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61. Toolkit Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Toolkit Sections Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities The toolkit … Your facility can use the materials in each section in improvement efforts to reduce catheter-associated … provides a step-by-step process to design, develop, and implement a quality improvement program to reduce

62. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - was developed as part of the AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce … ) funded a 3-year project to develop and implement resources that help hospital perioperative areas reduce … The project aimed to— Reduce surgical site infections, and Improve safety culture using AHRQ’s … safety, quality improvement, and evidence-based surgical care processes that other facilities can use to reduce

63. Exhibit 3.6. Organizational Goals of Lean | 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 … Reduce costs. … Providers (physicians and mid-level, non-department leaders) Reduce waste. … Nurses and other frontline staff Goals focused on project level outcomes only (e.g., reduce costs … Systems & Procedures staff Reduce waste. Develop staff’s improvement  skills.

64. Intervention to reduce transmission of resistant bacteria in intensive care. | PSNet
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    February 29, 2012 - Study Classic Intervention to reduce transmission of resistant … Intervention to reduce transmission of resistant bacteria in intensive care. … Prior successful efforts to reduce HAI have emphasized the role of safety culture in addition to … Intervention to reduce transmission of resistant bacteria in intensive care.

65. Are national efforts to reduce drug name confusion paying off? | PSNet
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    December 27, 2018 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Are national efforts to reduce drug name confusion paying … Citation Text: Are national efforts to reduce drug name confusion paying off? … strategies to improve practice, and pharmaceutical company testing of names to avoid similarities can help reduce … Cite Citation Citation Text: Are national efforts to reduce … December 14, 2022 ISMP survey on tall man (mixed case) lettering to reduce drug name

66. Identifying hospital organizational strategies to reduce readmissions. | PSNet
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    May 25, 2016 - Study Identifying hospital organizational strategies to reduce readmissions. … Identifying hospital organizational strategies to reduce readmissions. … Identifying hospital organizational strategies to reduce readmissions. … Infections in Hospitals: An Overview of State Reporting Programs and Individual Hospital Initiatives to Reduce

67. A Patient and Family Member Fall Prevention Educational (ED) tool to identify fall risk and engage them in creating individualized plan to reduce risks (Chapter 3; Figures 13 and 14; separate specifications document) | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Prevention Educational (ED) tool to identify fall risk and engage them in creating individualized plan to reduce … Prevention Educational (ED) tool to identify fall risk and engage them in creating individualized plan to reduce … Project Name Using Evidence-Based Nursing Practices and Electronic Health Record Decision Support to Reduce

68. Implementing electronic health record default settings to reduce opioid overprescribing: a pilot study. | PSNet
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    April 24, 2018 - Study Implementing electronic health record default settings to reduce opioid overprescribing … Implementing Electronic Health Record Default Settings to Reduce Opioid Overprescribing: A Pilot Study … An Annual Perspective described other initiatives to reduce opioid-related harm. … Implementing Electronic Health Record Default Settings to Reduce Opioid Overprescribing: A Pilot Study … of opioid prescribing practices before and after implementation of a health system intervention to reduce

69. Second opinions improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs. | PSNet
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    April 12, 2023 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Second opinions improve healthcare outcomes and reduce … Second opinions improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs. Employee Benefit News. 2020;June 8. … Second opinions improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs. … The impact of an intervention to improve intrapartum maternal vital sign monitoring and reduce … December 16, 2020 Bundle interventions including nontechnical skills for surgeons can reduce

70. RFID tags reduce restocking errors of anesthesia medications. | PSNet
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    August 07, 2019 - Newspaper/Magazine Article RFID tags reduce restocking errors of anesthesia medications … Citation Text: RFID tags reduce restocking errors of anesthesia medications. Banks MA. … Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: RFID tags reduce

71. Action on patient safety can reduce health inequalities. | PSNet
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    February 05, 2020 - Commentary Action on patient safety can reduce health inequalities. … Action on patient safety can reduce health inequalities. … Action on patient safety can reduce health inequalities. … February 5, 2020 Bundle interventions including nontechnical skills for surgeons can reduce

72. Tips to reduce dangerous interruptions by healthcare staff. | PSNet
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    September 23, 2020 - Commentary Tips to reduce dangerous interruptions by healthcare staff. … Tips to reduce dangerous interruptions by healthcare staff. … Tips to reduce dangerous interruptions by healthcare staff.

73. A multicenter collaborative effort to reduce preventable patient harm due to retained surgical items. | PSNet
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    March 20, 2019 - Study A multicenter collaborative effort to reduce preventable patient harm due to … A multicenter collaborative effort to reduce preventable patient harm due to retained surgical items. … After experiencing a high rate of RSIs, this United States health system implemented a bundle to reduce … A multicenter collaborative effort to reduce preventable patient harm due to retained surgical items. … September 28, 2022 A longitudinal study of a multifaceted intervention to reduce newborn

74. Potentially Preventable Readmissions: Conceptual Framework To Rethink the Role of Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - the health system, the purpose of this project was to address the important and unfulfilled need to reduce … resulting from AHRQ's research in this area; other project details are at Primary Care Efforts To Reduce

75. Final Progress Report: Automated Lab Test Followup To Reduce Medical Errors (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Automated Lab Test Followup To Reduce Medical Errors Principal Investigator/ … Automated Lab Test Follow-up to Reduce Medical Errors Principal Investigator: David S. … Page 18 Automated Lab Test Follow-up to Reduce Medical Errors ABSTRACT PURPOSE SCOPE METHODS

76. Reducing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions: The Role of the Patient Safety Organization (PSO) | PSO
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    August 01, 2022 - the Patient Safety Organization (PSO)     What is the PSO's Role in Helping Hospitals Reduce … described in section 1886(q)(8)(A) of the Social Security Act and has not taken appropriate steps to reduce … Resources and Tools to Improve Discharge and Transitions of Care and Reduce Avoidable Readmissions … PSOs, hospitals and other healthcare providers, and patients can use to improve patient safety and reduce … Some QIOs are helping selected communities in their regions to collaborate on efforts to reduce hospital

77. Final Progress Report: An Intervention to Reduce Falls Among Adults with Intellectual Disability (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: An Intervention to Reduce Falls Among Adults with Intellectual Disability Final … Progress Report: An Intervention to Reduce Falls Among Adults with Intellectual Disability R03 HS022353 … -02 Title of Project: An Intervention to Reduce Falls Among Adults with Intellectual Disability Principal … Agency Support: Grant Award Number: R03 HS022353 1 Final Progress Report: An Intervention to Reduce … This purpose of this research is to assist in developing the evidence base for interventions to reduce

78. 4 actions to reduce medical errors in U.S. hospitals. | PSNet
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    July 24, 2024 - Newspaper/Magazine Article 4 actions to reduce medical errors in U.S. hospitals. … Citation Text: 4 actions to reduce medical errors in U.S. hospitals. Toussaint JS, Segel KT. … Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: 4 actions to reduce

79. Environmental Scan of Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Readmissions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2020 - Environmental Scan of Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Readmissions This environmental scan … resulting from AHRQ's research in this area; other project details are at Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce … Full Report Environmental Scan of Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Readmissions  (PDF, 784 KB)

80. Using Specialized Information Technology to Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2000 - Using Specialized Information Technology to Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care 7 Using Specialized … Information Technology to Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care Denise Hartnett Daudelin, Manlik … IT to Reduce Cardiac Care Errors 9 Figure 1. … IT to Reduce Cardiac Care Errors 11 Figure 3. … IT to Reduce Cardiac Care Errors 17 2.