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8601. Senior-Leader-Checklist (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module2/senior-leader-checklist.docx
      March 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI Long-Term Care Safety Modules Senior Leader Checklist Purpose: To provide senior leaders a checklist to plan and implement quality improvement and resident safety projects in a long-term care facility. Who should use this tool? Senior leaders (long-term care faci…

8602. Family-Centered Rounds Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/engage-tool.html
      July 01, 2022 - Family-Centered Rounds Toolkit Family-centered rounding (FCR) is a key patient engagement strategy for hospitalized children. FCRs have become the standard of care, despite the limited evaluation of benefits or interventions to support high-quality delivery. The FCR Toolkit was designed to increase family en…

8603. Adverse Events | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/adverse-events.html
      April 01, 2018 - Adverse Events Structured Abstract Full Title: Empirical Evaluation of the Association Between Methodological Shortcomings and Estimates of Adverse Events Objective: Accurate harms data are necessary to appropriately assess the balance between benefits and harms of interventions. Numerous deficiencies in t…

8604. Tool 6. Worksheet: Establishing Protocols for BMI Screening | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity/obpcp-tool6.html
      May 01, 2014 - Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based Resources to Manage Obesity Tool 6. Worksheet: Establishing Protocols for BMI Screening Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based Resources to Manage Obesity Acknowledgements Support F…

8605. Submit Your Toolkit | PSNet
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      Breadcrumb Home Improvement Resources Toolkits Toolkit Submissions PSNet encourages healthcare-related organizations to help make care safer by submitting a Patient Safety Toolkit to support the implementation of products, services, processes, systems, policies, organizational stru…

8606. asthma_action_plan_final (pdf file)
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      June 16, 2021 - asthma_action_plan_final Pediatric Documentation Templates Asthma Action Plan Executive Summary The Partners Pediatric Asthma Action Plan was designed to aid in the documentation of a strategy for managing asthma symptoms as well as to improve adherence to recommendations for assessing asthmatic patie…

8607. Asthma Action Plan | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - Asthma Action Plan Executive Summary The Partners Pediatric Asthma Action Plan was designed to aid in the documentation of a strategy for managing asthma symptoms as well as to improve adherence to recommendations for assessing asthmatic patients.  This template exists as a form paragraph …

8608. Pediatric Asthma Template | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - Pediatric Asthma Template Executive Summary The Partners Pediatric Asthma Template was designed to aid in the documentation of asthma symptoms as well as to improve adherence to recommendations for assessing asthmatic patients.  This web site contains views of each section of the template.…

8609. Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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      Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation SCREENING FOR ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM CLINICAL SUMMARY OF U.S. PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATION Population Men ages 65 to 75 years who have ever smoked* Men ages 65 to 75 years who have never smoked Wome…

8610. Medication Information: A Community Working Together to Improve Communication (pdf file)
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      June 16, 2021 - Medication Information: A Community Working Together to Improve Communication Medication Information: A Community Working Together to Improve Communication Melinda Muller, MD Medical Director, Legacy Clinics Medical Director of Quality for Primary Care Legacy Health System Portland, Oregon Support  This wo…

8611. The best medicine for fixing the modern hospital. | PSNet
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      February 06, 2008 - Newspaper/Magazine Article The best medicine for fixing the modern hospital. Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL December 12, 2012 View more articles from the same auth…

8612. Why Promote a Health Care Quality Report to Consumers? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/promote/why-promote.html
      December 01, 2022 - Why Promote a Health Care Quality Report to Consumers? Among report sponsors and researchers in the field of quality reporting, a general consensus has emerged that: The primary audience for public quality reports is health care consumers or, more often, a strategically chosen subset of those consumers. A…

8613. Tool: Teach-Back | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/teachback.html
      May 01, 2023 - Tool: Teach-Back A teach‐back is an evidence‐based health literacy intervention that promotes patient engagement, patient safety, adherence, and quality . 1 In a teach-back, you ask the patient or family caregiver to explain the information they need to know or actions they need to take, in their own words. Te…

8614. Calculating Response Rates for CAHPS Surveys | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/survey-methods-research/calculating-response-rates.html
      August 01, 2024 - Calculating Response Rates for CAHPS Surveys Response rates are determined by the number of completed surveys (numerator) versus the number of individuals who were eligible to complete the survey (denominator). What counts as a completed survey and the number of eligible individuals depends on which response ra…

8615. Development of the CAHPS Cancer Care Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/develop-cancer-surveys.html
      March 01, 2017 - Development of the CAHPS Cancer Care Survey The CAHPS ® Cancer Care Survey was developed and tested in two phases by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the Mayo Clinic with the support of multiple funders: The first phase of the project took place between October 2009 and March 2013. It was s…

8616. Making Healthcare Safer III Patient Safety Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/practices.html
      April 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer III Patient Safety Practices Below is a list of the 47 patient safety practices examined in Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices . The practices are listed among the report’s 17 chapters, which represent harm areas researched…

8617. SOPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/supplemental-items.html
      February 01, 2025 - SOPS Supplemental Items The AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) surveys are composed of standardized questions—referred to as core survey items—that support the comparability of survey content across users. There are also optional SOPS supplemental items that can be added to assess content in area…

8618. Antimicrobial Prophylaxis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/antimicrobial-prophylaxis.html
      April 01, 2025 - MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI MRSA and SSI Prevention Phases Importance of MRSA and SSI Prevention MRSA Surveillance …

8619. Final Progress Report: Challenges and Opportunities for Stewardship of Urological Imaging (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/nielsen2-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - The lack of comprehensive standards or  guidelines leaves radiologists to rely on the overarching principle … In addition to the University of California Dose Optimization and Standardization Endeavor (UC DOSE)  … Though improvement in technology has been central to MR use in prostate cancer, the lack of  standardization … include working with urologists to more clearly define biopsy  recommendations as well as additional standardization

8620. Final Progress Report: Challenges and Opportunities for Stewardship of Urological Imaging (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/nielsen-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - The lack of comprehensive standards or  guidelines leaves radiologists to rely on the overarching principle … In addition to the University of California Dose Optimization and Standardization Endeavor (UC DOSE)  … Though improvement in technology has been central to MR use in prostate cancer, the lack of  standardization … include working with urologists to more clearly define biopsy  recommendations as well as additional standardization