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5961. Suicide Risk Response: Enhancing Patient Safety Through Development of Effective Institutional Policies (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Bonner.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - This work is not presented as a rigorous evaluation of suicide policies; rather, we demonstrate the … practices, and will determine whether the TIDES intervention is more effective for these patients than … Preferably, the team should perform more than one test, at different times of day, to account for different

5962. Improving the Emergency Department Discharge Process: Environmental Scan Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/edenvironmentalscan/edenvironmentalscan.pdf
      December 01, 2014 - This totals 282, indicating that 65 publications address more than one aim. … returns.1 Because of correlation to other risk factors, age may be a surrogate for other conditions, rather … than an independent risk factor. … In another study, being older than 75 years was a risk for hospital readmission.35 In Hawaii, older … Taking more than three medications. The performance of this tool was not assessed.

5963. AHRQ Transforming Primary Care Grants Bibliography | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/bibliography/index.html
      February 01, 2017 - Grants Bibliography This bibliography includes citations for and short summaries of the more than … suggest that telephone encounters and, to a lesser extent, secure electronic message threads complemented rather … than substituted for office visits for these patients. … before, the difference was not significantly greater than that in controls. … While the mean performance rates of HCH clinics were higher than those of non-HCH clinics, there was

5964. AHRQ Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/tpcbib/index.html
      May 01, 2015 - Grants Bibliography This bibliography includes citations for and short summaries of the more than … suggest that telephone encounters and, to a lesser extent, secure electronic message threads complemented rather … than substituted for office visits for these patients. … before, the difference was not significantly greater than that in controls. … While the mean performance rates of HCH clinics were higher than those of non-HCH clinics, there was

5965. Identifying Key Areas for Delivery System Research (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/system/delivery-system-initiative/casalino/paper/casalino_idkeydsr.pdf
      February 01, 2014 - physicians go the extra mile for patients—staying late to see a patient in the office, for example, rather … than sending the patient to the emergency department. … But I believe that, in suggesting these areas, it is better to be specific and to be wrong than to … measurement—reliability, validity, the possibility of unintended consequences, and the difficulty of measuring more rather … components, though for the most part the focus remains on processes. 16 Although a method rather

5966. Identifying Key Areas for Delivery System Research (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/casalino_idkeydsr.pdf
      February 01, 2014 - physicians go the extra mile for patients—staying late to see a patient in the office, for example, rather … than sending the patient to the emergency department. … But I believe that, in suggesting these areas, it is better to be specific and to be wrong than to … measurement—reliability, validity, the possibility of unintended consequences, and the difficulty of measuring more rather … components, though for the most part the focus remains on processes. 16 Although a method rather

5967. Cover Page (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/medicine-safety-call-center_research.pdf
      September 01, 2007 - Introduction Adverse drug reactions are estimated to result in more than 2.1 million injuries and 100,000 … The annual economic cost of adverse drug events is estimated to be more than $75 billion (Johnson and … increased risk of heart attacks and strokes on prolonged use was not detected by the MedWatch system but rather … outpatient setting and involves community pharmacies, which are visited by patients more frequently than

5968. Cover Page (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/it-architecture-for-post-marketing-surveillance-arizona-cert.pdf
      September 01, 2007 - Introduction Adverse drug reactions are estimated to result in more than 2.1 million injuries and 100,000 … The annual economic cost of adverse drug events is estimated to be more than $75 billion (Johnson and … increased risk of heart attacks and strokes on prolonged use was not detected by the MedWatch system but rather … outpatient setting and involves community pharmacies, which are visited by patients more frequently than

5969. Safety Considerations in Building a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/safety-considerations-building-point-care-ultrasound-program
      June 01, 2018 - Defining appropriate reimbursement for POCUS, which may be different than that provided for imaging performed … to procedural education, medical education is moving toward a system based on competency evaluation, rather … than on simply the number of procedures performed.( 5 , 9 , 12 ) POCUS education and competency assessment … Emergency medicine has been performing point-of-care ultrasound for more than 20 years, and they have

5970. Supplemental Document No. 1 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/measure_retirement/supplemental-materials/supplementaldoc1.pdf
      September 01, 2014 - provides details on the search for evidence pertaining to the focus of the measures that scored less than … For comparison, Medicaid fee-for-service expenditures were $171,665,179,984 for enrollees younger than … measure NOTE TO SNAC: SNAC agreed with AHRQ’s recommendation that only those measures with less than … Most studies did not specifically address timeliness and/or frequency, but rather the content of prenatal

