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5641. Whole-Body Vibration Therapy for Osteoporosis (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/osteoporosis-vibration-therapy_technical-brief.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - therapies, including weight-bearing exercise, may also increase bone density18,19 and may be safer than … acceleration of greater than 1g are considered high intensity. … This would cause the acceleration experienced in that body part to be greater than those set on the … levels of vibration are harmful, particularly for the population using these platforms for osteoporosis rather … Low- frequency vibratory exercise reduces the risk of bone fracture more than walking: a randomized

5642. Improving Care in a Rural Region with Consolidated Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs015328-coleman-final-report-2007.pdf
      January 01, 2007 - challenges associated with establishing these systems likely play a significant role in these slower than … We wanted to assess the cost savings obtained by adopting a shared PACS over a stand-alone, rather than … Nonetheless, even the delayed matches are generally faster than any solution involving separate PACS … They felt the shared PACS was slower than having a stand-alone PACS because they needed to transmit … CDs are much easier to lose than a jacket of film.

5643. Episiotomy (Overuse): Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/perinatal/chipra-0083-fullreport.pdf
      March 01, 2016 - better outcomes with the use of episiotomies, and they sometimes result in more 5 harm than … • Median episiotomy is associated with higher rates of injury to the anal sphincter and rectum than … Measures that are more complex than those typically used in this literature are needed to understand … driven by local professional norms, experiences in training, and individual practitioner preference rather … than variation in the needs of individual women at the time of vaginal birth.

5644. Episiotomy (Overuse) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/0083episiotomy.pdf
      March 01, 2016 - better outcomes with the use of episiotomies, and they sometimes result in more 5 harm than … • Median episiotomy is associated with higher rates of injury to the anal sphincter and rectum than … Measures that are more complex than those typically used in this literature are needed to understand … driven by local professional norms, experiences in training, and individual practitioner preference rather … than variation in the needs of individual women at the time of vaginal birth.

5645. Final Progress Report: Development Validation and Implementation of Customized Checklists for Safe Surgery (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/gawande-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - operating room is a high-acuity patient care environment in which critical events occur more commonly than … Since its release, we have been able to confirm that the WHO Checklist has been adopted in more than … The checklists were studied in a simulated operating room rather than in an actual operating room with … cases were defined as those needing to start within 4 hours, whereas emergent cases required less than … Since the release of the checklists, more than 3,000 individuals downloaded them.

5646. Final Progress Report: Impacts of Alcohol and Fatigue on Paramedic ALS Skills (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/becker-marques-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - However, concern is warranted that even a low BAC (less than 0.04%) and/or the performance impairment … Importantly, evidence suggests that hangover is “much more common” in light to moderate drinkers than … Anesthesia residents who slept no more than 30 minutes per night displayed impaired innovative thinking … maintaining interest in outcome; (6) showing insight into own performance; (7) remembering “when” rather … than “what”; and (8) communicating effectively.

5647. Learning from Primary Care EHR Exemplars About HIT Safety - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024327-ornstein-final-report-2018.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - Most PPRNet practices are community-based, about one-third have one or two providers, and more than … Although more expensive (more than $800 a month for a one full-time equivalent physician practice), … “I have way fewer patients in the hospital than my peers do.” “When Dr. … that it would be desirable to be able to focus on product updates that help clinicians and patients, rather … than the regulatory requirements that require many of their resources.

5648. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Summary of Findings on Patient Safety Practices and Ratings by a Technical Expert Panel, 2024-2025 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mhs-iv-patient-safety-practices-year-2.pdf
      May 01, 2025 - patient-centered design, studies of CRPs’ effects have focused on organizational liability and costs rather … than patient-oriented outcomes … harm after events and improve the experiences of the involved patients, families, and clinicians, rather … than to improve patient safety by preventing future events.

5649. Archived: Evidence Summary: Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Women: Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/behavioral-counseling-and-pharmacotherapy-interventions-for-/tobacco-use-in-adults-and-pregnant-women-counseling-and-interventions-september-2015
      September 21, 2015 - cessation advice by a physician, for example, were 76% more likely to have quit at 6 months or more than … The included reviews represented more than 800 RCTs, many of which were published since the last … We probably mitigated this potential shortcoming by basing our estimates on primary reviews rather … than reporting results from several reviews. … The evidence base for varenicline, although consistent, is smaller than that for NRT and bupropion

5650. HEALTHCARE COST AND UTILIZATION PROJECT — HCUP (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS2014Introduction.pdf
      December 12, 2016 - Some States provide more than the maximum code fields retained on the NEDS. … Less than one percent of all ED records report more fields than the maximum allowed on the NEDS. … Less than one percent of all ED records report more fields than the maximum allowed on the NEDS. … This is in contrast to the superpopulation model, which adopts a stochastic viewpoint rather than a … Any ages greater than 90 were set to 90.

