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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/PrimaryCareEffortsToReduceReadmissions-envscan.pdf
March 01, 2020 - Key Findings 
• The primary care-based literature on care transition programs is less developed than … Introduction  
Each year in the United States more than 35 million patients are discharged from the … redesign” or “patient centered medical home and care coordination,” 
reflects methodological limitations rather … than articles’ lack of relevance. … • RNs were able to reach more 
than 90% of discharged 
patients.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/antiplatelet-treatment_executive.pdf
September 01, 2013 - Vascular 
Events) trial suggested that the 
combination of clopidogrel and aspirin is 
more effective than … fact that the primary focus of all included 
publications was not the tests’ analytic validity but rather … There was also substantial risk of selective 
outcome reporting for outcomes other than MACE. … Studies could 
have involved more than 1 combination. … For example, *2 variants are much more 
common in East Asian populations than others.
                                     
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/THQITvalue020612.pdf
June 01, 2010 - achieving these benefits" (page 2).1 However, 
the projects did not need to show a return-on-investment but rather … find that IT leadership and knowledge 
resources are consistently identified as more critical factors than … for whom 
telemedicine service was available to parents had 22.2-percent fewer in-person ED visits than … intervention study, demonstrate that the data contained in the EHR 
are far more complete and accurate than … find that the final drug orders in the intervention group were 
appropriate significantly more often than
                                     
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/TRANSCRIPT%20OF%20LEVERAGING%20HEALTH%20INFORMATION%20TECHNOLOGY%20FOR%20PATIENT%20EMPOWERMENT_1.pdf
April 08, 2010 - So the first thing you will notice is
more men than women use the system. … The other thing that we have found is that we got less people to use the system than we had hoped for … And another one of
my partners is frequently saying, "You know, I am working for the computer rather … than it working for me." … Krist, one of the participants is wondering if there are other EMR
products other than those noted that
                                     
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/findings-and-lessons-from-improving-management-of-individuals-with-complex-health-care-needs-through-health-it-grant-initiative.pdf
February 20, 2014 - show that patients who are involved 
with their care decisions and management have better 
outcomes than … Some of the projects addressed more than one area of 
interest. … Except in 
urgent or emergent situations, alerts go to nurses 
for triage rather than to physicians. … specific care 
transition events) had significantly more frequent 
contact with their care manager than … whose nurse used the system 
were more likely to move below the threshold for 
medication complexity than
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-0232-fullreport.pdf
February 01, 2020 - Rather, changes in eating and physical activity behaviors are 
affecting the intake and expenditure of … systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure reading ≥95th 
percentile for age, sex, and height on more than … look more carefully 
for abnormal blood pressure in overweight children; such readings occur in more than … Klein and colleagues reported that more than 
half of providers surveyed perceived that coverage for … More than 12 million members were enrolled at some point during the 2013 measurement year 
that was used
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-240-bmi-parent-full-report.pdf
February 01, 2020 - Rather, changes in eating and physical 
activity behaviors are affecting the intake and expenditure of … obesity are much 
more likely to be diagnosed with mental health disorders or bone and joint disorders than … It is interesting to note 
that one study found that pediatricians were more likely than family physicians … More than 12 million members were enrolled at some point during the 2013 measurement year 
that was used … 1,580 parents completed the online survey; 134 (8.5 percent) parents with children either 
younger than
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/coronary-artery-stenting-future_research.pdf
January 01, 2014 - • There is insufficient evidence to evaluate the comparative effect of techniques other than 
FFR … The three topics 
where more than 50 percent of the stakeholders had selected them as high priority … Three topics received high priority by more than half of those who participated. … Thus, findings gleaned from cohort studies should be 
considered as hypothesis-generating rather than … attrition at 1 
year for this trial, one could conservatively estimate loss to followup at no more than
                                     
