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61. Tool 6 (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2025 - Health care leader action guide to reduce readmissions. … ://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/other-publication/2010/jan/health-care-leader-action-guide-reduce-avoidable

62. Final Progress Report: TIPI Systems To Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/selker-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: TIPI Systems To Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care Final Report TIPI … Systems to Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care Principal Investigator: Harry P. … unstable angina, clinical decision support, ACI-TIPI, TIPI-IS 2 PURPOSE This project aimed to reduce … At this scale, this public health issue presents important opportunities to reduce medical errors. … Information Technology to Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care.

63. Resources and Tools To Improve Discharge and Transitions of Care and Reduce Readmissions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2024 - Resources and Tools To Improve Discharge and Transitions of Care and Reduce Readmissions The … Administration (VHA) Hospitals (journal article) How Hospitals Reengineer Their Discharge Processes To Reduce … With AHRQ-Based Discharge Program Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital Implements AHRQ Toolkit To Reduce … Cases and Commentaries: Postdischarge Follow-Up Phone Call Readmissions Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce … Use AHRQ Toolkit To Improve Medication Reconciliation Across Care Settings Six New Jersey Hospitals Reduce

64. AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - 56 Percent Drop in Pressure Ulcers with AHRQ-Funded Program AHRQ-Funded Program Helps Nursing Home Reduce … Pressure Ulcers By 60 Percent AHRQ Program Helps New York Long-Term Care Facility Reduce Pressure … These strategies allow staff to intervene in a timely manner with at-risk residents to reduce the incidence … Return to Contents AHRQ-Funded Program Helps Nursing Home Reduce Pressure Ulcers By 60 Percent Schuyler … These strategies allow staff to intervene in a timely manner with at-risk residents to reduce the incidence

65. AHRQ Announces Interest in Health Services Research to Reduce Emergency Department Boarding and Hospital Crowding | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2025 - AHRQ Announces Interest in Health Services Research to Reduce Emergency Department Boarding and Hospital … will focus on questions related to the development, implementation, and evaluation of activities to reduce

66. Combining Healthcare Quality Measures Into Composites or Summary Scores | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2019 - Combining measures is one way to quickly reduce the number of data points included in your report. … Learn more about Organizing Measures to Reduce Information Overload . … The use of composite and summary scores can encourage more consumers to use quality information and reduce … Learn more about Organizing Measures to Reduce Information Overload . Reference Carman K.

67. Investigating Interventions to Reduce Unsafe Use of Antibiotics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2024 - Grantee Profile Investigating Interventions to Reduce Unsafe Use of Antibiotics Larissa Grigoryan … They also found participants appreciated information on alterative remedies that reduce the need for … If the project succeeds in reducing contaminated urine cultures, this will help reduce unnecessary antibiotic … It will also reduce waste of laboratory resources, decreasing costs for both patients and healthcare

68. Examples of Patient Harm Related to Invasive Devices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2015 - The following case studies illustrate the opportunities to reduce the risk and prevent complications … Avoiding inappropriate use of the UC will reduce the risk. … How do we reduce the risk of a similar event happening? … The use of proper insertion technique and maintenance can reduce the risk. … Potential interventions to reduce the risk of VAP include keeping the head of the bed elevated and practicing

69. Resident Physicians as Safety Champions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2015 - Engagement of the interprofessional team at the hospital level is essential to improve patient safety and reduce … Intensivists and attending physicians (or faculty) ensure that RPs are supported in their role to reduce … Ensuring appropriate line care and dressing intactness are nursing functions that are important to reduce … Compliance with proper insertion technique is important to reduce the risk. … For example, wound care nurses and physical therapists would discourage UC use to reduce the risk for

70. AHRQ Research Helps Pharmacists in Mentoring Program to Reduce Drug Errors in Emergency Departments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - AHRQ Research Helps Pharmacists in Mentoring Program to Reduce Drug Errors in Emergency Departments … Impact Case Studies June 2008 AHRQ-sponsored research on how clinical pharmacy services can reduce

