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5501. Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process (Page 1 of 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/index.html
      January 01, 2020 - Start your implementation of improvements with small-scale demonstrations, which are easier to manage than … is easier to accumulate evidence for implementation when people are engaged in making something work rather … than focused on the "failure analysis."

5502. Meeting Minutes, July 24, 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2015-03-nac/nacmtg0715-minutes.html
      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

5503. 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

5504. Archived: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection-screening-1996
      January 01, 1996 - in Midwest and Mountain states, in large metropolitan areas (population 500,000 or greater) than in … smaller cities or rural areas, and in black and Hispanic young persons than in whites, Native Americans … A false-positive rate of less than 1 in 100,000 was reported in experienced, centralized laboratories … A stable indeterminate WB after 6 months can be assumed to be due to nonspecific antibody reaction rather … than HIV infection. 33 , 48 Viral Culture and Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays Viral culture is

5505. Putoolssect7 (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressureulcertoolkit/putoolssect7.docx
      February 16, 2011 - It is shorter than the Pieper but has not been as widely used. … Skin Temperature Most clinicians use the back rather than the palm of their hand to assess the temperature … Rarely eats more than 1/3 of any food offered. … OR receives less than optimum amount of liquid diet or tube feeding. 3. … than 24 hours (STOP ABSTRACTION) 5.

5506. Artificial Intelligence and Patient Safety: Promise and Challenges | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/artificial-intelligence-and-patient-safety-promise-and-challenges
      March 27, 2024 - Rather, it’s the actions that we take based on the patterns that emerge from AI-based analyses that can … How do you know you’re doing better than what you might have done otherwise? … Most of our solutions don’t really consider that, so we’re back to augmenting intelligence rather than

5507. Customizing Value-based Methods to Prioritize Implementation of Pharmacogenomic Clinical Decision Support for Learning Health Systems - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs026544-devine-final-report-2022.pdf
      January 01, 2022 - We did not follow the hypothetical cohort of patients over time, but rather, looked at a sequential … Rather, cost-effectiveness using commonly accepted willingness to pay thresholds indicates that implementation … The incremental cost consists of costs of using ticagrelor for ACS, a more expensive drug than clopidogrel … More than 100 pharmacogenes have the highest level of clinical evidence in corresponding disease areas

5508. In Conversation with...Patrick Tighe about Artificial Intelligence | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withpatrick-tighe-about-artificial-intelligence
      March 27, 2024 - Rather, it’s the actions that we take based on the patterns that emerge from AI-based analyses that can … How do you know you’re doing better than what you might have done otherwise? … Most of our solutions don’t really consider that, so we’re back to augmenting intelligence rather than

5509. Kidney-Disease-Medicine Executive (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/kidney-disease-medicine_executive.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Kidney dysfunction is indicated by a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 … persons) have CKD.6 Of these, nearly half are stage 1 or 2, nearly another half are stage 3, fewer than … 4 percent are stage 4, and fewer than 2 percent are stage 5 and receive dialysis. … to progress during treatment followup, and thus less likely to benefit from treatment intervention than … Rather, trials either assigned participants to a fixed dose to be maintained throughout the trial or

5510. C:\unzipped\Methods Series Reports to Convert\Comparison_Report_NIS1 1988-92.wpd (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/Comparison_Report_NIS11988-92Final.pdf
      July 11, 1996 - mortality rate than other Southern states. … Overall, the 1988 NIS mortality estimate is about 7 percent higher than the NHDS estimate. … Rather, the NIS estimates of average lengths of stay and in-hospital mortality tend to be lower than … The poverty rate average is slightly lower for the NIS states than for all 50 states. … mortality rate than other Southern states.

