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5101. The Role of Community Pharmacists in Patient Safety | PSNet
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      October 24, 2021 - However, what constitutes a community-based pharmacy is much broader than the traditional retail setting … The modern concept of medication safety is much broader in scope than the “five rights” and the focus … technologies, policies and procedures, and other systems factors support the outcomes of the various rights, rather … than focusing solely on completion of an oversimplified checklist. … The important thing to recognize is that community pharmacists do so much more than dispense medication

5102. Section 3: Are You Ready To Improve? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2020 - This approach is fine, as long as it is a conscious decision rather than an oversight. … training in QI techniques, group work, and team building are usually able to achieve success much faster than … More than 50 percent of people who have a bad experience will not complain openly to the plan or the … These public reports often highlight organizations that achieve better results than others on standardized … "Creating loyalty means giving employees more for their labor than just a paycheck.

5103. Patient Monitors in Critical Care: Lessons for Improvement (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2003 - the monitoring task is reflected by the fact that anesthesia monitors currently in use display more than … Overall, nurses contributed to more than 2 half the errors observed during the data collection … In fact, student nurses were better than experienced critical care nurses at returning the hemodynamic … Interviewed nurses frequently reported observing novice nurses focusing on individual parameters rather … than on the overall pattern of physiologic parameters.

5104. Living Systematic Reviews: Practical Considerations for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based Practice Center Program (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/practical-considerations.pdf
      March 01, 2022 - ensure that adequate statistical support is available at multiple timepoints and on an ongoing basis, rather … than late in the review process (as in a standard systematic review). … updating with new evidence more frequently than in a traditional systematic review None identified … Facilitators of LSR Barriers to LSR Proposed Resolution Conclusions No None noted, other than updating … with new evidence more frequently than in a traditional systematic review To date, the SOE for

5105. Decision Making and Readiness for Implementation (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2022 - Exclude any patient younger than 18 years old (or, if easier, exclude pediatric or neonatal units in … Exclude any patient less than 18 years old (or, if easier, exclude pediatric or neonatal units in addition … Hospital-specific cost of a 5-day course of mupirocin (or the average length of non-ICU stay if shorter than … isolates.23-25 Emergence of CHG resistance at this time is largely considered to be a theoretical rather … than practical concern.

5106. Fac-Lvl (pdf file)
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      September 30, 1997 - Then (for all responses to RH21E), set a flag to indicate this is a selection (rather than an addition … . . . . . . . . . . . 0 BOX RH14D For all responses, set a flag to indicate this is a selection (rather … than an addition), and go to BOX RH13. … Consistency checks: FA58 cannot be greater than FA57. FA58 cannot be greater than FA52. … list is {greater than/less than} the number of beds currently in the eligible unit(s).

5107. Final Progress Report: Verbal Order Policies, Occurrence, and Perceptions (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/wakefield2-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - CAHs are located in rural areas, have fewer than 25 beds, and provide a limited range of services … Of interest were the far less frequent requirements to avoid abbreviations (other than approved drug … it should be, somewhat higher than it should be, or about right. … Requires use of complete words rather than abbreviations other than for drug names and doses Y / … Will be implementing a CPOE system more than 2 months from now (Skip to question 9) d.

5108. Communication and Dissemination Strategies To Facilitate the Use of Health-Related Evidence (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2013 - Evidence reports typically target scientifc researchers in related felds, rather than the patients … narratives (yes/no)—Loss- framed messages used in conjunction with narratives were more persuasive than … Key Points: Disseminating Evidence to Clinicians • Ability strategies are not more effective than reach … Many aspects of this review cut across more than one KQ, and some across all three KQs. … strategies addressing a combination of reach, ability, or motivation appear to be more effective than

5109. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/cad-women-treatment_research-protocol.pdf
      September 29, 2011 - Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death among women in United States. 1 More than … Each year, more than 1 million patients have an MI. … However, women have a worse prognosis than men for manifestations of CAD such as acute MI, and some … project title was modified to reflect the project‘s emphasis on comparison of treatment strategies rather … than comparison between individual treatment elements.