71. Care Management | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - Care Management Care management is a set of activities to improve patient care, reduce unnecessary … Initiatives Primary Care-based efforts to reduce potentially preventable readmissions : This project … describes the role of primary care of patients after hospital discharge to reduce potentially preventable

72. New York City Uses AHRQ Patient Safety Culture Survey to Reduce Patient Harm | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - New York City Uses AHRQ Patient Safety Culture Survey to Reduce Patient Harm Search All Impact Case … on an aggressive, multi-year campaign to improve the culture of safety across the organization and reduce

73. New Predictive Model May Help Hospitals Reduce Length of Antibiotic Treatment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2025 - New Predictive Model May Help Hospitals Reduce Length of Antibiotic Treatment Issue Number 946 … Today's Headlines: New Predictive Model May Help Hospitals Reduce Length of Antibiotic Treatment . … New Predictive Model May Help Hospitals Reduce Length of Antibiotic Treatment More careful use of antibiotics … This shift could improve care and reduce reliance on other antibiotics. … Prevent Acute Chest Syndrome checklist (PACScheck): a quality improvement initiative to reduce acute

74. Introduction and Objectives | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2013 - Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections: Roadmap to Elimination focuses on the need to dramatically reduce … The NPT is charged with helping participating hospital units reduce their CAUTI rate and improve safety … The primary goal is to reduce the CAUTI rate in participating units upon completion of the 4-year initiative … invested in HAI reduction by ensuring effective coordination among these projects, the CDC's efforts to reduce … Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), and CMS's Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation effort to reduce

75. Organizing Quality Measures To Reduce Information Overload | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2016 - Organizing Quality Measures To Reduce Information Overload As the number of available quality … section describes a variety of ways to organize your measures into more digestible “chunks,” both to reduce … Show Differences in Performance Describing Measures in User-friendly Ways Organizing Measures to Reduce

76. Final Progress Report: Transdisciplinary Learning Lab To Eliminate Patient Harm and Reduce Waste (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/sapirstein-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Transdisciplinary Learning Lab To Eliminate Patient Harm and Reduce Waste Transdisciplinary … Learning Lab to Eliminate Patient Harm and Reduce Waste Johns Hopkins Medicine Principal Investigator … Programming Interfaces (OAPI) to Eliminate Patient Harm, Optimize Patient Outcomes and Experience, and Reduce … We hypothesized that such a system would reduce errors and workload, thus eliminating the need for an … The Smart Agent system dynamically controls insulin infusions to reduce the time and workload burden

77. Final Progress Report: MOVES: Patient-Based Strategy To Reduce Errors in Diabetes Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/oconnor-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: MOVES: Patient-Based Strategy To Reduce Errors in Diabetes Care O’Connor, Patrick … Final Report MOVES: Patient-Based Strategy to Reduce Errors in Diabetes Care Patrick J. … Effective interventions to reduce such errors are needed. … Interventions failed to reduce errors of commission (inappropriate use of medications; p>0.05) or errors … However, the cost of efforts to reduce error must be balanced against these averted costs.

78. S2: Using EHR-Based Simulations to Reduce Diagnostic Errors in Ambulatory Care Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2024 - Investments in Primary Care Research for 2021 and 2022 S2: Using EHR-Based Simulations to Reduce Diagnostic … Help Clinical Teams Prioritize and Manage Vulnerable Patients S2: Using EHR-Based Simulations to Reduce … validate the use of the simulation activities as a training tool to change clinician EHR use patterns and reduce … the potential to train clinicians in ambulatory care settings to change their EHR use patterns and reduce

79. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Research Featured in Health Affairs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2019 - part of its commitment to lead patient-safety efforts nationwide, AHRQ has funded studies that aim to reduce … Agency's work with patient safety research experts in bringing innovative approaches to significantly reduce

80. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2020 - building capacity for additional data gathering, HCOs have a variety of options to begin measurement to reduce … both large and small HCOs in any setting to assess how they could begin their journey to measure and reduce