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301. Shared Decisionmaking To Improve Patient Safety, Education, and Empowerment (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/shareddec-1.pdf
     September 08, 2016 - Often, multiple options are available, such as testing or treatment, where risks and expected outcomes … , maintain or decrease currently low prescribing rates, and better inform their patients about the risks … Approach is a process for shared decisionmaking that includes exploring and comparing the benefits and risks … Decision aids provide information about risks and benefits of alternative treatments (including the

302. Final Progress Report: Toward safer opioid prescribing for chronic pain in high risk populations (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/robinson-papp-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Current treatments for CP are only modestly effective and some, such as opioids, carry significant risks … Discuss benefits and risks and clinician and patient responsibilities for managing opioid therapy. 4. … Evaluate risk factors for opioid-related harms. Consider offering naloxone. 9. … • PLW recognize the risks of opioid use. … items, some already had high levels of adherence at baseline, (e.g., assessment for opioid related risks

303. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/overviewhandouts3.html
     December 01, 2017 - Weekly Risk Meetings (e.g., Pressure Ulcer Risk, Nutrition Risk)     On-Time Pressure Ulcer … Weekly Risk Meetings (e.g., Pressure Ulcer Risk, Nutrition Risk)        9. … Weekly Risk Meetings (e.g., Pressure Ulcer Risk, Nutrition Risk)        12. … Weekly Risk Meetings (e.g., Pressure Ulcer Risk, Nutrition Risk)        8. … strictly for prevention, some of the prevention reports can provide helpful information about residents' risks

304. Appendix K. Infographic Poster on CAUTI Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-k.html
     October 01, 2015 - Poster on Urinary Catheter Risks and Indications Appendix F.

305. Final Progress Report: Sociotechnical Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Home Health Care (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/silver2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - home health setting through improved understanding of the sources and nature of systems and process risks … Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. 20 Vincente K. … Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. 25 Reason J. … Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents. … Sensemaking of patient safety risks and hazards.

306. Final Progress Report: Risk Analysis of Pediatric Chemotherapy Processes (pdf file)
     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

307. Antimicrobial Prophylaxis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/antimicrobial-prophylaxis.html
     April 01, 2025 - infections (SSIs) by maintaining antimicrobial drug levels in the body during surgery, the highest risk … application​ Refine the approach to intravenous vancomycin perioperative prophylaxis and balance benefits with risks​

308. Final Progress Report: Inpatient-Outpatient Transitions: Reducing the Rate of Readmissions (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/jones-selna-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - The purpose of this project was to use Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) to identify modifiable risks … technique to identify risks associated with inpatient-to-ambulatory transitions; the FMEA, in turn, … analysis techniques as a means to identifying and reducing risks. … Though this is a sensible approach to understanding how risks emerge, there are fundamental challenges … analysis may convey an impression that risks are well understood when, in fact, meaningful sources

309. Engineering Safe Practices Affinity Group | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/engineering-safety-practice/index.html
     April 01, 2025 - , 375 KB) Strategies and Change Concepts  Strategy 1: Anticipate, Prevent, and Mitigate Hazards and Risks … Establish standard contingency plans for high-risk failures such as cybersecurity breaches, natural disasters … and Prevention (CDC) Training: Safety Culture in Healthcare Settings includes strategies to identify risks … processes, supplies, equipment, and technology interfaces with human factors principles can reduce the risk

310. Funding and Implementation Opportunities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/funding-opportunities/index.html
     March 01, 2025 - potential, it is essential to carefully balance the benefits of AI with efforts to identify and mitigate risks

311. Learning From Defects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/learning-from-defects.html
     October 01, 2024 - How will you know the risk is reduced? … ) This form is intended to be used as a survey among frontline healthcare workers to determine what risks

312. Six Building Blocks How-To-Implement Toolkit: Design and Implement Guide (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/6bb-toolkit-design.pdf
     February 18, 2021 - Patient agreement revised to support the policy and educate patients about risks. … Patients receive education on chronic pain management and opioid risks. … level (e.g., low risk every 12 months, moderate risk every 6 months, high risk every 3 months). … Low-risk patients can be given to any provider and high-risk patients only to those more comfortable … A history of sexual abuse is a risk factor for OUD.

313. Final Progress Report: Risk and Recovery in Complex Environments: Labor and Delivery as a Model (pdf file)
     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

314. Identifying and Reducing Errors in Perioperative Anesthesia Medication Delivery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/anesthesia-medication-long-desc.html
     January 01, 2025 - access to the patient and equipment, and lack of standardization across non-OR anesthesia settings as risk … Systems engineering-based framework of process risks in perioperative medication delivery . … Systems engineering-based framework of process risks in perioperative medication delivery .

315. Safe Medication Administration: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/medication/safe-medication-slides.html
     July 01, 2023 - Slide 4: High-Alert Medications 1 High-alert medications are "drugs that bear a heightened risk … These medications require special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors, such as the following: … Ensures a shared mental model of plan of care and perceived risks— Between shifts. … Slide 16: Key Safety Elements: Patient and Family Engagement Discuss risks and benefits of oxytocin … Slide 27: Key Safety Elements: Patient and Family Engagement Discuss risks and benefits of intrapartum

316. S10: Enhancing a Mobile Health App for Patient Asthma Symptom Monitoring During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/spotlight-s10-rudin.html
     May 01, 2024 - P2: Using an Electronic Screening Tool to Identify Adolescents at Risk for STIs P3: Using Veterans … Disorder in Rural New Mexico P13: Developing a Prediction Model to Identify Health Clinics at High-Risk … Understanding How Nurse Practitioners Increase Access to Primary Care S9: Using Integrated Social and Medical Risk … People living with asthma faced new and daunting risks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

317. S7: Identifying How to Improve Health Outcomes for Children in Foster Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/spotlight-s7-beal.html
     May 01, 2024 - P2: Using an Electronic Screening Tool to Identify Adolescents at Risk for STIs P3: Using Veterans … Disorder in Rural New Mexico P13: Developing a Prediction Model to Identify Health Clinics at High-Risk … Understanding How Nurse Practitioners Increase Access to Primary Care S9: Using Integrated Social and Medical Risk … The health risks for children in foster care are further compounded due to the frequent communication

318. S4: Does Support for CDS Implementation Increase the Use of Patient-Centered Care To Treat Chronic Pain in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/spotlight-s4-harle-salloum.html
     May 01, 2024 - P2: Using an Electronic Screening Tool to Identify Adolescents at Risk for STIs P3: Using Veterans … Disorder in Rural New Mexico P13: Developing a Prediction Model to Identify Health Clinics at High-Risk … Understanding How Nurse Practitioners Increase Access to Primary Care S9: Using Integrated Social and Medical Risk … clinicians work with their patients to choose a pain treatment approach that best balances the potential risks

319. Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/safer-together.html
     January 01, 2025 - Reducing preventable harm requires a total systems approach: a coordinated, proactive strategy in which risks

320. Aspirin Use Evidence and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/evidence/aspirin.html
     March 01, 2021 - Resources A substantial body of evidence shows that taking aspirin can help patients lower their risk … Patients with heart disease or who have had a stroke in the past are at high risk for having a heart … Taking an aspirin every day can help these patients lower their risk. … evidence to develop guidelines on aspirin use in patients with heart disease and others who are at risk … Stroke This patient education booklet explains how heart attack and stroke happen, and the potential risks