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81. Final Progress Report: Caregiver innovations to reduce harm in Neonatal Intensive Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/thomas-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Caregiver innovations to reduce harm in Neonatal Intensive Care … Title: Caregiver innovations to reduce … Implementing a Robust Process Improvement Program in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to Reduce Harm … Scope: After baseline date collection and review of preventable harms, we decided to reduce unplanned … None Caregiver Innovations to Reduce Harm in Neonatal Intensive Care Administrative Core Abstract

82. Wisconsin Dialysis Centers Use AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201513.html
    June 01, 2015 - Wisconsin Dialysis Centers Use AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce Infections Search All Impact Case Studies … This project resulted in a toolkit that helps dialysis facilities reduce infection. … "The major change we made to reduce infections was in our catheter care policy," Ms. … hub" was one of a number of aspects of catheter care that the AHRQ project found could potentially reduce

83. 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

84. New Predictive Model May Help Hospitals Reduce Length of Antibiotic Treatment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/946.html
    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

85. RED Lowering Hospital Readmissions and Improving Patient Satisfaction at Euclid Hospital in Ohio | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2014 - addition, Cleveland Clinic has now incorporated pieces of the intervention throughout its system to reduce … their medications and schedule follow-up appointments with their primary care physicians, hospitals can reduce … Gardner, the team met with the nursing home staff to share best practices on helping reduce readmissions … The hospital now hopes to reduce the readmission rate for all heart failure patients to less than 20

86. 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

87. Decolonization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2025 - This practice has been shown to reduce the amount of germs on the body and reduce infections overall, … This toolkit’s decolonization materials are adapted from the REDUCE MRSA Enhanced Protocol and Toolkit … Universal ICU Decolonization: An Enhanced Protocol   This protocol was developed based on the REDUCE … Universal decolonization was found to reduce all-cause bloodstream infections by more than 40 percent … to two routine infection prevention practices, universal decolonization was found to reduce all-cause

88. 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.

89. 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

90. Burnout in Primary Care: Assessing and Addressing It in Your Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/burnout-in-primary-care.html
    March 01, 2023 - Burnout can increase worker turnover and reduce quality of care, leading to lower patient satisfaction … Strategies practices can tailor to prevent and reduce staff burnout and increase well-being.

91. 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

92. New Study Shows Reduced Antibiotic Use at Long-term Care Facilities Participating in HHS-funded Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2022 - are practical, evidence-based steps long-term care facilities can take to improve antibiotic use and reduce … address this by promoting the appropriate use of antibiotic medications to improve patient outcomes, reduce … As part of efforts to reduce threats posed by antibiotic-resistant organisms, the Centers for Medicare … Significantly reduce orders for urine cultures, which are often ordered without clear indications and … “These results suggest that long-term care facilities can successfully reduce inappropriate antibiotic

93. S2: Using EHR-Based Simulations to Reduce Diagnostic Errors in Ambulatory Care Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/spotlight-s2-gold-ratwani.html
    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

94. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/state-of-science-4.html
    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

95. Using Root Cause Analysis to Reduce Falls in Rural Health Care Facilities (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/advances2/vol1/Advances-Ruddick_61.pdf
    March 09, 2008 - Using Root Cause Analysis to Reduce Falls in Rural Health Care Facilities Using Root Cause Analysis … to Reduce Falls in Rural Health Care Facilities Patricia Ruddick, RN, MSN; Karen Hannah, MBA; Charles … Rural West Virginia,” UC1 HS01 4920-02), we formed a PSIC team and launched a collaborative project to reduce … The goals of our West Virginia PSIC team were to: • Reduce the rate of falls in the inpatient setting … rid=hstat1.section.59569 Using Root Cause Analysis to Reduce Falls in Rural Health Care Facilities

96. Toolkit Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - Implementation Implementation Guide : It may be helpful to review this guide before starting a project to reduce … and guide your ambulatory surgery center team in implementing a program to improve safety culture and reduce

97. About Priority Populations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2025 - others in the health services research field to conduct disparities research and assess interventions to reduce … Participating on numerous HHS and non-Federal workgroups and committees working to reduce disparities … tracking disparities, and identify and promote interventions across a variety of healthcare settings to reduce … Developing the evidence for interventions to reduce disparities and facilitating the use of those interventions … Clinical Preventive Services work to develop and test interventions and patient education materials to reduce

98. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - help staff in intensive care units use Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) principles to reduce … To address this problem, AHRQ funded a 3-year project to help staff in ICUs use CUSP principles to reduce

99. 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

100. Efficacy of Portable Air Cleaners and Masking for Reducing Indoor Exposure to Simulated Exhaled SARS-CoV-2 Aerosols—United States, 2021 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2022 - 2021 ​This report discusses the use of portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) cleaners to reduce