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5321. Creation of a Medical Procedure Service to Improve Patient Safety | PSNet
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      March 01, 2008 - This also frees the busy ward teams to continue in other patient-related activities rather than rushing … service remains continuously staffed by residents, as more residents are interested in the rotation than … To allow all residents to participate, some rotations are scheduled for less than a full 3-week block … 15 years, and our major and minor complication rate for all of the procedures collectively is less than

5322. AHRQ PSNet Annual Perspective: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patient Safety | PSNet
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      August 31, 2020 - conditions or experiencing an acute event, delaying treatment may pose a greater health risk to them than … adults, racial and ethnic minority groups, essential workers, and unpaid adult caregivers. 23 More than … cause providers to overlook other potential diagnoses, 34 but the desire to treat may cause more harm than … good, particularly when decisions are based on anecdotal information, rather than rigorous evidence-based

5323. DEMENTIA INCLUDING ALZHEIMER'S #04 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/dementia-horizon-scan-high-impact-1406.pdf
      February 01, 2015 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … Since that implementation, review of more than 18,000 leads about potential topics has resulted in … No more than two experts with a possible COI are considered out of a total of the five to eight experts … Patients with the ApoE-ε4 allele show cognitive response to lower doses of insulin than do patients … various approved forms of insulin, with human insulin (branded as Novolin R) consistently costing less than

5324. Glaucoma-Screening Surveillance (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2013 - glaucoma significantly decreased when a clinically relevant group of glaucoma suspects was included, rather … than disc photos or FDT. … In terms of specificity, SAP performed better than disc photos and FDT, similar to HRT, and worse than … than disc photos or FDT. … In terms of specificity, SAP performed better than disc photos and FDT, similar to HRT, and worse than

5325. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 45: Long COVID Models of Care (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/long-covid-disposition-comments.pdf
      January 01, 2022 - The questions are confined by the status quo rather than being used to explore alternative frameworks … need to further validate the PASC score, the first definition to utilize a composite symptom score rather … than clinical criteria." … There needs to be more than a reductive focus on disease symptoms. … We revised the Summary and Implications section to state: "Rather, all models should be designed

5326. Recommendation: Depression and Suicide Risk in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      June 20, 2023 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … The USPSTF recognizes that race, ethnicity, and gender are all social rather than biological constructs … Adequate evidence that harms of pharmacotherapy are likely no greater than moderate. … No instrument was addressed in more than 1 study.

5327. Technical Review 17: Nutritional Research Series, Vol. 1: Application of Systematic Review Methodology to the Field of Nutrition (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/nutrtp1.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - nutrition-related topic, it is important to include nutrition scientists and at least one scientist with a wide rather … than narrow range of views and expertise on the topic under review. … In the rare instances where many more potentially relevant articles may be available than feasibly can … can be particularly important for systematic reviews where absolute intake/response relationships rather … than relative intake response relationships are needed to assess the public health importance of a

5328. Final Progress Report: Society for Pediatric Sedation Consensus Meeting: Great Expectations— Defining Quality in Pediatric Sedation (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2025 - Many centers reported small (no more than 2000 sedation events) case series of sedation processes and … important adverse events and had already appropriately moved the discussion toward rescue skills required rather … than simply monitoring rates of any particular event.7 The safety group thought it would be important … In today’s 8 environment, true “effectiveness” requires more than just accomplishing the procedure … ; rather, a sedation “event” should be compared to the “ideal” sedation.

5329. Adolescent Assessment of Preparation for Transition (ADAPT) to Adult-Focused Health Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/outcomes/chipra-146-fullreport.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - 6 months between pediatric and adult care than those who were more prepared (Garvey, Wolpert, Rhodes … health outcomes has been shown to be stronger when patient-centeredness is measured by patient report rather … than provider or researcher 11 assessment (Stewart, et al., 2000; Theunissen, Vogels, Koopman, … quality of HCT preparation is based on adolescent-reported responses collected in the ADAPT survey, rather … than on existing data.