5651. THE HCUP NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SAMPLE (NEDS), 2014
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS_Introduction_2014.jsp
      January 01, 2014 - Some States provide more than the maximum code fields retained on the NEDS. … Less than one percent of all ED records report more fields than the maximum allowed on the NEDS … Less than one percent of all ED records report more fields than the maximum allowed on the NEDS. … This is in contrast to the superpopulation model, which adopts a stochastic viewpoint rather than a deterministic … Any age greater than 90 were set to 90.

5652. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/arthritis-horizon-scan-high-impact-1512.pdf
      December 29, 2015 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … Since that implementation, review of more than 24,500 leads about potential topics has resulted in … Patients given secukinumab 150 mg had significantly higher ASAS20 response rates than patients given … 5.0 mg/dL at month 6 than did patients treated with febuxostat alone (p<0.0001). … Some experts thought that as a new drug, lesinurad would be more expensive than existing options.

5653. Final Progress Report: Consumer-Led Workshop To Advance Patient Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/peck-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - interview seeks to find a positive core in people’s experience as a base for building on what works, rather … than focusing on the negatives through problem solving.7 The interview instrument (see Appendix 1) … It’s easier to get people to quick scan a brochure, than to ask them to read several pages. … may have been able to get a little further if we’d started closer to where others have left off, rather … than at the beginning.

5654. Horizon-Scan Research-Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/horizon-scan_research-protocol.pdf
      December 01, 2011 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … Is this a behavioral intervention that is purported to be a markedly different or novel approach than … Rather, searchers continue to identify related leads and material through their daily scanning, and … During the first 9 months of piloting the system, tie votes occurred less than 1% of the time; close … votes occurred less than 5% of the time.

5655. Asthma-Immunotherapy-2011 Research (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/asthma-immunotherapy-2011_research.pdf
      January 01, 2011 - the protocols of quality evaluations to ensure that the evaluations are based on quality components rather … than formal scaling of the criteria. … We also concluded that the structure and allowing more than one response resulted in lower than expected … same score of 1.34,50 Quality assessments based on detected flaws in external and internal validity rather … Allowing more than one response may reduce statistical estimates 24 of agreement.

5656. THE HCUP NATIONWIDE READMISSIONS DATABASE (NRD), 2013
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/NRD_Introduction_2013.jsp
      January 01, 2013 - All discharges aged 0 from SID records with verified patient linkage numbers on less than 90 percent … The solution is to use a third-party zip utility such as ZIP Reader, 7-Zip, or WinZip rather than the … The weights for pediatric discharges were often higher than adult discharges. … Less than 1000 discharges (0.007 percent) had the age imputed. … Less than 10 discharges had the sex imputed.

5657. Diabetes Mellitus (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/diabetes-horizon-scan-high-impact-1312.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - Rather, the reports will help to inform and guide the planning and prioritization of research resources … deliver a slow and consistent flow of medication; in development EQW allows for once-weekly dosing rather … than the once- or twice-daily dosing of other GLP-1 receptor agonists. … 4,000 patients at 500 clinical trial sites in more than 30 countries. … Thus, it could be more appealing to patients than steroid therapy.

5658. PULMONARY with "Discussions" in Exec Summary (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pulmonary-horizon-scan-high-impact-1512.pdf
      December 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 24,500 leads about potential topics has resulted in … A person needs two mutated copies of the gene to develop CF; researchers have identified more than … Patients given pirfenidone were more likely to have no decline in lung function than patients given … increase in the number of available lungs would have the largest impact on patient health outcomes, rather

5659. THE HCUP NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SAMPLE (NEDS), 2020
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS_Introduction_2020.jsp
      January 01, 2020 - Some States provide more than the maximum code fields retained on the NEDS. … Less than 1 percent of all ED records report more codes than the maximum allowed on the NEDS. … Some States provide more than the maximum code fields retained on the NEDS. … The superpopulation model, in contrast, adopts a stochastic viewpoint rather than a deterministic viewpoint … Any ages greater than 90 were set to 90.

5660. Finalreport100109 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/Finalreport100109.pdf
      October 01, 2009 - administering several data projects including the UB data project provided an avenue for an additive process rather … than a start-up. … A little more than half of Minnesota’s hospitals are affiliated with hospital systems. … Models were validated using data sets other than those used in their original derivation. … The end result of our pilot experience was more difficult to attain than the initial vision, but it