5971. In Conversation With... Joel Willis, DO, PA, MA, MPhiL and Neal Sikka, MD | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-joel-willis-do-pa-ma-mphil-and-neal-sikka-md
      May 14, 2020 - I think the key is communication at this point, now more than ever. … also includes a wider variety of healthcare services, including those provided by professionals other than … As this evidence continues to evolve, telehealth is best used as a complement, rather than a substitution

5972. Telehealth and Patient Safety During the COVID-19 Response | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/telehealth-and-patient-safety-during-covid-19-response
      May 14, 2020 - also includes a wider variety of healthcare services, including those provided by professionals other than … As this evidence continues to evolve, telehealth is best used as a complement, rather than a substitution … I think the key is communication at this point, now more than ever.

5973. Clinical Decision Support for Chronic Pain Management - Executive Summary (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/cds4cpm-executive-summary-2024.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - ’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain17 into PainManager as an MME/day calculator rather … than using EHR-based MME calculations … Implementation strategies were more likely to be used for PainManager than for MyPAIN. … Limitations Although this project was designed to explore the possibility of implementing at more than

5974. Observing Nurse Interaction with Infusion Pump Technologies (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Carayon.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - According to Drury,6 “A process chart is nothing more than a plant (or office, etc.) layout with the … Patients’ rooms were observed to be more often quiet than the medication room. … Patients’ rooms tended to be more quiet than the medication room. … The data on sequence of steps (tasks) demonstrate a rather large diversity for each of the three types

5975. Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Weight Loss Interventions to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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      September 18, 2018 - with higher dropout rates for adverse events in the medication groups than in the placebo groups. … intermediate out- comes (eg, continuous measures of blood pressure, cholesterol lev- els, glucose levels); rather … sizes) suggests that benefits are likely dependent on indi- vidual, social, and environmental factors rather … than specific inter- vention characteristics. … Are Asians at greater mortality risks for being overweight than Caucasians?

5976. Untitled (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/aggression_research-protocol.pdf
      October 05, 2015 - administration of mechanical, pharmacologic, or physical interventions, which is seen as more restrictive than … Psychiatric Emergency Response Teams11) and pharmacologic interventions aimed at rapidly reducing agitation (rather … than treating the underlying illness). … Key Informants must disclose any financial conflicts of interest greater than $10,000 and any other … Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.

5977. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/depression-postpartum-screening_research-protocol.pdf
      May 01, 2013 - accounted for by bereavement, that is, after the loss of a loved one, the symptoms persist for longer than … development.10-13 Health care resource utilization is greater for women with postpartum depression than … for depression • Studies where the primary objective is to detect depression during pregnancy (rather … Key Informants must disclose any financial conflicts of interest greater than $10,000 and any other … Invited Peer Reviewers may not have any financial conflict of interest greater than $10,000.

5978. Research Protocol: Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/radiation-therapy-brain-metases-protocol.pdf
      October 10, 2019 - For patients with poor prognosis (expected survival less than 3 months), palliative care with or without … reference-mine published systematic reviews to ensure that all relevant studies have been identified, i.e., rather … than summarizing the reviews, we will use them as sources to identify available research studies. … Specifically, we will assess whether combination treatments of WBRT plus SRS are more effective than … For each key question, no more than seven outcomes will be considered, to ensure a concise overview.

5979. Ratio of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans to Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Seizure: Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0197-fullreport.pdf
      November 01, 2019 - technology is readily available (Ginde, Foianini, Renner, et al., 2008), fast, and less expensive than … (Note: some contraindications are guidelines rather than strict rules. … In children younger than 5 years, about 20 percent of the active bone marrow is in the cranium, compared … Reliability Conclusions The reliability is very good; observed reliability was consistently greater than … CT scans are simple to order because the technology is readily available, fast, and less expensive than

5980. Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography Screening Among Children With Sickle Cell Anemia (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-139-fullreport.pdf
      May 01, 2017 - In children with genotypes other than SCA (e.g., HbSB+-thalassemia or HbSC), do not perform screening … However, other less stringent case definitions resulted in substantially more misclassification than … be used to perform cross-State comparisons of TCD screening among children with sickle cell anemia, rather … than data acquired directly from individual Medicaid 15 programs. … Younger children (ages 2-6) were more likely to receive TCD screening than older children (chi- square