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-2005
July 12, 2005 - about labeling (stigma or concern resulting from being labeled “obese”) overweight is more accurate than … of age, the prevalence was similar between all racial/ethnic subgroups and both sexes, but was lower than … 50-69  BMI measurements in childhood and adulthood correlated with each other as well as, or better than … measures (or changes in them over time) to intermediate measures, such as blood pressure or lipids, rather … than health outcomes.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/insulin-blood-sugar-2010_executive.pdf
January 01, 2010 - insulin pump therapy 
as a way to adjust insulin therapy; however, SMBG 
measures are more variable than … an I-squared statistic, which describes the 
variability in effect estimates due to heterogeneity 
rather … than random chance.34 If we found substantial 
heterogeneity, we attempted to determine reasons for … The duration of diabetes at enrollment was 
greater than 14 years in the studies reporting this. … Other than the rt-CGM studies, few 
studies reported data on treatment adherence.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications2/files/dx-safety-21-diagnostic-stewardship.pdf
August 01, 2024 - such that the decision 
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to perform further testing may be mediated by professional judgment rather … than by a prespecified protocol 
or algorithm.48,49 
A randomized trial in the Netherlands compared … testing 
process.101 
An emphasis on general principles and core features of diagnostic stewardship, rather … than prespecified 
improvement targets, will allow innovation and flexibility to meet local needs.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressureulcertoolkit/putoolssect7.pdf
January 01, 2004 - A pressure ulcer scar will break down faster than 
unwounded skin. 
   
37. … A pressure ulcer scar will break down faster than unwounded skin. True   
37. … 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 … than 24 hours (STOP ABSTRACTION) 
5.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/technical-brief-36-patient-engagement-comments.pdf
August 26, 2020 - -
small point, but i think the existence of a portal isn't 
engagement in and of itself - but rather … -One rather major limitation is that PUBMED and CINAHL dont 
have great MESH terms to link to PFE, especially … variety of persons in the telehealth modality (p. 17, line 25) 
but this kind of idea is more important than … ) talk about how it is more expensive for the homeless to 
keep getting admitted to their 
hospital than … activation offers one concrete 
and evidence-based approach, but her definition of activation is 
narrower than
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/g2_pdi_specifictoolstosupportchange.pdf
January 01, 2011 - • The group can generate a substantial 
list of ideas, rather than just the few 
things that first … ® 
measures 
(Healthcare 
Effectiveness 
Data and 
Information Set) 
HEDIS is a tool used by more than … Hence, while death rates constitute 
a more sensitive indicator of quality than mere 
procedure counts
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/g2_combo_specifictoolstosupportchange.pdf
January 01, 2011 - • The group can generate a substantial list of 
ideas, rather than just the few things that first … HEDIS® measure
s (Healthcare 
Effectiveness 
Data and 
Information Set) 
HEDIS is a tool used by more than … Hence, while 
death rates constitute a more sensitive indicator of 
quality than mere procedure counts
                                     
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/IAS%20Level%203%20Text%20Message-Facilitated%20PC%20CDS%208.29.25_Final.pdf
August 01, 2025 - When designing a 
 
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multimodality intervention, the modalities should complement each other rather … than providing 
duplicative or conflicting support or information. … For interventions that require more than one touch point with 
patients, sustained engagement can be … third of patient-facing apps 
are focused on helping a patient manage a single condition with less than … percent intended for 
two or more conditions.59 However, 42 percent of the U.S. population has more than
                                     
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs025984-malone-final-report-2023.pdf
January 01, 2023 - The result is an overly sensitive trigger  
that more often than not  generates inappropriate alerts, … The perfect agreement groups consisted of less than two 
drugs (i.e., irinotecan, tizanidine, azathioprine … Twenty-four 
respondents (59%) were associated with organizations that had more than 500 licensed beds … In some instances, such as with colchicine-related interactions, the 
risk of harm was much greater than … encounter data, we 
demonstrated that it was possible to significantly reduce the number of warnings using rather
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/arthritis-knee-physical-therapy_executive.pdf
November 01, 2012 - 6 weeks, 6 to 13 weeks, 14 to 26 weeks, or more than 
26 weeks. … by disclosed conflict 
of interest31 and by individual risk of bias criteria of 
individual studies rather … More than 70 percent of the participants 
were female. … short 
duration (fewer than 5 hours) and long duration (more than 
10 hours). … However, 
noxious stimulation decreased pain intensity more than 
innocuous stimulation.
                                     
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/machine-learning-tools-white-paper.pdf
December 01, 2024 - learning to restrict the number of 
abstracts that had to be screened, used single data extraction rather … We stopped screening after rejecting more than 200 consecutive citations during double 
screening. … SVM, gradient 
boosting, and CNN models.45 This study used the PubMed publication type tag for RCT rather … in more than one study, they 
were used in different ways. … Pretrained models may perform better 
than zero-shot models across tasks.