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1. The SHARE Approach—Essential Steps of Shared Decisionmaking: Expanded Reference Guide with Sample Conversation Starters | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2020 - It is critical to present both the benefits and risks of each option. … Communicate numbers in a way that your patient can understand Numbers can be a big part of discussing risk … Tips Avoid descriptive terms (such as "low risk"). Instead, provide estimated numbers. … Whenever possible, use absolute numbers—not relative risks. … Numeracy skill and the communication, comprehension, and use of risk-benefit information.

2. New Data Resources Provide Insights Into Patient Safety Risks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2023 - Now Events New Data Resources Provide Insights Into Patient Safety Risks … Today's Headlines: New Data Resources Provide Insights Into Patient Safety Risks . … New Data Resources Provide Insights Into Patient Safety Risks AHRQ’s Network of Patient Safety Databases … chartbooks and updated dashboards to help healthcare organizations better understand patients’ safety risks … antibiotics excessively and unsafely increases antibiotic-resistant infections, a serious public health risk

3. The SHARE Approach—Communicating Numbers to Your Patients: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2020 - Avoid explaining risks in purely descriptive terms (such as "low risk"). 5 For example, say, "Studies … Give absolute risk instead of relative risk. 1 Absolute risk estimates the number of health events among … Communicating risks and benefits: an evidence-based user’s guide. Silver Spring (MD): U.S. … Strategies to help patients understand risks. BMJ 2003 Sep 27;327(7417):745-8. … What Are the Risks of Having a Stent? National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

4. Bleeding Risks Increase When Blood Thinners and Aspirin Are Taken Together | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   February 01, 2024 - Newsroom Blog Newsletter AHRQ News Now Events Bleeding Risks … 2023 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report [PDF, 9 MB]) Today's Headlines: Bleeding Risks … Bleeding Risks Increase When Blood Thinners and Aspirin Are Taken Together Patients are at higher risk … thromboembolism, while aspirin may still be used to prevent primary cardiovascular events among high-risk … Surgical approach and reoperation risk in intermittent exotropia in the IRIS Registry.

5. SDOH & Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2023 - Assessing Patient Social Risks and Needs There are numerous tools to help identify social needs patients … currently have and their risks for developing social needs. … Below are the five screening tools they studied that are still in use: HealthBegins Upstream Risks … Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients' Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE)  includes

6. AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training Modules for Health Care Leaders and Professionals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2023 - Literacy and Cultural Competence updates 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 … presenting choices comprehensively, engaging patients and families, and explaining benefits, harms, and risks … University Health System Used AHRQ Tools   The AHRQ Informed Consent and Authorization Toolkit for Minimal Risk

7. Risks for jaw osteonecrosis drastically increases after 2 years of bisphosphonate therapy | Practice-Based Research Networks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 09, 2022 - Author Bibliography Search Essential PBRN Literature Funding Opportunities Risks … KEY RISK/STUDY FACTOR: The key risk factor in this study was bisphosphonate therapy. … authors concluded that ONJ is causally linked to both intravenous and oral bisphosphonate use, and risk … The authors also concluded that oral suppuration and dental extractions are independent ONJ risk factors … , Risk Factors, Suppuration, therapy, Universities

8. 6 Tk1 T1-Talking With Residents Checklist Version Final (pdf file)
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   October 01, 2016 -  What are the risks—or harms—of antibiotics? … , Family Family Toolkit/Tool 1 3  What is our nursing home doing to decrease the chance of these risks … – First, we share information and help you understand the risks of antibiotics. – Second, we have a … • Ask your doctor or a nurse about the benefits and risks of taking an antibiotic. … myself or another nurse, if you want more information—or have concerns—about antibiotics and their risks

