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281. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/overview-off-ventilator-slides.html
     February 01, 2017 - Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator associated pneumonia in the ICU. … Reduce complications. Get patients off the ventilator. … Slide 12: AHRQ Safety Program Goals To reduce risk of patient harms associated with mechanical … ventilation: Reduce ventilator-associated events, including VAP (Centers for Disease Control and … Reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay, and mortality.

282. History of EHR Documentation Legislation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-ehr-impact3.html
     July 01, 2024 - health IT certification criteria to advance interoperability, enhance health IT certification, and reduce … The goal of the rule was to reduce administrative burden, improve flexibility for healthcare providers … suggest that even if total documentation time is not dramatically reduced, the new requirements could reduce

283. Oral, Linguistic, and Culturally Competent Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/cultural-competence/index.html
     August 01, 2019 - stakeholders with an interest in understanding the reasons for such disparities and designing methods to reduce … It is difficult to reduce health care disparities without first improving the cultural and linguistic

284. Appendix A: Guide to Online Resources Successfully Used by Hospitals to Improve Patient Flow | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2020 - The Urgent Matters Toolkit This toolkit includes over 50 examples of proven strategies to reduce … The Innovations Exchange includes over 75 examples of innovations to improve ED patient flow and reduce

285. Breakout Session: Use of Data and Measurement in Improving Diagnostic Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/brady-summit2016-breakout.pdf
     September 28, 2016 - Develop and deploy approaches to identify, learn from, and reduce diagnostic errors and near misses … ► Health Care professional societies should identify opportunities to reduce diagnostic errors in … and for respiratory and mental conditions ► Having a cardiac catheterization laboratory seems to reduce … • Interventions that target specific patients and EDs may reduce the number of people admitted after

286. Slide 1 (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2013 - CAUTI Reduce antibiotic use Reduce potential of increased resistance and Clostridium difficile disease … Reduce trauma (mechanical complications): Metal and urethral injury Hematuria Hospitalists Geriatricians … due to CAUTI Estimates both current costs and projected costs after a hypothetical intervention to reduce … risk among those catheterized with bacteriuria = 0.10% * CAUTI Cost Calculator Intervention to reduce … through the contract, “National Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to Reduce

287. P6: Understanding the Combined Impact of Healthcare Delivery and Payment Reform Models | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/profile-p6-adler-milstein.html
     May 01, 2024 - Help Clinical Teams Prioritize and Manage Vulnerable Patients S2: Using EHR-Based Simulations to Reduce … Study Overview Problem: Multiple delivery and payment reform efforts seek to reduce healthcare costs … can help guide the design and alignment of future policy efforts to improve healthcare quality and reduce

288. Understanding and Reducing Overuse of Potentially Harmful Screening Tests (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/sheridan_screening_overuse.pdf
     January 01, 2014 - Currently, it is not clear how to best reduce the overuse of potentially harmful screening services.

289. Evidence Now Fact Sheets - Cholesterol Management (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol-pcor.pdf
     November 01, 2016 - Substantial PCOR evidence shows that taking a statin medication each day to manage blood cholesterol can reduce … Heart Association (AHA) developed an evidence-based guideline on treating high blood cholesterol to reduce … Robinson JG, Lichtenstein AH, et al. 2013 ACC/AHA guideline on the treatment of blood cholesterol to reduce

290. 089-Or-Traffic-Fg (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - The goal that the CUSP team agreed upon was to reduce and hopefully eliminate SSIs in their patient population … This included looking at what happened and why, how to reduce the likelihood of this happening again, … Slide 15 Case Example: How To Reduce the Likelihood of This Defect Happening Again? … SAY: How can the CUSP team reduce the likelihood of this defect from happening again? … Educating staff is one way to reduce the likelihood of this defect happening again.

291. When Do You Need An Antibiotic? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/reduce/antibiotic-brochure.html
     March 01, 2017 - HAIs/CAUTI This program supports long-term care facilities in adopting evidence-based practices to reduce

292. Appendix C: Examples of Current State of Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/clinical-community-relationships-eval-roadmap/ccre-roadmap-apc.html
     July 01, 2013 - four Health Educator Referral Liaisons to link patients with community resources for counseling to reduce … clinicians (go to https://innovations.ahrq.gov/profiles/community-referral-liaisons-help-patients-reduce-risky-health-behaviors-leading

293. 4 Things You Should Know About Urine Cultures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - 4 Things You Should Know About Urine Cultures AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI 1. Bacteria in the urine does not necessarily mean a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is present. Bacteriuria is the term used to describe a positive urine culture, the presenc…

294. AHRQ Views: Commemorating 35 Years as an Independent Science Agency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Apply Now for Funding on Projects To Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance … Apply Now for Funding on Projects To Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance … HAI projects in both grant categories should demonstrate new ways to detect, prevent and reduce HAIs. … CARB projects should address ways to promote appropriate antibiotic use, reduce the transmission of resistant

295. Presentation: Program Overview
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     January 01, 2017 - Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator associated pneumonia in the ICU. … Improve patient and family experience Reduce complications Get patients off the ventilator Get patients … risk of patient harms associated with mechanical ventilation Reduce ventilator-associated events, including … Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator associated pneumonia in the ICU. … Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator associated pneumonia in the ICU.

296. Webinar 1: Introduction & Overview: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/guide/web1.html
     December 01, 2017 - levels that contribute to Medicaid readmissions. 2012-2013: Explore whether the best practices to reduce … On the left is a box captioned "Reduce Medicaid Readmissions"; two lines connect this box to two boxes … Focusing on those diagnoses only will not reduce hospital-wide readmission rates.

297. Why is Self-Management Support Important? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/self-mgmt/why.html
     February 01, 2016 - improving clinical outcomes In some circumstances, self-management education improves outcomes and can reduce … education program bringing together patients with a variety of chronic conditions may improve outcomes and reduce

298. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/phys-championsgd/index.html
     October 01, 2015 - through the contract, “National Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to Reduce … documents prepared for the Partnership for Patients Ascension Health Hospital Engagement Network efforts to reduce

299. Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - Archived Webinars Building a Team and Process to Reduce CAUTI Risk (April 8, 2014) Accessible … PowerPoint ) (487 KB) / Transcript ( Word ) / mp3 audio (6.4 MB) Leveraging Cultural Change to Reduce

300. Physician Burnout (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2017 - The MEMO study also found that the hope that electronic health records (EHRs) in the workplace would reduce … depression screening quality improvement projects to engage office staff, enhance team work, and reduce … 3 Implementing a Patient-Centered Medical Home can also improve physician satisfaction and reduce … practices, EvidenceNOW is working to increase primary care professionals’ workplace satisfaction and to reduce