5110. Medication-Adherence-Interventions Executive (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2012 - Editorials • Letters to the editor • Articles rated as having high risk of bias • Studies with historical rather … based on feedback from our TEP, to collect a comprehensive set of biomarkers and morbidity outcomes rather … Both approaches were more efficacious than usual care. … Applicability The interventions analyzed in this review were not highly selective; rather, they ranged … Neither were these studies limited to narrow or unrepresentative disorders or disease severity; rather

5111. "Superficial" Report Leads to "Deep" Problem | PSNet
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      July 01, 2012 - The left calf circumference was 4 cm greater than the right calf, but there were no dilated superficial

5112. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      August 31, 2022 - Rather, immunoglobulin E (IgE)- mediated hypersensitivity develops to a subset of the over 200 polypeptides … The fact that such materials are still being purchased may reflect historical practices rather than

5113. Methodology Report #11: Sample design of the 1997 MEPS Household Component
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      November 01, 2000 - adults predicted to incur high medical expenditures, and individuals predicted to have incomes less than … In addition to facilitating an oversample of individuals with family income less than 125 percent of … Among the 19.5 percent of reporting units predicted to have members with family income less than 200 … sample selection to the nationally representative NHIS subsample for the first three quarters of 1996 rather … than the entire year.

5114. High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services: 13th Annual Report to Congress (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/2023-12/2023-annual-report-to-congress.pdf
      January 01, 2023 - The USPSTF recognizes that race, ethnicity, and gender are essentially social rather than biological … four times as likely to attempt suicide than their peers.ii • Every 45 seconds one LGBTQ+ youth … For more than 40 years ago, GLMA has ensured health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, … The USPSTF does not conduct research studies but rather reviews and assesses published research. … More than 1 in 5 adults in the United States live with a mental illness,4 and more than 1 in 5 youth

5115. Disposition of Comments Report for Oral Contraceptive Use for the Primary Prevention of Ovarian Cancer (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cancer-ovarian-contraceptives_disposition-comments.pdf
      June 07, 2013 - lower bound of 1.0 implies that there is approximately a 97.5% probability that the risk is greater than … failed to allow for the fact that ovarian cancer incidence does not increase linearly with age but rather … Since many studies provide data for more than one outcome, the total number of studies included in … Would be good to define "greater than multiplicative effects" for a non- technical reader. … Our systematic review incorporates a meta-analysis of published data rather than a pooled analysis or

5116. Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Colorectal Cancer: Updated Modeling Study for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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      April 26, 2022 - E ach year in the US, more than 1 million people will experi- ence their first stroke or coronary attack … reasonable for some patients to consider using aspirin for primary prevention for a fixed interval rather … than a lifetime. … CRC incidence through a sensitivity analysis rather than the main analysis, based on the findings of … because of the historical consideration of more than 20% 10-year ASCVD risk as a risk-equivalent for

5117. Final Progress Report: Multicenter Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study (MARQUIS) (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - one study at two large urban academic hospitals found that general medical inpatients averaged more than … statement of commitment (as part of the AHRQ grant proposal) and the start of the intervention (more than … for a “gold-standard” medication history to be obtained by a study pharmacist (i.e., generally more than … PAML often documented in admission note rather than being updated in system to be used for reconciliation … Rather, sites need to establish a certification process for BPMH taking in order to standardize the taking

5118. Diagnostic error in mental health: a review (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-mental-health-bmjqs.pdf
      April 15, 2024 - Although diagnostic overshadowing (the attribution of symptoms to an existing diagnosis rather than … , rather than focusing solely on the end result (eg, was the clinician’s original diagnosis correct … the patients diagnosed with a mood disorder by the expert clinicians, Black men were more likely than … behavioural risk factors, white children are consist- ently more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than … International Journal of Forensic Mental Health 2018;17:145–53. 40 Maung K, Ohnmar H, Than W, et al

5119. S131 (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2007 - In routine care, adherence to drugs is unfortunately substantially lower than in RCTs. … However, cohort 0 had an age- and sex-adjusted RR of 0.47, which was considerably higher than the unad … obvious solution to this problem is to stratify analyses ac- cording to relevant clinical subgroups, rather … than restricting them out of the analysis altogether, and then evaluate the extent to which treatment … simplified the statistical analysis by not modeling the drug exposure as a time-varying variable, but rather

5120. Allergy-Seasonal Executive (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2013 - In allergen-specific immunotherapy trials, a minimum 30-percent greater improvement than placebo in … To avoid insomnia, moderate-strength evidence supported the use of oral selective antihistamine rather … Comparative Effectiveness and Harms of SAR Treatments in Children Younger Than 12 Years of Age The … Comparative Effectiveness and Harms of SAR Treatments in Children Younger Than 12 Years of Age Of … Rather, guided by input from Key Informants and the TEP, we prioritized comparisons that reflect treatment