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1. Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   for long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes and rehabilitation centers, to improve quality, reduce … AHRQ Research Findings Support Effort to Reduce Pressure Ulcers in Virginia AHRQ’s Safety Program … Effectiveness Reviews End of Life Care Media Resources Guide to Implementing a Program To Reduce … Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities Toolkit To Reduce

2. Using Data to Reduce Disparities and Improve Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   February 01, 2025 - Using Data to Reduce Disparities and Improve Quality Resource: Using Data to Reduce Disparities … organize and interpret race, ethnicity, and language data to improve equity for their patients and reduce … Foundation’s signature effort to lift the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, as well as reduce

3. Burnout | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   Burnout can increase worker turnover and reduce quality of care, leading to lower patient satisfaction … AHRQ supports a wide range of projects to assess and reduce burnout among clinicians and other healthcare … in Primary Care: Assessing and Addressing It in Your Practice New Guide Offers Strategies To Reduce

4. Adverse Drug Events (ADE) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   Events (ADE) AHRQ offers research and resources for healthcare professionals to better understand and reduce … AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts at Banner Desert To Reduce Drug Errors in E.D. Patients

5. Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 12, 2015 - AHRQ has research, tools, programs and resources on HAIs and how clinicians can prevent or reduce them … National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide Guide to Implementing a Program To Reduce … Setting MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI New Jersey Hospital Uses AHRQ Toolkit To Reduce … Safety Program Leads to Significant Drop in Urinary Infections Tampa Hospital Uses AHRQ Tools to Reduce … Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery Toolkit To Reduce

6. Hospital Readmissions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2012 - AHRQ’s tools, data, and research to help hospitals reduce preventable readmissions. … Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions This guide provides evidence-based strategies to reduce … IT Projects on Readmissions The Health IT program website shares projects that use technology to reduce

7. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   AHRQ has tools and research for healthcare professionals to prevent and reduce CLABSI. … Included studies range from the use of health care simulation and unit-based nurse educators to reduce

8. Blood Thinners | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   Thinners AHRQ has patient information on how to safely take blood thinner medications, which are used to reduce

9. Adverse Events | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   Topic: Adverse Events AHRQ offers research, tools and resources for healthcare professionals to reduce

10. Medication | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Topic: Medication AHRQ offers patient education materials for healthcare professionals to reduce risks

11. Tampa Hospital Uses AHRQ Tools to Reduce Emergency Department CAUTI Rates by 75 Percent | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2018 - Tampa Hospital Uses AHRQ Tools to Reduce Emergency Department CAUTI Rates by 75 Percent Search All … project and implemented several elements from AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce … The effort to further reduce the hospital’s CAUTI rates started after an analysis revealed that a high … To address this, the hospital leadership agreed to participate in an AHRQ-funded project to reduce … They really wanted to make a change in their department to help reduce CAUTI within the hospital,” said

12. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    AHRQ has research, tools, programs and resources on HAIs and how clinicians can prevent or reduce these

13. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Eliminating CAUTI: Interim Data Report Guide to Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated … Infections in Long-Term Care North Carolina’s CaroMont Regional Medical Center Uses AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce … Safety Program Leads to Significant Drop in Urinary Infections Tampa Hospital Uses AHRQ Tools to Reduce

14. What Will You Do to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2018 - What Will You Do to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence? … What Will You Do to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence? [40 sec.]

15. 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on Treatment of Cholesterol to Reduce CVD | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2018 - 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on Treatment of Cholesterol to Reduce CVD Resource title: 2013 ACC/AHA … Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults … guideline, published in Circulation in 2011, outlines how to treat high blood cholesterol in adults to reduce

16. Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce Diagnostic Error | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2024 - as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce … Introduction Background Diagnostic Error in the Testing Process Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce … actions to promote optimal use of diagnostic tests, improve the speed and accuracy of diagnosis, and reduce … Finally, improving specimen collection practices can further reduce false positive diagnoses and is an … For blood cultures, several strategies have been shown to reduce contamination rates: education of clinical

17. Reduce Cardiovascular Risk and Disease: Alabama Fax Campaign (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - Reduce Cardiovascular Risk and Disease: Alabama Fax Campaign Reduce Overall, Alabama has the highest

18. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - experiences of frontline providers and researchers who participated in a national implementation project to reduce … Toolkit to Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities This toolkit helps long-term care … facilities reduce CAUTI and improve practices to prevent HAIs. … improvement, and sustainability to guide a facility through implementing an improvement project to reduce

19. Improving Care Delivery Through Lean: Implementation Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2014 - Type of Interviewee Aims of Lean (in order of most frequent mention) Senior leaders Reduce … Department leaders Reduce waste and increase efficiency. Staff engagement. … Providers (physicians and mid-level, non-department leaders) Reduce waste and increase efficiency … Nurses and other frontline staff Reduce waste and increase efficiency. … Analysts Reduce waste and increase efficiency. Return to Document

20. The Use of Surgical Simulators to Reduce Errors (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2003 - The Use of Surgical Simulators to Reduce Errors 165 The Use of Surgical Simulators to Reduce Errors … Simulation has the potential to improve patient safety and reduce surgical errors by screening would-be … training on the ES3 will improve the endoscopic sinus surgery performance of otolaryngology residents and reduce