5511. Overview of Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Models: A Contextual Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Home/GetFile/1/16813/prostate-cancer-models-overview/pdf
      May 01, 2018 - (dis)utilities (k=7), and screening in subpopulations at higher risk (based on risk factors other than … For the strategies with a PSA threshold for biopsy less than 10.0 µg/L, incorporating information on … conceptual framework for determining how to screen men with an increased risk for prostate cancer rather … than actual guidance or recommendations for risk-stratified screening. … X -- Analytic Does not conceptualize natural history of cancer; rather, focuses on the effects

5512. Overview of Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Models: A Contextual Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/vTHBrY6VuqjoouJvUmtkr4
      May 01, 2018 - (dis)utilities (k=7), and screening in subpopulations at higher risk (based on risk factors other than … For the strategies with a PSA threshold for biopsy less than 10.0 µg/L, incorporating information on … conceptual framework for determining how to screen men with an increased risk for prostate cancer rather … than actual guidance or recommendations for risk-stratified screening. … X -- Analytic Does not conceptualize natural history of cancer; rather, focuses on the effects

5513. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health - National Institute for Research on Safety and Quality (NIRSQ) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/mission/budget/2021/FY_2021_CJ_NIRSQ.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - The hospitals range from those with fewer than 100 beds to those with more than 500 beds. … (ICUs) have achieved greater reductions in CAUTI rates than ICUs. … All values smaller than 11 (including 0) were set to ‘11’ to protect patient confidentiality. … public use files as early as possible: 1) data editing now takes place in waves (batch processing) rather … multiple data sets now takes place concurrently rather than consecutively, thus multiple processes

5514. Rural Trial of Clinic Order Entry with Decision Support (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015413-samore-final-report-2008.pdf
      January 01, 2008 - Rates of electronic prescribing were higher among providers in group A clinics than among clinicians … Use of the CCOE tool for laboratory and radiologic test ordering was much lower than for electronic … Ten providers in group A and 4 providers in group B averaged more than 5 laboratory orders per month … A task was classified as batched when individual requests were purposefully grouped together rather … than managed as a single action.

5515. Improving Patient Safety/Quality with HIT Implementation (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs015284-reiling-final-report-2008.pdf
      January 01, 2008 - The new hospital is more scalable and adaptable than the original hospital. … accessible at all times, and the hardcopy records of patient charts must be kept in the patient alcove (rather … than taken to nursing stations or elsewhere). 6. … Joseph’s Hospital made it materially quieter than the old facility. In fact, St. … in January 2005, and dropped materially throughout 2005; from 2006-2008, they averaged less than 1

5516. Final Progress Report: Rural Trial of Clinic Order Entry With Decision Support (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/samore-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Rates of electronic prescribing were higher among providers in group A clinics than among clinicians … Use of the CCOE tool for laboratory and radiologic test ordering was much lower than for electronic … Ten providers in group A and four providers in group B averaged more than five laboratory orders per … A task was classified as batched when individual requests were purposefully grouped together rather … than managed as a single action.

5517. 2017-01 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2017-01.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - After exclusions, the NRD contains more than 80 percent of SID discharges from the participating States … The weights for pediatric discharges often are higher than those for adult discharges. 3 Agency for … discharge data probably is an insufficient length of time for examining readmissions that are more than … example, policy interest may be focused on the true, long-run readmission rates in the United States, rather … than on the rates actually observed in 2014.

5518. Using Health IT Chronic Disease Management (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/hit-cdm-transcript-062111.pdf
      June 16, 2021 - As noted, most of them were dental hygienists; a little bit more than half were dental hygienists. … And so you can see that the number of hits per provider was less than .5 so less than half of the providers … And the effect is greater of this CDS for care than for outcomes. … sites that have reported each time since early 2008, these have improved consistently over time and rather … On the right hand side outcomes, again, we better in the EMR sites than in the paper sites.

5519. Medical-Evidence-Communication Research-Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/medical-evidence-communication_research-protocol.pdf
      July 31, 2012 - two or more distinct strategies (i.e., that are multifaceted) are consistently more likely to work than … “1 in x” presentations of probability;22-24 and “x/1,000” presentations are better than percentage … • Absolute relative risk and relative risk reduction are more understandable than number needed to … Evidence reports are typically targeted at scientific researchers in related fields, rather than the … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.

5520. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/11_pepticulcer_potential_high_impact_june_2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … Since that implementation, more than 11,000 leads about topics have resulted in identification and … tracking of more than 900 topics across the 14 AHRQ priority areas and one cross-cutting area. … No more than two experts with a possible COI are considered out of a total of the seven or eight … Some noted that this treatment is priced less expensively than some currently approved UC treatments