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101. 095-Mrsa-Surveillance (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/095-mrsa-surveillance.docx
     April 01, 2025 - Data collection from pre-existing, clinically indicated samples such as reports of laboratory-identified

102. Table F-1. Granular Ethnicities That Cannot Be Rolled Up to an OMB Race Category with Greater Than 90 Percent Certainty | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldataaptabf1.html
     May 01, 2018 - population because the population size was too small for analysis in the 2000 Public Use Microdata Samples

103. Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/BwAo_shwmJLSRguyWxaXpP
     July 01, 2007 - screen for dyslipidemia, the preferred screening tests are TC and HDL-C on nonfasting or fasting samples … ; calculating LDL-C requires fasting samples. … Accuracy of Screening Tests TC and HDL-C can be measured on nonfasting venous or capillary blood samples … , LDL-C measurement requires fasting samples, and direct LDL-C can be measured on nonfasting venous … samples.

104. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/35424/psn-pdf
     April 09, 2013 - a standardized system to establish correlation error frequencies between cytologic and histologic samples

105. Why the KID should not be used to make State-level estimates
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/kid_statelevelestimates.jsp
     February 01, 2022 - However, these KID samples were not designed to yield a representative sample of hospitals at the State

106. Advice on Using Design Professionals for a Quality Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/design/advice.html
     December 01, 2022 - Ask prospective designers for samples of work, references, and fees. … Share the samples of work with others to get their reactions.

107. Archived: Evidence Summary: Drug Use, Illicit: Primary Care Interventions for Children and Adolescents | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary24/drug-use-illicit-primary-care-interventions-for-children-and-adolescents-march-2014
     March 11, 2014 - In general, the prevalence and frequency of baseline drug use were relatively low in all of the samples … The samples within each study varied in size and demographic factors. … In both samples, approximately 75% of the girls were nonwhite. … These studies used 2 distinct samples that occurred within the same time frame. (Schinke SP. … Given the low prevalence of drug use among the samples, we can presume that most youths were not using

108. Methodology Report #6: List Sample Design of the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Insurance Component (pdf file)
     meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/mr6/mr6.pdf
     July 01, 1999 - Similar data on employer health insurance are collected from both samples. … The two IC samples (household and list) are combined for collection purposes. … The data collected for both samples are almost identical. … Table 3 shows the breakdown of the samples within States. … Similar data on employer health insurance are collected for both samples.

109. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 11 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-tests-genetic_methods.pdf
     July 01, 2012 - In general, preanalytic steps are those involved in obtaining, fixing or preserving, and storing samples … Important analytic variables include the type of assay chosen and its reliability, types of samples, … What types of samples were used? How were samples obtained? … How were samples handled and stored prior to analysis? Analytic What type of assay was used? … When were samples analyzed (compared to when they were collected)?

110. Archived: Lipid Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-2007
     July 15, 2007 - to screen for dyslipidemia, the preferred screening tests are TC and HDL-C on nonfasting or fasting samples … ; calculating LDL-C requires fasting samples. … Accuracy of Screening Tests TC and HDL-C can be measured on nonfasting venous or capillary blood samples … , LDL-C requires fasting samples, and direct LDL-C can be measured on nonfasting venous samples.

111. Hospital-based transfusion error tracking from 2005 to 2010: identifying the key errors threatening patient transfusion safety. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-based-transfusion-error-tracking-2005-2010-identifying-key-errors-threatening
     March 09, 2022 - On the laboratory side, the most serious threat to patient safety was mislabeled blood samples.

112. Blood bank specimen mislabeling: a College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of 41,333 blood bank specimens in 30 institutions. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/blood-bank-specimen-mislabeling-college-american-pathologists-q-probes-study-41333-blood-bank
     November 16, 2022 - The rate of mislabeled blood samples in hospital laboratories did not improve significantly between

113. Evaluating sample medications in primary care: a practice-based research network study. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluating-sample-medications-primary-care-practice-based-research-network-study
     July 12, 2010 - the Institute for Safe Medication Practices' recommendations for safe distribution of medication samples

114. Safe Surgery 2020. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/safe-surgery-2015
     February 22, 2023 - May 17, 2023 Learning from samples of one or fewer.

115. Methodology Report #18: Updates to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Insurance Component List Sample Design, 2004
     meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/mr18/mr18.shtml
     January 01, 2007 - Because the MEPS-IC required collection of both the household and list samples of establishments and … Given that the total sample size for the private sector from the combined household and list samples … is about 44,000 private sector establishments, if samples were selected proportional to firm’s share … To avoid these large samples, the sum of the probabilities of selection for establishments within the … The two adjustment methods were applied to the expected samples for the largest firms.

116. Adolescent Assessment of Preparation for Transition (ADAPT) to Adult-Focused Health Care (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/outcomes/chipra-146-fullreport.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - Female respondents outnumbered males in all three samples. … The samples were diverse in race/ethnicity. … Of note, all of the samples included individuals with a broad range of self- reported health status; … Respondents and non-respondents were generally similar in all three samples. … There were lower proportions of black patients in the respondent samples compared to non-respondents

117. Research Administration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/administration.html
     March 01, 2021 - from the experiences of the EvidenceNOW Cooperatives on recruiting and retaining practices, along with samples

118. On-Time Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/fallspx/packet.html
     November 01, 2017 - On-Time Falls Prevention Overview Materials Packet Samples of four types of reports are provided

119. breast-biopsy-update-130920 (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/breast-biopsy-update_research-protocol.pdf
     September 20, 2013 - There are currently three techniques for obtaining samples from suspicious breast lesions: fine-needle … Samples obtained by any of these methods are evaluated by pathologists and classified into histological … Because a core-needle biopsy often samples only part of the breast abnormality, there is the risk that … The biopsy may be carried out with needles of varying diameters, and one or more samples of tissue may … A device used to obtain core-needle samples.

120. Draft Research Plan: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/brca-related-cancer-risk-assessment-genetic-counseling-testing
     January 18, 2024 - BRCA1/2 mutations All KQs: Other interventions KQ 3c: BRCA1/2 testing of pathology or tissue samples … ; direct to consumer laboratory testing or samples; and non-FDA approved tests Comparisons KQ