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281. Implementing Team Approaches for Improving Diabetes Care in Health Centers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/rodriguez/index.html
     December 01, 2020 - Patient Experience Survey (random samples of patients with 2+ visits) (2012 RR= 45%, n=907; 2013 RR=

282. Calculating the Starting Sample Size for CAHPS Surveys | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/survey-methods-research/calculating-sample-size.html
     August 01, 2024 - Calculating the Starting Sample Size for CAHPS Surveys The starting sample size you need to achieve the desired number of completed CAHPS questionnaires for analysis and reporting should take several factors into account: The accuracy of the contact information. The mode or modes of data collection. Any prior s…

283. INTRODUCTION TO THE HCUP NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), 2010
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     January 01, 2010 - However, these NIS samples were not designed to yield a representative sample of hospitals at the State … The two samples could be combined to form a single, generalizable 20% subsample of discharges. … an equal probability of selection for the sample, regardless of whether they appeared in prior NIS samples … This deviates from the procedure used for earlier samples, which maximized the longitudinal component … For a description of zero-weight hospitals in the 1988-1992 samples, refer to the special report: Design

284. INTRODUCTION TO THE HCUP NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), 2011
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2011.jsp
     January 01, 2011 - However, these NIS samples were not designed to yield a representative sample of hospitals at the State … The two samples could be combined to form a single, generalizable 20% subsample of discharges. … an equal probability of selection for the sample, regardless of whether they appeared in prior NIS samples … This deviates from the procedure used for earlier samples, which maximized the longitudinal component … For a description of zero-weight hospitals in the 1988-1992 samples, refer to the special report: Design

285. Project Context | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2017 - However, these are only samples of a small percentage of the patients in any given locality, so they

286. Appendix B. Detailed Research Domain Framework Definitions and Classification Rules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2020 - nonhuman test subjects as well as computer simulated biomedical models, and studies that use tissue samples … , other biological samples, or medical imagery outside the context of actual service provision. 

287. HCUP Methods Series Calculating Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Variances for Data Years 2011 and Earlier
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     January 01, 2003 - superpopulation (stochastic) model, procedures have been developed to draw inferences using weights from complex samples … The SURVEYSELECT procedure provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples … The procedure can select a simple random sample, or samples with design features such as stratification

288. Tool 7.4: Sample MD to Pharmacy Outreach (doc file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/tool-7-4-sample-md-pharmacy-outreach.docx
     June 16, 2021 - Tool 7.4: Sample MD to Pharmacy Outreach Tool 7.4: Sample MD to Pharmacy Outreach To Our Valued Pharmacy Partner: We would like to let you know that physicians at our practice are now able to send electronic prescriptions to pharmacies connected to a health information network (placeholder). This means that our ph…

289. Archived: Drug Abuse: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/drug-abuse-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - urine testing: water loading, diuretic use, ingestion of interfering substances, or adulterating urine samples … compounds in foods. 48 To prevent falsely implicating persons as users of illegal drugs, screen-positive samples

290. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: Evidence for the Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2009 - Sera samples tested by using TPHA (serial dilutions, considered reactive at �1:80) and VDRL (diluted … Samples were considered to have biological false-positive results if they were VDRL-positive but TPHA

291. Archived: Genital Herpes Simplex: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/genital-herpes-simplex-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - 27 EIA, however, had a concordance of only 59% with conventional viral culture in a large study of samples … 88% compared to conventional culture, 22 and 43% and 71%, respectively, compared to cytology, 29 on samples

292. Genetic Risk Assessment and BRCA Mutation Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility: Systematic Evidence Review (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2005 - Studies were conducted in highly selected samples of women, and re- sults may not be generalizable to … In Monte Carlo simulation, random samples for the esti- mate of P�D��G� are obtained as follows. … First, random samples of logit(P) are drawn from the following normal distribution: N�logit̂(P), var̂ … Then, by transformation, random samples for estimates of P�D��G� are obtained as: P�D �G�� � exp(logit … Random samples of RR are obtained by first drawing random samples of ln(RR) from N�ln(RR̂), var̂�ln(

293. Fielding the CAHPS Child Hospital Survey (pdf file)
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     April 02, 2025 - Sampling In disproportionate stratified random sampling, dissimilar sampling ratios are used to draw samples

294. INTRODUCTION TO THE HCUP NATIONAL INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), 2013
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     January 01, 2013 - Analyses of time trends using the HCUP NIS are recommended from 1993 forward because earlier samples … Analyses of time trends using the HCUP NIS are recommended from 1993 forward because earlier samples … of discharges from a sample of approximately 1,000 hospitals, whereas the proposed systematic design samples … Patient factors DRG Admission month The superior performance of the systematic design that samples … 0.58 0.57 0.55 Hospital Mortality 0.57 0.55 0.55 0.51 Based on 500 Simulated Samples

295. 040-Mrsa-Surveillance-Notes (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - Slide 9 Passive MRSA Surveillance SAY: Passive surveillance gathers data from samples that are collected

296. 5. Improving Data Collection across the Health Care System | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2018 - Moreover, conducting surveys of representative population-based samples in diverse settings requires … reported in Chapter 2 were generated from pooled analyses of the NHIS sample to increase the size of the samples

297. Technical Interventions To Prevent CAUTI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Samples of products can be obtained so that staff can conduct a trial as a way to identify which products … Utilize the help of the central supply manager to obtain samples of new/improved condom catheters on

298. INTRODUCTION TO THE HCUP NATIONAL INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), 2021
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2021.jsp
     January 01, 2021 - Analyses of time trends using the HCUP NIS are recommended from 1993 forward because earlier samples … Analyses of time trends using the HCUP NIS are recommended from 1993 forward because earlier samples

299. INTRODUCTION TO THE HCUP NATIONAL INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), 2020
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2020.jsp
     January 01, 2020 - Analyses of time trends using the HCUP NIS are recommended from 1993 forward because earlier samples … Analyses of time trends using the HCUP NIS are recommended from 1993 forward because earlier samples

300. INTRODUCTION TO THE HCUP NATIONAL INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), 2019
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2019.jsp
     January 01, 2019 - Analyses of time trends using the HCUP NIS are recommended from 1993 forward because earlier samples … Analyses of time trends using the HCUP NIS are recommended from 1993 forward because earlier samples