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  1. 2013 Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate and Estimates of Cost Savings and Deaths Averted From 2010 to 2013 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/hacrate2013.html
    January 01, 2018 - Despite the tremendous progress to date in reducing HACs, much work remains to be done to ensure that … These latest data indicate that it is possible to make substantial progress in reducing virtually all

  2. Care Management: Implications for Medical Practice, Health Policy, and Health Services Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/coordination/mgmt.html
    August 01, 2018 - employing the triple aim (improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing … e.g., medication reconciliation to avoid duplication and prescription errors), and efficiency (e.g., reducing

  3. 4. How Do We Implement Best Practices in Our Organization? (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu4a.html
    October 01, 2014 - strategies for working with staff at the unit level to get staff input in tailoring the new practices to and reducing … Practice Insights Examples of strategies for reducing staff resistance: To reduce staff resistance

  4. Maternal Safety | PSNet

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    January 10, 2024 - Reducing disparities in severe maternal morbidity and mortality. … Cesarean delivery rates vary tenfold among US hospitals; reducing variation may address quality and cost

  5. Archived: Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/hepatitis-b-virus-infection-screening-1996
    January 01, 1996 - The effectiveness of routine screening of asymptomatic persons in the clinical setting as a means of reducing … high-risk populations for screening and immunizing those found to be seronegative has been ineffective in reducing

  6. Patient Safety Action Alliance: Request for Information (RFI) Summary Report (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/action-alliance-rfi-report-040323_LOCKED.pdf
    March 01, 2023 - “A number of actions, such as reducing socioeconomic determinants of health, boosting cultural competency … “A number of actions, such as reducing socioeconomic determinants of health, boosting cultural competency

  7. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-care-transitions7.html
    June 01, 2023 - Reducing errors made by emergency physicians in interpreting radiographs: longitudinal study. … Reducing diagnostic error in the intensive care unit. engaging uncertainty when teaching clinical reasoning

  8. Executive Summary: Person-Centered Preventive Healthcare: Gathering Stakeholder Input on Evidence Implementation (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/research/gathering-stakeholder-input-summary.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Reducing fragmentation of healthcare data from both the person and the system perspective is needed … This more individualized approach tailored to individual needs and context is essential for reducing

  9. Archived: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity: Counseling for CVD Prevention in Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/healthy-diet-and-physical-activity-counseling-for-cvd-prevention-in-adults-2012
    June 15, 2012 - Other recommendations on reducing risk for CVD are available on the USPSTF Web site at www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org … low-fat diet intervention is inconsistent with current healthful diet guidelines 1 , which suggest reducing

  10. Life-Threatening Infant Overdose of Sodium Chloride | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/life-threatening-infant-overdose-sodium-chloride
    December 23, 2020 - While studies have demonstrated a key role for computerized provider order entry (CPOE) in reducing medication … The effectiveness of computerized order entry at reducing preventable adverse drug events and medication

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 01, 2024 - Reducing disparities in severe maternal morbidity and mortality. … Cesarean delivery rates vary tenfold among US hospitals; reducing variation may address quality and

  12. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: A Progress Report on the National 'On the CUSP: Stop BSI' Project, Neonatal CLABSI Prevention (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/clabsineonatal.pdf
    October 01, 2012 - The project had two primary aims: 1) create and support statewide CLABSI collaboratives committed to reducing … Create and support nine statewide CLABSI collaboratives committed to reducing CLABSI. 2.

  13. Getting to the Root of the Matter | PSNet

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    September 01, 2005 - Effect of reducing interns' work hours on serious medical errors in intensive care units. … 1, 2005 Improving peripherally inserted central catheter appropriateness and reducing

  14. Meeting Minutes, November 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2015-11-nac/nacmtg1115-minutes.html
    May 01, 2016 - NAC Chair, reviewed the results of a large study, conducted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), on reducing … The study addressed the following eight goals toward reducing diagnostic errors: facilitating more effective

  15. Disposition of Comments: Management of Colonic Diverticulitis (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/diverticulitis-comments.pdf
    October 12, 2020 - The statement of elective surgery following acute diverticulosis for prevention is beneficial to reducing … diverticulitis management (often in addition to antibiotics) - what is the role of dietary changes in reducing

  16. Geographic Variation in Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations for Acute and Chronic Conditions, 2005-2011 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb178-Preventable-Hospitalizations-by-Region.pdf
    September 01, 2014 - geographic variation may serve to narrow disparities in health outcomes and identify strategies for reducing … hospitalizations by providing adequate and appropriately targeted resources.3,4 In fact, reducing

  17. ECRI_Penn EPC FINAL Environ Cleaning Protocol 08_21_14 CC[1] (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/healthcare-infections_research-protocol.pdf
    January 01, 2014 - This technical brief will explore these factors and their impact on reducing HAIs. II. … An evaluation of environmental decontamination with hydrogen peroxide vapor for reducing the risk of

  18. Case 5. Heights Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-case5.html
    November 01, 2014 - Reducing Wait Time/Increasing Urgent Care Capacity: Increasing the ED treatment capacity and decreasing … Diagnosis and Discharge Cycle Time: Reducing the cycle time patients spend during diagnosis and disposition … Cycle Time for Patients with Abdominal Pain: Reducing the time spent in the ED by a female patient presenting … reductions, Heights Hospital was able to increase efficiency on a number of projects and overall by reducing … Lean provided a means for staff to better meet patients' needs by achieving such improvements as reducing

  19. Final Recommendation Statement: Skin Cancer Prevention: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/RecommendationStatementFinal/skin-cancer-counseling
    March 20, 2018 - counseling interventions that focused on counseling patients to perform skin self-examination as a means of reducing … Skin Self-Examination and Health Outcomes Evidence on the effectiveness of skin self-examination in reducing

  20. Microsoft PowerPoint - Updated Handouts - Read-Only (pdf file)

    cds.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cds/artifact/136331/Benzodiazepine%20Patient%20Handout.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - Microsoft PowerPoint - Updated Handouts - Read-Only REDUCING MEDICATIONS SAFELY TO MEET LIFE’S CHANGES … taking:_____________________ Your dose: _____________________________________________ WHY CONSIDER REDUCING … Adapted from “Reducing Medications Safely to Meet Life’s Changes, Focus on Benzodiazepine Receptor Agonists
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