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41. Implementation of an Event Reporting and Learning System Leads to Improvements in Patient Safety Culture at UNC Medical Center-Fenton-Wilhelm-Amos (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/4-unc-webcast-fenton-wilhelm-amos.pdf
    August 15, 2019 - Scope Report entered (all severity levels)  Report closed, including review and follow-up communication … A R E U N C H E A L T H C A R E Safety Assessment Code (SAC) Matrix Probability and Severity … Major Moderate Minor Frequent 3 3 2 1 Occasional 3 2 1 1 Uncommon 3 2 1 1 Remote 3 2 1 1 Severity … occur), Uncommon (possible to occur), Remote (unlikely to occur) How the SAC Matrix Works: When a severity

42. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Training - Emergency Department Setting
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cap-toolkit/tool4a_ed-setting.pptx
    January 10, 2017 - management of CAP, including diagnostic and treatment issues, revolve around the initial assessment of severity … Severity of Illness Scores “Can be used to identify patients with CAP who may be candidates for outpatient … CURB-65 Criteria for 30-Day Mortality The CURB-65 test provides a severity of illness score.f It requires

43. Making Adjustments to Health Care Quality Scores | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/scores/adjustment-scoring.html
    January 01, 2023 - Adjusting for Risk or Severity The most common kind of adjustment addresses variations in the characteristics … [1] [2] Why adjust for risks or severity?

44. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Training: Primary Care
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cap-toolkit/tool4b_pc-setting.pptx
    January 10, 2017 - management of CAP, including diagnostic and treatment issues, revolve around the initial assessment of severity … Severity of Illness Scores “Can be used to identify patients with CAP who may be candidates for outpatient … CRB-65 Criteria for 30-Day Mortality The CRB-65 test provides a severity of illness score.f It requires

45. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Training: Emergency Department Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-care/cap-ed-setting-slides.html
    January 01, 2018 - management of CAP, including diagnostic and treatment issues, revolve around the initial assessment of severity … Slide 7: Severity of Illness Scores "Can be used to identify patients with CAP who may be candidates … Slide 9: CURB-65 Criteria for 30-Day Mortality The CURB-65 test provides a severity of illness score.f

46. Final Progress Report: Proactive Risk Assessment in the ED: Building the Safety Case (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/wears-perry-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - Overall hazard assessments were developed by combining ordinal scale estimates of likelihood, severity … High-risk scenarios were those for which likelihood and severity were high (>1 per day and >4 on a 6 … Rating scale for severity of harm. … Recovery Likelihood – hi tempo Severity – hi tempo Recovery – hi tempo Notes Data partially … Recovery Likelihood – hi tempo Severity – hi tempo Recovery – hi tempo Notes blue wrist band

47. Section 3-A, Tables (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - Increase in resource use Analysis done after controlling for severity of illness Goodman, Journal

48. The Impact of Standardized Order Sets on Quality and Financial Outcomes (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Ballard_12.pdf
    February 02, 2008 - Methods: We conducted an observational study to examine order set use by hospital, discharge month, severity … age, sex, race/ethnicity, admitting BHCS hospital, All Patient Refined Diagnosis Group (APR DRG) Severity … For ordinally scaled measurements (APR DRG risk of mortality, severity of illness, Greenfield comorbidity … Patients in higher APR DRG Severity of Illness and Risk of Mortality classes were significantly less … Following adjustment for patient and provider characteristics, severity of illness, discharge month

49. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Training: Primary Care Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-care/cap-pc-setting-slides.html
    January 01, 2018 - management of CAP, including diagnostic and treatment issues, revolve around the initial assessment of severity … Slide 7: Severity of Illness Scores "Can be used to identify patients with CAP who may be candidates … Slide 9: CURB-65 Criteria for 30-Day Mortality The CURB-65 test provides a severity of illness score

