project, rather than being “voluntold … Like UI, depression is a stigmatized condition for which we rely on patient questionnaires rather than

31. Facilitator Guide: Communication Strategies for Sustainability (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/sustainability/communication-strategies-guide.docx
    January 01, 2017 - For instance, focus on specific tasks of performing spontaneous breathing trials rather than general … These negative views are gifts, rather than inconveniences. … This safety program is based on a grassroots approach from the ground up rather than top down lightning … Hopefully, they are more boring for the speaker than for the listener. … Rather than frame your request as all or nothing, provide intermediate options and what each option would

32. Designing the Built Environment for A Culture and System of Patient Safety – A Conceptual, New Design Process (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Dickerman_84.pdf
    June 04, 2008 - Designers appear to be taking “solution based” approaches rather than using intensive, focused research … than the fault of individuals. … In other words, causation is related to the design of systems and to the culture of care, rather than … It might mean that work environments would need to be suitable for computer monitors rather than … Health care now tends to focus on the illness of the patient rather than on his/her care.

33. Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement in Diagnostic Documentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-ehr-impact4.html
    July 01, 2024 - Systems designed to use medical terminology or international medical coding systems rather than free … operationalized in medical practice, is a natural part of medicine and more common in primary care than … ensure that reported data and reimbursement accurately represent the patient population under treatment, rather … than solely reflecting the completeness of coded data.

34. Comparing Health Plan and Provider Quality Scores to Each Other | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/choose/compare-providers.html
    January 01, 2023 - Comparing to the Community Average Many members of the public think that "average" is "mediocre," rather … than defining it in formal statistical terms. … A provider with a much higher score than average could still be doing quite poorly and one with a much

35. Part Three: Three Strategies for Continuous Improvement of Physician Feedback Reporting Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/confid-report/three-strategies.html
    February 01, 2016 - Rather, testing can and should be performed throughout the reporting cycle from development through implementation … Reports that include patient-level data are more actionable than those that do not, since the physician … Physicians are not being tested, but rather, the report is being tested. … interviews Semistructured interviews are conducted one-on-one or in very small groups of no more than … Online surveys can be thought of as complementary to Web analytics, rather than as substitutes.

36. PDI Charts for Presentations (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/b3a_pdi_chartsforpresentations.pdf
    January 01, 2006 - is the estimate of how a hospital would perform on an indicator for an average case mix of patients, rather … than its own case mix. … than its own case mix. … than its own case mix. … than its own case mix.

37. Comparing Quality Scores to a State or National Average | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/compare/choose/average.html
    March 01, 2016 - Average Another strategy is to compare each entity’s performance to a group of providers larger than … As with the community average, many members of the public think that “average” is “mediocre,” rather … than defining it in formal statistical terms.

38. Displaying the Data in a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/display/index.html
    May 01, 2019 - They also make your report appear to be for “academics” rather than ordinary folk. … Rather than display multiple responses in a segmented bar, offer only the response that is most relevant … than a bar in a different color. … For that reason, it is advisable to show no more than seven providers, or no more than seven measures … For example, rather than listing all the hospitals or medical groups in the State in one table: Create

39. Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/simulation-issue-brief8.html
    July 01, 2024 - References Selected AHRQ Resources PSNet Collection search for “simulation” (contains more than … https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20389233/ The ethical imperative to use simulation, rather than experience

40. Culture Check-Up Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/culture-checkup.html
    December 01, 2012 - conversation, using the specific survey items based on a unit’s assessment of patient safety culture rather … than the summary scores (e.g., safety climate). … can be an issue for which the average response is three or below or a domain score that shows less than … This is not a meeting to rationalize or justify concerns, but rather a time to focus on identifying opportunities