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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/examples/risk
January 01, 2023 - Risk Assessment
1. … Examples of risk assessments
Ground Rules for Conducting a Risk Assessment ( PDF , 11KB)
How to … Conduct a Risk Assessment ( PDF , 8KB)
Usability Evaluation Tools
2. … What will we do with the information we collect from a risk assessment? … What are the benefits of conducting a risk assessment prior to implementation?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prospective-risk-analysis-and-incident-reporting-better-pharmaceutical-care-paediatric
June 27, 2011 - Study
Prospective risk analysis and incident reporting for better pharmaceutical … Prospective risk analysis and incident reporting for better pharmaceutical care at paediatric hospital … Prospective risk analysis and incident reporting for better pharmaceutical care at paediatric hospital … June 27, 2011
Use of a prospective risk analysis method to improve the safety of the … November 4, 2020
Risks and medication errors analysis to evaluate the impact of a chemotherapy
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/low-dose-aspirin-use-for-the-prevention-of-morbidity-and-mortality-from-preeclampsia-preventive-medication
September 28, 2021 - Aspirin use was significantly associated with lower risk of preeclampsia (pooled relative risk [RR], … Pooled estimates of the relative risks of health outcomes associated with aspirin use were generated … .12), or fetal intracranial bleeding (P = .34), and the relative risks in the increased-risk population … , No. of studies (No. analyzed) a
Pooled RR, random-effects model (95% CI) b
I 2 , %
τ 2
Relative … risk, range
ARD
Relative risk, median (IQR)
ARD (range)
Perinatal mortality
15 (15,527
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/shenep-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Grant Award Number: 1 UC1 HSO14295-01 (Revised)
Abstract
Purpose: To formally evaluate the risks … using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
1.1 The risks associated with each step of a complex … in a test environment prior to final comparison of identified
risks of chemotherapy administration … This report, issued in 1999, outlined the risks to
patient safety found in our nation’s hospitals and … In response to this problem of patient safety risks, a group of 140 public and private
organizations
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/gurses-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Risks for medication-related harms in ambulatory care are multi-dimensional and complex (6, 7). … assessment tool to document
medication safety risks during the transition period and in the home. … A theoretical framework of risks and hazards for medication-related adverse events.
Table 1. … Significance
The project developed a risk assessment tool that may be implemented to reduce risks of … and sources of risks
identified in this project.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stprasumm.html
April 01, 2013 - Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical Site Infection in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Executive Summary … Risk-Informed Interventions
Chapter 4. Conclusions and Next Steps
Appendix A. … ST-PRA is particularly helpful for estimating risks in outcomes that are very rare, such as the risk … Step 2—Identify the dependencies and interactions among risk points. … Next Steps The use of ST-PRA as a modeling tool to identify risks in the ASC environment is an important
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/co-nm-specialinnovation.pdf
January 01, 2020 - Problems Addressed
• Adolescence is a time when numerous risks to health
emerge.1 Failure to assess … these risks systematically can
cause providers to miss opportunities to intervene and
change risky … In general, discussing health risks with adolescents can
promote healthy habits and improve care overall … Lack of electronic data
makes it hard to track whether students’ risks have
been addressed, both on … • Providers credited the eSHQ with facilitating discussions
about risks with adolescents and referrals
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/cardiovascular-disease-screening-using-nontraditional-risk-assessment
September 03, 2015 - factors alone, does risk assessment of asymptomatic adults using nontraditional risk factors—followed … Does use of nontraditional risk factors in addition to traditional risk factors to predict cardiovascular … disease risk improve measures of calibration, discrimination, and risk reclassification? … Does treatment guided by nontraditional risk factors in addition to traditional risk factors lead to … area under the curve, c-statistic), and calibration (e.g., agreement between observed and predicted risks
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/goldman2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - and manage more complex and dynamic systems-based risks. … manage the risks of their clinical environment and formulate safety policies
and protocols in order … to mitigate risk. … and manage more
complex and dynamic systems-based risks associated with both standard and novel operating … The collected data are being used to populate the
