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421. Two New Issue Briefs Examine Diagnosis Improvement and Healthcare Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/953.html
     April 01, 2025 - Integrating out-of-pocket costs into shared decision-making for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

422. Statistical Brief Discusses Availability of Medical Services in Rural and Nonrural Areas | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/970.html
     August 01, 2025 - Frailty—a condition marked by fatigue, weight loss, and reduced physical function—can raise the risk

423. Many Pediatric Pneumonia Patients Receive Antibiotics Outside of Guidelines | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/967.html
     July 01, 2025 - Since adopting QIs in 2011, the hospital has reduced the percentage of potentially preventable blood

424. Final Progress Report: Failure To Rescue-Patient Safety Learning Lab (FTR-PSLL) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/blike-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Technology that is designed to provide continuous surveillance of general care was deployed and reduced … A retrospective study of this approach to surveillance, notification , and response reduced mortality … Patient recovery milestone guides (by condition)-Detection and diagnosis failure are reduced when all … Staff time to collect vitals was reduced 30%, and accuracy increased. … The reduced death rate when surveillance monitoring was available (0.0009%) versus not available (0.02%

425. Advancing Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/advancing/index.html
     July 01, 2022 - A toolkit, " Implementing Reduced Work Hours to Improve Patient Safety ", was developed to help address … better ventilation systems for pathogen control; standardized room layouts; better lines of sight and reduced … 2004: Health information technology portfolio; National Resource Center for Health IT; "Implementing Reduced

426. Overview of TAKEheart Training Curriculum & Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - Discussion includes reduced patient capacity, expanded hours for CR sessions, staffing reductions, and

427. Low Tidal Volume Ventilation Guide for Reducing Ventilator-Associated Events in Mechanically Ventilated Patients (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/ltvv-mvpguide.pdf
     January 01, 2017 - barotrauma, an injury to the lung caused by a change in air pressure, and volutrauma to the lungs, reduced … activation of the inflammatory cascades, reduced length of mechanical ventilation, reduced need for … reintubation, and reduced hospital length of stay.10 But what are the key interventions to achieve … If the tidal volume is greater than 8 mL/kg, the tidal volume should be reduced over 2 hours. … • How will you know the risk is reduced?

428. Final Progress Report: Reduction of Nephrotoxic Medication-Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Children (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/goldstein-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - A single-center harm-reduction program, Nephrotoxic Injury Negated by Just-in-time Action (NINJA), reduced … results: Combining electronic health record-based triggers and pharmacist-healthcare team communication reduced … to reduce medication- related injury.24-27 A pharmacist rounding with teams has been associated with reduced … through implementation of electronic alerts and change to a “no blame” culture, McLeod Medical Center reduced … Improving quality: how a hospital reduced medication errors. 2008. 30.

429. Scisafetynotes (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/modules/understand/scisafetynotes.docx
     June 02, 2025 - When the point-of-care pharmacist participates in rounds, medication prescribing errors are reduced. … · Unit teams virtually eliminated CRBSI across the State of Michigan; · The median CRBSI rate was reduced

430. 091-Decolonization-Implementation-Fg (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/091-decolonization-implementation-fg.docx
     April 01, 2025 - reduce the likelihood of this defect from happening again, and finally, how to know if the risk is reduced … To track compliance and determine how the intervention reduced the risk, the CUSP team maintained an

431. Tool: SSA (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/sat-sbt-litreview.docx
     January 01, 2017 - 0.05) and the median duration of mechanical ventilation (8.8 vs 18.0 days, p=0.017) were significantly reduced … Among unconscious patients, the intervention group displayed a reduced median weaning time (1.00 vs 3.10 … mechanical ventilation by 25 percent (95% CI 9% to 39%, p=0.006; 10 trials); the duration of weaning was reduced

432. Supplemental Document 2 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/measure_retirement/supplemental-materials/supplementaldoc2.pdf
     September 01, 2014 - Source(s) for Measure Summary of Evidence for Improvability rural/urban disparities can be reduced … Upward 11 A Two studies suggested that, under the right conditions, child ED visit rates can be reduced … Seven of 12 studies reviewed show evidence that asthma-related ED visit rates can be reduced with quality

433. Using Six Sigma® Methodology to Improve Handoff Communication in High-Risk Patients (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Mistry_114.pdf
     May 05, 2008 - Initiatives resulted in a reduced handoff turnaround time (15.3 min to 9.6 min; P <0.001) and time to … In the “Improve” and “Control” steps, we demonstrated that standardizing the handoff process reduced … necessary to obtain clinically important diagnostic information—specifically, handoff communication time; reduced

434. Final progress Report: Spaced Education to Optimize Prostate Cancer Screening (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/kerfoot-conlin-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - In logistic regression models, the percentage of inappropriate PSA screening was significantly reduced … The percentage of inappropriate PSA screening was significantly reduced among SE clinicians compared

435. Identifying Targets for Improving Antibiotic Use
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/safety/improvement-slides.pptx
     November 01, 2019 - 1 De-escalation of antibiotics led to a 28% reduced risk of death compared with no de-escalation. 10

436. Final Progress Report: Challenges and Opportunities for Stewardship of Urological Imaging (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/nielsen2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - .............................................. 9 The DOSE Initiative: Supporting Dissemination of Reduced‐dose … the remarkable increase in CT utilization over the past 10 years  is well accepted, the rate has not reduced … The DOSE Initiative: Supporting Dissemination of Reduced‐dose Renal Colic CT Christopher Moore, MD, Summit … Accuracy of reduced‐dose computed tomography for ureteral stones in emergency department patients.  … Evaluation of kidney stones with reduced‐radiation dose CT: progress from 2011‐2012 to 2015‐2016‐not

437. Final Progress Report: Challenges and Opportunities for Stewardship of Urological Imaging (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/nielsen-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - .............................................. 9 The DOSE Initiative: Supporting Dissemination of Reduced‐dose … the remarkable increase in CT utilization over the past 10 years  is well accepted, the rate has not reduced … The DOSE Initiative: Supporting Dissemination of Reduced‐dose Renal Colic CT Christopher Moore, MD, Summit … Accuracy of reduced‐dose computed tomography for ureteral stones in emergency department patients.  … Evaluation of kidney stones with reduced‐radiation dose CT: progress from 2011‐2012 to 2015‐2016‐not

438. Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/clabsi-tools/clabsi-tools-revised.pdf
     January 01, 2013 - CLABSI in more than 100 participating Michigan intensive care units (ICUs)1 and have dramatically reduced … Numerous interventions have reduced the incidence of CLABSI and the ensuing morbidity, mortality, and

439. Program Impact | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - States reduced their adult ICU rate from a baseline of 1.915 infections per 1,000 line days to a rate

440. 4 Tk3 T1-Sample Policy Final (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK3_T1-Sample_Policy_final.pdf
     October 01, 2016 - shaking chills), or – Respiratory rate >25 Delirium is defined as a disturbance of consciousness with reduced