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221. 6. Conclusions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen6.html
     April 01, 2018 - Overall, although the rate of CRC screening was lower than expected, the intervention increased the likelihood … Patients are more likely to screen by stool test if sent a test kit directly in the mail rather than

222. Development of the AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture: Slide Presentation (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/asc/ascwebinar/smith2slides.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Single Specialty ASCs  Hospital affiliated ASCs were more positive (86%) than Not hospital affiliated … ASCs (80%) on Response to Mistakes  Staff are told about patient safety problems, learning rather … than blame is emphasized, and staff are treated fairly when they make mistakes  Smaller ASCs ( … 1 or 2 Rooms) were more positive than larger ASCs (6 Rooms or More) on Response to Mistakes and Staffing … Staff Position  Doctors/Physicians (excluding anesthesiologists) or Surgeons were more positive than

223. PowerPoint Presentation
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/assess-resident-UTI-slides.pptx
     June 01, 2021 - learned: UTIs are not the only reason for dysuria, in women or in men If an antibiotic does not work, rather … than try “better” antibiotics, consider other reasons for the resident’s signs and symptoms 18 AHRQ … If the resident is asymptomatic, a positive urine culture indicates asymptomatic bacteriuria rather than

224. Chapter 4. Choose the Model To Assess VTE and Bleeding Risk | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/guide4.html
     October 01, 2022 - too complex to be used reliably. 22 , 23 Clinicians often simply bypass the CDS offered in the tool rather … than the rule. … Rather, it was designed to define a known high-risk population to target with computerized alerts. … than during the index admission. … Their captured rate of VTE was lower than similar studies.

225. Chapter 4. Choose the Model To Assess VTE and Bleeding Risk | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/guide4.html
     October 01, 2022 - too complex to be used reliably. 22 , 23 Clinicians often simply bypass the CDS offered in the tool rather … than the rule. … Rather, it was designed to define a known high-risk population to target with computerized alerts. … than during the index admission. … Their captured rate of VTE was lower than similar studies.

226. Module 1: Welcome to the TAKEheart Initiative and the Benefits of Increasing Cardiac Rehabilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/module-1/index.html
     December 01, 2022 - administrators and officials It is important to note that the audiences listed above are a suggestion rather … than a limitation.

227. Module 6: Laying the Groundwork for Care Coordination | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/module-6/index.html
     December 01, 2022 - Hospital leadership It is important to note that the audiences listed above are a suggestion rather … than a limitation.

228. The Use of Modest Incentives to Boost Adoption of Safety Practices and Systems (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Meyer_41.pdf
     March 03, 2008 - Such focus allows the program to promote working smarter rather than providi fee for the service of working … Rather than replace or undermine those existing programs, we focused on areas outside of existing plans … According to Prospect Theory, the risks of gains and losses are evaluated differentl fr individuals would rather … This ensured clinical relevance and promoted the incenti program as a collaborative effort rather than … Rather than rely on incentives as an all-powerful, stand-alone magic bullet, our program was embedded

229. Building partnerships to improve quality of children’s health care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/finalsummary/finalsummary6.html
     September 01, 2015 - States are more apt to benefit from partnering when each brings complementary rather than equivalent

230. Electronic Student Health Questionnaire (eSHQ) enhances risk assessment for adolescents: Special Innovation Feature, August 2015 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/co-nm-specialinnovation.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - Implementation requires ongoing training and technical support rather than one-time costs. … has shown that adolescents are less forthcoming when sensitive information is collected by a person rather … In both States, middle school (MS) students were more likely to complete an eSHQ than high school ( … • The eSHQ provided more complete data than paper-based questionnaires. … Students found it more engaging and easier to navigate than paper-based versions, according to staff

231. Ventilator-Associated Event Surveillance: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/surveillance-fac-guide.html
     February 01, 2017 - In this retrospective study of more than 20,000 episodes of mechanical ventilation, we see that patients … definitions are objective, unit staff can spend time focusing on what went wrong and how to fix it rather … than debate whether the event was actually VAP. … Slide 10: Broadening the Surveillance Say: The definition for VAE is intentionally broader than … Are any of the settings based on provider preference rather than on clinical symptoms?

