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221. Intervention Leads to Increase in Lung Cancer Screenings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2024 - Register Now for Sept. 11 Webinar on Integrated Behavioral Health: The Journey to Becoming the Standard … Register Now for Sept. 11 Webinar on Integrated Behavioral Health: The Journey to Becoming the Standard … NIAC) will discuss the evolution of behavioral health integration and its increasing emergence as the standard

222. Low Tidal Volume Ventilation: Introduction, Evidence, and Implementation: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - A low tidal volume strategy has become the standard of care for patients with ARDS as well as the best … This paper dictated the standard of practice in intensive care units, ICUs, for many years. … The large tidal volume strategy, the standard of care for the last 40 or 50 years, has consequences that … This will help to close the quality gap by developing a standard protocol encouraging the LTVV strategy … Developing a standard protocol and establishing LTVV as a default strategy will also greatly improve

223. 5 Tk2 T4-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit How To Enter Data Manually Into An Antibiogram Template (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - The CLSI standard for the minimum number of diagnostic isolates to include in an antibiogram is 30. … Note that this standard may change from time to time. … If you are creating your own antibiogram, you should review the standard periodically to see if there

224. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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     January 01, 2017 - A low tidal volume strategy has become the standard of care for patients with ARDS as well as the best … This paper dictated the standard of practice in intensive care units, ICUs, for many years. … The large tidal volume strategy, the standard of care for the last 40 or 50 years, has consequences that … This will help to close the quality gap by developing a standard protocol encouraging the LTVV strategy … Developing a standard protocol and establishing LTVV as a default strategy will also greatly improve

225. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2016 - were 16 to 20 percent less likely to die from lung cancer when screened with LDCT, as compared with standard … Previous studies had shown that screening with standard chest x-rays does not reduce the mortality rate

226. SOPS Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Nursing Homes: 2025 Updated Results Part I (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2025 - This updated report presents statistics (averages, standard deviations, minimum and maximum scores, … Composite Measure and Item Tables Table 8-1 presents statistics (average percent positive, standard … Deviation The standard deviation (s.d.) is a measure of the spread or variability of nursing home … The standard deviations presented in this chapter show the extent to which nursing home scores differ … • If scores from all nursing homes were very close to the average, then the standard deviation would

227. SOPS Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Nursing Homes: 2025 Updated Results Part I (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2025 - This updated report presents statistics (averages, standard deviations, minimum and maximum scores, … Composite Measure and Item Tables Table 8-1 presents statistics (average percent positive, standard … Deviation The standard deviation (s.d.) is a measure of the spread or variability of nursing home … The standard deviations presented in this chapter show the extent to which nursing home scores differ … • If scores from all nursing homes were very close to the average, then the standard deviation would

228. Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Standards for Customer Service (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2017 - Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Standards for Customer Service The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide Practical Strategies for Improving Patient Experience Section 6: Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care 6.Q. Standards for Customer Service V…

229. Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Standards for Customer Service (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2017 - Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Standards for Customer Service The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide Practical Strategies for Improving Patient Experience Section 6: Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care 6.Q. Standards for Customer Service V…

230. Publishing and Communications Guidelines | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2024 - Publishing and Communications Guidelines Next Page Table of Contents Publishing and Communications Guidelines Section 1: Product Development Audio and Video Products Appendix 1-A. Release Forms Appendix 1-B. Trademarks Appendix 1-C. YouTube Submission Checklist Appendix 1-D. Standards for …

231. Table 1-1. Categories and Definitions Promulgated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Bureau of the Census | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2018 - Subcommittee Template: Developing a National Standard Set of Granular Ethnicity Categories and a Rollup … Subcommittee Template: Developing a National Standard Set of Spoken Language Categories and Coding

232. Rapidresponse Facguide (doc file)
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     May 01, 2017 - One consideration is establishing a standard unitwide approach for responding to a request for a rapid … The standard unitwide approach could be part of a hospital’s larger rapid response system, with modifications … A standard unitwide approach also means that that there is a uniform way primary staff (or patients or … Slide 9 SAY: There also needs to be standard criteria for activation of a rapid response. … Slide 10 SAY: It may also be beneficial for staff to adopt standard rapid response kits or carts in

233. Rapid Response for Perinatal Safety: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - Slide 10: Key Safety Elements: Standardize When Possible Develop standard criteria for activation … Slide 11: Key Safety Elements: Standardize When Possible Establishment of a standard rapid response … Standard location. Process for checking kit/cart and restocking.

234. Transdisciplinary Learning Lab To Eliminate Patient Harm and Reduce Waste | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2020 - Nurses found the Smart Agent system more efficient, safe, and usable than the current standard-of-care … They also found the Smart Agent as trustworthy as the standard process.

235. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - Finally, the cytotoxin assay is considered the “gold standard” for C. difficile detection. … As of April 2019, identifying asymptomatic carriers is not considered standard practice. … This approach is more cost effective than using the standard oral vancomycin formulation, especially … used for the primary episode, it is recommended that a first recurrence of CDI is treated with a standard … Bezlotoxumab together with standard therapy has been associated with lower recurrence rates than standard

236. eCare Plan Resources and Publications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2025 - The MCC eCare Plan implementation guide was balloted as a standard for trial use in the September 2023 … includes a new (experimental) section with a Plain Language Summary—the first of its kind that may become standard

237. Preventing CAUTI in Special Populations: Focus on Procedure-Related Catheter Use | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - among patients at low risk of POUR undergoing thoracic epidural analgesia Early removal (N=105) and standard … Infection control specialist Slide 36 CAUTI Framework Insertion: Would require standard … Streamline Inventory: standard catheter to be stocked on all units: Silver coated catheter phased … out, ~$50,000 annual cost reduction 16-Fr will be standard on adult units. … Urimeter will be standard on adult units to avoid need to break connection to add on should output monitoring

238. 157. Treatment Recommendations: Medications-Relative Effectiveness | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - 1.3, 2.0) Nicotine Nasal Spray 4 1.2 (0.9, 1.6) High Dose Nicotine Patch ( > 25 mg; standard

239. Building Your SSI Prevention Bundle: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Standard definitions are on the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and on the … And now it’s standard practice in the operating room, despite no evidence to support it. … The infection control department at Johns Hopkins has taken these recommendations and selected standard … But this is the first step to developing a standard algorithm of what antibiotic to use for each procedure … With a standard procedure, you’re less likely to underdose or use an inappropriate antibiotic. 

240. Appendix O. CAUTI Event Report Template | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Yes: ______ No: ______ If no, please explain: 21 Is there a standard sterile insertion tray … explain why: 25 If there is not a nurse-driven protocol to promote catheter removal, is there a standard