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6281. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response: Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements To Improve the Safety of Surgical Care (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mhs-IV-rapid-response-surgical-report-cards.pdf
      November 01, 2023 - A 1998 study estimated that more than 40–50 million operations are performed in the United States each … A surgical site infection (SSI) is estimated to increase hospitalization costs by more than $20,000 … Technical barriers were the perception that, even if more accurate than other initiatives, the data … Rather it provides a means to identify areas in need of an improvement process. … VTE data abstraction accuracy rates from 40% to greater than 94%.

6282. The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide: Ways to Approach the Quality Improvement Process (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/cahps-section-4-ways-to-approach-qi-process.pdf
      May 17, 2017 - your implementation of improvements with small-scale demonstrations, which are easier to manage than … easier to accumulate evidence for implementation when people are engaged in making something work rather … than focused on the “failure analysis.”

6283. Evidence Summary: Iron Deficiency Anemia in Young Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary23/iron-deficiency-anemia-in-young-children-screening
      March 30, 2015 - conditions likely to affect iron absorption, growth, or development, thus ruling out some children at higher than … In addition, these studies should report neurodevelopmental diagnoses rather than test scores.

6284. Strategy 1: Working with Patients & Families as Advisors (Implementation Handbook) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy1/Strat1_Implement_Hndbook_508_v2.pdf
      January 28, 2011 - to help hospitals provide care and services that are based on patient- and family-identified needs rather … than the assumptions of clinicians or other hospital staff about what patients and families want. … Suggest that people be fairly brief and take no more than 2 to 3 minutes to tell their story. … o When presenting data, graphs often provide a better visual depiction than tables. … , worse than, the same as, common, rare, etc.).

6285. Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/WEqCV3NvnZAeLdC_pp6nVK
      October 01, 2018 - studies (n = 3292) reported small improvements in some quality-of-life and functional outcomes (eg, less than … Forty-nine treatment studies (n = 10 181) found DAA regimens associated with pooled SVR rates greater than … The latter were classified as nonrandomized treatment studies rather than randomized trials in this review … DAA regimens were associated with fewer harms than older interferon-containing thera- pies. … However, observa- tional studies reported SVR rates of 90%, only modestly lower than observed in the

6286. Behavioral Health Apps in Primary Care | The Academy
      integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/products/topic-briefs/behavioral-health-apps
      July 01, 2024 - [1] and one in six individuals over the age of 12 experienced a substance use disorder. [2] Fewer than … 58] and one in six individuals over the age of 12 experienced a substance use disorder. [59] Fewer than … While being evidence based is generally better than not, it is also important to review the published … introduced as part of a comprehensive treatment plan that complements other services and supports, rather … than used as a standalone intervention

6287. Patient, Family Member, and Clinician Perceptions of Disclosure of Adverse Events in Labor and Delivery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/baker.html
      August 01, 2017 - We employed a ranking rather than rating process to ensure variability among events.

6288. Implementation, Adoption, and Scaling Workgroup: Key Factors and Considerations for Assessing the Value of Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support (pdf file)
      cdsic.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/IAS_Key%20Factors%20and%20Considerations%20for%20Assessing%20the%20Value%20of%20PC%20CDS.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - to rely more on the findings from similar PC CDS economic evaluations reported in the literature, rather … than conducting their own evaluations. … can inform healthcare organizations' decisions to buy an "interoperable and proven" PC CDS product rather … than develop tools internally and incur costs for a home-grown PC CDS intervention with unknown economic

6289. CDS Connect - Year 1 Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/cds-connect-year1-final-report.pdf
      October 01, 2017 - For this reason, standards-based CDS artifacts can be more complex than custom-developed CDS artifacts … note that the USPSTF-based CDS did not perform the 10-year ASCVD risk score calculation itself, but rather … authoring tools should be optimized for a wide range of potential build processes from the outset, rather … than specially targeted at a subset of authoring functionality.

6290. Low Tidal Volume Ventilation Guide for Reducing Ventilator-Associated Events in Mechanically Ventilated Patients (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/ltvv-mvpguide.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - associated with significant reductions in central line-associated bloodstream infections and VAP in more than … 100 Michigan ICUs.35-38 The Michigan results were sustained for more than 3 years and were associated … For instance, it would be easier to add a nightlight to bathrooms rather than redesign the floor plan … If the tidal volume is greater than 8 mL/kg, the tidal volume should be reduced over 2 hours.

