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361. 3. What are the best practices in pressure ulcer prevention that we want to use? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu3.html
     October 01, 2014 - In addition, risk assessment may be used to identify different levels of risk. … at risk and quantify the level of this risk. … Remember that risk assessment scales are only one part of a pressure ulcer risk assessment. … as nurses can identify people at high risk or no risk. … ulcer risk status.

362. 3. What are the best practices in pressure ulcer prevention that we want to use? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu3.html
     October 01, 2014 - In addition, risk assessment may be used to identify different levels of risk. … at risk and quantify the level of this risk. … Remember that risk assessment scales are only one part of a pressure ulcer risk assessment. … as nurses can identify people at high risk or no risk. … ulcer risk status.

363. Lessons from the Field: Making Performance Comparisons (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/lessons/lessons-performance-comparisons.pdf
     October 01, 2019 - Determine whether to risk adjust. … adjustment, risk stratification and exclusion. … •CHeQ: risk adjusting standard of care measure may mask disparities. … ‣ Even when SES is not included in a model, understanding social risks and other contextual factors … Determine whether to risk adjust. Selecting and using benchmarks.

364. Grants to Enable Diagnostic Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/diagnostic-error-grants/index.html
     January 01, 2021 - combine adjudication data with data from Vizient to determine which specific factors contribute to risks … for diagnostic errors, and to use risk estimates to calculate incidence and impact of factors contributing … An expert-guided machine-learning approach to estimate the incidence, risk and harms associated with … To identify the risk factors associated with diagnostic delays for infectious diseases that are frequently

365. Final Progress Report: Safety Advancement in the Emergency Department (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/hall2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Scope: The project aimed to develop a checklist-based cognitive tool to reduce the risks of gaps in care … The intended goal was to implement and evaluate the tool to reduce the risks of information gaps in … This study, Evaluation of Risk by Active Surveillance in the Emergency Department (ERASED), uses a novel … In this study, we propose to develop, implement, and evaluate a tool that will minimize the risks of … The initial risk assessment project, Evaluation of Risk by Active Surveillance in the Emergency Department

366. Can an Academic Health Care System Overcome Barriers to Clinical Guideline Implementation? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Quinn.pdf
     January 01, 2004 - for patients who have one major risk factor or two minor risk factors (Table 1). … using the Revised Cardiac Risk Index. … Revised Cardiac Risk Index Criteria (one or more) A. … Lowering cardiac risk in noncardiac surgery. N Engl J Med 2001;345(23): 1677–82. 23. … The relative risk of incident coronary heart disease associated with recently stopping the use of b-blockers

367. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/prevhosp/ereports.html
     September 01, 2017 - The reports are: Transfer Risk Reports  (A high risk or medium-risk report can be produced.) … High Risk. … Rule 2: High risk based on polypharmacy AND at least four risk factors from existing high-risk diagnoses … Medium Risk. … Rules for High and Medium Transfer Risk   Risk Factors Risk Level Row No.

368. 6 Tk1 T2-Talking With Residents Family Members Final (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/6_TK1_T2-Talking_with_Residents_Family_Members_Final.pdf
     October 01, 2016 - between nurses or prescribing clinicians and residents’ family members about antibiotics and the risks … What are the risks—or harms—of antibiotics? … What is our nursing home doing to decrease the chance of these risks? … What are the risks—or harms—of antibiotics? VI. … What is our nursing home doing to decrease the chance of these risks? VII.

369. Spotlight on Colorado | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/co-spotlight.html
     July 01, 2015 - Colorado supported the implementation of an electronic risk assessment tool To get a fuller picture … of the health risks facing adolescents, demonstration staff in Colorado and New Mexico— Developed … an electronic questionnaire that screens adolescents for social and behavioral risk factors, including … ’ tablets so they can discuss health risks with adolescents during their visit. … SBHCs also reported that aggregating the screening data helped them identify the risk factors common

370. Final Progress Report: An Intervention to Reduce Falls Among Adults with Intellectual Disability (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/bonardi-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Fall risk factors most associated with high falls risk were unsafe footwear, tripping hazards, previous … The program includes 1) comprehensive assessment of an individual’s fall risk using the VRS Falls Risk … Fall risk was reassessed using the Falls Risk Screening tool after 3 months and 6 months. … Analyses to date have examined the risk factors that are related to a high fall risk, as assessed in … Risk Index), the following risk factors were found to be most correlated: Timed Up and Go raw score

371. Chapter 5. Project Expansion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssi5.html
     April 01, 2018 - Initial Risk Factors Appendix J. Additional Risk Factors Appendix K. … Final Risk Factors Appendix L. … eight additional potential risk factors. … Thus, 41 potential risk factors were included. E3.5.1. … different in the list of significant risk factors.