50. Medical Injury Identification Using Hospital Discharge Data (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Layde.pdf
    January 01, 2003 - Because the indices for risk of mortality and severity of illness were intended to adjust for the severity … Less than 0.2 percent of patients could not be assigned a severity of underlying illness score, primarily … Those patients who could not be assigned a severity of illness score were dropped from analyses of the … In analyses of hospital charge data, those patients who could not be assigned a severity of illness … after adjusting for: APR–DRG (All Patient Refined–Diagnosis Related Groups), risk of mortality and severity

51. Final Progress Report: Are Volume Standards Accurate Measures? (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/glance-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Secondary diagnoses are used to stratify severity of disease (conditions that modify the severity of … The absence of date stamping leads to biased measures of severity of disease and comorbidity. 2. … Methods The absence of date stamping leads to biased measures of severity of disease and comorbidity … Each model adjusted for the severity of the principal diagnosis and for comorbid conditions. … Disease Staging: Classification and Severity Stratification. 1994.

52. Hospitals and Health Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2025 - Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR)   Emergency Severity Index Guide to Patient and Family

53. Final Progress Report: Implementing a Program of Patient Safety in Small, Rural Hospitals (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/jones-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - MEDMARX uses standardized taxonomies of the severity, type, cause(s), and phases of medication use in … This index assigns an alphabetical ranking, A through I, based on the severity of the outcome to the … Furthermore, 63% categorized errors by severity; 57%, by phase of the medication use process; 85%, … The severity of medicati on errors varied by the availability of pharmacist support. … (We monitored the accuracy of reporting error severity for Groups 2 and 3 throughout the project.

54. Cost Effectiveness of a Multifaceted Program for Safe Patient Handling (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Siddharthan.pdf
    January 10, 2005 - the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) introduced a program aimed at reducing the incidence and severity … Method: An 18-month observational study measured the incidence and severity of injury to caregivers … Incidence and severity of injuries to health care workers decreased, and there was general satisfaction … A cost-benefit analysis showed that net benefits from lowered incidence and severity of injuries and … Historically, the high-risk units have the highest incidence and severity of job- related musculoskeletal

55. Other Potentially Important Measurement Areas and Sources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/report/rep6.html
    June 01, 2010 - Others describe systems, such as underlying severity of disability among program participants. … to conduct the State-to-State comparisons mandated by the DRA: Assessment or other data on the severity

56. 2b.Phase2.3_Practice_Asthma_Data_Collection_RedCAP_Survey_Tool (xls file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/asthma-data-collection-redcap-tool.xlsx
    June 02, 2025 - - - - - - - - - - 10 - - - asthma_severity practice_asthma_data_collection_form_v2 Asthma Severity and … Asthma Control yesno Was asthma severity documented in the patient's chart (problem list, notes)? … - - - 11 - - - severity_level practice_asthma_data_collection_form_v2 - radio If yes, what was the severity

57. Brain Health Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (Brain Safety Lab) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/brain-health-long-desc.html
    April 01, 2021 - with vulnerable populations. [ 5 ] Found through a secondary data analysis that increased delirium severity … Relationship between intensive care unit delirium severity and 2-year mortality and health care utilization

58. Nurses' Role in Diagnosis, Through the Lens of Distributed Cognition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/distributed-cognition-er-nurses3.html
    August 01, 2022 - When a patient arrives, nurses are typically the first to assess the patient and estimate the severity … For example, identifying illness severity is a nursing role and part of nursing assessment but also part

59. Management of Clostridioides Difficile Infection (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/one-pager-clostridioides-difficile.pdf
    June 01, 2021 - Assessment of kidney injury as a severity criteria for Clostridioides difficile infection. … metronidazole for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, stratified by disease severity

60. A Practice-based Intervention to Improve Care for a Diverse Population of Women with Urinary Incontinence (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/projects/urinary/evidencenow-optima.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - UI intervention on patient outcomes, as measured by validated questionnaires, including symptom severity … Patients screened positive that wish to participate complete a set of questionnaires assessing UI severity