232. Beyond Rapid Response Teams: Instituting a “Rover Team” Improves the Management of At-Risk Patients, Facilitates Proactive Interventions, and Improves Outcomes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Hueckel_27.pdf
     April 01, 2008 - Rather than depending on an individual to recognize that a patient meets Rapid Response criteria, this … Nurses who had not activated the RPRT indicated that this was due to a lack of necessity rather than … less experienced provider might feel more comfortable transferring those patients back to the PICU rather … than monitoring them in their current location. … that a rapid response is called and to reinforce staff awareness that they can call “at any time,” rather

233. Artificial Intelligence Tool Shows Strong Performance in Predicting Patient Deterioration During Pandemic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/922.html
     July 01, 2024 - Tested in a randomized controlled trial with more than 10,000 patient visits, the tool accurately predicted … Pandemic Despite widespread reports of overcrowding, hospital emergency department (ED) visits were lower than … reviewed records of fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries and found that ED visits were 25 percent lower than … that overcrowding was due more to prolonged hospital stays and fewer available post-acute care beds rather … than a surge in ED visits.

234. Transitioning to the SOPS™ Hospital Survey Version 2.0: What’s Different and What To Expect, Part I: Main Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/hsops2-pt1-transition-updated.pdf
     June 01, 2022 - administered simultaneously, differences in scores can be attributed to changes made in HSOPS 2.0 rather … than changes in patient safety culture over time. … two survey versions, because differences in scores can be attributed to changes made in HSOPS 2.0 rather … scores on the two survey versions, because differences in scores are likely due to changes in HSOPS 2.0 rather … than differences in patient safety culture.

235. 5. Improving Data Collection across the Health Care System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata5.html
     May 01, 2018 - Physician practices with EHR systems tend to use the system for administrative rather than quality improvement … patients over long periods of time, can place the data collection in the context of improvement of care rather … care delivery sites, most are not, so they tend to be a data collection system that is parallel to, rather … than integrated with, care delivery. … may offer more detailed, specific response options, or the individual's race may have been observed rather

236. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/themes.html
     October 01, 2015 - addition, transformation is an ongoing process that practices or health systems choose to engage in, rather … than a goal to be achieved. … December 2014), and that successful transformation required not just meeting recognition standards, but rather … team-based care also improved patient and provider satisfaction. 10 Training clinical team members other than … Additionally, traditional payment systems, which reward quantity rather than quality of health services

237. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/key-themes.html
     March 01, 2017 - addition, transformation is an ongoing process that practices or health systems choose to engage in, rather … than a goal to be achieved. … December 2014), and that successful transformation required not just meeting recognition standards, but rather … team-based care also improved patient and provider satisfaction. 10 Training clinical team members other than … Additionally, traditional payment systems, which reward quantity rather than quality of health services

238. Taking Advantage of Web Functionalities in a Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/web/index.html
     May 01, 2019 - Designing reports to work well on the Web is more challenging than it may seem. … Consider layering when you have more than seven or eight measures and/or have data on more than seven … plus or minus two, ideas in their short-term memory at one time. [ 1 ] So when you have data on more than … The development of this architecture should be an early task rather than something done at the last minute

239. Evaluating a CAHPS Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/consumer-reporting/guidelines/evaluation/index.html
     March 01, 2016 - Consumers who find a report confusing or uninteresting will probably just stop reading it, rather than … How to Evaluate Several methods are available for evaluating quality reports, some more affordable than … collection possibilities with your CAHPS vendor; it may be less expensive and less labor-intensive than

240. Accessible Facilitator Guide: Learn From Defects for Sustainability (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_learn_from_defects_facnotes.docx
     December 01, 2017 - First-order problem solving is reactionary, rather than proactive. … As James Reason wrote more than two decades ago, “Rather than being the main instigators of an accident … You need to understand rather than judge. Ask clarifying questions if you’re not sure. … Go a mile deep and an inch wide—that is, spend time and energy investigating one problem deeply rather … than multiple problems superficially.