6291. Standards and Regulatory Frameworks Workgroup: Prioritizing Patient Preferences for Standardization to Support PC CDS (pdf file)
      cdsic.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/SRF_Patient%20Preference%20Standardization%20Priorities_508.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - I’ve never once had anybody go, “Oh, would you rather us call or email you?” … Some patient preference information may not lend itself to standardized data capture, but rather may … data (i.e., the patient may be able to articulate their preference more accurately in a conversation than

6292. AHRQ Comparative Health System Performance Initiative: Program Overview and Accomplishments, 2015-2020 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/CHSP-accomplishments-report-2021.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - About 220 scholars associated with CHSP published 105 articles in more than 38 peer- reviewed journals … Concepts such as ‘core’ versus ‘peripheral’ were more salient than ‘ownership’ versus ‘contract. … performance measures that focus on clinical factors for patients covered by a particular health plan rather … than community-level measures that reflect “social, behavioral, and environmental determinants of … other hospitals, and academic medical centers screened more than other practices. “ – Fraze, et al

6293. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Response: Acute Care Nursing Staff Shortages That Compromise Patient-to-Nurse Ratios (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/nursing-staff-shortages-rapid-research.pdf
      April 01, 2025 - The legislation required that the average number of patients per nurse be no more than 4 on morning … and afternoon shifts, and no more than 7 on night shifts. … ), but 19 Making Healthcare Safer IV – Nursing Staff Shortages were significantly lower than … participate as a solution.35 Efficiency was cited as a barrier with an acuity tool being completed by hand rather … than being embedded into the electronic medical record.23 An acuity tool23 and participatory scheduling

6294. 2016-07 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2016-07.pdf
      January 01, 2016 - Short-term is defined as hospitals with an average length of stay less than 30 days. … Rather, the records may represent patients who are discharged and then return to the same or a different … Short-term is defined as hospitals with an average length of stay less than 30 days. … Short-term is defined as hospitals with an average length of stay less than 30 days. … In each table, conditions with less than 1,000 transfer out records were excluded.

6295. Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/G9P7o8jDh4J3NnAk6y-SYL
      December 01, 2011 - Ben- efits seemed to be limited to men younger than 65 years. … In subgroup analyses, ben- efits were restricted to men younger than 65 years of age (RR, 0.49 [CI, 0.31 … A fair-quality study from 1 center participating in the ERSPC trial reported better results than the … Overall quality: fair Only 1 RCT High Prostate cancers in the RCT were primarily clinically detected rather … than screening- detected, and there was a high proportion of stage T2 cancers; limited information was

6296. Methods Applying AHRQ Quality Indicators to Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Data for the 2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/MS2021-03-NHQDRMethodsReport.pdf
      December 09, 2021 - percent) had RACE coded as White and the hospital had more 2,500 discharges in the year; (2) more than … 30 percent of the discharges in the hospital had the race reported as Other; (3) more than 50 percent … 18 years PDI10 Postoperative sepsis per 1,000 surgery admissions, age less than 18 years https: … Patient age and sex are missing on less than 0.02 percent of the records in the 2017 NEDS. 4. … approach because we view the outcomes as a result of myriad processes that go into treatment decisions rather

6297. An Organizational Guide to Building Health Services Research Capacity (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/funding/training-grants/hsrguide/hsrguide.pdf
      October 01, 2011 - • Increasing individual investigator research capacity rather than developing it anew. … o The time commitment for a mentor is often greater than it might seem initially. … Perhaps you will decide to collect some data more frequently than others. … clinical) (3) PI salary • Has the PI received a raise or promotion [include any increases greater than

6298. An Organizational Guide to Building Health Services Research Capacity (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/hsrguide.pdf
      October 01, 2011 - • Increasing individual investigator research capacity rather than developing it anew. … o The time commitment for a mentor is often greater than it might seem initially. … Perhaps you will decide to collect some data more frequently than others. … clinical) (3) PI salary • Has the PI received a raise or promotion [include any increases greater than

6299. Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2021, Hospital Linkage File, Technical Documentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/2021-hospital-linkage-techdoc-rev.pdf
      January 01, 2021 - No hospital is linked to more than one health system. … Rather, the file includes a single entry for the CCN in these cases. … less than 0.25. … Are accurate bookmarks provided for documents greater than 9 pages? … Is the document free from content that flashes more than 3 times per second?

6300. Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness Review 128 Oral Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Colorectal Surgery (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/colorectal-surgery-preparation_disposition-comments.pdf
      April 30, 2014 - This statement seems more opinion than restatement of objective observation. … oral antibiotics with mechanical preparation and systemic antibiotics yield lower infection rates than … There are, however 2 large randomised studies, similar in design, which recruit more than 2500 patients … we did not think that it should be part of the Key Questions (i.e., we thought it is less critical than … Unfortunately, the “modern era” is a rather elusive concept.