372. Give People a Reason To Look at a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/communicate/reason.html
     November 01, 2018 - In general, advertisers and marketers believe that messages that emphasize risks people face are more … hospital information found that when quality information is framed in terms of helping people avoid risks … hospital, people understand it better, value it more, and are more willing to make tradeoffs to avoid risk … home data at all. [3] These findings suggest that when people need to be reminded that there is a risk … because many people believe they all offer about the same quality of care and don’t think about the risks

373. On-Time - Menu of Implementation Strategies (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruprev/pruprev-menu.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Weekly huddle to review residents at risk with CNA staff 2. … Weekly huddle to review residents at risk with CNA staff 2. 2.Weekly nutrition-at-risk meetings … Risk management meetings; use as complementary tool during risk review at the nursing-unit level. … Other Intervention History for Nutrition Risk Report 1. … Weekly huddle to review residents at risk with CNA staff 2.

374. Table 7B.1 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-143-section-7b.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - ) 0.78 2 body systems 1.71 (1.29, 2.26) <0.001 3 or more body systems 1.69 (1.16, 2.46) 0.01 a Relative … Risk Estimate b Confidence Interval

375. Puh-Implementation-Handouts (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruhealing/puh-implementation-handouts.pdf
     July 01, 2016 - these risk factors in a way that would give us changes in risk factors during their stay. … We need information on a weekly basis to identify how risks are changing but we can’t expect to pull … of residents at risk. … The purpose of using the reports is to identify persons with risks associated with pressure ulcers … Reports provide information about current and changing risks for pressure ulcer healing and can aid

376. Project Report - Lean Sigma (ppt file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/framework-slides/CUSP-A-Framework-for-Success-Mar-7-2012-508.ppt
     January 01, 2012 - monthly with unit team Executive should – Review defects Ensure unit team has resources to reduce risks … Hold team accountable for improving risks and central line-associated blood steam infection rate … What could you do to reduce risk? How do you know risk was reduced ? … during the day; how can we reduce these risks * * Step 5 cont’d: Shadowing Follow another type … success * Science of Safety Education Education done prior to CAUTI Safety survey to identify at-risk

377. Strategies to Better Engineer Safety into Healthcare Delivery (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/engineering-safety-practice/safety-engineering-strategies.pdf
     March 06, 2025 - such as practices designed to reduce the transmission of healthcare-associated infections and the risk … Anticipate, Prevent, and Mitigate Hazards and Risks II. … Establish standard contingency plans for high-risk failures such as cybersecurity breaches, natural … monitoring for patients receiving sedative/analgesic pain medication to decrease the risk of “failure … Anticipate, Prevent, and Mitigate Hazards and Risks Implementation Support II.

378. On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing Facilitator Training Implementation of the Healing Reports: Handouts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruhealing/handouts.html
     December 01, 2017 - these risk factors in a way that would give us changes in risk factors during their stay. … We need information on a weekly basis to identify how risks are changing but we can’t expect to pull … X   X   Weekly risk meetings (e.g., pressure ulcer healing risk or nutrition risk) … The purpose of using the reports is to identify persons with risks associated with pressure ulcers, review … Reports provide information about current and changing risks for pressure ulcer healing and can aid root

379. Reducing Disparities in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/persell_cvd_disparities.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Statin drugs decrease CVD illness and mortality in people at high risk. … project is to understand these disparities and improve the appropriate use of statins among all high risk … who reached out to patients by phone and mail to promote awareness of the patient’s personal CVD risk … address this risk? …  Barriers to at risk patients starting a statin regiment include: – Primary care clinicians focus

380. Fall Dashboard Data 2024 (xls file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/Fall_Dashboard_Data_2024.xlsx
     January 01, 2024 - across age and risk factor groups. … id 729 31.2% 16 Items in reach, visible risk id 692 29.6% 17 Education, visible risk id 683 29.2% … id 566 29.7% 18 Low bed, visible risk id 552 29.0% 19 Education, visible risk id 517 27.1% 20 Top … id 1,609 40.8% 14 Items in reach, visible risk id 1,532 38.8% 15 Education, visible risk id 1,478 … id 1,930 41.3% 14 Items in reach, visible risk id 1,874 40.1% 15 Education, visible risk id 1,785