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61. 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on Treatment of Cholesterol to Reduce CVD | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2018 - 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk … published in Circulation in 2011, outlines how to treat high blood cholesterol in adults to reduce risk

62. Tool 9: Transitional Care Planning (doc file)
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    July 28, 2016 - Description This tool provides discharge planners with a set of prompts to identify readmission risks … and to take steps to ensure those risks are addressed in the transitional care (discharge) plan. … message from this person-centered view of readmissions is that no single issue defines readmission risk … Take a “whole-person” view of transitional care and ongoing care needs to better identify not only risk … team from the outpatient setting. 2 Whole-Person Care Transitional Planning Tool 3 Readmission Risks

63. Improving Patient Safety Systems for Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) Patients: A Guide for Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2012 - Improve patient safety systems to capture root causes and risk factors. … Return to Contents Slide 19: Specific Recommendations for High-Risk Scenarios High-risk clinical … Resources to address these high-risk scenarios should be a priority. … To address high-risk scenarios: Require presence of qualified interpreters. … of activities and strategies can help hospital leaders initiate an agenda to address patient safety risks

64. Preventing Falls in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and optimizing the hospital's … What is a standardized assessment of risk factors for falls, and how should this assessment be conducted … How should identified risk factors be used for fall prevention care planning?     3.5.

65. SHARE Approach Workshop Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - These include when: Choosing treatments—weighing risks and benefits. … instead of relative risk. … sense of personal or individual risk. … What Are the Risks of Having a Stent; 2013. … Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User's Guide. U.S.

66. Protection of Human Subjects in Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - involvement of human subjects and proposed protections according to the following review criteria: Risk … Adequacy of protection against risks. … various reasons, some related to the claims about the research protocol (e.g., for exemption or the risk … inadequate procedures to maximize privacy and confidentiality or subjects not adequately informed about risks

67. Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients In Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Telemedicine Universal ICU Decolonization Protocol Toolkit to Engage High-Risk … The Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients in Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings  ( PDF , 1.36 … 2017 Page originally created December 2017 Internet Citation: Toolkit to Engage High-Risk

68. TeamSTEPPS Limited English Proficiency Module, Staff Training Slide Presentation (pdf file)
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    July 26, 2012 - Safety for Patients With Limited English Proficiency Overview/Objectives  Understand the safety risk … medical history  Cultural deference to authority  Quadriplegic teen  $71 million lawsuit High-Risk … Surgery  Transitions in care, including intake and discharge  Medication reconciliation Added Risk … medical history  Latex allergy almost missed before surgery “Opportunity” Scenario  What are the risks … Settings and Situations Added Risk for LEP Patients LEP Patients �in Your Clinical Area Close Call

69. Facapplycusp (doc file)
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    September 04, 2012 - behavior—Choosing to behave in a way that increases risk, where risk is not recognized or is mistakenly … At-risk behavior is an active choice to engage in risky activity through a belief that the risk was either … To achieve optimal outcomes, organizations must design robust systems that minimize risks. … It is critical to reinforce behaviors that will reduce risk and deter behaviors that increase risk. … for healthy, risk-reducing choices.

70. PQMP Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Sexual Activity (2) Adolescent Tobacco Use (1) Availability of Services (14) High-Risk … Excellence for Pediatric Quality Measurement (CEPQM) NQF Endorsement Number: 3136 Initial Risk … Pregnancies Measure Domain: Availability of Services Measure Subdomain: High-Risk Obstetrics COE: … Pregnancies Measure Domain: Availability of Services Measure Subdomain: High-Risk Obstetrics COE: … Mount Sinai Collaboration for Advancing Pediatric Quality Measures (CAPQuaM) High-Risk Deliveries

71. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Labor and Delivery Unit Safety Obstetric Hemorrhage (doc file)
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    May 01, 2017 - assessing risk of hemorrhage upon admission to antepartum or L&D units can identify individuals at risk … · Risk assessment may include presence of clinical conditions that increase risk of hemorrhage, or … Because only 5 to 10 percent of obstetric hemorrhages occur in patients with risks for hemorrhages,1 … Use of transition communication techniques assures a shared mental model of plan of care and patient risks … timely, clear information to patient and family to explain what is happening, what needs to happen next, risks

72. AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention Training (pdf file)
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    November 09, 2017 - report is designed to help clinicians see changes in resident status earlier and intervene earlier when risks … for high risk. … Contributing Risk Factors included in the Falls High-Risk Report. … of Fall Risk Factors Report. … Report Slide 8: Falls High-Risk Report Slide 9: Falls High-Risk Report Slide 10: Falls High-Risk

73. Engaging Patients and Families in the Medical Home - Table 4 | PCMH Resource Center
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    June 01, 2010 - set self-care goals Get help with managing chronic illness Participate in activities to reduce health risks … Participate in peer support groups Decisionmaking Use evidence-based decision aids Discuss risks and

74. Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - It includes articles on reporting systems, risk assessment, safety culture, medical simulation, patient … Risk Assessment Risk-Based Patient Safety Metrics (   PDF , 614 KB ) Matthew C. … Using a Computerized Fall Risk Assessment Process to Tailor Interventions in Acute Care (   PDF , 338 … Risk Reduction and Systematic Error Management: Standardization of the Pediatric Chemotherapy Process … Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Based on In-Situ Simulations: A Methodology to Improve Understanding of Risks

75. Staff Training Classroom Slides | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2018 - English Proficiency Slide 2: Overview/Objectives Slide 3: The Story of Willie Ramirez Slide 4: High-Risk … Settings and Situations Slide 5: Added Risk for LEP Patients Slide 6: LEP Patients in Your Clinical … Return to Contents Slide 4: High-Risk Settings and Situations ED. OB/GYN. Surgery. … Return to Contents Slide 5: Added Risk for LEP Patients Not using a professional interpreter: … Return to Contents Slide 8: "Opportunity" Scenario What are the risks in this scenario?

76. AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program Is Identifying the Technology To Advance Care Quality, Safety, and Effectiveness | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - a digital healthcare tool to help breast cancer patients better understand their treatment options, risks … providers can use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify which cardiac disease patients are most at risk … Decision Precision+ , pulls electronic health record (EHR) data to provide individualized benefit and risk

77. Applying Human Factors to Make it Easier for Clinicians to Do Their Jobs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2022 - Miller’s team is studying the role of the ambulatory care environment in elevating the risk of a CVD … That’s because the widely used Framingham risk score—an algorithm used to estimate a person’s 10-year … cardiovascular risk—is based on a long-term ongoing study of mostly older, white men, Dr. … “How does that account for cardiovascular risk factors in young, Black female patients?” she asks. … A broader, systems-based approach to addressing CVD risk factors also might include assessing whether

78. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
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    March 01, 2013 - All multicomponent interventions also included an assessment of falls risk. … percent (95% CI, 0.2 to 1.1) while in the control group this was 1.5 percent (95% CI, 0.9 to 2.6) for a relative … risk reduction of 0.29 (95% CI, 0.1 to 0.87). … was not powered to assess falls separately, yet it is worth noting that the point estimate for the relative … Use of initial risk assessment and recording as the main nursing intervention in identifying risk of

79. Hospital Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - But there is only limited understanding of such risk factors currently. … Health Care Leaders and Professionals Many individuals do not understand the benefits, harms, and risks … that hospitals and clinical teams can use to ensure that people understand the benefits, harms, and risks … Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and optimizing the hospital's … These skin lesions bring pain, associated risk for serious infection, and increased health care utilization

80. Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: (pdf file)
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    January 18, 2017 - For example, many Americans have trouble understanding numerical expressions of risk. … Interrupting is OK if patient understanding is at risk. … “Every treatment has some risks. … Some goals may be long-term, such as reducing the risk of future injury or illness, or living as long … When there’s a risk of harm rather than a virtual certainty, it can be challenging to explain.