9. 6 Tk1 T2-Talking With Residents Family Members Checklist Version Final (pdf file)
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   October 01, 2016 - Guide Engaging Residents, Educate & Engage Residents, Family Family Toolkit/Tool 2 2  What are the risks—or …  What is our nursing home doing to decrease the chance of these risks? … – First, we share information and help you understand the risks of antibiotics. – Second, we have an … • Talk with your family member and his or her doctor about the benefits and risks of taking an antibiotic … myself or another staff member, if you want more information—or have concerns—about antibiotics and the risks

10. Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2020 - Poster on Urinary Catheter Risks and Indications ( PDF , 570 KB) (Appendix E of Toolkit for Reducing … Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide) Educate and motivate staff regarding the risks … in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide) Educate staff in removal of indwelling urinary catheters, risks … Risks of overuse of urine culturing are also covered in this tool. … Archived Webinars Building a Team and Process to Reduce CAUTI Risk (April 8, 2014) Accessible ( Microsoft

11. Tool 5, The SHARE Approach Communicating Numbers to your Patients: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2014 - Avoid explaining risks in purely descriptive terms (such as “low risk”).5 For example, say, “Studies … instead of relative risk.1 Absolute risk estimates the number of health events among individuals in … Communicating risks and benefits: an evidence-based user’s guide. Silver Spring (MD): U.S. … Strategies to help patients understand risks. BMJ 2003 Sep 27;327(7417):745-8. PMID: 14512489. 6. … What Are the Risks of Having a Stent? National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. http://www.nhlbi.

12. Implementing Health Assessments in Primary Care: A How-to Guide | Practice-Based Research Networks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 15, 2014 - are used to collect information to help primary care providers evaluate a patient’s health status and risks … However, research shows that many patients do not receive an assessment of health risks or a plan to … address those risks.   … Act (ACA): the ACA authorizes Medicare coverage of annual wellness visits and specifies that a health risk

13. Health Care Facility Design Safety Risk Assessment Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2020 - Education & Training Resources Health Care Facility Design Safety Risk … Assessing safety risks and incorporating preventive measures into the design of health care facilities … safety problems as health care-associated infections, patient falls, medication errors, and security risks … care facility design that protects patient and staff safety, AHRQ funded the development of a Safety Risk … Functions as a quality check tool that allows teams to take into account level of priority and risk as

14. Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training for Health Care Professionals Audio Script | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - 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.

15. Patient Safety Resources by Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Setting AHRQ has developed a wealth of materials focused on a wide range of patient safety risks

16. Smoking Cessation Evidence and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - Cigarette smoking accounts for one out of every five deaths and is estimated to increase the risk for … Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of congenital anomalies, perinatal complications, miscarriage … Smoking Cessation Fact Sheet This EvidenceNOW fact sheet provides an overview of PCOR findings about the risks … Smoking Cessation in Primary Care This facts-at-a-glance handout for clinicians summarizes evidence, risks … Ready or Not…Addressing Tobacco Use This script and slide deck from a 14-minute presentation cover the risks

17. Identifying Strategies to Improve Medication Safety at Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2022 - often are not ready to take on the responsibility for medication management, including during the high-risk … Xiao also identified hazards or preventable risks to medication safety for older adults during care … The project also aims to identify medication risks to patient safety among underserved populations with … The goal of that 4-year project was to understand and reduce risks of central line-associated bloodstream

18. Give People a Reason To Look at a Health Care Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

19. Connecting Those at Risk to Care: The Quick Start Guide to Developing Community Care Coordination Pathways | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - topics in this section Innovations Downloadable Databases Connecting Those at Risk … Decisionmaker's Guide Connecting Those at Risk to Care: The Quick Start Guide to Developing … This Quick Start guide complements Pathways Community HUB Manual: A Guide To Identify and Address Risk … The HUB is a community care coordination approach focused on reducing modifiable risk factors for high-risk … those risks in a pay-for-performance approach.

20. EvidenceNOW PCOR Fact Sheet: Smoking Cessation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - Resource description: This EvidenceNOW fact sheet provides an overview of PCOR findings about the risks