models and quantify the risks associated with delivery
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/wei-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - prescription
opioid patterns and elderly-specific risk factors for identifying high-risk older adults … of any
63.8 37.9 2.8 (2.3,
3.5)
2.7 (2.2,
3.5)
Abbreviations: CNS, central nervous system; RR, relative … risk. … versus those who did not) after opioid initiation but within 6 months
before index date had significant risks … Risks for
possible and probable opioid misuse among recipients of chronic opioid therapy
in commercial
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/cohen2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - tool to identify and quantify vulnerabilities, determine how to
reduce risks, and estimate the impact … pharmacies
intended to identify, quantify, eliminate, reduce, and/or mitigate the risks associated … of why and how often these failures affect patient
outcomes.28-31 After quantifying and ranking all relative … risks, “what if” scenario testing is used to prioritize
interventions that demonstrate an impact to … and the impact of system and behavioral changes on
these risks.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/ratliff-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - selection operator (LASSO) regularization
method and a logistic regression approach for predicting the risks … Purpose
This project sought to develop a relative risk model predicting incidence of complications in … Our analysis showed that Medicaid status was the single most important factor in
predicting the risks … The following categories of features or variables were considered as potential predictors for the risks … in the high-risk group.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/dot-plots-methods.pdf
October 01, 2021 - risk with 95 percent confidence intervals as
well as the absolute rates in each arm. … risks) in the same format as the dot plots. … risk and 95 percent
confidence interval. … and control groups along with the proportion of patients who experienced an
outcome in each group, relative … risk;
SOE = strength of evidence
Figure 2.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/6cRgd5whkAvSGESSQsrQLR
January 01, 2020 - Statement
Risk Assessment for Cardiovascular Disease
With Nontraditional Risk Factors
US Preventive … Risk Score, incorporates hsCRP level
into its risk calculation. … at intermediate
risk. … year risk of 7.5% or
greater are considered at high risk.4 The distribution of estimated
CVD risk in … risk factors improves reclassifica-
tion in intermediate-risk groups.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-medications-for-risk-reduction-2002
July 08, 2002 - Risk for breast cancer. … Risk for adverse effects. … The relative risk reduction for breast cancer was 0.94 (95 percent CI, 0.59-1.43) for the Royal Marsden … significant difference in incidence between the tamoxifen and placebo groups in this age group. 7 The relative … Weighing the risks and benefits of tamoxifen treatment for preventing breast cancer.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/weingart-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Official
Denise Burgess (denise.burgess@ahrq.hhs.gov)
2.0 ABSTRACT
Purpose: We sought to assess the risks … Results: Each stage of the medication use
process poses risks to oral chemotherapy safety. … of oral chemotherapies.1
Additional risks associated with oral chemotherapy use in ambulatory oncology … They identified risks associated with temozolomide that
were not identified by the capecitabine FMEA … However, given the relatively clear and consistent
pattern of risks and recommendations that evolved
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpra.pdf
March 01, 2012 - ST-
PRA is particularly helpful for estimating risks in outcomes that are very rare, such as the risk … ST-PRA is particularly helpful for estimating risks in outcomes that
are very rare, such as the risk … and combinations of risks, and
the design of an intervention aimed at reducing the risk of SSIs. … of the other risks in the model. … unique combinations of risks that
contribute to the adverse outcome.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/reduce-risks-hospitals-enlist-proceduralists
August 17, 2016 - Newspaper/Magazine Article
To reduce risks, hospitals enlist 'proceduralists.' … Citation Text:
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September 01, 2002 - density testing to identify fracture risks, effectiveness
of treatment in reducing fracture risk, and … This was
comparable to the magnitude of the relative risks of
most of the other significant predictors … 3,723 participants
(dosage 10 to 40 mg/d; weighted relative risk, 0.51;
CI, 0.38-0.69). … by 70% (relative
risk, 1.7). … risk for hip fracture 0.63 0.63 0.63 0.63 0.63 0.63
with treatment
Relative risk for vertebral 0.52
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/normalization-deviance-what-are-perioperative-risks
July 15, 2020 - Commentary
The normalization of deviance: what are the perioperative risks? … The normalization of deviance: what are the perioperative risks? … The normalization of deviance: what are the perioperative risks? … November 13, 2019
Implementing universal suicide risk screening in a pediatric hospital