5330. Final Progress Report: Risk Models To Improve Long-Term Care Medication Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/higginson-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - The group agreed to shift its vision to improving safety rather than compliance. … Bed size ranged from 88 to 214 licensed beds; the average was 120 beds, which was somewhat higher than … ALF/RCF bed size ranged from 60 to 122, averaging 73 beds—again, somewhat larger than the statewide … or a dose or frequency administered other than what was ordered. … First, the top-level event is not an “adverse drug event” in the sense that it has resulted in harm; rather

5331. User Guide (v2025.1) for Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccsr/DXCCSR-User-Guide-v2025-1.pdf
      November 01, 2024 - ICD-10-CM consists of more than 70,000 diagnosis codes. … was not restricted to include the same set of categories as the beta versions of the CCS tool, but rather … that future revisions to the CCSR would allow new categories to be inserted in a relevant section, rather … More than one CCSR category matches the ICD-10-CM Code Book chapter: If there is more than one CCSR … Rather, code the condition(s) to the highest degree of certainty for that encounter/visit, such as symptoms

5332. Appendix A. Details on Scan Data Set, Manual Reviews, Algorithm Classification Methods, and Supplemental Scan Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2020 - Manually Reviewed Projects Grouped by Extent of Reviews Some projects were reviewed more than once … approach, the algorithm did not take into account sentence structure or relationships between words, but rather … variation in results that might occur during the manual review process; the manual review results are rather

5333. Quality Improvement Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/antipsychotic/qi-strategies.html
      July 01, 2021 - context, the various strategies each plan implemented are noted below, as each plan implemented more than … These key components were not specific to improvement on any specific measure, but rather appeared to … These challenges were not found to be specific to one particular measure but rather global in nature.

5334. Accurate ADHD Diagnosis (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-088-fullreport.pdf
      January 05, 2017 - from this study suggest that the prevalence of medication treatment for ADHD is higher among boys than … Children enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP are more likely than privately insured or uninsured children to … categories of racial and ethnic data, including factors of national origin, such as Cuban or Mexican rather … than the broad category of Hispanic. … Additionally, the distinctions of national origin, such as Chinese or Vietnamese, rather than the broad

5335. Christiana Care Health System: Safety Mentor Program (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Campbell_94.pdf
      March 30, 2008 - board felt they had responsibility for error prevention but viewed the error-reporting process as less than … Rather, a combination of “best practices” and technology within a culture of patient safety is essential … The AHRQ HSOPSC provides reliable measures with more detail than prior surveys and includes national

5336. Count and Be Counted: Preparing Future Pharmacists to Promote a Culture of Safety | PSNet
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      April 01, 2006 - reduces preventable adverse drug events.( 3 , 4 ) Pharmacist-managed anticoagulation therapy is safer than … days as student pharmacists and teach them the anticipatory framework needed to think "root cause" rather … than "quick fix."

5337. In Conversation with… Michael Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD (hon) | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-michael-cohen-rph-ms-scd-hon
      April 01, 2006 - reduces preventable adverse drug events.( 3 , 4 ) Pharmacist-managed anticoagulation therapy is safer than … days as student pharmacists and teach them the anticipatory framework needed to think "root cause" rather … than "quick fix."

5338. Meeting Minutes, July 24, 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2015 - AHRQ focuses on translation (especially of evidence-based care) rather than discovery. … The report's data are based on more than 250 measures of quality and disparities throughout an array

5339. Counseling and Other Psychosocial Supports | The Academy
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      January 01, 2025 - Preventive Services Taskforce, 5 and can be more informative than simply asking the patient. … Ideally, rather than relying on written progress notes or shared records, the whole care team of internal

5340. Covariate Selection for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research
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      January 01, 2013 - An alternative approach to estimate causal effects, other than confounding/covariate control, is the … These difficulties can be addressed by using inverse-probability-of-treatment weighting (IPTW), rather … than regression adjustment, for confounding control.